If they fall into a momentary repose from the effects of exhaustion, that repose prepares them for a fresh state of frenzy.

When I consider their condition, which alternates between misery and crime, I should be inclined to believe that despotism itself would be a benefit to them, if it were possible that the words despotism and benefit could ever be united in my mind.
Conduct Of Foreign Affairs By The American Democracy Direction given to the foreign policy of the United States by Washington and Jefferson--Almost all the defects inherent in democratic institutions are brought to light in the conduct of foreign affairs--Their advantages are less perceptible.
We have seen that the Federal Constitution entrusts the permanent direction of the external interests of the nation to the President and the Senate, *r which tends in some degree to detach the general foreign policy of the Union from the control of the people.

It cannot therefore be asserted with truth that the external affairs of State are conducted by the democracy.
[Footnote r: "The President," says the Constitution, Art.

II, sect.

2, Section 2, "shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur." The reader is reminded that the senators are returned for a term of six years, and that they are chosen by the legislature of each State.] The policy of America owes its rise to Washington, and after him to Jefferson, who established those principles which it observes at the present day.