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Written two days before in his little study aboard the Indianapolis, his address bore in its plush use of adjectives the inevitable mark of having been composed under the Southern Cross.

It was a protest borne of the failed expectations of the government, and a potent omen of the democratic spirit under duress, heralded with roughly written words on placards, and not quite the Eureka ...