horical confusion." This
is one of Junius' most withering sarcasms. In his Preface he says: "I am
no lawyer by profession, nor do I pretend to be more deeply read than
every English gentleman should be in the laws of his country." ... "I
speak to the plain understanding of the people, and appeal to their
honest, liberal construction of me." And of the Letters he says in the
Dedication: "To me, originally, they owe nothing but a healthy, sanguine
constitution."

Now, from the above facts, and the method of elimination, it may be
affirmed, Junius was not prominent before the English nation. He was
not a peer, nor member of the House of Commons. He could not have been
an army officer. He was not a collegian, nor a lawyer. What, then, was
he? Just what he says himself to be: "one of the common people, with a
healthy, sanguine constitution," but by no means without genius,
education, and practical knowledge.

JUNIUS NOT A PARTISAN.

But let us continue the method of elimination till we find his true
position. Because we can not safely affirm what he was, till we know in
some particulars, what he was not; and it is thus the spirit and object
of Junius may be made visible. I affirm, therefore, Junius was not a
partisan. In proof of which I submit the following, from Let. 58, to the
study of the reader:

"No man laments more sincerely than I do the unhappy differences
which have arisen among the friends of the people, and divided
them from each other. The cause, undoubtedly, suffers as well by
the diminution of that strength which union carries along with it,
as by the separate loss of personal reputation, which every man
sustains when his character and conduct are frequently held forth
in odious or contemptible colors. The differences are only
advantageous to the common enemy[A] of the country. The hearty
friends of the cause are provoked and disgusted. The lukewarm
advocate avails himself of any pretense, to relapse into that
indolent indifference about every thing that ought to interest an
Englishman, so unjustly dignified with the title of moderation.
The false, insidious partisan, who creates or foments the
disorder, sees the fruit of his dishonest industry ripen beyond
his hopes, and rejoices in the promise of a banquet, only
delicious to such an appetite as his own. It is time for those who
really mean the _Cause_ and the _People_, who have no view to
private advantage, a