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Excerpt from Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, 1893, Vol. 7 Senate, when Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, who for twenty years had been a leading Democrat, as Representative and Speaker in the Legislature, as member of Congress and as Senator, arose in that great arena to sever the ties of a life-time by denouncing doctrines that he could not conscientiously support. He began by asking to be relieved from the Chairmanship of the Committee on Commerce, as it had been conferred upon him by a party with which he was unable longer to act. He said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.