Uncle Sam's gold - meaning no disrespect to the worthy old gentleman - has, in this respect, a quality of enchantment like that of the Devil's wages. Whoever touches it should look well to himself, or he may find the bargain to go hard against him, involving, if not his soul, yet many of its better attributes;
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.