To hell with!"

To hell with who? To hell with what?"

Ah, bedad, ye can finish it yourself--it's too expinsive for me!"

I think the seditious disposition, restrained by the economical instinct,

is finely put in that.

THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION [Written about 1867]

WASHINGTON, December, 1867.

I have resigned. The government appears to go on much the same, but

there is a spoke out of its wheel, nevertheless. I was clerk of the

Senate Committee on Conchology, and I have thrown up the position.

I could see the plainest disposition on the part of the other members of

the government to debar me from having any voice in the counsels of the

nation, and so I could no longer hold office and retain my self-respect.

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