Who are we to say when a person is past redemption?
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He wrote to an ally in 1806 that " the Administration . . . . favors federal principles, and, with the exception of a few great rival characters, federal men . . . . The old Republican party is already ruined, past redemption.
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Many of our national failings, however, are exposed in these pages in an entertaining way that might do some of us a little good, though most of us are probably past redemption, even by such forthright crusaders as Miss Franklin and Miss Cusack ."