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these calamities France can say " Mea Culpa " " Max- 

 ima Culpa." By so doing she will somewhat attenuate 

 her wrongs, for her fondness of vain glory. They 

 have given you a " quantum snfficit " of glory your 

 uncle and his worthy nephew Two Emperors one 

 after the other, is it not glorious ? and cheap above all, 

 only for the bagatelle of two provinces ! it is for noth- 

 ing except mountains of shame! that will not be 



levelled down as quickly as they have been created 



unless the f'rencfi clergy ', who this day show so much 

 sympathy for the French republic should settle them 

 down by dint of holy water irrigations, it might 

 perhaps make the ground more fertile ? God ! knows 

 we don't France has produced a great many emi- 

 nent men of genius in all the ramifications of human 

 intelligence This country of Uncle Sam has pro- 

 duced ONE, especially, Franklin ! put him in the scale, 

 weigh his merits and compare him to any of the great 



men of any country and draw your conclusions 



mine are drawn if Tanlceedom should not, over-weigh 

 " overbalanced " them all, I would jump in the scales 

 so that she could do it. 



When I began to write some of these sketches of my 

 life I meant to relate only the most interesting inci- 

 dents, but as I proceeded I found that I had omitted 

 many and some I had entirely overlooked, forgotten, 



