True

The Chicago Tribune says that “Congress is made up of lawyers and politicians,” which is true, and worse still, most of them are of the poorest kind, as for example, Vandever of Iowa, who could not make salt for his porridge at his profession; yet he is sent to congress to manage affairs of State.  No wonder the country is going to pieces.

– Published in The Dubuque Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 7, 1862, p. 2