… We have nothing, to which the ambitious can aspire, but office. I say nothing, because the private walks of life are as Wide open in England as here, and afford, in that Country, as well as in this, occupation for much of the Active talent of the Community. But office here is family, rank, hereditary fortune, in short, Everything, out of the range of private life. This links its possession with innate principles of our Nature; and truly incredible are the efforts Men are Willing to Make, the humiliations they will endure, to get it.

It ought to irritate no honorable men, it will irritate no reflecting men, that the Southern people decline when a measure is submitted for their sanction, to vote for, as if of choice and conviction, their own injury and their own shame.