Western Oratory. —'-Mr. Speaker," said a distinguished orator in a Western legislature, " I have been accused of vacillation in my political principles I-^-me who first drew the breath of life beneath the gigantic foliage of the forest oak 1 who was cradled in au earthquake, and suckled by the Mississipi 1 me, whose playthings in childhood were the bear and alligator; and who in mature* years delighted to grapple with the furious torrent, as it rushed wild and headlong from its mountain home; and to sport with the tornado and the doubleengine steamboat !■' Me vacillate ! Mr. Speaker, the idea is preposterous." — American paper.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 158, 4 July 1872, Page 2
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