Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4

part in disputes among the false religions of the East; that it was his

duty, in his official character, to show no marked preference for any of those religions, and to offer no marked insult to any. But, Sir, he has paid unseemly homage to one of those religions; he has grossly insulted another; and he has selected as the object of his homage the very worst and most degrading of th...