d in the low
traffic of vulgar vice, is incapable of moving in
any superior region, is clearly shown in you by
the event of every campaign."--To Lord Howe,
Crisis, v.

"You may plan and execute little mischiefs, but
are they worth the expense they cost you, or will
such partial evils have any effect on the general
cause? Your expedition to Egg Harbor will be felt
at a distance like an attack upon a hen-roost, and
expose you in Europe with a sort of childish
frenzy."--Crisis, vi.

_Junius._

"About this time the courtiers talked of nothing
but a bill of pains and penalties against the lord
mayor and sheriffs, or impeachment at the least.
Little Mannikin Ellis told the king that if the
business were left to his management he would
engage to do wonders. It was thought very odd that
a business of so much importance should be
intrusted to the most contemptible little piece of
machinery in the whole kingdom. His honest zeal,
however, was disappointed. The minister took
fright, and at the very instant that little Ellis
was going to open, sent him an order to sit down.
All their magnanimous threats ended in a
ridiculous vote of censure, and a still more
ridiculous address to the king."--Note, Let. 38.

The reader will observe that the method also of ridicule is the same. A
hundred examples of this might be selected from both; and he has,
doubtless, already noticed the biting satire of both. The Letters of
Junius are among the finest specimens of satire in the English language,
and are only equaled by Mr. Paine's Letters to Lord Howe, and passages
in his Rights of Man to Mr. Burke. I will give a few extracts. It will
be remembered how Junius called the king not only a "ruffian," but said
"nature only intended him for a good humored fool," and that if he ever
retired to America he would get a severe covenant to digest from a
people who united in detesting the pageantry of a king and the
supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop. With this remembrance I will submit
the following piece of satire from Crisis, No. vi:

"Your rightful sovereign, as you call him, may do well enough for you,
who dare not inquire into the humble capacities of the man; but w