I ily accept tto, -- "t gover is best which

        gover"; and I so see it acted up to more rapidly

        and systematically.    Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which

        also I believe, -- "t gover is best

        all"; and    he kind of

        gover    best but an

        expedient; but most govers are usually, and all govers are

        sometimes, inexpedient.    tions w

        against a standing army, and ty, and deserve

        to prevail, may also at last be broug a standing

        gover.    tanding army is only an arm of tanding

        gover.    t itself, whe

        people o execute to be

        abused and perverted before t t.    itness

        t Mexi ively a few individuals

        using tanding gover as tool; for, ihe

        people    ed to this measure.

        t --    but a tradition, though a

        ret one, endeav to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity,

        but eat losing some of its iy?    It    the

        vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man    bend

        it to    is a sort of o the people

        t it is not the

        people must ed macs

        din, to satisfy t idea of gover whey have.

        Govers shus how successfully men    be imposed on, even

        impose on tage.    It is excellent, we

        must all allo t never of itself furthered any

        enterprise, but by ty    got out of its way.

        It does not keep try free.    It does not settle t.    It

        does not educate.    ter in in the Ameri people has

        done all t    would

        more, if t    sometimes got in its way.    For

        gover is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in

        letting one anot is most

        expedient, t let alone by it.    trade and

        erce, if t made of India rubber, would never manage

        to bounce over tacles inually

        putting in to judge these men wholly by

        ts of tions, and not partly by tentions,

        to be classed and punishose mischievous

        persons rus on the railroads.

        But, to speak practically and as a citizen, uhose who

        call t men, I ask for, not at ono

        gover, but at once a better gover.    Let every man make

        kno

        ep toaining it.

        After all, tical reason whe power is on

        ty are permitted, and for a long

        period tio rule, is not because t likely to be

        in t, nor because t to ty, but

        because tro.    But a gover in

        be based on justice,

        even as far as men uand it.     t be a gover in

        virtually decide rig

        sce? -- in ions to

        izen ever

        for a moment, or in t degree, resign o the

        legislator?     we

        s, and subjects after is not desirable to

        cultivate a respect for t.    the only

        obligation o assume is to do at any time w

        I t.    It is truly enoug a corporation has no

        sce; but a corporation of stious men is a corporation

        more just; and, by

        means of t for it, even the well-disposed are daily made

        ts of injustice.    A on and natural result of an undue

        respect for la you may see a file of soldiers, el,

        captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marg in

        admirable order over o t their wills,

        ay, against t very

        steep marcation of t.

        t t it is a damnable business in whey are

        ed; t are they?

        Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of

        some unscrupulous man in po the Navy Yard, and behold a

        marine, su make, or suc

        make a man s black arts -- a mere shadow and reminisce

        of y, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one

        may say, buried under arms s, t

        may be

        "Not a drum e,

        As o t we hurried;

        Not a soldier disc

        Oer t;

        tate t as men mainly, but as

        mading army, and the

        militia, jailers, stables, posse itatus, etc.    In most cases

        tever of t or of the moral

        sense; but t th and

        stones; and    will serve

        t traw

        or a lump of dirt.    t of h only as horses

        and dogs.    Yet suceemed good

        citizens.    Ot legislators, politis, lawyers,

        ministers, and office-ate cheir

        ins, they are as

        likely to serve t intending it, as God.    A very

        fes, martyrs, reformers in t sense, and

        men, serve tate heir sces also, and so necessarily

        resist it for t part; and treated as

        enemies by it.    A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will

        not submit to be "clay," and "stop a o keep t;

        but leave t office to    at least:--

        "I am too o be propertied,

        to be a sedary at trol,

        Or useful serving-man and instrument

        to any sn state t t;

        irely to o them

        useless and selfis ially to them is

        pronounced a beor and p.

        bee a man to beohis Ameri

        govero-day?    I ans     disgrace be

        associated .    I ot for an instant reize t

        political anization as my gover whe slaves

        gover also.

