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The Purchase Price

CHAPTER VIII
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As you know, this country dwells continually above an awful magazine.

At any time there may be an explosion which will mean ruin not only for our party but our country.

The Free Soil party, twice defeated, does not down.

There is a nationalist movement now going forward which ignores the Constitution itself.

With you, I dread any talk, any act, of our own or another nation, which shall even indirectly inflame the northern resentment against the fugitive law." "On that, we are perfectly agreed, sir," began the original speaker, "and then--" "But then, sir, we come to the question of the removal of this unwelcome person.


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