He had been there now twelve years and was just entering upon his third term.
Moreover, he had fortified his position; his enemies were now powerless to do him harm; and at the time this story finds him he had constructed a machine which rendered his hold upon his State as unshakable as Gibraltar's famous rock.

Patrick Henry Hanway might now be Senator for what space he pleased, and nothing left for that opposing nobility but to glare in helpless rancor and digest its spleen.
When Patrick Henry Hanway came to Washington he was unhampered of even a shadow of concern for any public good.

His sole thought was himself; his patriotism, if he ever possessed any, had perished long before.

Some said that its feeble wick went flickering out in those earlier hours of civil war.

Patrick Henry Hanway, rather from a blind impression of possible pillage than any eagerness to uphold a Union which seemed toppling to its fall, enlisted for ninety days.