In the days of yore, the good citizens of Athens filed past the urns and as they passed each one dropped a white shell or a black. If the black shells were more numerous than the white, then woe be to the man concerning whom the shells were cast, for he was ostracized and for ten years under pain of death must remain an exile from his native city.
No urns were erected in Rhode Island, no black shells were dropped therein, but nonetheless 21 of her citizens went forth, last June, into exile, saying...
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