A Political Career Brings Out The Basest

Of All The Differences Between The Old World And The New, This Is Perhaps The Most Salient. Half The Wars Of Europe, Half The Internal Troubles That Have Vexed European States... Have Arisen From Theological Differences Or From The Rival Claims Of Church And State. This Whole Vast Chapter Of Debate And Strife Has Remained Virtually Unopened In The United States. There Is No Established Church. All Religious Bodies Are Equal Before The Law, And Unrecognized By The Law, Except As Voluntary Associations Of Private Citizens.

The Massacres Are The Result Of A Policy Which, As Far As Can Be Ascertained, Has Been Entertained For Some Considerable Time By The Gang Of Unscrupulous Adventurers Who Are Now In Possession Of The Government Of The Turkish Empire. They Hesitated To Put It In Practice Until They Thought The Favorable Moment Had Come, And That Moment Seems To Have Arrived About The Month Of April.

California, More Than Any Other Part Of The Union, Is A Country By Itself, And San Francisco A Capital.

A Political Career Brings Out The Basest Qualities In Human Nature.

Three-fourths Of The Mistakes A Man Makes Are Made Because He Does Not Really Know The Things He Thinks He Knows.