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Children of the Market Place

CHAPTER XII
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How did these people dare to use the name of Whig, how dare to resort to such false pretenses, when it was common knowledge that the personnel of that party, having been put down as Federalists for gross usurpation and monarchist practices had, being forced to change their skin, adopted the title of the liberal party of England, remaining more Tory than the party that tried to destroy American liberty during the Revolution?
And now this Whig party like a masked thief was abroad in the land to pick up what spoils it could, and to take from trusting hearts sustenance for its misbegotten existence.

It was already beginning to coquette with the slavery question, hoping to deceive the people with humanitarian and moral professions.

Very well! If it was the Good Samaritan it pretended to be let it give up its bank and its tariff, which took enough money out of the mouths of the poor to feed all the niggers in the world.

Let the whiner about wrongs quit his own wrongs.

Let the accusing sinner repent his own sin.


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