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Sir, I believe if the gentleman were master of all languages, if he were to attempt to put into a sentence the quintessence, the high-wines, and sublimation of an untruth, he could not have more concentrated his language into a libel. "What is the fact, sir?
Let us proceed in the accomplishment of this object with firmness, and with a determination never to relinquish it, until ardent spirits are entirely excluded from the Indian country. I am sir, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, HENRY R. SCHOOLCRAFT. P.S. Capt. Jouett, commanding at this post, has recently seized sixteen kegs of high-wines.
They insisted on our tasting some of their barbarous liquor, however, and horrible stuff it was, distiller's "high-wines," strongly dashed with vitriol or something worse. No wonder that men become fiends incarnate on such "fire-water" as that!
At the inshtigation of the bowld O'Blowney axin' the gintleman's pardon I am here wid no silver tongue of illoquence to para-lyze yez, but I am prisent, as has been ripresinted, to jine wid yez in a stupendous waste of gunpowder, and duck- shot, and 'high-wines, and ham sandwiches, upon the silvonian banks of the ragin' Kankakee, where the 'di-dipper' tips ye good-by wid his tail, and the wild loon skoots like a sky-rocket for his exiled home in the alien dunes of the wild morass or, as Tommy Moore so illegantly describes the blashted birrud,
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