half-assassin

Updated: May 12, 2025

Emerson declared that the country went on most satisfactorily, not when it was in the hands of the respectable Whigs, but when in the hands of "these rough riders legislators in shirt-sleeves Hoosier, Sucker, Wolverine, Badger or whatever hard-head Arkansas, Oregon, or Utah sends, half-orator, half-assassin, to represent its wrath and cupidity at Washington."

Samuel McChord Crothers - Humanly Speaking