After all, it is singular enough to see sentiments of the most sublime abnegation invoked in favor of plunder itself.

Just see to what this ostentatious disinterestedness tends.

These men, so poetically delicate that they do not wish for peace itself, if it is founded on the base interest of men, put their hands in the pockets of others, and, above all, of the poor; for what section of the tariff protects the poor?
Well, gentlemen, dispose according to your own judgment of what belongs to yourselves, but allow us also to dispose of the fruit of the sweat of our brows, to avail ourselves of exchange at our own pleasure.

Talk away about self-renunciation, for that is beautiful; but at the same time practice a little honesty..