Hip, hip, hurrah! And, again, hip, hip, hurrah! And, once more, hip, hip, hurrah!" His compatriots followed him, though flabbily; and he continued to make himself heard above the shouts of "Order!" and the bimming of the chairman's bell.
"Mr.Chairman! I appeal to you.

Are we Britons to sit still and hear our country's flag reviled ?--that flag which has ensured us the very liberty we are enjoying this evening.

The gentleman who has been pleased to slander it is not, I believe, a British citizen.

Now, I put it to him: is there another country on the face of the earth, that would allow people of all nations to flock into a gold-bearing colony on terms of perfect equality with its own subjects ?--to flock in, take all they can get, and then make off with it ?" a point of view that elicited forcible grunts of assent, which held their own against hoots and hisses.

Unfortunately the speaker did not stop here, but went on: "Gentlemen! Do not, I implore you, allow yourselves to be led astray by a handful of ungrateful foreigners, who have received nothing but benefits from our Crown.