        All men reize t of revolution; t is, t to

        refuse allegiao, and to resist, t, ws

        tyranny or its inefficy are great and unendurable.    But almost

        all say t suc t suchey

        tion of 75.    If oell me t this

        because it taxed certain fn odities

        brougo its ports, it is most probable t I s make an

        ado about it, for I    do    their

        fri; and possibly to terbalahe

        evil.    At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it.    But

        o s mae, and oppression and

        robbery are anized, I say, let us not have such a mae any

        longer.    In otion of a nation

        o be ty are slaves, and a

        ly overrun and quered by a fn army,

        and subjected to military la it is not too soon for

        men to rebel and revolutionize.     makes ty the

        more urgent is t t try so overrun is not our own,

        but ours is the invading army.

        Paley, a on auty ions, in his

        cer on t;Duty of Submission to Civil Gover," resolves

        all civil obligation into expediency; and o say t

        "so long as terest of ty requires it, t is,

        so long as tablis ot be resisted or ged

        publiveniency, it is t the

        establis be obeyed, and no longer....    this principle

        being admitted, tice of every particular case of resistance

        is reduced to a putation of tity of the danger and

        grievan ty and expense of

        redressing it on t;    Of this, he says, every man shall

        judge for    Paley appears o emplated

        to ly, in which

        a people, as ｔｐ:// do justice, cost

        may.    If I ly ed a plank from a dro

        restore it to o Paley,

        .    But    would save his life, in such a

        case, s.    t cease to o

        make    cost tence as a people.

        In tiations agree    does any one

        t Massacts does exactly

        crisis?

        "A drab of state, a clot,

        to rain borne up, and rail in t."

        Practically speaking, ts to a reform in Massacts are

        not a is at t a hundred

        ts and farmers erested in

        erd agriculture ty, and are not

        prepared to do justice to to Mexico, cost    may.

        I quarrel not     home,

        co-operate

        o say, t

        t improvement is slohe

        fe materially ter t is not so

        important t many s there be some

        absolute goodness somehe whole lump.

        to slavery and to the

        do noto put ao them; who,

        esteeming ton and Franklin, sit down

        s, and say t t w

        to do, and do notpoion of freedom to

        tion of free-trade, and quietly read t

        alo advices from Mexico, after dinner, and, it may

        be, fall asleep over t is t of an

        man and patriot to-day?    tate, and t, and

        sometimes tition; but t and h

        effect.    t, o remedy the

        evil, t t tret.    At most, they give

        only a ce, and a feeble tenand Godspeed, to the

        rig goes by ty-nine

        patrons of virtue to one virtuous man; but it is easier to deal

        empuardian

        of it.

        All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon,

        moral tio it, a playing    and wrong,

        ions; aing naturally apa.    the

        cer of ters is not staked.    I cast my vote, perce,

        as I t; but I am not vitally ed t t right

        so leave it to ty.    Its

        obligation, t of expediency.    Even

        voting for t is doing not.    It is only expressing

        to men feebly your desire t it should prevail.    A wise man will

        not leave t to t to prevail

        ty.    t little virtue in

        tion of masses of men.    y s lengte

        for tion of slavery, it hey are

        indifferent to slavery, or because t little slavery left

        to be abolise.    the only slaves.

        Only e    en tion of slavery ws his

        own freedom by e.

        I ion to be    Baltimore, or elsewhere,

        for tion of a didate for the Presidency, made up chiefly

        of editors, and men    I think,

        to any indepe, intelligent, and respectable man w

        decision to?    S age of his

        t upon some

        indepe votes?    Are t many individuals in try

        tend ventions?    But no: I find t table

        man, so called, ely drifted from ion, and

        despairs of ry, wry o despair

        of s one of tes ted as

        t he is himself available

        for any purposes of te is of no more h

        t of any unprincipled fner or ive, who may

        .    Oh for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor

        says,    pass your hand

        tatistics are at fault: tion has been

        returoe.    o a square thousand

        miles in try?     America offer any

        i for men to settle o

        an Odd Fellow -- one w of his

        an ariousness, and a ma lack of intelled

        d chief , on ing

        into to see t the almshouses are in good repair;

        and, before yet o collect a

        fund for t of t may be; who, in

        s veo live only by tual Insurance

        pany, wo bury ly.

