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day to lecture me. Well I listen to their discourses, but when the test comes, there will be many a man that will flinch as quick as Lewis Butler will." 

Stewart Adams was called out, & said, "I fear that some of us are going to be gulled by some kind of fraud, for the other party are making their boasts of it. [A voice, "Taint me, nohow"] They are talking to us about paying such a tax on cotton that we raise, Why, I rather pay half the cotton, or the whole of it, and have my freedom by it.

Robert Clapton followed, the one who read the Eman. Proc., you will recall, "When I was a slave I was loyal to my master, and now, as a free man, I intend to be loyal to my country, and I want my rights. [A voice, "We intend to have them, too."] We hear men talking about the Republican party, that it didn't care anything about our freedom, and all that sort of stuff. All I can say