"England, besides other outlets, has a never-failing one
in the colonies, but the colonies have no outlet. Cromwell
and Hampden were actually embarked on board of a vessel
in the Thames, for Boston, when they were prevented from
sailing by an Order in Council. What was the consequence?
The sovereign was dethroned. Instead of leading a small
sect of fanatical puritans, and being the first men of
a village in Massachussets, they aspired to be the first
men in an empire, and succeeded. So in the old colonies.
Had Washington been sent abroad in command of a regiment,
Adams to govern a colony, Franklin to make experiments
in an observatory like that at Greenwich, and a more
extended field been opened to colonial talent, the United
States would still have continued to be dependencies of
Great Britain.

"There is no room for men of talent in British America;
and by not affording them an opportunity of distinguishing
themselves, or rewarding them when they do, they are
always ready to make one, by opposition. In comparing
their situation with that of the inhabitants of the
British Isles, they feel that they labour under
disabilities; these disabilities they feel as a degradation;
and as those who impose that degradation live three
thousand miles off, it becomes a question whether it is
better to suffer or resist."

"The Prince de Joinville's horse," said Mr. Slick, "is
a case in pint."