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attainable objects, those, too, within his 

 own immediate locality. 



He, like others of the same profes- 

 sion he was a lawyer commenced his 

 political career in the extreme West, 

 where he might the more readily at- 

 tract the rays of the rising sun, that 

 would hasten the growth of his ambition 

 or his interest, and gain those advan- 

 tages many had acquired by pursuing 

 the same course. If his assurance was 

 not equal to the blacking manufac- 

 turer's, his talents and his position 

 were far superior. If his principles 

 were not quite so lax as the powerful 

 writer's in the "Register," he had more 

 tact and more influence in his neigh- 

 bourhood. 



Like that great master of the pure 

 and vigorous English composition he 

 vainly attempted to imitate, he was the 

 principal agitator in establishing a pro : 



