An Indispensable Liberty by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

Lieutenant-Governor Root, holding on to each arm of his chair, looked round with inflamed face, with blood-shot eyes, and half open mouth, and with an expression altogether so stolid and drunken, as in any other situation . . . could not have failed to excite the derision of all present.

. . . [B]y the all-important aid of the arms of his chair and his desk in front, he did rise, and stood for a moment, as if in preparation, silent before several hundreds of his fellow-citizens, an object, from his appearance and manner, we will venture to say, of loathing and disgust to every unprejudiced man among them; unwashed, unshaven, haggard, the tobacco juice trickling from the corners of his mouth to be wiped away with his coat sleeve; with unsteady footing, this second officer of the great State of New York, commenced his address to the Senate. (614–15)

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