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Excerpt from The Sewanee Review, 1894, Vol. 3: A Quarterly Journal
Of course, the changes that have come to the nation, the idea, and the word are, to use a favorite expression of Shel ley's, intimately interpenetrated. The Indian word for chief, or leader, °with its modern' gloss, too-big-for-his breeches, would never have been drawn from the shades of Loco Foco politics in New York to become a formidable weapon in the hands of orators and editors, had not a great political party been tottering to its fall. The word would never have lost its content of bitter reproach and come practically to mean Independent had not two great parties learned from their wavering fortunes. That it connoted qual ities uniting a body of men who held, or might soon hold, the balance of power. Then, too, the word could never have acquired a respectable, not to say an important signifi cance, had not the idea of political independence on the part of the individual been steadily gaining ground, which, on the other hand, would never have come about had not the old political parties been steadily losing ground.
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