As every society, from a great nation down to a club, has the right of declaring the conditions on which new members shall be admitted, there can be no room for complaint. As to those philosophical gentlemen, those citizens of the world as they call themselves, I do not wish to see any of them in our public councils. I would not trust them. The men who can shake off their attachments to their own country can never love any other. These attachments are the wholesome prejudices which uphold all governments.
