Again, in October ensuing: "One of the peculiarities of the present time is that the principal leaders of the political parties are travelling about the country from state to state, and holding forth, like Methodist preachers, to assembled multitudes, under the broad canopy of heaven.
Quincy compares the political campaigning of his time to the fervor of religious preachers.
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The power of the present Congress to enact laws essential to the welfare of the people has been struck with apoplexy by the executive hand.
The tongue of falsehood can never be silenced.
A single breath blew all his mock-judicial array into air and smoke.
The pride of Britain itself must bend to the course of events.
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