9/39 Gentlemen, I have been interested in the cause of democracy in Europe--I do not deny it--yet it seems to me an oligarchy and not a democracy which exists in the American South. It seems to me that there is the end of all compromise--in the renewed struggle of men, all over the world, to set up an actual government of their own,--not an oligarchy, not a monarchy, not of property and wealth, but of actual democracy. It must come, here, some day." "It is unusual, my dear lady, to find one of your sex disposed to philosophy so deep and clear as your own. |