"I suspect the veracity of your darkey.

It is red pepper that he uses!" "All the better, then, to clear our minds, my dear Sir.

But let me first send for another product of my state, to assuage these pains." He beckoned to a servant, who presently, returned with tray and glasses.
"And now," he resumed, "what you say of your journey interests me immensely.

No doubt you propose going down the river as far as Missouri?
The interest of the entire country is focused there to-day.

Ah, yonder is the crux of all our compromise! Safe within the fold herself, that is to say above the fatal line of thirty-six degrees, thirty minutes, her case is simply irresistible in interest to-day, both for those who argue for and those who talk against the extension of slavery into our other territories." "Yet your administration, to-day, my dear Sir, calls this 'finality.' Believe me, it is no more than a compromise with truth and justice! The entire North demands that slavery shall halt." "The entire South refuses it!" "Then let the South beware!" "The North also may beware, my dear Sir!" "We are aware, and we are prepared.