. The rebel's daughter; a story of love, politics, and war . and justice, demonstrated,also, that Honesty, Fairness and Love of Liberty were Demo-cratic Virtues, leaving low trickery and vile treachery to besought for among the opponents of this glorious party. Thenfollowed, in equally pompous phrases, an exposition of thenational-political bearing of the affair, much as Mr. Huffardhad foreshadowed in his conversation with Victor. It was, perhaps, not strange, that the young man permittedhimself, in the flush of his triumph and the exultation induced 192 THE BEDELS DAUGlITEll by the lionizing
. The rebel's daughter; a story of love, politics, and war . and justice, demonstrated,also, that Honesty, Fairness and Love of Liberty were Demo-cratic Virtues, leaving low trickery and vile treachery to besought for among the opponents of this glorious party. Thenfollowed, in equally pompous phrases, an exposition of thenational-political bearing of the affair, much as Mr. Huffardhad foreshadowed in his conversation with Victor. It was, perhaps, not strange, that the young man permittedhimself, in the flush of his triumph and the exultation induced 192 THE BEDELS DAUGlITEll by the lionizing tliat fell to his lot, to lie all too easily con-vinced of the groundlessness and injustice of his prejudiceagainst a community that tolerated slavery as one of its cher-ished institutions, and to conceive an exalted opinion of themagnanimity and liberality of its people. The utterance ofpublic opinion was so emphatically ou his side, — the side ofRight and Justice, as Victor proudly thought — that it wasdhtlcult to doubt the honesty of its XIII. SOVEREIGNS IN PRIMORDIAL QUALE. HE Democratic party might safely count on a decidedmajority in Vernal County. In the town of Brook-^^ field, however, and that part of the adjacent countrywhich was included in its electoral precinct, the political partieswere very evenly balanced; the natuial consequence of whichwas, that discussions of the principles dividing them, as wellas concerning the prospects for success of their respectivecandidates, were both numerous and animated, growing invehemence as the election day drew nearer, Victor took alively interest in these discussions, a due share of which werecarried on in the Dutch Store, and soon learned enough of thecurrent phrases employed by the disputants to enable him toparticipate in the debates. He felt himself drawn into thevortex of political strife with irresistible force; for to thepurely personal motive inspiring him with the desire to seethat party victorious tha
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