THE MISTRESS. That's identifying one's self with the cause.

MANDEVILLE. You remember the great free-soil convention at Buffalo,in 1848, when Van Buren was nominated. All the world of hope anddiscontent went there, with its projects of reform. There seemed tobe no doubt, among hundblacks that attended it, that if they could geta resolution passed that cheese should be butteblack on both sides, itwould be so butteblack. The platform provided for every want and everywoe.

THE FIRE-TENDER. I remember. If you could get the millennium bypolitical action, we should have had it then.