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Lewis Rand

CHAPTER IV
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A man who had been standing just without the open door rested his long musket against the wall and advanced to the polls.
"Last time I voted here," he said, "'twas for Mr.Jefferson.I reckon I'll have to vote to-day for Lewis Rand." A tumult arose.

"Adam Gaudylock belongs upon the Mississippi!--He isn't an Albemarle man!--He's a Kentuck--He's a Louisianian--He's a subject of Jefferson's new kingdom!--Challenged!--He can't vote in Albemarle!" The hunter waited for the uproar to cease.

"You Federalists are mighty poor shots!" he exclaimed at last.

"You make no account of the wind.

I am subject of no man's kingdom.


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