The Whig leaders, who seemed to have had all their wisdom and energy taken out of them when the Free Soilers left them, were much alarmed by the strength of the discontent with the existing order of things manifested by the coalition victory in the election of the Constitutional Convention.
Hoar describes the Whig leaders' reaction to the coalition's electoral success.
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Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
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