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oughly apart that now, when the representative has touched on the term of years allotted man, the constituency gather spontaneously about him to express appreciation of lofty character and the sense of great abilities, while those composing it reflect, as I certainly do, with unfeigned regret, that they were never able to come together, and now may not hope to come together, holding that relation to Carl Schurz which Bristol once held to Edmund Burke, and which, later, Middlesex held to Fox, and Midlothian to Gladstone.