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Show Ptn.iTK ia.ns and oilscials whether in republic re-public fr under monarchical forms of pivernrncnt do not cultivate friendship. Kismakck goes to the nation he helped humiliate, to attack the crowned soil Of his o'.ii muster aud a bitter and vindictive attack It wac. The prime ministers and leaders of parties in Kngland have, as a general thinsr been bitter personal opponeut of each other. The Pahs ki.i.ite faction illustrate thi- scriptural prediction that a man's active foes arc tliosi! of his own household. In our own Republic' we find but few fast friends even auioiij those who have partisan affinities witness. The cabinet of that Treat peace-' maker, Aiikwiaw Lincoln, although "wise as a serpent," the members of that official family were not "harmless as doves." II ak-kio.n ak-kio.n and Br.Aivr. were unlike Dam ox ard Pvtimas, and even Groveu Ci.rvF.uxu it i (aid is possessed with the politician's jeal-. jeal-. ousy and frowns severely w hen his matrouly Fkaxkie receives a larger share of public applause than himself. Let John and Jeax in humble life, console con-sole themselves with the thought, that their uneventful lives flow lovingly along, unencumbered unen-cumbered by the burdens of office and un-niHrred un-niHrred by the stinga of envy, jealousy and tiate. i |