The situation, in which I have been placed for some time back, would have broken the spirit of many men.

It has rather tended to make me the most mutinous and unmanageable of the followers of the Government.

I tendered my resignation twice during the course of the last Session.

I certainly should not have done so if I had been a man of fortune.

You, whom malevolence itself could never accuse of coveting office for the sake of pecuniary gain, and whom your salary very poorly compensates for the sacrifice of ease, and of your tastes, to the public service, cannot estimate rightly the feelings of a man who knows that his circumstances lay him open to the suspicion of being actuated in his public conduct by the lowest motives.