Yet his work was far better and his style simpler and more direct than that which was in fashion.

He indulged in a good deal of patriotic glorification.

We smile at his boyish Federalism describing Napoleon as "the gasconading pilgrim of Egypt," and Columbia as "seated in the forum of nations, and the empires of the world amazed at the bright effulgence of her glory." These sentences are the acme of fine writing, very boyish and very poor; but they are not fair examples of the whole, which is much simpler and more direct than might have been expected.

Moreover, the thought is the really important thing.

We see plainly that the speaker belongs to the new era and the new generation of national measures and nationally-minded men.