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"All your other hopes have merged... engrosses you."
Explanation:
In this sentence, we learn that Scrooge has pursued wealth over other aims. We learn this because of the words the woman says to Scrooge. She tells us that all his "nobler" aspirations have disappeared. She also states that she has seen all of them go, one by one, until the only ambition he has left is that of making more money.
The main incentive to rule in favor of slaveholders when a runaway was taken into custody and brought before the federal commissioner was because such a ruling would technically be upholding a person's "right to property" which was thought to be protected. <span />
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Explanation:
September 8, 1974, president of the United States of America, Gerald Ford pardon Richard Nixon, his predecessor who was the former president of the United States of America.
Richard Nixon who was involved in the Watergate scandal, which lead to his resignation, receive pardon from the Ford Administration. Nixon during his administration has tried to steal information from the congress at Watergate concerning the Democratic party who were his opposition.
President Ford felt the pardon was in the best interests of the country and that if he did not pardon Nixon, a long, drawn-out trial against Nixon would only have further polarized the public.
Many believe Ford's decision lead to his failure to win the presidential election of 1976 to Jimmy Carter.
