The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin.

Now we should like to know whether, in a free country like this, and under a government instituted for no earthly object but to establish equality of rights and equality of protection — we should like to know, we say, whether a poor man has not a vested interest in a cheap coat, and whether his vested interest does not as much entitle him to the care and consideration of the government, as the vested interest of the manufacturer?

The blognoscenti were quick to note after the Uniform Project site started making the rounds that earlier projects have played with the one-dress idea.

for I perceive the great work to be done is too often mismangled in committee, so lacks all identity, all measuring out into salient, songster-mongered cherishing: