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In his earlier days "Fernandy Wud" was identified with the lowest element of New York politics, and his political reputation was so unsavory that his own party twice, when opportunity offered, refused to elect him Speaker, a place to which he was entitled by seniority.
'Well, said he, with a roguish twinkle of the eye, 'that's Weed and Wood Thurlow and Fernandy. Then he added, with an indescribable chuckle, 'That's a pair of 'em. When asked why he did not have a letter-book and copying-press, he said, 'A letter-book might be easily stolen and carried off, but that stock of filed letters would be a back-load."
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