Don't let us talk of such exciting, things." "But, Minister," said Mr.Slick, "holdin' the high and dignified station I do, as Attache, they will be a-pumpin' me for everlastinly, will the great men here, and they think a plaguy sight more of our opinion than you are aware on; we have tried all them things they are a jawin' about here, and they naterally want to know the results.

Cooper says not one Tory called on him when he was to England, but Walter Scott; and that I take it, was more lest folks should think he was jealous of him, than any thing else; they jist cut him as dead as a skunk; but among the Whigs, he was quite an oracle on ballot, univarsal suffrage, and all other democratic institutions." "Well, he was a ninny then, was Cooper, to go and blart it all out to the world that way; for if no Tory visited him, I should like you to ask him the next time you see him, how many gentlemen called upon him?
Jist ask him that, and it will stop him from writing such stuff any more." "But, Minister, jist tell us now, here you are, as a body might say in England, now what are you ?" "I am a man, Sam; _Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto_." "Well, what's all that when it's fried ?" "Why, that when away from home, I am a citizen of the world.

I belong to no party, but take an interest in the whole human family." "Well, Minister, if you choose to sing dumb, you can, but I should like to have you answer me one question now, and if you won't, why you must jist do t'other thing, that's all.

Are you a Consarvative ?" "No." "Are you a Whig ?" "No." "A Radical ?" "God forbid!" "What in natur' are you then ?" "A Tory." "A Tory! well, I thought that a Tory and a Consarvative, were as the Indgians say, "all same one brudder." Where is the difference ?" "You will soon find that out, Sam; go and talk to a Consarvative as a Tory, and you will find he is a Whig: go and talk to him again as a Whig, and you will find he is a Tory.

They are, for all the world, like a sturgeon.