In order to secure the naturalized interests, it had been determined to select as new a comer as possible.

This would also be maintaining the principle of liberality, in the abstract.

For this reason they had been cruising for a week, as near as the law would allow to the Leaphigh boundaries, and they were now ready to take any one who would serve.
To this proposition I again objected the difference of species.

Here they all fairly laughed in my face, Brigadier Downright included, giving me very distinctly to understand that they thought I had very contracted notions on matters and things, to suppose so trifling an obstacle could disturb the harmony and unity of a Horizontal vote.

They went for a principle, and the devil himself could not make them swerve from the pursuit of so sacred an object.
I then candidly admitted that nature had not fitted me, as admirably as it had fitted my friend the judge, for the throwing of summersets; and I feared that when the order was given "to go to the right about," I might be found no better than a bungler.