hese or

    kindred subjects, content me as little as any.  Statesmen and

    legislators, standing so completely itution, never

    distinctly and nakedly be.  ty, but

    ing-place  it.  tain

    experience and discrimination, and  invented ingenious

    and even useful systems, for w all

    t and usefulness lie ain not very s.

    t to forget t t governed by policy and

    expediency.  ebster never goes be, and so cannot

    speak y about it.  o those

    legislators e no essential reform in ting

    government; but for te for all time,

    t.  I knohose whose serene

    and ions on ts of

    ality.  Yet, compared he cheap

    professions of most reformers, and till cheaper wisdom and

    eloquence of politicians in general,  the only

    sensible and valuable hank heaven for him.

    Comparatively, rong, original, and, above all,

    practical.  Still, y is not  prudence.  the

    larut trut consistency or a consistent

    expediency.  trut

    concerned co reveal tice t may consist h

    wrong-doing.  o be called, as he has been called,

    titution.  to be

    given by  defensive ones.   a leader, but a

    follower.  ;I have never made an

    effort,quot; ;and never propose to make an effort; I have never

    countenanced an effort, and never mean to countenance an effort, to

    disturb t as originally made, by whe various

    States came into t;  Still tion which

    titu