sorry to say that I have never seen two men of whom it is true. But I
must admit I never saw the Siamese Twins, and therefore will not
dogmatically say that no man ever saw a proof of this sage aphorism."

This sounds strangely in republican America. The like was not heard in
the fresher days of the republic. Let us contrast with it the language of
that truly national man whose life and death we now commemorate and
lament: I quote from a speech of Mr. Clay delivered before the American
Colonization Society in 1827:

"We are reproached with doing mischief by the agitation of this
question. The society goes into no household to disturb its domestic
tranquillity. It addresses itself to no slaves to weaken their
obligations of obedience. It seeks to affect no man's property. It
neither has the power nor the will to affect the property of any one
contrary to his consent. The execution of its scheme would augment
instead of diminishing the value of property left behind. The society,
composed of free men, conceals itself only with the free. Collateral
consequences we are not responsible for. It is not this society which has
produced the great moral revolution which the age exhibits. What would
they who thus reproach us have done? If they would repress all tendencies
toward liberty and ultimate emancipation, they must do more than put down
the benevolent efforts of this society. They must go back to the era of
our liberty and independence, and muzzle the cannon which thunders its
annual joyous return. They must renew the slave trade, with all its train
of atrocities. They must suppress the workings of British philanthropy,
seeking to meliorate the condition of the unfortunate West Indian slave.
They must arrest the career of South American deliverance from thraldom.
They must blow out the moral lights around us and extinguish that
greatest torch of all which America presents to a benighted