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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: new and overgrown city, and the people blamed the Republicans and
were determined on a change.
I was passing the office of the opposition editor late at night
after canvassing for votes all day. I thought of the nasty slurs
he had written about me and my whole ancestry. I had fought hard
to educate myself and had been helpful to others. My self-respect
revolted under this editor's malicious goading. I happened to see
him in his front office, and on a sudden impulse, I went in, took
hold of his collar, and gave him a good licking.
The next day he bawled me out worse than
ever. He said I was not only a wild Welshman and a blockhead, but
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