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“The spirit of which I speak . . . creates imaginary and magnifies real causes of complaint; arrogates to itself every virtue—denies every merit to its opponents; secretly entertains the worst designs . . . preaches discord and vengeance; invokes the worst scourges of Heaven, war, pestilence, and famine, as preferable alternatives to party defeat; blind vindictive, cruel, remorseless, unprincipled, and at last frantic, it communicates its madness to friends as well as foes; respects nothing, fears nothing.” Edward Livingston speaking on political parties, quoted in American Lion, Andrew Jackson in the White House, Jon Meachem, Random House, 2008.