3. Yet he stretched his hand out unto the people and cried, “Lo,
I like this! I would rather be put under the people, having the
suffrages of a hundred and fifty thousand, than be put over them with
the suffrages of a hundred and thirty-five thousand.”
4. And the people smote their knees and laughed, and cried “If thou
likest it, Benjamin, so we do, also. Go to, and write a Thanksgiving
proclamation.”