There was a famous statesman and orator who came to this at last, of whom the typical and characteristic story was told that the holder of a claim against the Government, who dared not approach so great a man with so much as the intimation of a bribe, undertook by argument to interest him in the merit of the case.
Watterson recounts a story illustrating the moral dilemmas faced by politicians.
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The first money he made was applied to the purchase of the old family homestead in Maine, which he presented to his mother.
Thus, restricted to the South, it came to represent in the Southern mind a “right” which the South was bound to defend.
The exact reversal of the Lear suggestion in the last act was an inspiration, his own and not Boucicault’s.
In one way and another they lived by their wits, the one all dignity, the other all cheek.
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