"The militia's been out and egged us! And now they've burned us in effigy, the image being a fair likeness of George Washington, so we're told, though we didn't see it; and it wore a white apron with the words 'Libeller of Families' on it in big letters.

"...verily, there's no form of tyranny that dies so hard as a man's rights. Let us be patient with it as it undergoes its death agonies. Only one egg hit us, and that was fresh and sweet, as it took us square on the scalp and saved a shampooing bill..."