by the Republicans, and the Democrats, not to be outdone, will distribute an equal number. The paper and printing of these tracts will eat up at least a quar ter of a million sterling, and then there is the question of their distribution considered. By far the largest portion of them is sent by equivalent of our by no means an insignificant quantity is dispatched from Washington under a "frank," a custom which is still in vogue and employed to a very great extent.
Many speeches which have been delivered in Congress on various points thus get transformed into "campaign literature," and are resuscitated for a time for the benefit of the people in the district {for which the member has been returned, although it is to be feared that the immortality enjoyed by these productions is of the briefest.—"The Sketch."
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