Excerpt from Partisan Politics, the Evil and the Remedy: An Analysis of the Great Political Parties of the Countrytheir Morals and Methodsas the Supreme Power in the Republic, the Remedy Prohibitive Legislation Other issues began to arise between these parties of a commercial, economic, and diplomatic nature. There was much party bitterness, and malice even, manifested in the literature and discussions of the partisans of the day; a wholesale detraction of their opponents and a general disregard for truth and com mon courtesy were the chief vices of the politicians of that period; but there was comparatively little of that tendency, afterwards exhibited in so many forms, to make merchandise of the powers and resources of the State and of the rights of individual citizens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.