"A Tacker is a man of passion, a man of heat, a man that is for ruining the nation upon any hazards to obtain his ends.
Gentlemen freeholders, you must not choose a Tacker, unless you will destroy our peace, divide our strength, pull down the Church, let in the French, and depose the Queen." From the dissolution of Parliament in April till the end of the year Defoe preached from this text with infinite variety and vigour.

It is the chief subject of the second volume of the _Review_.

The elections, powerfully influenced by Marlborough's successes as well as by the eloquent championship of Defoe, resulted in the entire defeat of the High Tories, and a further weeding of them out of high places in the Administration.

Defoe was able to close this volume of the _Review_ with expressions of delight at the attainment of the peace for which he had laboured, and, the victory, being gained and the battle over, to promise a return to the intermitted subject of Trade.

He returned to this subject in the beginning of his third volume.