So delicately did he do it that an attentive listener did not realize that he was straying from the field of "mere reason" into that of political passion.

Here no man could equal him or help him, for here his eloquence had full scope, and on this he relied to arouse Marshall, whom he thoroughly understood.

In occasional sentences he pictured his beloved college under the wise rule of Federalists and of the Church.

He depicted the party assault that was made upon her.

He showed the citadel of learning threatened with unholy invasion and falling helplessly into the hands of Jacobins and freethinkers.