9–15 January 1837

Always a fresh swarm is alighting in the places of power to suck suddenly all its sweets. And with such guides Rehoboam's young men would discard ever the wise, and run riot, but that things refuse to be ill-administered. Nothing satisfies all men but justice, and especially when time and much debate has accurately ascertained what justice is in respect to any measure. The inter- ests of all classes are so intimately united that, although the rivalry in which they are often set may please one for a short time with the dis- tress of another, yet very quickly they will make common cause against any great offence. • . . Virtue is continually reproduced in the young, and the selfish statesman has some.