Lesley.] ^07 [November 6. 



motto was '■'• the fralernity of the racey He did not believe in 

 republicanism as the onl}- and sufficient panacea for the woes of 

 societ3\ "When we read," he saj'S, — "when we read of mobs 

 of the ancient world, who broke open senators' houses, and piled 

 and fired their furniture in the forum ; who took forcible posses- 

 sion of the rostra,! and who disturbed or suspended the comitia 

 hy outcry or violence ; who even pressed upon the senate so that 

 the knights and others guarded the deliberations with draAvn 

 swords ; who fired temples erected by obnoxious citizens, and 

 who nullified legislative decrees constitutionally enacted, — we 

 might attribute these disorders to the impatience of oppressed 

 subjects, or to the licentiousness of mercenary adherents of pro- 

 fligate men striving for power and for the control of the public 

 treasury. Tint when we turn to this republic, so wisely organ- 

 ized, so liberal in its institutions, so jealously restricted in favor 

 of popular rights, so rich in the means of physical prosperity-, — 

 this Kcpublic, in which no man attains to power except upon 

 the uncontrolled votes of free electors ; and even here, behold 

 the same riotous excesses, the same armed intrusions upon the 

 elective franchise ; ballot-boxes forcibly broken open, and plun- 

 dered, or abstracted, or fraudulently filled with spurious votes ; 

 contests with bludgeons and more deadly weapons ; our citizens 

 slaughtering each other in the open streets, and lighting the 

 darkness of night by the flames of churches fired by their incen- 

 diary torches ; and finall}'-, when we see that these outrages, 

 which charit}^ might have attributed to a passing phrensy, are 

 succeeded by deliberate attempts to nullify the laws of the land, 

 — surely we have reason to look further than the subjects of con- 

 troversy to discover the true sources of political mischiefs so 

 dangerous to the commonwealth. Where can we find these, if 

 not in those germs of individual character for the proper culture 

 of which we design our methods of education ?"* 



* The allusions in this passage are, probably, to the bloodshed and l)urnings 

 at Philadelphia, in the so called "Catholic Riots" of 1844; but tliej- bear as 

 pertinent an application to the elections of 1S58. Mr. Foulke was then a young 

 man. lie immediately offered his services, in company with two of his young 

 friends, Mr. Aubrey II. Smith and Mr. J. I. Clark Hare, to Mayor Scott, who ap- 

 pointed them bis aids. They proposed the raising of acompany to be composed 

 of respectable young men. Lieut. Izard, of the Navy, was made Captain. It was 

 stationed, on Thursday night, to guard St. Patrick's Church, and on tlic follow- 

 ing night, at the College of St. Charles Borromeo, where many amusing episodes 

 took place between the young men — the guards and the guarded. What 



