At one time he seems animated by the most selfish cupidity, at another by the most lively patriotism.
The human heart cannot be thus divided.

The inhabitants of the United States alternately display so strong and so similar a passion for their own welfare and for their freedom, that it may be supposed that these passions are united and mingled in some part of their character.

And indeed the Americans believe their freedom to be the best instrument and surest safeguard of their welfare: they are attached to the one by the other.

They by no means think that they are not called upon to take a part in the public weal; they believe, on the contrary, that their chief business is to secure for themselves a government which will allow them to acquire the things they covet, and which will not debar them from the peaceful enjoyment of those possessions which they have acquired..