12 Which sort of explains why aCanada never really had a destiny,
13 Or any history to speak of,
14 Or anything but a bunch of Frogs on snowshoes.
CHAPTER 321 And so, the Yanks had great success in appropriating land,
2 From whoever happened to own it,
3 bEspecially from the Indians,
4 Who kept signing treaties and moving out of the way,
5 Signing treaties and moving out of the way,
6 cAnd signing treaties and moving out of the way.
7 But then, just when everything was looking really wonderful,
8 With Yank destiny manifesting itself all over the place,
9 The old dslavery thing cropped up again,
10 And wouldn't go away.
CHAPTER 331 Part of the problem this time was that someone named eHarriet Beecher Stowe had written a book,
2 Called 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,'
3 Which was all about how awful slavery was.
4 The book became very very popular,
5 fWhich made it a hot potato for the president,
6 Because it was practically unprecedented for a Yank to write a book that a lot of Yanks could read.
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7 Not that there hadn't been Yank writers before;
8 gThere had been;
9 It's just that they'd never written any interesting books.
10 hMost of the Yank writers before Harriet Beecher Stowe had been overeducated iPuritans from New England,
11 Like jPaul Bunyan and kNathaniel Hawthorne,
12 lWho wrote about mguilt and sin and suffering,
13 Which the majority of Yanks have never cared about,
14 Unless they can inflict it themselves,
15 nIn person.
16 Anyway,
17 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' started a big abolitionist movement,
18 oWhich meant that a bunch of Yanks in New England insisted on telling the southern states how pevil and immoral they were for having slaves,
19 And therefore caused the southern states to start retaliating in the traditional qAmerican way,
20 By threatening to start their own country,
21 rWhere they would be free from the chains of tyranny,
22 And could do what they wanted to,
23 However sthey wanted to do it.
CHAPTER 341 The president who had to handle this mess was tJames Buchanan,
2 Who had been born in a ulog cabin,
3 And was therefore honest and great,
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