Gibbon in his great work--in his remarkable work, his treasure house of learnin'-- _The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_--if I had my copy here I could put my finger on to the very place where he says it, sirs.

Why, sirs, in the _Decline and Fall_--I could show you the very line and chapter if I had my copy here--but it's up in my room--I could show you the very chapter on slavery, by the Lord Harry! sir, where Mr.

Foote, of the state of Mississippi, in his last speech down in that country, sirs,--" "Now, now, Jones," Dunwody raised a restraining hand at length, "just sit down.

Don't go get your copy of the _Decline and Fall_.
We're willing to take some of that for granted.

Let's get at the pleasant task of taking away all the money of this Free Soil gentleman from the North.