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BILLERY. But the more they drink, the more they mean it and that ain't the wust of it, neither. MCDALE. They're goin' to give you a chivaree up at your house, gov'nor ; and you, too, Mr. Churchill. BILLERY. An' they're goin' to burn Colonel Hansen in effigy; they're stuffin' out some old clothes now in there. [DE LERRY comes back, right, with two DRUMMERS, and the three go into the grocery. MCDALE. And they got all the judges and senators and sich in there, too, to help. BILLERY. There go the d...rummers, now and things. [There is a roll of drums within the grocery, and a wild clanging of pots and pans. PECK. Satan himself is prompting them to the service of righteousness, gentlemen. CHURCHILL. That will be their fourth trampling down of fair play in a single day, governor. And Illinois loves fair play. COLES. Well, gentlemen, if I am to be called upon by so distinguished a body of jurists and legislators in advocacy of chattel slavery in Illinois, the dignity of my office requires that I should be at home to receive them.
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