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The Purchase Price

CHAPTER XXV
15/27

Take this woman out of our camp, and into your own.

Flock your own fowl together, you Free Soilers! Take her out of Washington, get her back to Europe--where she belongs,--and, without jesting, my dear Sir, you shall have the backing next year, two years hence--in 1853,--any time you like--of the men who make this administration, and of the men behind this compromise.

A majority of the House, an even division of the Senate--Listen, my dear friend, this is not idle talk, and these are no idle promises! I am serious.

I speak to you in no wise ill-advised.

To tell you the truth, we are frightened.


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