The speech of his first intention, orderly, developed, was as far from him as the history of Liberalism in Fox County.

For an instant he hesitated; and then, under the suggestion, no doubt, of that ancient misbehaviour in Boston Harbour at which he had hinted, he took up another argument.

I will quote him a little.
"Let us hold," he said simply, "to the Empire.

Let us keep this patrimony that has been ours for three hundred years.

Let us not forget the flag.