[The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookThe Purchase Price CHAPTER XXI 45/54
I believe it was just for this--for this very talk I'm having now with you.
I saved you then so that some day I might demand you as hostage. "I want you to vote with me," she continued, "for the 'higher law.' I want you to vote with the west-bound wheels, with God's blades of grass!" "God! woman! You have gift of tongues! Now listen to me.
Which shall we train with, among your northern men, John Quincy Adams or William Lloyd Garrison, with that sane man or the hysterical one? Is Mr.Beecher a bigger man than Mr.Jefferson was ?" "I know you're honest," she said, frowning, "but let us try to see. There's Mr.Birney, of Alabama, a Southerner who has gone over, through all, to the abolitionists as you call them.
And would you call Mr.Clay a fool? Or Mr.Benton, here in your own state, who--" "Oh, don't mention Benton to me here! He's anathema in this state." "Yet you might well study Mr.Benton's views.
He sees the case of Lily first, the case of the Constitution afterward.
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