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Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "All men are created equal except Negroes." When the Know Nothings get control, it will read "All men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."—— Look—will you be happy??—Darn it—Stop banging your head against a stone wall—You won't change them—and I'm certain they could never alter your views—Yours because they're right—[struck: their] their's because its been ingrained within the, from childhood——You make me fume because instead of enjoying your stay at Northwestern to the fullest you allow it to be soured by such incidents—