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CHAPTER LXVII
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And other Mr.Slugbys, and Condors, and Eles, had little interviews with other red-faced, trip-hammer-fisted Jims, Toms, and Neds.

These healths being duly drunk, the placards were posted.
They were headed with the inspiring words "Liberty and Equality," with cuts of symbolic temples and ships and lifted arms with hammers, and summoned the legal voters to assemble in primary meetings and elect delegates to a convention to nominate a representative.

The Hon.

Mr.
Bodley's letter of resignation was subjoined: "FELLOW-CITIZENS,--Deeply grateful for the honorable trust you have so long confided to me, nothing but the imperative duty of attending to my private affairs, seriously injured by my public occupations, would induce me to resign it into your hands.

But while his country may demand much of every patriot, there is a point, which every honest man feels, at which he may retire.


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