. McClure's magazine. to cross, and helda public indignation meeting, urging thatthey had volunteered to defend the State,and had the right, as independent Ameri-can citizens, to refuse to go out of its bor-ders. Taylor heard them to the end, andthen said: I feel that all gentlemen hereare my equals; in reality, I am persuadedthat many of them will, in a few years, bemy superiors, and perhaps, in the capacityof members of Congress, arbiters of thefortunes and reputation of humble serv-ants of the republic, like myself. I expectthen to obey them as interpreters of thewill of the people; and the
. McClure's magazine. to cross, and helda public indignation meeting, urging thatthey had volunteered to defend the State,and had the right, as independent Ameri-can citizens, to refuse to go out of its bor-ders. Taylor heard them to the end, andthen said: I feel that all gentlemen hereare my equals; in reality, I am persuadedthat many of them will, in a few years, bemy superiors, and perhaps, in the capacityof members of Congress, arbiters of thefortunes and reputation of humble serv-ants of the republic, like myself. I expectthen to obey them as interpreters of thewill of the people; and the best proof thatI will obey them is now to observe the or-ders of those whom the people have al-ready put in the place of authority to whichmany gentlemen around me justly plain English, gentlemen and fellow-citi-zens, the word has been passed on to mefrom Washington to follow Black Hawkand to take you with me as soldiers. I m til tiL, /%^ jJgU&^-/®^ <~ £**. &/<£+ 7, . C-^tCf-^C^^ £;&*... f/~&~£J$frt*S%*^& ■ SftArV+ij^tzu - dziUHtCht*^ ■ /L •**kJ3C**<J&L Cut^t %ft£* <* ^ 0 10. a. /-£/*
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