We have a form of government which gives each man a fair chance and no favor.

With us no individual is born with a right to look down upon his neighbor and hold him in contempt.

Let such of us as are not dukes find our consolation in that.
And we may find hope for the future in the fact that as unhappy as is the condition of our political morality to-day, England has risen up out of a far fouler since the days when Charles I.ennobled courtesans and all political place was a matter of bargain and sale.

There is hope for us yet.

1 1 At least the above is the speech which I was going to make, but our minister, General Schenck, presided, and after the blessing, got up and made a great long inconceivably dull harangue, and wound up by saying that inasmuch as speech-making did not seem to exhilarate the guests much, all further oratory would be dispensed with during the evening, and we could just sit and talk privately to our elbow-neighbors and have a good sociable time.