acity of the effort is discovered, in avoiding to
attack and shock the prejudices of the adult, that they may direct the
education of the young. They look to the future; and they really have
great advantages in doing so. They send out teachers excellently
qualified; superior, certainly, to the run of native teachers. [The
Catholic priests who instruct are, to my knowledge, the best educated
men in the states. It was a pleasure to be in their company.] Some
value the European modes of education as the more excellent, others
value them as the mark of fashion; the demand for instruction, too, is
always beyond the supply, so that they find little difficulty in
obtaining the charge of protestant children. This, in my judgment, is
the point of policy which should be especially regarded with jealousy;
but the actual alarm has arisen from the disclosure of a correspondence
which avows designs on the West, beyond what I have here set down. It
is a curious affair, and is one other evidence, if evidence were needed,
that popery and jesuitism are one."

I think that the author of Sam Slick may not be wrong in his assertion,
that _all_ America will be a Catholic country. I myself never prophesy;
but, I cannot help remarking, that even in the most anti-Catholic
persuasions in America there is a strong Papistical _feeling_; that is,
there is a vying with each other, not only to obtain the best preachers,
but to have the best organs and the best singers. It is the system of
excitement which, without their being aware of it, they carry into their
devotion. It proves that, to them there is a weariness in the church
service, a tedium in prayer, which requires to be relieved by the
stimulus of good music and sweet voices. Indeed, what with their
_anxious seats_, their _revivals_, their _music_ and their _singing_,
every class and sect in the states have even now so far fallen into
Catholicism, that religion has become more of an appeal to the _senses_
than to the calm and _sober judgment_.

VOLUME THREE, CHAPTER FORTY FOUR.

REMARKS--SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS.

Although in a democracy the highest stations and preferments are open to
all, more directly than they may be under any other form of government,
still these prizes are but few and insufficient, compared with the
number of total blanks which must be drawn by the ambitious multitude.
It is, indeed, a stimulus to ambition (and a matter of justice, when all
men are pr