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and confiscated to the hearty, easy-going hospitality of such places; and, though he protested bitterly in his letters home against these interruptions to his severer studies, at heart there was no doubt that he thoroughly enjoyed himself. A hardly-contested election taking place just then gave occasion to a civil war of words which divided the population into two camps, composed on the one side (according to the speaker) of true and liberal-hearted patriots; on the other of sneaks, poltroons, mean whites, office-seekers, and loafers. The government of the day were supposed to be moving heaven and earth—and perhaps another place in which they might have more influence—to get their man in. Arthur threw himself con amore into the fight against them, with the result that the ministerial paper alluded to him as a popularity hunter, if not an actual felon and dog-stealer; and in its bi-weekly issue uttered dark sayings as to idiotic globe-trotters, sprigs of nobility, selfish capitalists and owners of inflated moneybags, who were determined to crush the poor man body and soul, and to destroy the hopes of future generations by voting against the government nominee for the rising district of Green Street. Although in some lights these scathing reproofs might fall wide of the mark—for, as