"He votes as a Southern man, and votes sectionally; I am also a Southern man, but vote nationally on national questions."
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Thomas Hart Benton, reported in Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton (1897, reprinted 1968), chapter 15, p. 349.
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