riends may make trouble."

"No fear, Mr. Slugby, we'll take care of that. Who do you want for
chairman of the meeting?" answered Jim.

"Edward Gasserly is the best chairman. He understands things."

"Very well, Sir, all right," said Jim.

"Remember, Jim, Wednesday night, seven o'clock. You'll want thirty men to
make every thing short and sure. Gasserly, chairman; Musher and Slugby,
delegates. And you needn't say any thing about Abel Newt, because that
will all be settled in the Convention; and the delegates of the people
will express their will there as they choose. I'll write the names of the
delegates on this."

Mr. Slugby tore off a piece of paper from a letter in his pocket, and
wrote the names. He handed the list, and, taking out his watch, said,

"Bless my soul, I'm engaged at eleven, and 'tis quarter past. Good-by,
Jim, and if any thing goes wrong let me know."

"Sartin, Sir," replied Jim, and Mr. Slugby departed.

Mr. William Condor had a similar interview with Tom, and Mr. Ele took a
friendly glass with Ned. And other Mr. Slugbys, and Condors, and Eles,
had little interviews with other red-faced, trip-hammer-fisted Jims,
Toms, and Neds. These healths being duly drunk, the placards were posted.
They were headed with the inspiring words "Liberty and Equality," with
cuts of symbolic temples and ships and lifted arms with hammers, and
summoned the legal voters to assemble in primary meetings and elect
delegates to a convention to nominate a representative. The Hon. Mr.
Bodley's letter of resignation was subjoined:

"FELLOW-CITIZENS,--Deeply grateful for the honorable trust you have so
long confided to me, nothing but the imperative duty of attending to my
private affairs, seriously injured by my public occupations, would induce
me to resign it into your hands. But while his country may demand much of
every patriot, there is a point, which every honest man feels, at which
he may retire. I should be deeply grieved to take this step did I not
know how many abler representatives you can find in the ranks of that
constituency of which any man may be proud. I leave the halls of
legislation at a moment when our party is consolidated, when its promise
for the future was never more brilliant, and when peace and prosperity
seem to have taken up their permanent abode in our happy country, whose
triumphant experiment of popular institutions makes every despot shake
upon his throne. Gentlemen, in bidding you farewell I