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JANE a, 8WISSHELM.
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ST CLOUD DEMOCRAT
OFFICE: ON, TJIE WESTERN BANK OF THE
80 MILES ABOVE TH$ FALLS, OF
ST. ANTHONY
OPPOSITE THE STEAMBOAT LASbjNG.
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iSt.. Cloud Visiter.
MINNESOTA IN 1858.
Mrs. Swisshelm's Si. Cloud Visiter of
the 3d inst. is before us, hailing from
Stearns -Comity, Minnesota," Office on the
River, opposite the steamboat landing "'but
what river that is, a&d in what section of
Minnesota St.Cloud is loeated,we can find no
(Gazetteer, no Atlas, sufficiently modern to
inform us. A standing account in the pa
pers of that city inform us, however, that
St. Cloud is the point at which the Red'
River trains cross the Mississippi on their jaray
fto 8t. Paul, which proves it to be the natural
junction of land travel between these two great
arteries of trade. It is at .the present head of
ateara navigation on the Mississippi. Boats
run regularly during the Spring and early Sum
mer months from St. Anthony to this place"
AVe further learn from this article that
Gov. Stevens camped and left the Mississip
pi at this then nameless point when he sur
veved the Northern route for a Pacific
Railroad in 1883 The first eahin was ^v]l7
and just below the heaviest Pine region of
Minnesota, while a large tract of miscellane
ous forest and "openings" here heavily
helts the Mississippi. The soil is rich and
.deep, the natural meadows producing a very
xank grass. The climate is cold but health
ful and invigorating. Wild grapes, plums
and berries are abundant. The people Ot
Stearns county were frightened by clouds
.of grasshoppers last season, which for a
stjrae threatened to devour every'green
thing but they absconded in July, and do
•not seem to have left any progeny. And,
though the crops of 1857 wereiauch 3hor-:.co:riiU? &m
ieuea by them, so that appeals were made
to the charity of older and richer commu
nities for aid to save the moneyless pio
"the Red River of the North," a mijibred
miles or so west of St. Cloud, on the Daeo
tah side of the river, and on the site of the
embryo city of Breckinridge. I was an
impromptu ajfoir-the horses being propell
ed by clubs and rifle-barrels instead ofspurs,
and being disqualified by fear of the game
for hunting it properly. Of the five buff
aloes pursued, one only was killed—a bull
whose meat weighed 900 pounds, and was
pronounced capital fare. Buffaloe are said
to be plentiful in that region elk and deer
gtill more so a herd of ahundred elk were
seen last Whiter 60 miles west of St. Cloud
several were icijiled within a .few yards of
Ike Visiter office, while bears were repeat
edly aeepi but not taken. The Vidter
say»'•'.'
•«We bfcve' promise of most abundant crops.
Wheat and grass arc very, very fine the prair-.
'ios fire besprinkled with strawberry blotiiionis,
aid the woods and thickets with other fruit.—
Wo have no frost, t^ injure the buda in the
tsast," ...
the Retail Price Current gives the fol
lowing among other prices:
Sugar—Maple 25c, Crushed 20e., Brown 15
c, Molftsses 80c. to $1 Pork,S-IeBS,per bbl.,$24
per lb, 14c. Salt per pack of 200 lb, $4,12.—
Rice per ft, lie. Hails per ft, 75@9c. But
ter 15@17c. Cheese 16e. Codfish 10c. Dried
Apples 15c.
vAinong the St. Cloud advertisers, in
the number before us, are grocers, survey-
ora, carpente^ dry-goods men/hotel-keep
era, boot sad -M»Toa sellers, dealers in real
Ostate(toQ m&fcy"jfshem), painters, a watch
mater, a dru^gidi, a merchant tailor, &c,
Ae. These ar^ioca-ndresijeetively in' East/
"West," and "Lower $t.*Cloudr while St.
Anthony and Minneapolis also put in their
applications for eu?t*m.
