... not, for the sake of fifthy lucre, betray my country !" "Appoint somebody also who has learned military affairs, either at school or in camp." Are stump orators Gods; born like Minerva, Bellona, or Mars , full armed, all- wise and invincible chieftains; and you, my intelligent readers, made of different and of baser clay, can you conceive it possible for a mere mortal, past fifty, to become a good so...