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The income of the schoolmaster should, at least, be equal to that of a common labourer." In so precarious a position, it was unfortunate that sectarian and local feeling should have provoked a controversy at the capital of the western district.
So much for a supposed case. Here follows a real one. The whites in the District are perpetrating these identical acts upon seven thousand blacks daily. That Congress has power to restrain these acts in one case, all assert, and in so doing they assert the power "in all cases whatsoever."
To construe this provision so as to enable the citizens of the District to hold as property, and in perpetuity, whatever they please, or to hold it as property in all circumstances all necessity, public welfare, and the will and power of the government to the contrary notwithstanding is a total perversion of its whole intent.
At last he understood; it was simply the usual notice to report himself at the office of the district that day at half-past nine o'clock. "But why to-day?" cried he. "Lord, let it be over soon." He was about to fall down on his knees to pray, when a fit of laughter seized him. "I must trust to myself, not to prayers." He quickly dressed himself.
While conditions here are much better than in many other cities, they are far from perfect, and this is due in part to the congestion of criminal cases in the Supreme Court of the District, resulting in long delays.
You know Silas is the leading Democrat of this district, and the governor has opened riz biscuits with me many a time. I told him 'Thank you, sir, we would all come and hear the young man talk about what he didn't know, and he laughed and rang off. Yes, we are all going in a kind of caravan of vehicles, and I want you to go, Nancy, in the family coach and take Mrs.
The Mope heard you tell the girl in yer office that if anything happened to you she was ter wise up the district attorney that there was a paper in your safe at home fer him that was important. Now then, you beat it over ter that safe, an' open it up we'll give you a minute ter do it in." "The paper's not there, I tell you," said Stangeist once more.
It was the last occasion on which the Council was elected with the State as one district. Although he announced his candidature only the night before nomination day, and did not address a single meeting, he was elected third on the poll. He afterwards became the Chief Secretary, and later Commissioner of Public Works. He was an excellent worker on committees, and was full of ideas and suggestions.
There were some items of news, all rather unpleasant. In two or three households hens had been taken for the arrears, and had been sent to the district police station, and there they had died because no one had fed them; they had taken sheep, and while they were being driven away tied to one another, shifted into another cart at each village, one of them had died.
"You earn your five dollars a day, if anybody in Calhoun does," urged the official, with kindly brusqueness. "It is not right; I do not wish to take the money," said the nurse, with agitation. "I do not wish to be paid for saving human life. I did not come to the fever district to make money; I came to save life to save life!" he added, in a quick whisper.
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