Obstruction.

The Plea of the Party Man.

(On either side.)

"There's no Obstruction!"—Why, then, all this ruction?

"When we obstruct, who dares to call't Obstruction?"

To dam a deluge, stop a bolting horse,—

That is obstruction, of a sort, of course;

Our sort, in fact! But theirs on t'other side?

That's quite another matter. They can't hide

The cloven foot of malice, the false faitours!