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Congress of the same principles that he had
laid down for his own government, viz.
such as were thoroughly selfish and in-
terested. .

In the course of time, it so happened that,
as eminent lawyers, the two individuals we
have introduced were again thrown together
as inhabitants of the same city, and became
practitioners at the same bar. At first,
Abercrombie did not fear Harvey; but he
soon learned that, as an opponent, not even
he could gain over him, unless his cause
were just. For some years Abercrombie
went regularly to Congress, usually elected
over the opposing candidate by a large ma-
jority—for his party far outnumbered the
other. At length the time seemed to have
arrived for him to take another step. The
senatorial term for the district in which he
lived was about to expire, and there was to
be an election for a United States senator.
For this vacancy he was nominated as a
candidate by his party, and as that was the
strongest party, he looked confidently for