Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." ...We now practically read in "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty--to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my m...id-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He interested me because he was so quiet and solitary and so happy withal; a well of good humor and contentment which overflowed a...t his eyes. His mirth was without alloy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of p...artaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »