“The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congressthese, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy ofpolitical patronage, these persons are a reflection on thedemocratic process rather than of it; they expose it in itsprocess rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.”
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