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54-40 or Fight

CHAPTER VIII
10/22

Even the Whigs think that we own Oregon by virtue of first navigation of the Columbia.

Both Whigs and Democrats now demand Oregon north to fifty-four degrees, forty minutes.
The alternative?
My Lord Aberdeen surely makes no deliberate bid to hear it!" "Or fight!" exclaimed Pakenham.

"God bless my soul! Fight _us_ ?" Mr.Tyler flushed.

"Such things have been," said he with dignity.
"That is to say," he resumed calmly, "our rude Westerners are egotistic and ignorant.

I admit that we are young.


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