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On the "whole, we judge that St. Gloutl
is a tolorably smart place for one cot yet
three years old, though there are doubtless
scores in Minnesota no older yet quite las
thriving, and Borne, perhaps, more so.—
We give the one ot whose origin, growth
and present condition we have some data,
as a sample of a Western village just be"
gun to grow. ., --..
X. YyDvdhj Tribune ofjvhj 15M.
Mamkato'Ittdepf/ydent
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The ingenious and able originator of
x,
&
$60,00 speech Corigresy/'
Tn this speech the ingenious New Eng-
]liluhv a or a) he
that have been made by the defenders, of
slavery, such as "Christianizing the negro"
a system "for the good of the negro/'' etc
He concedes all that is thus claimed, and
then proceeds with inimitable irony to
show how much' the Sotith has mcriikhi
for such lauolble objects. ..He says:. \'u:'
"Mr. Chairman, these are not the only
authorities on this subject. You] and I
have, heard from the other side, day after
day, quotations from the Bible intending
to prove the same thing and you and I
knowJ*there are honest men in the slave
States who believe that this is the fact—
I have seen such men myself, and have
conversed with them. They have told me
that slavery was a curse, and the only rea-
tftey
built on this spot in 1855. and in 1857, 832 that they owed them certain religous du
votes were polled here, and in the county ties, and must keep them to look after their I
$07. We guess St. Cloud is some fifty to », w.
eighty miles above the Falls of St. Anthony
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toes at £5 cents per
'The Jeadingarticle in The Visiter before exceedingly given to religion.** Now,
us is a graphic account of a Buffalo Hunt shy1 since this institution has done all
arhich came off a few days previous on
.,, ,. fpher Springs shedding a benign religious
the .New England dt(a»igrajajt Aid Society, v. ,••- mmiVr-M Ij
,"," •„,.'• influence over a
-littleiJ-
who startled the SoutheffierS by his for- -, r&W &?
then companions?[Laughter. W O a
.mer speech in Congress* in which ho tnC= ..
shrewd and felling
sympathise,
with
the "chivalry," and must .have,made some
of them open their eyes. Re deals in
facts, and polishes with sarcasm. Rathar
a "hard polish." -'.:"
held their slaves a day was,
v"
I believe in my beart that both these
gentlemen were honest in their views.
am not liere to impugn any man's
motives. I put this upon the ground
that is claimed by the Southern men and
when I listened to the gentleman on the
'otuer .stye V^2ding honestly from the sacred
aIl
regeneration
owr land, I
em & 9 a a a
volume in defence of this 'iustiVi:aV&\ 2S. impressed with this great idea of Christi-
as a means for} the
of heaths
a nsatne race
ftit impelled to use the
gjgL
now destroyed as a converting and regener
ating powcrr I stand here to give it place
in ecclesiastical history, for its right place
it has never yet had."
The speaker next proceeds to compare
the effort of the Free States in "evangeli
zing the heathen," with these "tremendous
sacrifices on the part of the South, in a
way quite disparaging to the'former. Ho
rebukes the spirit of glorification in the
North because they raised more money for
such purposes, and shows that they really
do not give so much in proportion to xohat
they arc able to do. He says:
''It is triu^-we make more Contributions.
The city of Sbs0f gives, for foreign miss
ions, perhaps more than all the Slave States:
and the city-of N York perhaps more
than Boston. -But what of that? .'• Wegivc
a few cents apiece, and only a few cents
for foreign missions each year, which a
mounts to a greater sum, because we arc
a great people. We send men to heathen
nations far over the water, to tell them a
boiit their futuro destiny. We are care
ful not to sehdour best men we keep ciitr
Notts and and WaylandB,and bur Beecblers,
and Cheevera, ai home) hut sometimes a
J:udson (escapes frojoa us before we .know
what he is. ^his is about it\Q exteiit we
submit to self-: sacrifice for the sake of thb
heathen.
