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an election. The Opposing interest cast
about them for some time, and at last fixed
upon Harvey, who, after mature delibera-
tion, accepted the nomination.

It is needless here to recapitulate the
principles which governed these two in-
dividuals; they have already been fully
stated. At the time that they became ri-
vals for a high station, each had confirmed
in himself the views of life expressed many
years before, and was acting them out ful-
ly. One was thoroughly selfish—the other
strove to regard, in all that he did, the

* good of others.

A few months before the day of election,
& woman dressed in deep mourning came
into the office of Mr. Harvey. She stated
that she was a widow with a large family
—that her husband had been dead about a
year, and that the executor of her hus.
band’s estate, formerly his partner in busi-
ness, was about to deprive her of all the
property that had been left to her for the
maintenance of her family and the educa-