...their agents in government. In all, the US system was characterized by great animation and effort: "In no country in the world do the citizens make such exertions for the common weal. I know of no people who have established schools so numerous and efficacious, places of public worship...

...the provision for • See page 197, ante. t " In no country in the world do the citizens make >uch exertions for the common weal ; and I am acquainted with no people which has established schools u numerous and as efficacious, places of worship better suited to the wants of the inhabitants, or...