The Last Surveyor - A Memoir

Long enough, and too long to have lived in an unnatural state, doing what was really of no advantage nor delight to any human being. Then, moreover, as regarded his unceremonious ejectment, the late surveyor was not altogether ill pleased to be recognized by the whigs as an enemy. Finally, little heroic as he was, it seemed more decorous to be overthrown in the downfall of the party with which he had been content to stand,. than to remain a forlorn survivor when so many worthier men were falling. And at last, after subsisting for four years on the mercy of a hostile administration, to be compel then to define his position anew