“Swingin Round the Cirkle” is Petroleum V. Johnson's ideas on politics in New Jersey. Johnson's essay is provided in an authentic tone with passionate emotion. Excerpt: “Sence the November elections I have bin spendin' the heft of my time in Washinton. I find a melancholy pleasure in lingering around the scene of so many Democratic triumphs. Here it was that Brooks, the heroic, bludgeoned Sumner; here it was that Calhoon, & Yancey, and Breckinridge achieved their glory and renown.”
