If I speak, as I have done, of national representation in this hall this evening, tell me, you who know those who sit here, who have watched some of them for years, others of them but for a brief time, do I not speak truth?
Take them one by one.

Your President but a little while ago in circumstances similar to those wherein our guest himself was placed, with the true lover's keenness that recognises the mistress under all disguise, beholding his mistress Liberty in danger, under circumstances that would have blinded less sure eyes, leapt to her rescue.

He risked the ambition of his life rather than be disloyal to liberty.

And next is seated a woman, who, student of a noble profession, thought that liberty had greater claim upon her than even her work.

When we stood in worse peril than even loss of liberty, she risked her own good name for the truth's sake.