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"A BOUNTEOUS PRESIDENT--IF ANYTHING IS LEFT!"

"Mr. Speaker, we have all heard of the animal standing in doubt
between two stacks of hay and starving to death; the like of that
would never happen to General Cass. Place the stacks a thousand miles
apart; he would stand stock-still, midway between them, and eat both
at once; and the green grass along the line would be apt to suffer
some, too, at the same time. By all means, make him President,
gentlemen. He will feed you bounteously--if--if--there is anything
left after he shall have helped himself."--(Speech, House of
Representatives, July 27, 1848.)


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THE ART OF BEING PAID TO EAT.

"I have introduced General Cass' accounts here chiefly to show the
wonderful physical capacities of the man. They show that he not only
did the labor of several men at the same time, but that he often did
it at several places many hundred miles apart, at the same time! And
at eating, too, his capacities are shown to be quite as wonderful.
From October, 1821, to May, 1822, he ate ten rations a day in
Michigan, ten a day here in Washington, and near five dollars' worth a
day besides, partly on the road between the two places. And then there