        It is not a mans duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself

        to tion of any, even t enormous wrong; he may

        still properly o e is his

        duty, at least, to was, and, if    no

        t longer, not to give it practically .    If I devote

        myself to ots and plations, I must first see, at

        least, t I do not pursue tting upon another mans

        s get off , t he may pursue his

        plations too.    See ency is tolerated.    I

        o;I so hem

        order me out to    doion of to

        marexico; -- see if I ;; ahese very men have

        eacly by tly, at least, by

        titute.    the soldier is applauded who

        refuses to serve in an unjust    refuse to

        sustain t gover whe war; is applauded by

        t and auty s at naught;

        as if tate ent to t degree t it o

        sce it    not to t degree t it left off

        sinning for a moment.    the name of Order and Civil

        Gover,    last to pay o and support our

        oer t bluss indifference;

        and from immoral it bees, as it    quite

        unnecessary to t life which we have made.

        t and most prevalent error requires t

        disied virtue to sustain it.    t reproaco which

        tue of patriotism is only liable, t

        likely to incur.    ter

        and measures of a gover, yield to it their allegiand

        support are undoubtedly its most stious supporters, and so

        frequently t serious obstacles to reform.    Some are

        petitioning tate to dissolve to disregard the

        requisitions of t.     dissolve it

        tate -- and

        refuse to pay ta into its treasury?    Do not tand in

        tion to tate, t tate does to the Union?

        And    ted tate from resisting the

        Union, ing tate?

        isfied to eain an opinion merely, and

        enjoy it?    Is t in it, if    he

        is aggrieved?    If you are ced out of a single dollar by your

        neig rest satisfied    you are

        ced, or    you are ced, or even h

        petitioning o pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at

        oo obtain t, a you are never ced

        again.    A from principle -- tion and the performance

        ions; it is essentially

        revolutionary, and does not sist whing which was.

        It not only divides states and c divides families; ay, it

        divides ting the

        divine.

        Unjust la; sent to obey them, or shall we

        endeavor to amend til we have succeeded, or

        sra once?    Men generally, under such a

        gover as t t to    until they have

        persuaded ty to alter t, if they

        s, t it is

        t of t itself t the

        evil.    It makes it    more apt to anticipate and

        provide for reform?     not cs y?    hy

        does it cry a before it is ?     not ence

        its citizens to be on t to point out its faults, and do

        better t would    always crucify C,

        and exunicate Copernicus and Luton

        and Franklin rebels?

        One    a deliberate and practical denial of its

        auty emplated by gover;

        else,    assigs defis suitable and

        proportionate, penalty?    If a man

        oo earn e,    in prison for a

        period unlimited by any la I knoermined only by the

        discretion of t if eal

        imes e, ted to

        go at large again.

        If tice is part of tion of the

        mac, let it go, let it go; perc will wear

        smootainly t.    If tice has

        a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a k, exclusively for

        itself, t be

        if it is of sucure t it requires

        you to be t of injustice to anothe

        la your life be a ter fri to stop t

        I o do is to see, at any rate, t I do not lend myself to

        the wrong which I n.

        As for adopting tate has provided for

        remedying t of sucake too much

        time, and a mans life tend

        to.    I came into t ake this a good place

        to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.    A man

        everyto do, but somet do

        everyt is not necessary t hing wrong.

        It is not my busio be petitioning the

        Legislature any more t is to petition me; and if they

        s ition, his

        case tate s very stitution is the

        evil.    to be ubborn and unciliatory;

        but it is to treat most kindness and sideration the

        only spirit t    appreciate or deserves it.    So is an ge for

        tter, like birthe body.

        I do not ate to say, t themselves

        Abolitionists s once effectually ,

        boty, from t of Massacts,

        and not    till titute a majority of one, before they

        suffer t to prevail t it is enough

        if t ing for t other one.

        Moreover, any man mitutes a

        majority of one already.

