The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War by James L. Huston

“So Senator John J. Crittenden wrote his daughter to be leery of aristocratic wiles and to practice republican manners: ‘it behooves you to remember that you belong to a plain, free country, where there are neither nobles nor princes. I am afraid you will find it a little difficult to ‘shuffle off the coil’ of notions, tastes, and habits which the artificial state of European society so cunningly and so pleasantly wraps around those who come within its splendid circles. Set not too much value on those things; they are but pageants, unreal, and fleeting.’”

-James L. Huston, 1987