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The severity of his adminstration had cost many lives; the nobility had been humbled, and the common people had been loaded with taxes; but the grandeur of his political designs, such as the taking of La Rochelle, the destruction of the Huguenot party, and the weakening of the house of Austria, no less than his intrepidity in carrying them out, have secured for his memory a justly-merited fame.
"Uh, huh, 'wavering, weak, vaciliating adminstration, have not given us the protection our rights as citizens demanded while our brothers were murdered in the South. Nero fiddled while Rome burned, while this modern' uh, huh, oh, yes, just as I thought," and with a sudden twist Miss Kirkman tore the papers across and pitched them into the grate. "Miss Kirkman Annie, what do you mean?"
They didn't use no judgment, and their yellin's wuz fearful; whatever else they had, they didn't have consumption, I don't believe. After payin' our two fares, a little gate sort o' turned round and let us in to the Columbian World's Fair that marvellous city of magic; and anon, if not a little before, the Adminstration Buildin' hove up in front of us.
"We all went out to the barn, and there he told us all that he had heard and seen that he had gone to Collins' Grove; that there was a large political meeting there; that Dan Bowen spoke in the most excited manner of the wrongs and outrages, as he termed them, of the vile abolition adminstration; that the Union soldiers were mere hirelings; that he hoped none of his party would join the Abolition army to assist in robbing and murdering our brethren down South.
Well done for wimmen; they have riz up for once above gauzes, and flummeries, and ornaments." "No," sez I; "if you want to look at ornament, you might look at the Adminstration Buildin', designed by a man. Men love ornament, Josiah Allen." He quailed; he hadn't forgot the pink necktie he wanted to adorn himself with, and the breastpin he wanted to put on that mornin'.
And so, as I say, we turned round in our tracts and went back round that noble Adminstration Buildin' Josiah a-talkin' anon or oftener about what he expected to see in the Woman's Buildin', every one on 'em light and triflin' things, such as gauzes, and artificial flowers, and cossets, and high-heel shoes, and placks, and tattin', and etc.
Colossial buildin's, beautiful enough for any Monarch, and which no goverment on earth wuz ever rich enough to carry out in permanent form. Wall, as I said, the Adminstration Buildin' wuz the one that hove up directly in front of us. It towers up in the circumambient air with its great gilded dome, and seems to begen to us all to come and pass through it into the marvels beyend.
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