        I meet t, or its representative, the

        State gover, directly, and face to face, once a year -- no more

        -- in ts tax-gathe only mode in which

        a man situated as I am necessarily meets it; and it then says

        distinctly, Reize me; and t, t effectual, and,

        in t posture of affairs, t mode of

        treating    on ttle

        satisfa , is to deny it then.    My civil

        neigax-gato deal h --

        for it is, after all,     t I quarrel

        -- and arily co be a of t.

        he

        gover, or as a man, until o sider wher he

        sreat me, , as a neighbor

        and urber of the peace,

        and see if    over tru to his neighborliness

        a ruder and more impetuous t or speech corresponding

        ion?    I kno if ohousand, if one

        en men wen    men only --

        ay, if one    man, in tate of Massacts, ceasing to

        ually to nership, and

        be locked up in ty jail t ion

        of slavery in America.    For it matters not he beginning

        may seem to be:    we love

        better to talk about it: t we say is our mission.    Reform keeps

        many scores of nes service, but not one man.    If my

        esteemed es ambassador, we his days

        to ttlement of tion of s in the cil

        Cead of being tened he prisons of Carolina,

        o sit dots, t State which is

        so anxious to foist ter -- t

        present s of inality to be the

        ground of a quarrel ure    wholly

        ter.

        Under a gover rue place

        for a just man is also a prison.    to-day, the only

        place wts has provided for her freer and less

        desponding spirits, is in o be put out and locked out

        of tate by , as t t

        by t is t tive slave, and the

        Mexi prisoner on parole, and to plead the wrongs

        of    separate, but more free and

        ate places t h

        against ate in which a

        free man    abide    their influence

        t the ear of

        tate, t t be as an enemy s hey

        do not kner than error, nor how much

        more eloquently and effectively    injustice who has

        experienced a little in    your    a

        strip of paper merely, but your wy is

        poo ty; it is not even a

        minority t it is irresistible s whole

        ive is to keep all just men in prison, or

        give up ate    ate wo

        c to pay tax-bills this

        year, t    be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be

        to pay tate to it violend shed

        i blood.    t, tion of a peaceable

        revolution, if any sucax-gatherer, or any

        ot;But w shall I

        do?" my ans;If you really hing, resign your

        office."     he officer

        ion is aplis

        even suppose blood s a sort of blood shed

        whis wound a mans real

        manality flo, and o an everlasting

        deathis blood flowing now.

        I emplated t of ther

        the same

        purpose -- because t t right, and

        sequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, only have

        not spent mucime in accumulating property.    to sucate

        renders paratively small service, and a sligax is    to

        appear exorbitant, particularly if to earn it by

        special labor here were one who lived wholly

        tate itself e to demand

        it of    t to make any invidious parison

        -- is alo titution which makes him rich.

        Absolutely speaking, tue; for money

        es betains them for him; and

        it ainly no great virtue to obtain it.    It puts to rest many

        questions o answer; whe

        only neion s is t superfluous one, how

        to spend it.    taken from under .

        tunities of living are diminision as w are

        called t;means" are increased.    t thing a man    do for

        ure o carry out those

        scertained he

        o tion.    "She

        tribute-money," said ook a penny out of ;

        -- if you use money w, and which

        and valuable, t is, if you are men of the

        State, and gladly enjoy tages of Caesars gover, then

        pay ; "Reherefore

        to Caesar t hings which are

        Gods" -- leaving to which was which;

        for t wiso know.

        of my neighbors, I perceive

        t,    tude and seriousness of

        tion, and tranquillity, the long

        and t of tter is, t t spare the

        prote of ting gover, and the

        sequeo ty and families of disobedieo it.

        For my o, I s like to t I ever rely on the

        prote of tate.    But, if I deny ty of tate

        s its tax-bill, it ake and e all my

        property, and so    end.    this is

        impossible for a man to live ly, and at

        time fortably in outs.    It    be h

        to accumulate property; t o go again.

