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good government. The wisest men of all 

 ages have brought to bear upon this subject 

 the— . 



[Here I was interrupted and in- 

 formed that a stranger wished to see 

 me down at the door. I went, and con- 

 fronted him, and asked to know his 

 business, struggling all the time to keep 

 a tight rein on my seething political 



I economy ideas, and not let them break 

 away from me or get tangled in their 

 " harness. And privately I wished the 

 stranger was in the bottom of the canal -with a cargo of wheat on top of him. 

 I was all in a fever, but he was cool. He said he was sorry to disturb me, but 



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