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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...ost-office is very good; as the center of a most complicated and difficult department, I believe it to be well managed; but as regards the special acc... ...t, would not listen to their prayers, but carried us instead on board the “Pensacola,” a sloop-of-war which was now lying in the river, ready to go to... ...ppose, soon be none, as the “Warrior” is only a frigate. We went over the “Pensacola,” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have alw... ...omplain, but of the search also. An hon- est man is not to be bandied by a policeman while on his 40 North America V ol. 2 daily work, lest by chance... ...esolution adopted on the 6th instant, to the effect that the answer of the Department to the resolution, passed on the second day of the session, is n... ...time since Wendell Phillips could not lecture in Boston without a guard of police. Now, at this moment of my writing, he is a popular hero. The very m... ... into Ohio will not be caught and given up by the intervention of the Ohio police; and from Covington or Newport any slave with ease can escape into O... ...um. The clothing of the men is shown by the printed statement of their War Department to amount to $3.00 a month for a period of five years. That, at ...

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