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From the Providence (RI) Daily Post, 8 May 1858

Plagiarism by a Governor


Lot M. Morrill, Governor of Maine, recently issued a fast day proclamation, a good portion of which was copied, nearly word for word, from a sermon preached several months ago by Dr. Chapin, and recently published by Dewitt & Davenport of New York.  Governor Morrill must have had a very diminutive idea of the "reading propensities"of the people of Maine, if he supposed this larceny would not be detected.  We can only excuse his conduct by supposing he found his subject too big for him, but he could not condescend to ask assistance.