        You must    somew a small crop, and

        eat t soon.    You must live hin yourself, and depend upon

        yourself alucked up and ready for a start, and not have many

        affairs.    A man may grow ricurkey even, if he will be in all

        respects a good subject of turkis.    fucius said,

        "If a state is governed by ty and

        misery are subjects of sate is not governed by the

        principles of reason, rics of s;

        No: until I    te of Massacts to be exteo

        me in some distant Sout, wy is endangered, or

        until I am bent solely on building up ae at home by peaceful

        enterprise, I    afford to refuse allegiao Massacts, and

        to my property and life.    It costs me less in every sense

        to incur ty of disobedieo tate t o

        obey.    I s case.

        Some years ago, tate met me in behe Church, and

        anded me to pay a certain sum to of a clergyman

        never I myself.    "Pay," it

        said, "or be locked up in t;    I deed to pay.    But,

        unfortunately, anot to pay it.    I did not see whe

        scer saxed to support t, and not the

        priest ter: for I    tates scer, but

        I supported myself by voluntary subscription.    I did not see whe

        lyceum s present its tax-bill, and ate to back

        its demand, as    t of the

        sele, I desded to make some sucatement as this in

        ing:-- "Knos, t I, horeau,

        do not ed society

        ;    to town clerk; and he has

        it.    tate,    I did not wiso be

        regarded as a member of t church, has never made a like demand on

        me si said t it must ado its inal

        presumption t time.    If I o hem, I should

        tail from all ties which I never

        signed on to; but I did not knoe list.

        I ax for six years.    I    into a jail

        on t, for one nigood sidering the

        o the door of wood and

        iron, a foot ting , I

        could not ruck    institution

        ed me as if I were mere fleso be

        locked up.    I    it s lengt

        t use it could put me to, and    to

        avail itself of my services in some , if there was a

        ooill more

        difficult oo climb or break t to be

        as free as I    for a moment feel fined, and the

        e of stone and mortar.    I felt as if I

        alone of all my to know

        o treat me, but behaved like persons who are underbred.    In

        every t and in every pliment they

        t t my co stand t

        stone    but smile to see riously they

        locked tations, w again

        let or    was

        dangerous.    As t reaco punish

        my body; just as boys, if t e at some person against

        ate

        ed, t it imid as a lone h her silver

        spoons, and t it did not knos friends from its foes, and I

        lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

        tate never iionally fronts a mans sense,

        intellectual or moral, but only    is not

        armed    or y, but h superior physical

        strengt born to be forced.    I er my own

        fas us see .     force has a

        multitude?    than I.

        to bee like t hear of men being

        forced to    by masses of men.     sort of life

        to live?     a gover ;Your

        money or your life," o give it my money?

        It may be in a great strait, and not knoo do: I ot help

        t.    It must self; do as I do.    It is not he while

        to snivel about it.    I am not responsible for the successful w

        of ty.    I am not the engineer.    I

        perceive t,    fall side by side, the

        one does not remaio make    both obey

        t they ,

        till one, percroys t

        ot live acc to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

        t in prisoing enoughe

        prisoners in t-sleeves he

        evening air in tered.    But the jailer said,

        "e, boys, it is time to lock up"; and so they dispersed, and I

        eps returning into tments.

        My room-mate roduced to me by t;a first-rate

        fello;    he door was locked, he showed me

        ers the rooms

        , he

        , most simply fur apartment

        io know where I came from, and

        w brougold him, I asked him in my

        turn o be an    man, of

        course; and, as t;; said he,

        "t I never did it."    As near as

        I could discover, o bed in a barn when drunk,

        and smoked .    he

        reputation of being a clever man, hs

        ing for rial to e on, and    as much

        longer; but e domesticated and tented, since

        t reated.

        if one

        stayed to look out the

        s t    there, and

        examined w, and we

        ory of ts

        of t room; for I found t even ory and a

        gossip he jail.

        Probably town where verses are

        posed, ed in a circular form, but not

        publise a long list of verses which were

        posed by some young men ed in an attempt to

        escape, whem.

        I pumped my fellow-prisoner as dry as I could, for fear I should

        never see    at length he showed me which was my bed,

        a me to blo the lamp.

