American Penance


AS for me, as soon as I hear that the last farthing is paid to the last

creditor, I will appear on my knees at the bar of the Pennsylvanian

Senate in the plumeopicean robe of American controversy. Each Conscript

Jonathan shall trickle over me a few drops of tar, and help to decorate

me with those penal plumes in which the vanquished reasoner of the

transatlantic world does homage to the physical superiority of his



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