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1、【精品文档】如有侵权，请联系网站删除，仅供学习与交流马克吐温Running for Governor.精品文档.马克.吐温竞选州长节选竞选州长（Running for Governor）是Mark Twain 的早期作品，虚构了马克.吐温参与竞选州长的情节。以幽默风趣的笔法，揭露了美国竞选中，竞选者为了当选，不择手段的丑陋现实。THE LIE NAILED.-By the sworn affidavits of Michael OFlanagan, Esq., of the Five Points, and Mr. Snub Rafferty and Mr. Catty Mulligan, o

2、f Water Street, it is established that Mr. Mark Twains vile statement that the lamented grandfather of our noble standard- bearer, Blank J. Blank, was hanged for highway robbery, is a brutal and gratuitous LIE, without a shadow of foundation in fact. It is disheartening to virtuous men to see such s

3、hameful means resorted to to achieve political success as the attacking of the dead in their graves, and defiling their honored names with slander. When we think of the anguish this miserable falsehood must cause the innocent relatives and friends of the deceased, we are almost driven to incite an o

4、utraged and insulted public to summary and unlawful vengeance upon the traducer. But no! let us leave him to the agony of a lacerated conscience (though if passion should get the better of the public, and in its blind fury they should do the traducer bodily injury, it is but too obvious that no jury could convict and no court punish the perpetrators of the deed).