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| SJT and the Increase of Federal Dominion: SJT spent the summer of 1877 in Europe. It appears that he did this to escape the onslaught of people who were either trying to get him to continue to fight for the Democratic cause or accusing him of trying to control the party through the state convention in New York. He did not, however, remain silent about the direction of American politics. On his return to America, in October of 1877, he spoke to the Young Men's Democratic Club of New York. The beginning of his speech is eerily relative to today: "The increase of power in the Federal government during the last twenty years, the creation of a vast office-holding class, with its numerous dependents, and the growth of the means of corrupt influence, have well nigh destroyed the balance of our complex system. .... If this tendency is not arrested its inevitable result will be the practical destruction of our system. Let the Federal government grasp power over the great corporations of our country and acquire the means of addressing their interests and their fears; let it take jurisdiction of riots which it is the duty of the State to suppress; let it find pretexts for increasing the army, and soon those in possession of the government will have a power with which no opposition can successfully compete. |
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