42 THE AGRARIAN CRUSADE 



farm to his capable wife, while he made politics his 

 profession, with literature and lecturing as avoca- 

 tions. His frequent and brilliant lectures no less 

 than his voluminous writings 1 attest his amazing 

 industry. Democrat, Republican, Liberal-Repub- 

 lican, and Anti-Monopolist; speculator, lawyer, 

 farmer, lecturer, stump-speaker, editor, and author; 

 preacher of morals and practicer of shrewd political 

 evasions ; and always a radical he was for many 

 years a force to be reckoned with in the politics of 

 his State and of the nation. 



1 The Great Cryptogram, for instance, devotes a thousand pages to 

 proving a Bacon cipher in the plays of Shakespeare! 



