They
Have All Our Virtues; And Their Vices Are Our Own Too, Loudly As We
Call Out Against Them.
They are our sons and our daughters, the
source of our greatest pride, and as we grow old they should be the
staff of our age.
Such a war as we should now wage with the States
would be an unloosing of hell upon all that is best upon the
world's surface. If in such a war we beat the Americans, they with
their proud stomachs would never forgive us. If they should be
victors, we should never forgive ourselves. I certainly could not
bring myself to speak of it with the equanimity of my friend the
Senator.
I went through New York to Philadelphia, and made a short visit to
the latter town. Philadelphia seems to me to have thrown off its
Quaker garb, and to present itself to the world in the garments
ordinarily assumed by large cities - by which I intend to express my
opinion that the Philadelphians are not, in these latter days, any
better than their neighbors. I am not sure whether in some
respects they may not perhaps be worse. Quakers - Quakers
absolutely in the very flesh of close bonnets and brown knee-
breeches - are still to be seen there; but they are not numerous,
and would not strike the eye if one did not specially look for a
Quaker at Philadelphia. It is a large town, with a very large
hotel - there are no doubt half a dozen large hotels, but one of
them is specially great - with long, straight streets, good shops
and markets, and decent, comfortable-looking houses.
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