30 WAR SPIRIT ABATING. [CHAP. XXI. 



Dandle Dinmont s famous law-suit with Jock 

 o Dawston about the marches of their farms, and 

 Counsellor Pley dell s advice to his client is recom 

 mended for imitation. 



&quot; We should have a war to-morrow,&quot; said a Whig 

 politician to me at Macon, &quot; if your democracy were 

 as powerful as ours, for the most radical of your 

 newspapers are the most warlike. Your ministers 

 seem more free from anti- American prejudices than 

 the ordinary writers of travels, reviews, or newspaper 

 articles, and they have a great advantage over our 

 government at Washington. One of our statesmen, 

 a late candidate for the presidentship, is said to have 

 declared, that when so many millions are admitted 

 into the Cabinet, it is scarcely possible to manage a 

 delicate point of foreign policy with discretion.&quot; 



