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Chut, ganaches! laisez vous!
C'en est trop de vos glouglous;
Epargnez aux Philosophes
Vos abominable strophes!
Bons Amis
Respectez mon Agassiz!
Father & the Prof. differ somewhat on polittical matters Father thinks the term of the Presidency ought to be longer perhaps for life also the many offices under Government ought to be of longer durations or some means adopted to put an end to the [[symtem?]] of office seeking so injurious to the country. The elective franchise he thought ought to be limited. Prof. Aggassiz thought it ought rather to be extended. Father contended that a certain amount of property was needed to make a man [[sufficiently?]] interested in the Government to vote. The Prof. acknowledged that the property qualification gave more stability but it was a stability he despised. He thought [[end page]]

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1865
Jan.
our great mistake lay in the insufficiency of public instruction we ought to educate our lower classes better to fit them for voting.
Dr Torrey & Mr Leslie have just arrived. Mr. Nystrom a Swede has come in to spend the evening
4  The gentlemen have just left for the Academy. At the breakfast the conversation turned upon he state of the country both Mr Leslie & Prof. A. seemed to think it had never been more prosperous. That the energy of the people now called out would at the close of the war need only to be turned in new direction to benefit the nation The slumbering citizens had been aroused and the nation "manured" to bring forth a glorious harvest. Father said the country was now expending the recourses it had been laying up for ages. Apparent prosperity the country enjoyed but still the breakfast before them cost twice as much as it would have done two years before