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ought to be done, in the most violent and most
dogmatic words the Attic dialect could furnish. But
Cleon could do more than talk. Witness his con
duct in the affair of Pylos. "Give me/ he said,
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the troops now in the city, in addition to those in
Pylos, and I will die for it, but within three weeks
I bring you those Spartans prisoners of war !
"You shall command," shouted the Demos, think
ing it the best joke
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of the season. Cleon went to
Pylos, stormed the Spartan camp, and was back
again with his prisoners within the time fixed.
Doubtless he was a demagogue, and a dangerous
but he was no poltroon, and met his death at
one ;
last on the field.
Mr. Phillips, with a burst of Cleonian eloquence,
cries out that in the war he sees salvation, and that
every act of his life moves him to give it a hearty
and hot welcome.-)-
Why, then, did he not go to the war ? Was he
a non-resistant? Non-resistants do not wish ten men
sent to bloody graves for maltreating Mr. Garrison.
Was he sick or feeble ? An orator who can pace a
- Kai
Tavra de e^oiv ecprj Trpos rols fv HuXa) orparicormj VTOS
fifiv AaKf8aijjioviovs a>VTas TJ avroii drroKrevflv.
TOV K\ea>vos KaiVep p.avia>dr)s ovaa TJ V7TO(T^eo-is a7re[3r) evrbs
yap fUoaiv f}/j.pcov fjyayrj rovs tivdpas wairep VTreo-rrj.
GovKvdidov Svyypdcprjs, IV. 28, 39.
f On April 21, 1861, he said in Boston: "Every act of my life has
tended to make the welcome I give this war hearty and hot..... The
first cannon-shot upon our forts has put the war-cry of the Revolu
tion on her lips..... No man can prevail against the North in the
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nineteenth century." He also spoke of the Abolitionists who thank
God that He has let them see salvation before die." they SCHOULER S
Massachusetts in the Civil War, p. 113.