Senator Hanway was given his share in the picture as the paid traitor who had furnished that feather from the American Eagle's wing which so fatally aided the enemy in his archery.
To one unacquainted with the tinderous quality of political popularities, what ensued would be hard to imagine.

Mr.Hawke's interview was as a torch to tow.

A tiny responsive flame burst forth in one paper, then in ten, then in two hundred; in a moment the country was afire like a sundry prairie.

Senator Hanway, lately adored, was execrated and burned in effigy.

In short there occurred an uprising of the peasantry, and Senator Hanway found himself denounced from ocean to ocean as one guilty of studied treason.