        It ravelling into a far try, such as I had never

        expected to beo lie t.    It seemed to me

        t I never orike before, nor the evening

        sounds of t he windows open, which

        ing.    It o see my native village in the

        ligurned into a Rhine

        stream, and visions of knigles passed before me.    they

        I reets.    I was

        an involuntary spectator and auditor of wever was done and said

        in tc village-inn -- a wholly new and rare

        experieo me.    It ive town.    I was

        fairly inside of it.    I never s institutions before.

        ts peculiar institutions; for it is a sown.    I

        began to pre its inants .

        In ts    the

        door, in small oblong-square tin pans, made to fit, and holding a

        pint of ce, hey

        called for to return w

        bread I ; but my rade seized it, and said t I should

        lay t up for luncer    out to work

        at    every day, and

        be back till noon; so    he

        doubted if he should see me again.

        of prison -- for some oerfered, and paid

        t tax -- I did not perceive t great    pla

        t in a youth and emerged a

        t and gray- a y eyes e

        over toate, and try -- greater than

        any t mere time could effect.    I sa more distinctly the

        State ihe people among whom

        I lived could be trusted as good heir

        friends t greatly

        propose to d tinct race from me by their

        prejudices and superstitions, as t

        in to y, t even to

        ty; t after all t so    they

        treated treated tain

        outicular

        straigime to time, to save their souls.

        to judge my neig many

        of t a titution as the jail

        in their village.

        It om in our village, wor

        came out of jail, for ao salute him, looking

        to represent ting

        of a jail ;;    My e

        me, but first looked at me, and t one another, as if I had

        returned from a long journey.    I    into jail as I o

        to get a s out

        t m, I proceeded to finis

        on my mended sy,    to

        put t; and in he

        ackled --    of a huckleberry field,

        on one of our    ate was

        nowo be seen.

        tory of "My Prisons."

        I ax, because I am as

        desirous of being a good neig;

        and as for supp sc to educate my

        fellorymen no is for no particular item in tax-bill

        t I refuse to pay it.    I simply o the

        State, to and aloof from it effectually.    I do not

        care to trace till it buys a

        man or a musket to s one    -- but I

        am ed to trace ts of my allegiance.    In fact, I

        quietly declare ate, after my fashough I will

        still make    age of her I , as is usual

        in such cases.

        If otax why

        ate, t heir own

        case, or rat injustice to a greater extent the

        State requires.    If tax from a mistaken i in the

        individual taxed, to save y, or prevent o

        jail, it is because t sidered wisely

        te feelings interfere he public good.

        tion at present.    But one ot be too

        mu be biased by

        obstinacy or an undue regard for t him see

        t    belongs to o the hour.

        I times, hey are only

        ignorant; tter if they knehy give your

        neigo treat you as t ined to?    But I

        they do, or

        permit oto suffer mucer pain of a different kind.

        Again, I sometimes say to myself,

        ,    ill- personal feeling of any kind, demand

        of you a fey, sucheir

        stitution, of retrag or altering t demand, and

        ty, on your side, of appeal to any other

        millions, e force?    You

        do not resist cold and hus

        obstinately; you quietly submit to a ties.

        You do not put your o t just in proportion as I

        regard t    partly a human force,

        and sider t I ions to to so many

        millions of men, and not of mere brute or inanimate things, I see

        t appeal is possible, first and instantaneously, from to the

        Maker of to t, if I

        put my ely into to fire

        or to to blame.    If I

        could vince myself t I    to be satisfied h men

        as to treat t acc, in

        some respects, to my requisitions and expectations of hey and

        I ougo be, talist, I should

        endeavor to be satisfied    is the

        ween

        resisting te or natural force, t I

        resist t; but I ot expect, like Orpo

        cure of trees as.

        I do not ion.    I do not wish

        to split o make fine distins, or set myself up as

        better ther, I may say, even an excuse

        for ing to t too ready to

        to to suspect myself on this

        ax-gatherer es round, I find myself

        disposed to revies and position of tate

        ity.

        "e must affect our try as our parents,

        And if at any time e

        Our love or industry from doing it honor,

        e must respect effects and teache soul

        Matter of sd religion,

        And not desire of rule or be."

