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done move dat de flo' be cle'r'd 'stidder de gall'ry. I secon's de motion.'
"Den fum dat he went on an' 'buze de erpublican party, speshually dat ar man what bad de 'spute wid Hamp. Mr. Scott say dey got so little sense dat dey go ag'in a paper put in by one er der own party. He say he ain't keer nothin' 'tall 'bout de paper hisse'f, but be des wanter sbow um up fer what dey wuz.
"He totch'd um, sub, ez you may say, on de raw, an' when he git th'oo be say, 'Now, I hope de cheer will deal wid de motion of de Honnerbul Minervy Ann Perdue.' Mr. Scott say, 'She settin' up dar in de gall'ry an' she got des ez much right ter set on dis flo' ez nineteen out er twenty er dem settin' here.' De man in de pulpit look at me right hard, an' den he 'gun ter laugh. I say, 'You nee'n ter worry yo'se'f 'bout me. You better 'ten' ter dem ar half-drunk niggers an' po' wbite trash down dar. I wouldn't set wid 'em ef I never did fin' a place fer ter set at'
"Wid dat, sub, I pickt up my pairsol an' make my way out, but ez I went I bear um whoopin' an' hollerin'."
"Well, they didn't pass the bill, did they?" I asked.
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