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I am sure no Mississippian will deny that if a candidate there based his claims upon the ground of his having left Mississippi when the State seceded, in order to fight for the Union, his pretensions would be treated as a piece of impudence.
Finding his pursuit was vain, our hero returned, when an attack was commenced upon another individual. He was most cruelly beat, and cut through the skull with a knife; it is feared the wounds will prove mortal. The sufferer, we learn, is an inoffensive German." From the "Mississippian," Nov. 9, 1838.
"I think it's a splendid idea, dad; just great! Won't you come, Mr. Haines? We eh I I know my father would like to have you." As he stood before his two new-found friends for such Haines now considered the Mississippian and his daughter he could not suppress feelings of surprise tinged with uncertainty.
The Mississippian shook his head negatively, and set his jaws determinedly. The coach swung up to the Capitol entrance. "Tell me," asked Langdon, as both jumped out, "how did you find out that " "I 'phoned the house gave a name Peabody uses " "Great heavens! but how did you know where to 'phone?" They were at the door of the Senate chamber.
It became much of a question with him whether success in any form was written there; whether for a hungry young Mississippian, without means, without friends, wanting, too, in the highest energy, the wisdom of the serpent, personal arts and national prestige, the game of life was to be won in New York.
He went to Mississippi, joined the rebel army, and was wounded in battle; and because he left his native State to fight against the Union, "therefore," Mr. Hogan tells his Mississippian constituency, "he cannot feel that he is an alien in their midst, and, with something of confidence in the result, appeals to them for their suffrages." Such is Mr.
The example of state pride set by the older States was not lost on the younger Southern States, and the Alabamian and the Mississippian lived in the same faith as did the stock from which they sprang; and the community of views, of interest, of social order, soon made a larger unit and prepared the way for a true nationality, and with the nationality a great conflict.
Answering the secretary's look of inquiry, the Mississippian said: "I've been told that I can name the new holder of a five-thousand-dollar-a-year position in the Department of Commerce and Labor, and that if I have no one in particular from my State to name that that you would be a good man for the job. First I was glad for your sake, my boy, for if you wanted it you could have the position.
It was in the nature of a gallant Mississippian to do everything a lady asked him, and he had never, remarkable as it may appear, been in the position of finding such a request so incompatible with his own desires as now. It was a new predicament, for Mrs. Luna evidently meant to keep him if she could.
George Bancroft, the historian, and finally accepted himself the place of Secretary of War. Mr. Robert J. Walker, a Pennsylvanian by birth and a Mississippian by adoption, who had in the United States Senate advocated the admission of Texas and opposed the protection of American industries by a high tariff, was made Secretary of the Treasury. Mr.
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