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With acidulated satire, Van Ness, enrapturing his hearers by his brilliancy, held them up to public ridicule if not to public detestation.
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Alexander describes Van Ness's ability to captivate and ridicule his audience through sharp satire.
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In less than twelve months we shall be in war, and that the bloodiest in history.
And what have I to lose by withdrawing and leaving the party unembarrassed?
And is it not needed when its taking helps us and hurts our enemy?
As he lived, so he died, a strange, lonely, unhappy man, out of tune with the beautiful world in which he was permitted to exist upward of four score years.
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