Was it fair?
Had not the young man given away too much?
No, for Douglas proved a match for two or three such minds as Wyatt's.

He humiliated to the last degree the older, and at first confident, antagonist.
It was the most extraordinary exhibition of youth and dash and confidence and ready wit, and knowledge and dialectic handling of difficult matter.

It furnished the groundwork of my education in the history of American politics up to that time.

It led into almost every possible matter of constitutional law and party policy.
Wyatt talked for an hour.

He jeered at Douglas.