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He's brilliant at Bush.
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Forget it, anyway.
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James Henry Hammond of South Carolina once said, I quote,
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"Reputation is everything.
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Everything with me depends
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upon the estimation in which I am held."
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That's honor, personal honor.
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For many Southerners it was more important than law,
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more important than conscience.
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And when they started encountering these Northerners,
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whether they were from Massachusetts or Ohio,
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who started talking about a politics of conscience,