Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier.

Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to THEM! One who rides at all hazards of limb and life in the chase of a fox, will prefer to ride recklessly at most times.

So it was with these gentlemen.

He was the greatest patriot, in their eyes, who brawled the loudest, and who cared the least for decency.

He was their champion who, in the brutal fury of his own pursuit, could cast no stigma upon them for the hot knavery of theirs.