r trades. There is, I think, an unexpressed determination on the part of the people to abandon all reverence, and to regard religion Washington Redskins Tröjor from an altogether worldly point of view. They are willing to have religion, as they are willing to have laws; but they choose to Detroit Red Wings Barn make it for themselves. They do not object to pay for it, but they like to have the handling of the article for which they pay. As the descendants of Puritans and other godly Protestants, they will submit to religious teaching, but as republicans they will have no priestcraft. The French at their revolution had the latter feeling without the former, and were therefore consistent with themselves in abolishing all worship. The Americans desire to do the same thing politically, but infidelity has had no charms for them. They say their prayers, and then seem to apologize for doing so, as though it were hardly the act of a free and enlightened citizen, justified in ruling himself as he pleases. All this to me is rowdy. I know no other word by which I can so well describe it.
Nevertheless the nation is religious in its tendencies, and prone to acknowledge the goodness of God in all things. A man Scarpe Nike Air Force 1 Donna there is expected to Halpa Moncler Lapset belong to some church, and is not, I think, well looked on if he profess that he belongs to none. He may be a Swedenborgian, a Quaker, a Muggletonian — anything will do, But it is expected of him that he shall place himself under some flag, and do his share in supporting the Maillot France Pas CHer flag to which he belongs. Butterfly This duty is, I think, generally fulfilled.
From Boston to Washington
From Boston, on the 27th of November, my wife returned to England, leaving me to prosecute my journey southward to Washington by myself. I shall never forget the political feeling which prevailed in Boston at that time, or the discussions on the subject of Slidell and Mason, in which I felt myself bound to take a part. Up to that period I confess that my sympathies had been strongly Maillot Portugal Pas CHer with the Northern side in the general question; and so they were still, as far as I could divest |
