CHAP. XXL] WAR SPIRIT ABATING. 33 



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 statesman, a late candidate for the 

 presidentship, is said to have declared, that when so many mil 

 lions are admitted into the cabinet, it is scarcely possible to 

 manage a delicate point of foreign policy with discretion.&quot; 



