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LETTERS OF FREDERICK BATES TO A. B. WOODWARD .6
commission is now eldest, is a civil lawyer, and a man of superior parliamentary information. His wit, his satire, and his agreeable combination of images are surpassed by few. He is a man withall more sternly independent in principle and conduct than most of my acquaintances. If a slave approaches him in the tone and attitude of a suppliant, he spurns him from his presence. He is only acceptable to those who know the dignity of their nature, and how to speak the language of
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