our section where the influence of hon c our representative in was tlie party him for but that did not affect his position nor much affect his vote which in any case would have been nearly unanimous we were all my and mr was the foremost champion of our cause in the house he made a speech in the evening before the election when though the were sinister we still hoped that might be the paper nearest us headed its ticket for general and a and men au over the north and west protested that their party was as decidedly for protection as ours pointing to the attitude of at once the leading and the strongest state but we could not help seeing that all the free were for that was running with him for vice president and that south was threatening and forcible resistance if the policy were not abandoned and we concluded that either or must be cheated and that the latter would take good care not to be so mr urged ud to stand fast by those whom we knew to be devoted to our cherished policy rather than try those whose professions were by notorious facts and the response in our section was enthusiastic gave next day for to for i doubt that her vote has ever since been so unanimous or so strong and though the general result was heavily adverse to our desperate hopes � only � new england not quite half of new york new and part of giving mr their while the rest of new york and all the south and west went against him � we had the poor consolation that for whatever disaster the political revolution might involve no shadow of responsibility could rest on our own ix my faith i must have been about ten years old when in some school book whereof i have forgotten the name i first read an account of the treatment of the by called of cities one of the of madman i cannot that account so i must be content with the far and less vivid of the french historian � had withdrawn himself to after the battle of wherein he was and thence embarked for greece his whole resources being trusted to the affection of the with whom he had left his fleet money and wife but he was strangely surprised and offended when he was met on his way by from the who came to him that he could not be admitted into their city because the people had by a decree the reception of any of the kings they also informed him that his had been conducted to with all the honors and attendance due to her dignity was then sensible of the value of honors and by fear and which did not proceed from the will the posture of his affairs not permitting him to revenge the of that people he contented himself with his complaints to them in a moderate manner and demanded his with which as soon as he had received them he sailed toward the not many months elapsed before through one of those strange and sudden which were frequent throughout his career the fortunes of were completely my faith and he was enabled to settle his running account with those who had proved so treacherous in his i return here to the of � as we have already observed had from and shut her gates against him but when that thought he had sufficiently provided for the security of his in asia he moved against that rebellious and ungrateful city with a resolution to her as she deserved the first year was devoted to the conquest of the and of some other cities which had quitted his party but he returned the next season to which he closed blocked up and reduced to the last extremity by cutting off all of a fleet of a hundred and fifty sail sent by king to the and which appeared off the coast of afforded them but a transient joy for when this naval force saw a strong fleet arrive fix m to the assistance of besides a great number of other vessels from and that the whole to three hundred they weighed anchor and fled although the had issued a decree by which they made it a capital offence for any person even to mention a peace with the extremity to which they were reduced obliged them to open their gates to him when he entered the city he commanded the inhabitants to in the theatre which ho with armed troops and posted his guards on either side of the stage where the dramatic pieces were wont to be performed and then descending from the upper part of the theatre in the manner usual with actors he showed himself to the multitude who seemed more dead than alive and awaited the event in terror expecting it would prove their sentence to destruction but he dissipated their apprehensions by the words he uttered for he did not raise his voice like a man enraged nor deliver himself in any passionate or insulting terms but softened the tones of his voice and only addressed to them gentle complaints and he their offence and restored them to his favor � presenting them at the same time with measures of com wheat and such as were most agreeable to the joy of this people may be easily conceived from the terrors with which they were previously affected and how glorious must that prince be who could support so admirable a character recollections of a busy life reflecting with admiration on this exhibition of a too rare in human i was moved to inquire if a spirit so nobly so wisely the mean and savage impulse which man too often as justice when it is in essence revenge might not be reverently termed divine and the firm conclusion to which i was 