And some oddities of Will’s, more or less poetical, appeared to support Mr. Keck, the editor of the Trumpet , in asserting that Ladislaw, if the truth were known, was not only a Polish emissary but crackbrained, which accounted for the preternatural quickness and glibness of his speech when he got on to a platform⁠—as he did whenever he had an opportunity, speaking with a facility which cast reflections on solid Englishmen generally. It was disgusting to Keck to see a strip of a fellow, with light curls round his head, get up and speechify by the hour against institutions “which had existed when he was in his cradle.” And in a leading article of the “Trumpet,” Keck characterized Ladislaw’s speech at a Reform meeting as “the violence of an energumen⁠—a miserable effort to shroud in the brilliancy of fireworks the daring of irresponsible statements and the poverty of a knowledge which was of the cheapest and most recent description.”