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GOOD-BYE TO THE CAPITAL.
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sow that her harvest may be plenteous of saved souls and a saved land.

In this calm, sweet summer night I bid a Mexican adios, an English good-bye—God be with you—to this fair city, beautiful for situation, and which may yet be the joy of the whole earth. To my host, my friends, my brethren, adieu. To-morrow for the North, and a twenty days' long, long ride on a tempestuous diligence.

Vaminos!