I have seen aged Quakers gently reprove others of tenderer years, with whom they happened to be in company, for having started them.

It is not that the Quakers have not the same feelings as other men, or that they are not equally interested about humanity, or that they are incapable of opinions on the changeable political events, that are passing over the face of the globe, that this subject is so little agitated among them.

They are usually silent upon it for particular reasons.

They consider first, that, as they are not allowed to have any direction, and in many cases could not conscientiously interfere, in government-matters, it would be folly to disquiet their minds with vain and fruitless speculations.

They consider again, that political subjects frequently irritate people, and make them warm.