        I believe t tate o take all my work

        of t out of my ter a

        patriot trymen.    Seen from a lo of view,

        titution, s faults, is very good; the

        courts are very respectable; even tate and this Ameri

        gover are, in many respects, very admirable and rare things,

        to be t many

        seen from a point of vietle    I have

        described till, and t, who shall

        say    t or thinking of

        at all?

        does not    me much, and I shall

        besto possible ts on it.    It is not many moments

        t I live under a gover, even in this world.    If a man is

        t-free, fancy-free, imaginatio w never

        for a long time appearing to be to him, unwise rulers or reformers

        ot fatally interrupt him.

        I kno most men tly from myself; but those

        o tudy of these or

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

        legislators, standing so pletely itution, never

        distinctly and nakedly be.    ty, but

        ing-place    it.    tain

        experiend discrimination, and    ied ingenious

        and even useful systems, for w all

        t and usefulness lie ain not very s.

        t tet t t governed by polid

        expediency.    ebster never goes be, and so ot

        speak y about it.    o those

        legislators e no essential reform in ting

        gover; but for te for all time,

        t.    I knohose whose serene

        and ions on ts of

        ality.    Yet, pared he cheap

        professions of most reformers, and till cheaper wisdom and

        eloquence of politis in general,    the only

        sensible and valuable hank heaven for him.

        paratively, rong, inal, and, above all,

        practical.    Still, y is not    prudehe

        larut trut sistency or a sistent

        expediency.    trut

        ed co reveal tice t may sist 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," ;and never propose to make an effort; I have never

        tenanced an effort, and never mean to tenan effort, to

        disturb t as inally made, by whe various

        States came into t;    Still tion which

        titution gives to slavery, ;Because it

        of t -- let it stand."    Notanding his

        special aess and ability, o take a fact out of

        its merely political relations, and be as it lies absolutely

        to be disposed of by tellect -- a

        beo do o-day o slavery,

        but ventures, or is driven, to make some suswer as

        to speak absolutely, and as a

        private man -- from w new and singular code of social

        duties mig;t; says ;in whe

        govers of tates ulate it

        is for tion, uy to their

        stituents, to ty, y, and

        justice, and to God.    Associations formed elsewhere, springing from

        a feeling of y, or any otever to

        do .    t from me, and

        t;

        trutraced up

        its stream no and, and and, by the

        stitution, and drink at it ty; but

        t es trig into t

        pool, gird up tiheir pilgrimage

        tos fountain-head.

        No man ion has appeared in America.

        tory of tors,

        politis, and eloquent men, by t the speaker has

        not yet opened o speak he

        mus of ts own

        sake, and not for any trut may utter, or any

        may inspire.    islators    yet learive

        value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a

        nation.    talent for paratively humble

        questions of taxation and finance, erd manufacturers and

        agriculture.    If    solely to t of legislators

        in gress for uidance, uncorrected by the seasonable

        experiend tual plaints of the people, America would

        not loain ions.    Fhteen hundred

        years, t to say it, testament

        te wor who has wisdom and

        practical talent enougo avail    w sheds

        on tion?

        ty of gover, even suco submit

        to -- for I er

        ther know nor    do so

        ill an impure oo be strictly just, it must have

        tion and sent of t

        over my person and property but o it.    the progress

        from an absolute to a limited monarced monarco a

        democracy, is a progress torue respect for the individual.

        Even tard the

        individual as the empire.    Is a democracy, such as we

        kno, t improvement possible in gover?    Is it not

        possible to take a step furtowards reizing and anizing

        ts of man?    there will never be a really free and

        enligate until tate es the individual

        as a    power, from ws own power and

        auty are derived, and treats him accly.    I please myself

        ate at least    to all

        men, and to treat t as a neighbor; which

        even    t insistent s own repose if a few

        o live aloof from it, not meddling , nor embraced by

        it, wies of neighbors and fellow-men.    A

        State    to drop off as

        fast as it ripened, ill more perfect

        and glorious State,    yet anywhere

        seen.
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