Paul is actually at this moment a member of the lower branch
of the legislature of the State where he has long resided; and he is
even notorious for making speeches that have a tendency to put that
deliberative body in good humour, and which, as they are based on
great practical knowledge suited to the condition of the country,
possess a merit that is much wanted in many more subtle and fine-spun
theories, that are daily heard in similar assemblies, to issue from
the lips of certain instinctive politicians. But all these happy
fruits were the results of much care, and of a long period of time.
Middleton, who fills, with a credit better suited to the difference in
their educations, a seat in a far higher branch of legislative
authority, is the source from which we have derived most of the
intelligence necessary to compose our legend. In addition to what he
has related of Paul, and of his own continued happiness, he has added
a short narrative of what took place in a subsequent visit to the
prairies, with which, as we conceive it a suitable termination to what
has gone before, we shall judge it wise to conclude our labours.
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