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THE PIONEERS OF BELLEVUE
Among other things that he published was a speech made by the late Charles Ogle, of Pennsylvania, against the appropriation for furnishing the executive mansion at Washington. His speech abounded in sarcasm, and was so amusing that thousands of copies were printed for general circulation. The Whigs of Bellevue got up a club for The Log Cabin, and among the subscribers was one Lysander Brooks, a blacksmith, who paid his fifty cents for his paper and became quite a zealous Whig.
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