 This is a grand year — a year filled with recollections of the Revolution ... a year in which the people call for the man who has torn from the throat of treason the tongue of slander , the man who has snatched the mask of Democracy from the hideous face of rebellion ... Like an armed warrior , like a plumed knight , James G. Blaine from the state of Maine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of every traitor to his country and every <unk> of his fair reputation . 
