A family tree . n, by putting togetherall our force, we gain an election, we areswindled out of the fruits by some conjur-ing tricks with the ballot-boxes. All re-publics degenerate sooner or later into des-potisms, and ours is going that way youve led me on to say more than Iintended. It is a foul bird that soils itsown nest. * But a clean bird who owns that hisnest is foul, and tries to clean it. Well turned ! Like most proverbs,that one suggests its own retort. Yes; oneof the best signs in my country is the re-peal of the Ehjah Pogram law— we mustbe cracked up—right or wrong. We ar
A family tree . n, by putting togetherall our force, we gain an election, we areswindled out of the fruits by some conjur-ing tricks with the ballot-boxes. All re-publics degenerate sooner or later into des-potisms, and ours is going that way youve led me on to say more than Iintended. It is a foul bird that soils itsown nest. * But a clean bird who owns that hisnest is foul, and tries to clean it. Well turned ! Like most proverbs,that one suggests its own retort. Yes; oneof the best signs in my country is the re-peal of the Ehjah Pogram law— we mustbe cracked up—right or wrong. We arenearly a hundred years old now, and canafford to admit that we have outgrownsome of our institutions, and that othersare run by incompetent engineers. I lovemy America—great, free, wholesome, whole-hearted America of the people!—but the From Dixies Land. 25 fraud-United, force-United, greed-UnitedStates of the politicians, I can only mournover. There I go again ! Isnt it gettinglate r ^^ f^^^ ^fA^k^^^i^. CHAPTER VIII. A FAIR REBEL. 0 you and my brother were talk-ing politics last night in thesmoking-room, said Fanny DEsmonde, on her way down to breakfast. 1 hope he has made a good Southerner of
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