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Democracy An American Novel

CHAPTER VI
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I should run away and hide myself on the steamer.

The mere thought unmans me." Ratcliffe seemed amused at Gore's half-serious notions.

"You recall to me," said he, "my own feelings when I was a boy and was made by my father to learn the Farewell Address by heart.

In those days General Washington was a sort of American Jehovah.

But the West is a poor school for Reverence.


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