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The Attache

CHAPTER XIV
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The term, Conservatism, I suppose, designates a party formed out of the moderate men of both sides, or rather, composed of Low-toned Tories and High Whigs.

I do not like to express a decided opinion yet, but my first impression is always adverse to mixtures, for a mixture renders impure the elements of which it is compounded.

Every thing will depend on the preponderance of the wholesome over the deleterious ingredients.

I will analyse it carefully.
See how one neutralizes or improves the other, and what the effect of the compound is likely to be on the constitution.

I will request our Ambassador, Everett, or Sam's friend, the Minister Extraordinary, Abednego Layman, to introduce me to Sir Robert Peel, and will endeavour to obtain all possible information from the best possible source.
"On your return I will give you a candid and deliberate opinion." After a silence of some minutes, during which he walked up and down the room in a fit of abstraction, he suddenly paused, and said, as if thinking aloud-- "Hem, hem--so you are going to cross the border, eh?
That northern intellect is strong.


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