Mr.Gallatin laid down extreme theories which have never yet found practical application.

He took the question at once from party or personal ground by admitting that the government was essentially pure, its patronage not extensive, or its effect upon the legislative or any other branch of the government as yet material.
The Constitution had placed the patronage in the executive.

There he thought it was wisely placed.

The legislature would be more corrupt than the executive were it placed with them.

While not willing at once to give up political foreign intercourse, he thought that it should by degrees be altogether declined.