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If these are wrong then is the Constitution rest-
ing on vicious principle. 1t is some what diff
hcult, In this country, amid both the freedom
and the heentiousness of the press, to mistake
the signs Of the times. He would not seek to
propagate theoretical principles, to which ne
would not in practice conform. Those who
sent him here knew that he would have prefer
red two other candidates to the one who is their
choice He had no time 10 hesitate with his
limited intelligence He could not presume to
put his judgment in resistance to the mass of


intelligence in the forty thousand electing him.
1t had been in vain for him to tell them of his
predictions and high estimate of others. They
presented him as their candidate, of whom they
said, his genius was his fortune, and his virtues
his arts, his past service pledge for the future,
and by their sense required him to give that can
didate his support. Their will was to him a
law. Not cold and dubious support should fol-
low it, but one that would falter with the last
hope.