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"Listen, son," Wingate one time concluded "All that talk of a railroad

across this country to Oregon is silly, of course But it's all going to

be one country The talk is that the treaty with Mexico ive us a,

slice of land fro one; all of it was

taken for the sake of slavery Not so Oregon--that's free forever This

talk of splitting this country, North and South, don't go with hanies didn't divide it Burr couldn't divide it The Mississippi

hasn't divided it, or the Missouri, so rest assured the Ohio can't No,

nor the Rockies can't! A railroad? No, of course not But all the saon road from free soil to free soil--I reckon that was h It made me captain"

"No, 'twasn't that, Jesse," said his wife "That ain't what put you in

for train captain It was your blamed impatience Some of them lower

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along here