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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An Act to provide for the expression of the opinion of the people of the Territory of Iowa, upon the subject of the formation of a State Constitution and Government, and to enable them to form a Constitution for the State of Iowa," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Conve...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He intimated that the bill sought to create places for disappointed politicians. Certain prominent Democrats--notably Robert Lucas and Judge Williams--had recently lost their positions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So offices must be created for them. Hence the pro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are we slaves? Is our liberty restricted? Are we deprived of the rights, immunities, and privileges of American citizens? Is the rod of oppression held over us by the General Government? Has that Government manifested its care towards us by sending persons to 'spy out our libert...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And so the question before the people was set forth as one of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dependence or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Independence. Will they support the proposition to establish a State ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "which entitled the people to a participation in the government of the Union and to the full benefits of local legislation and local self-government. He therefore recommended in his message that provision be made for ascertaining the wishes of the people" }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is the candidate well grounded in the principles of government and administration? but" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are his political affiliations?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You meet gentlemen, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "so that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Iowa, young, beautiful and blooming as she now is, endeared to us by every attachment which can bind us to our country, may at no distant day, for every t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Economy" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But Mr. Chapman thought that such a provision would be an insult to the Clergy and to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was a firm believer in Christianity, but he" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He doubted the efficacy of prayers invoked at political meetings, and cited an instance where a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reverend gentleman fervently prayed for the release of Dorr, the election of Polk and Dallas, and the triumph of Democratic principles. To b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the name of Heaven, he exclaimed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Grant thought that the report" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, to make sure that it did not exclude Atheists from giving testimony in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Davidson said that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Grant moved to strike out $700, which would leave the salary blank." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He knew that there were men who would take the offices at almost any salary; but" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Furthermore," }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Lieutenant Governor" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Furthermore, section five of the report provided that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Langworthy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He declared that the executive veto was a wholesome remedy for over-legislation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a Democratic feature of any Constitution." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We were, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He did not believe that the influence of politics would be worse in the election of Judges by the people than in the election of members of the General Assembly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joint ballot, he declared," }, { "from": "human", "value": "bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and (2) that these rights are" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the same time they looked upon this declaration as" }, { "from": "human", "value": "which," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would the admission of the negro as a citizen tend in the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miners' Bank of Du Buque." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(4) that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and (5) that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "(2) that no act of incorporation shall continue in force for more than twenty years; (3) that the personal and real property of the individual members of a corporation s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To this last kind he objected. They were founded in wrong, and founded in error. He declared that such corporations should be excluded altogether from the State. Indeed, he said that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Banks had always been a curse to the country . . . . ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Preamble and Boundaries acknowledges dependence upon" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and purports to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "in order" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bill of Rights declares that" }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right of Suffrage" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Executive Department provides that the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Supreme Executive power shall be vested in a Governor, who shall hold his office for two years; and that a Lieutenant Governor shall be chosen at the same time and for the same term." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Public Debts and Liabilities" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Education and School Lands. It provides for a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Superintendent of Public Instruction who shall be chosen by the General Assembly. It directs the General Assembly to provide for a system of common schools. It declares also that the General...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Amendments to the Constitution." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Schedule" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beginning in the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river opposite the mouth of the Des Moines river; thence up the said river Des Moines, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to a point where it is intersected by the Old Indian Boundary line, or line run by Joh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "State Rights and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Union, came to an issue over the boundaries of the proposed State of Iowa. In the bill for admission, as reported by the House Committee on Territories, the boundaries asked for by the Iowa Convention in the Constitutio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To preserve this Union, to make its existence immortal, is the high destiny assigned by Providence itself to this great central power." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Economy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Moreover, it was found that the provisions of the Constitution of 1844 just quoted read as follows:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This constitution, together with whatever conditions may be made to the same by Congress, shall be ratified or rejected by a vote of the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He called attention to the fact that the boundaries prescribed by Congress were those suggested by Mr. Nicollet, a United States Geologist," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then he pointed out the influences which operated in reducing the boundaries, and concluded by s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And, continued the Governor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "6. The question of territory being a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "be once more submitted to the people for their ratification or rejection. It directed that a poll be opened for that purpose at the general election to be held on the first Monday of August, 1845. The votes of the electors were to be given _viva voce_. Furthermore, it was expres...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even the Legislative Assembly, which was Democratic, resolved" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Since your adjournment in June last, a most important question has been decided by the people, the effect of which is to throw us back where we originally commenced in our efforts to effect a change in the form of government under which we at present live.--I allude to the rejec...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When completed the draft of the code of fundamental law was to be submitted to the people for ratification or rejection at the first general election thereafter. If ratified by the people it was then to be submitted to Congress with the request that Iowa be admitted into the Uni...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "advocated a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They clamored for a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Economy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Preamble and Boundaries" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bill of Rights," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right of Suffrage" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Executive Department" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Militia and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "State Debts" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Incorporations is a radical departure from the provisions of the old Constitution. The General Assembly is empowered to provide general laws with reference to corporat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Schedule" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Bill to define the boundaries of the State of Iowa, and to repeal so much of the act of the 3rd of March, 1845, as relates to the boundaries of Iowa. The original copy of this bill, which has been preserved in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, bears test...