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Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
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William Gaston has declined re-election to Congress from the Newbern district in North Carolina, joining other prominent opposition members like Pickering, Sheffey, Grosvenor, Webster, Hulbert, and Randolph who have retired or been forced to return to private life.
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Newbern District, North Carolina
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declined re-election; others voluntarily retired or obliged to return to private life; party considered prostrate.
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WILLIAM GASTON has declined a re-election to Congress from the Newbern district, in North Carolina. One more is thus added to the list of prominent members of the opposition in Congress, who have voluntarily retired, or are obliged by their constituents to return, to private life, among whom, besides Mr. Gaston, may be mentioned Messrs. Pickering, Sheffey, Grosvenor, Webster, Hulbert and Randolph. The talents of these gentlemen will be missed on their side of the House of Representatives. The voluntary absence of some of them proves that the party is considered as prostrate beyond the power of resurrection. The fatigue of systematic opposition is therefore avoided, by the relinquishment of a station in which it might be expected from them, when not only useless, but contrary to their inclinations.