torpedo-sown

Updated: September 19, 2025

There was need in this group of a man of sufficient ascendency, thorough intellect and character, to win deference from all wise enough to see always the supreme end, to know what each instrument was fit for, and to bring all forces to bear in the right way a man of consummate adroitness, to sail in torpedo-sown waters without exciting an explosion, though conducting wires of local prejudice, class sensitiveness, and personal foible on every hand led straight down to magazines of wrath which might shatter the cause in a moment a man having resources of his own to such an extent that he could supplement from himself what was wanting in others always awake, though others might want to sleep, always at work though others might be tired a man devoted, without thought of personal gain or fame, simply and solely to the public cause.

G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer) Adam - James Otis, the pre-revolutionist