He remarked once that he had so nearly exhausted the battlefields of the past that he must begin to devote himself to the battlefields of the future.
The Tammany leaders had him repeatedly arrested, usually on Sunday mornings (that being the day on which it was least easy to find bail) for alleged criminal libels upon them. These prosecutions, threatened in the hope of intimidating him, never went further.
A Mugwump is in the Algonquin tongue an aged chief or wise man, and the name was meant to ridicule the ex cathedra manner ascribed to the Evening Post.
This library, bought by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, was presented by him to Mr. John Morley, and by the latter to the University of Cambridge.
The phrase is Professor Maitland’s.