"When I return-as soon I will-to those who sent me here, and shall be asked of what I had seen at Washington-and what it was that most engaged the attention of the Representatives of a great people, and what of good had been done for the country, the answer must be, so far as our action is concerned, that day by day, week after week, and month after month before the election, the chief business of all parties was the creation of political capital upon which to draw in the then coming presidential campaign; and that after the election, there seemed to be no greater object of interest than the establishment of the fact, that if not cheated in sending us here, the people were green enough to be swindled afterwards. Yes, sir; the whole of them, Democrats, Republicans, and Know-Nothings."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesPeople from Georgia (U.S. state)State legislators of the United States
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Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 34th Congress, 3rd Session, Page 128 (1857-01-07))
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John M. Sandidge
1846 – 1855
John Milton Sandidge (January 7 1817 – March 30 1890) was a member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives (1846 - 1855), serving as its speaker (1854 - 1855), as a delegate to the state constitutional convention (1852) and as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana (1855 - 1859).
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