...ze picture of them would cover more canvas than there is on the earth. * * * Since the fall of Robespierre (he says), nothing has occurred to cast so much disrepute on republican institutions. When Mr. Seward went into the State Department he took a little bell to his office, in place of the statute book, and this piece of sounding brass came to be a symbol of the Higher Law. When he desired to kidnap a f...