The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-11-20

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the light that he would present them TO
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became ut last a strikin" mental character
istic. II enabled hm to see measured as
one Of the peonlc. and ot the fine fine
view them as a statesmen who had studied
them deeply. He thought more strongly
and clearly than the most sapaciOus and the
most cultured of the pcOplc: but he
thought in the same channel. His was not
IA different philosophy from that of the
mass of the peOplc. hut the same. only
better understood and more fully drvei-
0pcd: the difference was i'm degree only, !
lie did not believe that political dues- ,
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mput hv them. were hcyond their cOlnprc- +
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understood bv the mass of the voters He y
was. therefore, inclined to disregard con- n
respecting political matters not y
bV citizens of average iutclli- n
gence: and to make up his mind from such q
arguments as were pIainly applicable, or
which could readily he made lie Ii
deemed this the true method of political p
nhiIosonhy for a free commandments ~
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mrnt lie even d"emnd the preiuires Of ~
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roIlowrd TO the nublic inilry. but that
fhcv were TO be examined as TO their origin Il,
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inc warfare Imon the mass of interviewer M
rnfh and error. nr nrmlprted in A con. ~
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md wishes of the nnonlp. he WAS NOT the -,
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Iiraetor and header When convinced that "a
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