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It Is A Besetting Vice Of Democracies To Substitute Public Opinion For Law. This Is The Usual Form In Which Masses Of Men Exhibit Their Tyranny.

The Demagogue Is Usually Sly, A Detractor Of Others, A Professor Of Humility And Disinterestedness, A Great Stickler For Equality As Respects All Above Him, A Man Who Acts In Corners, And Avoids Open And Manly Expositions Of His Course, Calls Blackguards Gentlemen, And Gentlemen Folks, Appeals To Passions And Prejudices Rather Than To Reason, And Is In All Respects, A Man Of Intrigue And Deception, Of Sly Cunning And Management.

A Monarchy Is The Most Expensive Of All Forms Of Government, The Regal State Requiring A Costly Parade, And He Who Depends On His Own Power To Rule, Must Strengthen That Power By Bribing The Active And Enterprising Whom He Cannot Intimidate.

The Very Existence Of Government At All, Infers Inequality. The Citizen Who Is Preferred To Office Becomes The Superior Of Those Who Are Not, So Long He Is The Repository Of Power.

No One, Who Is Familiar With The Bustle And Activity Of An American Commercial Town, Would Recognise, In The Repose Which Now Reigns In The Ancient Mart Of Rhode Island, A Place That, In Its Day, Has Been Ranked Amongst The Most Important Ports Along The Whole Line Of Our Extended Coast.