The Federalists watched it with angry eyes; the Republicans greeted with jubilation each new wave.

The defeated found some relief in gibes.

"Holoa! here's Citizen Bonhomme--red breeches, cockade, and Brutus crop! "Ah, ca ira, ca ira, ca ira!" "That man ran away from Tarleton!--yes, you did, the very day that Mr.
Jefferson--a-hem!--_absented_ himself from Monticello!" "Challenge that man--he deserted in the Indian War! "November the fourth, in the year ninety-one, We had a sore engagement near to Fort Jefferson!" "Here's a traveller who has seen the mammoth and climbed the Salt Mountain!" "Here's a tobacco-roller! Hey, my man, don't you miss old friends on the road ?" Under cover of the high words, laughter, and vituperation which made a babel of the courtroom, Cary spoke to his opponent.

"Mr.Rand, do you remember that frosty morning, long ago, when you and I first met?
I came upon you in the woods, and together we gathered chinquapins.

Does it seem long to you since you were a boy ?" "Long enough!" answered Rand.