h.i
v4 Is there any cause for exultation in this,
when we see what onr Southern brethren
have done and are doing? When have we
ever taken the heathen to our hearth stones
and to our bbsoms? When have we ev
admitted the heathen to social communion
with ourselves and children? When hav
we ever taken the heathen-to onr-irn
cities, to show the'ni ibe 'workfe -of art/or
the watering places to show them fashi?fv
able society and |^limuf^een§r^
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you ever see a Yanl-'ee/at ihe"'White \Sul-
congregation ofhea-
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v^' of!*5
-TriJi &se women in the,Northerny&atm, who.5-*.'
posed Urn colonization ofCentral A inerica.!, ""A 7
Tlfti brigh examples have mad attractive, the
has agaii made a
patlisthf virtue and religione i^spicuou
among them»in every good worfy are the
wives of our ministers and deacons but not
one of these within the range of my ac
t|uaiutance, would considerherself qualified,
either by nature or by grace, to be chamber
maid, dry nurse, and sjriritual adviser to
ten or twenty heathens in her'c/pn family.
Btrtj sit, had these worthy dames been no
ble dames, had they come down to us from
the blood of Norman kings, through the
bounding
rcf
sundry chivalrips, and
then had bet?? willing to assume these hum
ble "offices of Christiam charity, we should
have belieyed the time, so often prayed for^
had already come, when"KingS should be
fathers and queens nursing mothers in the
church." wdiere then is the ground of exr
ultatiou on the part of the North? I tel,^
you it cannot be prompted by^anything but
a rotund, bulbous, self rightoiisiiess. So
much for the social sacrifices of our. South-
ern brethren^'' j..
With sarcasm doubly armed, by a huge
dose of facts,'he earries this sc^-sacrificing
"Now, in addition to these moral:
artd^er^e^n^he..suJ3lime•
intellectual sacrifices which our. Southern^
brethern admit, there are pecuniary secri-
I heard this from fa I fices hieh you know to be vety g»ea%
gentleman in Kentucky, and again from Indeed had Virginia been free- fifty years
a gentleman iVoiu Aeusta flooro-m nnd J* tx^s
^v^iihta, VTtoigia, ana
UL,0^
\m(\ |,
exeT11pt-
anizing^A M&£$& $$$, havihg-fdr their
only ainbitiou to' pre'seti- the soujs of their
negroes^ without spot or blemish, .betnfe
the throne of t^ie Eternal, .haviug .racrifi
ced almost everything. 1 co.ild "quote
from Southern men upon this fe'tthjcct.—-'
The sagacibus statesman who govofns the
Old Dominion, in a speech aiew years ago
said I :. ,: ba* •••..'• T,
"But in all the four cardinal resources
—wonderful to tell, disagreeable to tell,
shameful ro announce—-but one source of
all four, in time past, has been employed
to produce wealth. We have had to work
in manufftcturingi and commerce has
spread its wings and flowu from us, and
agriculture has only skimmed the surface
of mother earth. Three out "of the four
cardinal virtues have been idle/ our young
men over their, cigars and tody talking
polities, and the negroes have been left to
themselves, until we have grown poor to
gether/' ". ij
Spirit to its losses in material matters
But trials and tribulations, and poverty,
have ever beset the pathway of the bain ts..
In the earliest divs they 'wandered abont
sheep-skins aha.goatskins, 'persecuted,
afflicted, and jtormented. Even nbw*?
ithe nineteenth' cehturyj the obnditioh ,pf
our Southern brethren is not niiiiih impro
ved, since they ard* compelled 'to chase the
stump-tailed steer over sedge—patches
which outshine the sun, to get a heefsteak
and to listen to the,|erpetual cry of^ehts!
debtsA' 'taxes I taxes •.
-«tv..r,•,.0-\
3??!?!
"Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward^ExowB^OfcA*. xiv,
ST, eiDUD STEARN
S CO. MIMESOTA, fffiMsi^Y AUGUS & 185
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"Here'then, sir, is the/'position of
Southern' brethren" upon this subject.
