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The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1865., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
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It was the opinion of Mr. Sam Slick that "nothin' on this side of the water makes so big a fool of a man as goin' to the legislature (or Congress) without bein' fit for it. If mankind only knew what fools they were, and how they helped folks themselves to fool them, there would be some hope of them, for they would have larn't the first lesson of wisdom." Mr. Sam Slick had been to the "legislature" himself. He fancied he had a great "card," as he called it, in "universal suffrage," Mr. Sam Slick had been to the "legislature" himself. He fancied he had a great "card," as he called it, in "universal suffrage," which he proposed to introduce in a State where there existed a freehold qualification. He broke down in his first speech, but he consoled himself by declaring to his friends that, though he had made himself ridiculous, "universal suffrage" was, nevertheless, "a great card. " "I am ashamed to death of myself," said he to a sensible old man, the minister of Slickville,--"but it was a great card I had though, if I had only played it right; a very great card indeed. In fact, it was more than a ca