It described what he called "The Crime against Kansas"; and the excuses for the crime he denominated the apology tyrannical, the apology imbecile, the apology absurd, and the apology infamous.

Mrs. Lascelles, I owed and do owe you about the most abject apology man ever made!

The apology needless, &c. Ibid.

They are of that broad, palpable kind against which the refinements of argumentative apology play in vain.

Yet Dr. Johnson, who could be so stern towards some of his contemporaries, condescended to love the aforesaid vagabond, in a ponderous, elephantine way, and deified him by writing the life of the ingrate, or an apology therefor.