The things we do!

That's
your Missouri Compromise; but has the North ever considered it so
sacred? She's stuck to it when it was good politics, and forgotten
it when that was more to her interest. The Supreme Court of the
United States will declare the whole Missouri Compromise
unconstitutional at no late date. And what it is going to do with
Mr. Clay's compromise, of this year, the Lord only knows."
It was young Yates who at length ventured to interrupt in his soft
and drawling tones, "I don't see how the No'th can charge us up
with much. Whenever they get into trouble and want help in a
trade, or a fight, or a argument, why, they come south!"
Doctor Jamieson calmly took snuff. "Time was, when we first came
in as a state," said he, "that we didn't take these attempts of the
North to regulate us any too tamely."
[Illustration: Doctor Jamieson calmly took snuff.]
"I don't know about that," commented Judge Clayton. "Your 'moral
law,' your 'higher law,' gentlemen, I don't find in my legal
reading.


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