But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love him once—not without cause;

What cause withholds you, then, to vote for him?

O Judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;

My heart’s in Opposition there with Gladstone,

And I must pause till it come back to me.

H. L. Brickel.


Friends, voters, countrymen, lend me your ears;