Were it my intention to examine the provisions of American law minutely, I should have to point out still further differences in the executive details of the several communities.

But what I have already said may suffice to show the general principles on which the administration of the United States rests.

These principles are differently applied; their consequences are more or less numerous in various localities; but they are always substantially the same.

The laws differ, and their outward features change, but their character does not vary.

If the township and the county are not everywhere constituted in the same manner, it is at least true that in the United States the county and the township are always based upon the same principle, namely, that everyone is the best judge of what concerns himself alone, and the most proper person to supply his private wants.