And these opposing scruples in two men who had not many, certainly, turned the scale and gave the county-seat to Metropolisville, for Dave told all his Southern Illinois friends that if the county-seat should remain at Perritaut, the Catholics would build a nunnery an' a caythedral there, and then none of their daughters would be safe.

These priests was a-lookin' arter the comin' generation.

And besides, Catholics and Injins wouldn' have a good influence on the moral and religious kerecter of the kyounty.

The influence of half-breeds was a bad thing fer civilization.

Ef a man was half-Injin, he was half-Injin, and you couldn't make him white noways.
And Dave distributed freely deeds to some valueless outlots, which Plausaby had given him for the purpose..