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To Most People, Nothing Is More Troublesome Than The Effort Of Thinking.

There Is A Hearty Puritanism In The View Of Human Nature Which Pervades The Instrument Of 1787. It Is The Work Of Men Who Believed In Original Sin, And Were Resolved To Leave Open For Transgressors No Door Which They Could Possibly Shut.

In Europe We Have Cities Wealthier And More Populous Than Yours And We Are Not Happy. You Dream Of Your Posterity; But Your Posterity Will Look Back To Yours As The Golden Age, And Envy Those Who First Burst Into This Silent, Splendid Nature.

I Have Often Asked Americans Wherein They Consider Their Freedom Superior To That Of The English, But Have Never Found Them Able To Indicate A Single Point In Which The Individual Is Worse Off In England As Regards His Private Civil Rights Or His General Liberty Of Doing And Thinking As He Pleases. They Generally Turn The Discussion To Social Equality, The Existence Of A Monarchy And Hereditary Titles And So Forth - Matters Which Are, Of Course, Quite Different From Freedom In Its Proper Sense.

The Presence Of The Blacks Is The Greatest Evil That Threatens The United States. They Increase, In The Gulf States, Faster Than Do The Whites. They Cannot Be Kept For Ever In Slavery, Since The Tendencies Of The Modern World Run Strongly The Other Way. They Cannot Be Absorbed Into The White Population, For The Whites Will Not Intermarry With Them, Not Even In The North Where They Have Been Free For Two Generations. Once Freed, They Would Be More Dangerous Than Now, Because They Would Not Long Submit To Be Debarred From Political Rights. A Terrible Struggle Would Ensue.