text:  If we are to have a treaty with this new order of thinking and action it must be a compact of crime a solemn agreement of treachery a formal bond of plunder; it must be a treaty fitter for the cavern of conspiracy than for the chamber of council; its pledge must be like that of Catiline the cup of human blood! No; the most powerful reprobation which ever shot from the indignant lip of the moralist would not be too strong for the baseness which stooped to such a treaty or the folly which entangled itself in its toils