text:  The Patriot Satirist! The question inevitably obtrudes itself--what is the pointing of destiny which singles out Churchill for the indignant protector in verse of England's freedom and welfare? What calls his hand into the van of battle with the strong lance of justice laid in rest to tilt against the ill-defended breast of poor proud hungry jacobinical place-loving coin-attached and coin-attaching muse-left gibbet-favoured tartan-clad sulphur-scented and thistle-growing Scotland? The hero of liberty the self-offered martyr for the rights and the wrongs of a great people should carry on his front one might suppose some evidence of the over-mastering spirit which like a necessity finds him out and throws him as if a lot-drawn champion alone into the jaws and jeopardy of the war