." That, then, was the germ of his transition paragraph.
Notice how clearly the meaning is expressed. Could any hearer fail to
comprehend? The transition also announces plainly the topic of the
rest of the speech.

Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your
welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the
apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me
on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn
contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some
sentiments which are the result of much reflection, of no
inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me
all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
These will be offered to you with the more freedom, as you
can only see in them the disinterested warnings of a parting
friend, who can possibly have no personal motive to bias his
counsels. Nor can I forget, as an encouragement to it, your
indulgent reception of my sentiment on a former and not
dissimilar occasion.

GEORGE WASHINGTON: _Farewell Address_, 1796

The next selection answers to a part of the plan announced in a
passage already quoted in this chapter. Notice how this transition
looks both backward and forward: it is both retrospective and
anticipatory. If you recall that repetition helps to emphasize facts,
you will readily understand why a transition is especially valuable if
it adheres to the same language as the first statement of the plan. In
a written scheme this might have appeared under the entry, "pass from
1 to 2; list 4 apologies for crime." This suggests fully the material
of the passage.

And with this exposure I take my leave of the Crime against
Kansas. Emerging from all the blackness of this Crime, where
we seem to have been lost, as in a savage wood, and turning
our backs upon it, as upon desolation and death, from which,
while others have suffered, we have escaped, I come now to
the Apologies which the Crime has found....

They are four in number, and fourfold in character. The first
is the Apology tyrannical; the second, the Apology imbecile;
the third, the Apology absurd; and the fourth, the Apology
infamous. That is all. Tyranny, imbecility, absurdity, and
infamy all unite to dance, like the weird sisters, about this
Crime.

The Apology tyrannical is founded on the mistaken act of
Governor Reeder, in au