Skilful in expression, adroit in attack, calm and resourceful in argument, with the sarcasm of the younger Pitt, he had presented American rights and British outrages in a clearer light than others, arousing his countrymen very much as the letters of Junius had quickened English political life forty years before.
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It is not the bondholder, it is the office holder who sucks the blood of the people.
Why should we now make any concessions to them?
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