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Rh [Back of his table, picking up manuscript.] I'll fight for it—I'll fight for it to the end. [Throwing down manuscript and crossing at back to ] You see, father, Jefferson never smelt the smoke of battle.

No. He prides himself on being a man of peace. All he and his flock do is to go around shouting "States' Rights."

Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of Man! He gets his followers to do the shouting while he writes for posterity.

Rh

[Grudgingly.] Yes, he writes well.

[Standing ] He writes music—the music of well-chosen words.

And the people listen to him.

We all listen to Tom Jefferson's music. He's like the Pied Piper. He pipes and he pipes, and the people follow spellbound.

He can certainly pipe.