they will judge a righteous jud[g]ment— law or no law: for laws and opinions, like the vane of a Steeple, changes with the wind. One congress passes a law, and another repeals it. And one statesman says that the Constitution means this, and another that, and who does not know that both <​all​> may be wrong:— The opinion and pledge therefore, in the first sentence <​paragraph​> of your reply to my question, like the forced steam from the engine of a Steam baot [boat], makes the show of a <​bright​> cloud at first, but <​when it comes in connection <​contact​> with a purer atmosphere,​> dissolves to common air again.