I Have Myself, For Many Years, Made

Religion, Charity, Pure Benevolence, And Morals, Mingled Up With Superstitious Rites And Ferocious Cruelty, Form In Their Combination Institutions The Most Powerful And The Most Pernicious That Have Ever Afflicted Mankind.

Religious Discord Has Lost Her Sting; The Cumbrous Weapons Of Theological Warfare Are Antiquated: The Field Of Politics Supplies The Alchymists Of Our Times With Materials Of More Fatal Explosion, And The Butchers Of Mankind No Longer Travel To Another World For Instruments Of Cruelty And Destruction.

About One-half Of The Members Of Congress Are Seekers For Office At The Nomination Of The President. Of The Remainder, At Least One-half Have Some Appointment Or Favor To Ask For Their Relatives.

The Public History Of All Countries, And All Ages, Is But A Sort Of Mask, Richly Colored. The Interior Working Of The Machinery Must Be Foul.

But America Is A Great, Unwieldy Body. Its Progress Must Be Slow... Like A Coach And Six - The Swiftest Horses Must Be Slackened And The Slowest Quickened, That All May Keep An Even Pace.