text:  But those who think thus must be shallow and short-sighted indeed and have paid very little real attention to the subject if they have failed to perceive in the existing system itself all the marks of completeness solidity and permanence; and in the successful pains that have been taken to bring it to a higher degree of perfection than before a determination to uphold it--a conviction that it will long continue the law of the land and approved of as such by the vast majority of those who represent the wealth and intellect of the kingdom and have the deepest stake in its well-being