This fatal conviction entering some of the best minds smothered many statements conscientiously written on the secret evils of the national government; lowered the courage of many hearts, and corrupted sterling honesty, weary of injustice and won to indifference by deteriorating annoyances.

A clerk in the employ of the Rothchilds corresponds with all England; another, in a government office, may communicate with all the prefects; but where the one learns the way to make his fortune, the other loses time and health and life to no avail.

An undermining evil lies here.

Certainly a nation does not seem threatened with immediate dissolution because an able clerk is sent away and a middling sort of man replaces him.

Unfortunately for the welfare of nations individual men never seem essential to their existence.