“Because I do not wish to be called an ‘apostate.’ I am so far disgusted with politics, that I will not have anything to do with them hereafter. The great interests of democracy claim in every country, even in absolute monarchies, the utmost attention of the legislator. All wise statesmen, whether kings or senators, have been attached to its leading principles; but men have ever been too corrupt to give it a systematic developement. This circumstance makes me sometimes doubt its success among us; though I, for one, am no longer opposed to the experiment.”
“The press!” shouted the company,—“the press!” and the editors pledged it in a bumper.
FOOTNOTES:
[11] These remarks can, of course, only be understood as applying to the white population of those States.
[12] Since Mr. Cooper’s last publications on France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. he is less abused by his countrymen. The nice things he tells them about the palaces of Europe, and the society of princes to which he himself was invited, have put the critics in good-humour with the author.
CHAPTER VI.
Unitarian Preaching.—Doctor Channing.—Character of his Audience.—Religious Party on the Sabbath.—Discussion of Dr. Channing’s Merits.—Moral Cant.—General Characteristic of New England Society.—Women the only Aristocracy.
“Love, and meekness, lord,
Become a churchman better than ambition.”
King Henry VIII. Act v. Scene 2.