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“Do you see how gloomy that man looks? how dejected? He is out of
spirits; he thinks he has no chance; he has laid down his arms.” Then a report gets
abroad—“Do you know that he is thinking of a prosecution? He is seeking
for evidence against his competitors; he is hunting for witnesses. I shall vote for some one
else, as he knows that he has no chance.” The most intimate friends of such
candidates as that are dispirited and disarmed, they abandon all anxiety in the
matter,—they give up a business which is so manifestly hopeless, or else they
reserve all their labour and influence to countenance their friend in the trial and
prosecution which he is meditating.
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