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from this great
tendencyg toe christianize the -African race,
she would have been worth more this: day
than all the Atlantic States south of New
Jersey. And should she by chance be
come free, you will see her wealth and
population increase in proportion as this
missionary spirit is diminished, [Laugh
ter.] I is true our Southern brethren
lighter.]"
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In this age of material progress, your
have soen the North outstrip you but,
with true Christian patience and devotion
you have adhered tothe greatwprk of re^
generating the heathen. Through
:evil
report and good report, reproached and
maligned abroad hy those who did ttotuh
dcrstahd yqiir4m6tives, and worst- of all,
sometimes abused at home by the ungrate
iul objects of-ttur Ohristian charity^ y»u
have jstill pressed, on towards 'tkemail^ of
your high calling. Now, sir, When wasfamily.-pride,
thsre"ever a class pf men so -dcjvo'e^ and
selfreacrificing.?.- ,I ^^V
r?ad
the higdrj of
the Apostles. havefcad 'tno, histO«y of
I twSeoV'eh^-^^wt^'^oye^ girl in.^footing jit! Fr' ik hat
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BaaocBasg:
soul was free, and could a
ANEGfRO ITAS-^OSOULT
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upon tins sunmct.lTgld^pgbf^
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A
r/ r:—- viiissumunary spnere Lfeeember iUtti i«o
pnncipiesr of
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and philosophy^wheu mithhad (M when its founder voluntariiy saerifi
become sight—just then', sir, out comes
the Supreme Conrj with the deeifionj
that
V?. Sggg anf ministers of -grace, def^ndl^ wfeh'aa'givcn it e^is
its I these treasures tlM were sup-| .relieved it of the burden, feeling that
posedtddiavc' been laid %her? nei|he^jfe^ should not 'outlast "iibertv and that
moth nor.rust doth/earri^t: tibr th^ves
a
sessed remarkable beauty. There. was Mm* 'f
air of superiority about her manners audBlor
adress but the. Landeps always •'-treatedj ii is wife.
het, with, haitfeUj'.. One ."pleasant day
last.snmmer the old lady and gentleman
b^d gone to visit a friend, somei miles dis
tant,d)ut Frankj being busy at something
did not a^ccompany them
...Soon,after the camoge was gone, Frank
heard the sohrid Of music. He stole into
the house, ami peeped silently into the flit
ting room. There sat.Mary, as we will
call her, with the guitar, which- gho play
ed with skill. Aftej^ executing1, a brilliaht
piece, she.glided into a sw&t French
?:ai^',
and thenj with a rich voice, full, of pathos,
sung pne of thti .ehamonetfcs of Berangeti.
'i'he youth Was entraneekl and, wh.Cn she
coh'ciiidedy he could not forb&tivan excla
mation ofiSurprise ami admiration 1 1 Tim,
girt *»rned luisitjly^ when.«she saw^ the
jroungnian at the iloorwhomshe had thought
jval out with his parents. Sihe jturricd
pale with cVsmay tottered a-few stejpH,aiid
fell fainting on' 'the-sofa/i
!!Frank
jran to
her. aidj but wasin-a condition notl in ucl
more rational. He hud something Jofj^e
and was of a e'KyV retiring'
disposition,
ihiagihe th^^blul?hiiJ(^ coiiffused! jjoanp
toattV' supportiug with his arim the fpnu'v ,pj
mi
of the Hugenota u^fof (jjg, «vor,h«fbre the power oftonty, at KB a fepcVt^^
and I tell you .not in am of aflxhcso have i^^ie
any sneh heroic self sa&rifice far th* 3
was not overwhelmed, and, hefdroBfi-*!,-:-.^
'deling some drops
0
water on her a
puMven fr0m Australia ®'r liberalism, kk^Sr.^
But the^ worst'is 'yet'- -to be- ^B ~t»nBMjpj^|4fc^^ijj^M & ^M -then eamJIher.- i-tit He had been&W
them for such goou services in the present.Bl ., Bdul and ho k*A
