Note 34 — Chapter V
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He did not exaggerate all the particulars of this matter. During my two years’ stay in the United States, I have seen, and read, and heard enough of these things. For trifles men quarrel, fight, and stab each other, and these are gentlemen too. On Sunday they hear their pastors exhort, in the words of Christ, to “turn the other cheek also,” when any man smote on the one cheek, and on Monday they fight duels for words. Orations and Eulogies are delivered to their memory!