It Is The Fate Of All Things

Everybody Says It, And What Everybody Says Must Be True.

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.

The Americans... Are Almost Ignorant Of The Art Of Music, One Of The Most Elevating, Innocent And Refining Of Human Tastes, Whose Influence On The Habits And Morals Of A People Is Of The Most Beneficial Tendency.

The Affairs Of Life Embrace A Multitude Of Interests, And He Who Reasons In Any One Of Them, Without Consulting The Rest, Is A Visionary Unsuited To Control The Business Of The World.

Much Was Said And Written, At The Time, Concerning The Policy Of Adding The Vast Regions Of Louisiana, To The Already Immense, And But Half-tenanted Territories Of The United-states.