"••Huiddentocorrespondence.,
I-have no doubt, sir, that oftentimes• t-:ee-|bega fUi? and the doctoirankshakhraIfhPUUil
to hiJ[ 4ura"
ing they had no treasures laid upon earth ghead. Tlie crisis was irresistible apdBoceujced to him th: he
they stlpj)osed they had treasures laid 7
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,, -•':. couple who .-thuik her the
time, when they seemed to,:be.,almost miblessing Heaven ever .sent them. Truly
the fruition of their, labors, when: the gen-8"lowliness is young Ambition's ladder,
tleman from Missouri, (Mrr.-.Anderson in
great esultation of spirit, was^speaking E S O E O A
tne institution, that .had raised the negroB JANE G. SWISSIIELM EDITOlt
from barbarism to Christianity and civil.«-S
spiration7and said that although a
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zation, and whenfcli gentlemen trom jlnJ|aBasgwp»aBcama wmqmmqmmam*m
diana (Mr. Hughes) had cauglit the ,in-|^. O I A
a Cloud,
}iad a stormy time of it up to July 22iud
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'i he Viritvr lived one week iuj.he hands
0 3 do
not breal^ through ..and. ,a5te:d. ,hav.- DLUfi' when once enslaved is to reenaci
invaded by the deoision -of the (!&u?rcmeg.jld \'iroiniu5j and make it uee in death.
Court, and-sedttered b%he four winds
E he
S W S r'°^
|jjg
)7^^r was reissued on the new|
to
:.A I*&^,^maw.Qe,.- kof the printing company, and one of itffl'r^
^'%i^^k^^^^^i0^ fticj/-mmi\!&]2c lcgally responsiblb for its conduct.SL'a:,rao{-er. They insisted that her eliarae
0B afhHn&i^ltO'be ^t^ictiy tB^^nap.'! hej'g^'e stated". thaV -^k•^np* obliged, in sehw° 'ia^ heen assailed by aaybodv but
cause Itfiturns ^out. happily-i i'£hji -St^ryfcfenee, 'm: republish'^r.review of Mr.B'Jiran):-' himself. We wanied tlvera
haight be wdiJked.:up into a ^iCasirtg vvi^ighepley 's, lecture,'as that haddieen el
dmc: ".._•. Bs^g^^^^e^^aP^JI^ 4 it Wc^^v&kti®&to ,. -Tsrd.
Beauty and.worth, unadorned/.are fargou itrs.vShe].)le5T, and we did not look upocE-nd-it did uo^ suit our kieas to htcrt rSslfc^
mote valuable than all the tinaeUod di'ap-|it a? such. No steps were taken to comply!-1'lion of men between us and one seu&i »,*'
ery of earthy Notu over -ten iftiles,jfrom|^t}
re
Vasninc ton-is .a pretty country resictenceB •. ,' '••••,•: :••,
where attired trader -and his,wifb live|
i°
with their only son, in the enjoyment jtfpP eakukted to show Mr. Sheply the| ,.
a
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mMmSm^W^
dUd a
^pair ei:sued. Marv would-consent to *f ^h,ar\ bassiu
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sent ftr, Frank got' well, ahdffihjha bv adv^rti^n '. hi S *Cmi
with-
Julv.29th 1858,
ofthe negro might he toiling.under Cloud Visiter. The'oWsed enteredl^'^'baracter. A summons was prena^d
lash,
••',
saeritit.'ed
it, to..the infernal gods, to relieve iis'be*
friends of a course of persecution which
from the very contemptiblc-ne^s of its sourc
,vas intolorable.
I. Gorton, TreasureiH"Spt?
'^he^a^gimi:imt) ^^fcjlwspealthmstmembers and to H. Fowlerl Contrar}' to our advice the C^m_iJttet
such a^iice littlepS^g•^ut'^%©»\tQh domw}r^tic member of the committee, to
girl," that .we' rtfelili to'l^/jb'^a^^^^'pplap it on somej basis where we, alone.a'
«H though*
wealth and Case. -We will caW -the !geu-ivery unpleasanst positition in whioh heSrhe' Vivfrr ih™™ «D eUT. „».„ ui-
Cowry was
lestniction ho had lately married an 'aflil™
iblfe lady, whom he left, while so much of
in invalid that it was a breach of etiquette
or us to refer to him editorially even to
•epel a gross insult, and came two mile?