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "where they occur and inserting in lieu thereof" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As to the memorial from Dubuque recommending the parallel of forty-two degrees, Mr. Douglas said that he was aware of the influences which produced it. The people of Dubuque" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the Union by the creation of small States in the West. He" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beginning in the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river, at a point due east of the middle of the mouth of the main channel of the Des Moines river; thence up the middle of the main channel of the said Des Moines river, to a point on said river where the northern bo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--institutions which are absolutely essential to the economic welfare and industrial development of the State. He contended that this" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of an elective judicial system, since the election of the judges" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Clarke would not" }, { "from": "human", "value": "but he pointed out that the effect would be" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monday, The 26th Day of October Next" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and provides that all the provisions of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An Act supplemental to the Act for the Admission of the States of Iowa and Florida into the Union approved March 3, 1845, shall continue in full force" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fathers." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot avoid a feeling of deep concern at the opinion expressed by some portion of our fellow citizens in favor of amending the Constitution of our State in such a manner as to authorize the establishment of Banks--of special acts of incorporation for pecuniary profit, and of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An Act providing for the revision or amendment of the Constitution of this State was passed by the fifth General Assembly and approved by Governor Grimes, January 24, 1855. In accordance with its provisions a poll was opened at the general election in August, 1856," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But such a bank, if established," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(4) The General Assembly may provide by a general law for a free banking system under certain restrictions. (_a_) Provision shall be made" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and the law shall" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Divided House Speech was delivered at Springfield, Illinois, Governor Grimes had said in his inaugural address:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It becomes the State of Iowa--the only free child of the Missouri Compromise--to let the world know that she values the bles...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Seat of Government is hereby permanently established, as now fixed by law, at the city of Des Moines, in the county of Polk, and the State University at Iowa City, in the county of Johnson." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have added some new and important guards for the security of popular rights, and for the promotion of the best interests of the social compact. Restrictions existed in the old constitution, which it is believed have operated to check and retard the energies and prosperity of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Republican code." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New Constitution to be" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "John, see here, I'll give you a surprise!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "John, I found A pumpkin, high and dry, Upon a pile of rubbish, down Behind that worn-out sty!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is his sorrow? she asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know. Come on!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "This here young lady, said the Gryphon," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may not have lived much under the sea --(" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't, said Alice)--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "-- (Alice began to say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I once tasted --but checked herself hastily, and said,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must be a very pretty dance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Would you like to see a little of it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very much indeed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, let's try the first figure! said the Mock Turtle to th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, it's a very interesting dance to watch, said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, as to the whiting, said the Mock Turtle," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Alice," }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's different from what _I_ used to say when I was a child," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I never heard it before, said the Mock Turtle;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should like to have it explained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, Game, or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two p ennyworth only of beautiful Soup? Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, how glad I am to get here! And what IS this on my head?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how CAN it have got there without my knowing it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, this IS grand! said Alice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please, would you tell me--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Speak when you're spoken to!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But if everybody obeyed that rule, said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tip-tap, rip-rap, Tick-a-tack-too! Scarlet leather sewn together, This will make a shoe. Left, right, pull it tight, Summer days are warm; Underground in winter, Laughing at the storm!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Big boots a-hunting, Sandals in the hall, White for a wedding feast, And pink for a ball: This way, that way, So we make a shoe, Getting rich every stitch, Tick-tack-too!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Servant, Sir!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Humph," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's very rude of him, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To come and spoil the fun!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If this were only cleared away, They said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose, the Walrus said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That they could get it clear?" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The time has come, the Walrus said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, where does faithful Gelert roam, The flower of all his race; So true, so brave,--a lamb at home, A lion in the chase?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hell-hound! my child's by thee devoured," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner; Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un- inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the M...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now I may certainly venture to the mainland, for this fellow will serve me as a pilot, and will tell me what to do, and whither to go for provisions, and whither not to go for fear of being devoured; what places to venture into, and what to escape." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Master ; and then let him know that was to be my name: I likewise taught him to say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, yes, we always fight the better" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Master, Master, they are come, they are come!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, let her alone, Jack, can't you? she'll float next tide" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are ye, gentlemen?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He must be sent directly from Heaven, then, said one of them very gravely to me, and pulling off his hat at the same time to me;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All help is from Heaven, sir, said I;" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look you, sir, said I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said I," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom Smith! Tom Smith! Tom Smith answered immediately," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that Robinson? for it seems he knew the voice. The other answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, ay; for God's sake, Tom Smith, throw down your arms and yield, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain, the commander calls for you ; and presently the captain replied," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell his Excellency I am just a-coming." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Governor! Governor! and presently I knew the captain's voice; when, climbing to the top of the hill, there he stood, and pointing to the ship, he embraced me in his arms." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dear friend and deliverer, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should be very glad of that, said the captain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, said I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will send for them up, and talk with them for you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, girl, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And is he gone, and is he gone? She cried and wept outright;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I will to the water-side, And see him out of sight." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, youn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O Sally Brown! O Sally Brown! How could you serve me so? I've met with many a breeze before, But never such a blow!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All's Well!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O God! thou hast blest me,--I ask for no more." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear children, said I," } ]