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Rh that falls on it will be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder!

I know men say, "If you attack Slavery, the South will dissolve the Union." She dissolve the Union? She does not dare. Without commerce, manufactures, schools, with no industry but Slavery, more than one-third of her population bondmen, their interest antagonistic to hers, let her try if she will. Her threat-I will tell you what it is like.

"Mamma," said a spoiled boy to a mother of ten other and older children, "Mamma, I want a piece of pickled elephant." "No, my dear, he can't have it. Johnny must be a good boy." "No, I won't be a good boy. I don't want to be good. I want a piece of pickled elephant." "But aint he mother's youngest boy? When we have some pickled elephant, he shall have the biggest piece!"

"Ma'am, I don't want a piece! I want a whole pickled elephant! I want him now! If you don't let me have him now, I'll run right off and catch the measles. I know a boy that's got 'em first rate."

WILLIAM STEVENS, PRINTER, 37, BELL YARD,

TEMPLE BAR.