Vbm homo remaining until near morning
jn a very cold night to commit a burglary
nd, to any mi mi the ^natural .inference
vould be, that if this was done, for fear we
houid say something about Mrs Sheply he
bust have been 'specially interested in
something Wo might have said. In th*n
ve simply drew an inference' from Mr
^th^thera but'we fortified the ease Jby
stating, especially that we believed Mrs
iheply wi^uged by any inlercucel which
yirgh^impuga h^|- purity, Wei': thoughi
of ep^r|B^ th^at anv m^n who had committe
^""^unde (f tfiiis, slandering hi& wile
ssjoyitl haye.-.wgydred J-y' aetno^lrdgicg
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EDITOR AMD PROPRIETOR
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aCfc^,ban
a
thv
—e i», of thepeat
hud claimed as
a
"ecationno
nau
i"-" J'
-v^*i-«7 -»4sfiiiigton 1or
ng into hit
hemet
Orgett
8o appeared to Imvc
Sct
2 lnt
god
a secret and guilty inrinmev with"
one of her boarders and g^ttinc ,ome en
fo&y for her imperil*! reputation
gff. Lowry had no mind, yet, to lm
the odium hi,
[printed and served on twentv five or
jof our most respecuilie citizJns. who wen
pquinvl to pay Jimmy and.his Mary V.
SI 0,000 for her character but whether
[plaintiffs would take.county serin
3Umm0na not. I? v.-c
01^
tak"c
a SI)d me a
republished thelcbivalry with his two hounds
W a a
foru cl
6wh preniises and at-thc ffi^^ .fhere must be expense,'" delay
ime took nains statn' t:!iHt t-hris»Vrv«»i'ni«.^
ini took paili tfo state that theStrp^cmise
vvereTal^e: and of course the inference fell
-J- «J.t-jfc.- fV.i-,' L.iSfiK,
Vi
bad bromrht.n hir-
when heioand the little fellow willing to
interpose his wife still further between him
and thj consequences of his mode of ah*.
ti^ng a refractory slave, he went with
§i plaa'of ",:.,
vl
?!Ucj
an}
maliee to this woman wo could nut moro
flectually. ruin ber, than by copving ihi*
document., circulated by herself and fcus
Muid, and now posted up in bar rooms.—
We have been repeatedly urged to do so.
in order to free ourself from "all suspicion'
having, ridiculed a pure minded woman
who Belongs to private life but we believe
Mrs Simply, has in this ease wronged fer
it would be unjust as v.-ell as unsr(mer
advantage of that wm-
5 0 1 of
rAy
,et emcnt
with Jimmv^. terms of
to give his wife a certificate of
us CIDOTT
thy sent to St. Paul engaged a lawyer
to answer the summons and were warned
by those well versed in our judiciary,- that
they might exjeof to find thejuBge inwfcr^-"
strong bias against them, as he is a person,
ai friend of Gen. Lowry aud a bitter p^lr
cizan, Buchanan democrat. They musr
expect that Gen. Lowry could iniluencv
the judge, pack the jury and employ as
many witnesses as he needed but still the A
ablest lawyers were of opinion that the'i J*
suit could not be sustained not even -to:
the rendering of verdict for nominal
inconvenience and trouble in any case
md mp*. was nothing to be gained by
vicKity, We still urged a sottfe^mt ami
-'hej- pt circulating, tale»ifi^ the ar-v
rang^ents h» had made t^ cnsuW
ec*»^ and tlie surety he had of dai
He professed to have a jury pannclled.tl^i^:
would just suit/ the'judge woo- to Lis sikSvl:
and^Teryih-ng cut s-vrl dry, J,cwry-/feid^''
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