Contrast, in a single instance, the two processes; and the qualifications which they require.

The ministers of that period found it an easy task to hire a band of Hessians, and to send it across the Atlantic, that they might assist _in bringing the Americans_ (according to the phrase then prevalent) _to reason_.

The force, with which these troops would attack, was gross,--tangible,--and might be calculated; but the spirit of resistance, which their presence would create, was subtle--ethereal--mighty--and incalculable.

Accordingly, from the moment when these foreigners landed--men who had no interest, no business, in the quarrel, but what the wages of their master bound him to, and he imposed upon his miserable slaves;--nay, from the first rumour of their destination, the success of the British was (as hath since been affirmed by judicious Americans) impossible.
The British government of the present day have been seduced, as we have seen, by the same commonplace facilities on the one side; and have been equally blind on the other.

A physical auxiliar force of thirty-five thousand men is to be added to the army of Spain: but the moral energy, which thereby _might_ be taken away from the principal, is overlooked or slighted; the material being too fine for their calculation.