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Look around you, men; what
will the Yankee Choppers say, when they have cut their path from the
eastern to the western waters, and find that a hand, which can lay the
'arth bare at a blow, has been here and swept the country, in very
mockery of their wickedness. They will turn on their tracks like a fox
that doubles, and then the rank smell of their own footsteps will show
them the madness of their waste. Howsomever, these are thoughts that
are more likely to rise in him who has seen the folly of eighty
seasons, than to teach wisdom to men still bent on the pleasures of
their kind! You have need, yet, of a stirring time, if you think to
escape the craft and hatred of the burnt-wood Indians. They claim to
be the lawful owners of this country, and seldom leave a white more
than the skin he boasts of, when once they get the power, as they
always have the will, to do him harm."
"Old man," said Ishmael sternly, "to which people do you belong? You
have the colour and speech of a Christian, while it seems that your
heart is with the redskins.


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