She notes that the Senate will gladly speak their mind about any other American, yet when someone attempts to speak out against the Senate, they are struck down and declared a traitor. Later, she restates this point when she says that the “[freedom of speech] has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others” (Smith 2). Smith uses these two allegations to accentuate her point that many Senators were acting un-American when they accuse their fellow government members of being traitors. At the beginning of her speech, she uses the phrase “I speak” to start off seven consecutive sentences (Smith
She notes that the Senate will gladly speak their mind about any other American, yet when someone attempts to speak out against the Senate, they are struck down and declared a traitor. Later, she restates this point when she says that the “[freedom of speech] has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others” (Smith 2). Smith uses these two allegations to accentuate her point that many Senators were acting un-American when they accuse their fellow government members of being traitors. At the beginning of her speech, she uses the phrase “I speak” to start off seven consecutive sentences (Smith