As Reason And Revelation Both Tell Us

Many Words Are In A State Of Mutation, The Pronunciation Being Unsettled Even In The Best Society, A Result That Must Often Arise Where Language Is As Variable And Undetermined As The English.

The Common Faults Of American Language Are An Ambition Of Effect, A Want Of Simplicity, And A Turgid Abuse Of Terms.

In America The Taint Of Sectarianism Lies Broad Upon The Land. Not Content With Acknowledging The Supremacy As The Diety, And With Erecting Temples In His Honor, Where All Can Bow Down With Reverence, The Pride And Vanity Of Human Reason Enter Into And Pollute Our Worship, And The Houses That Should Be Of God And For God, Alone, Where He Is To Be Honored With Submissive Faith, Are Too Often Merely Schools Of Metaphysical And Useless Distinctions. The Nation Is Sectarian, Rather Than Christian.

It Was A Feature Peculiar To The Colonial Wars Of North America, That The Toils And Dangers Of The Wilderness Were To Be Encountered, Before The Adverse Hosts Could Meet. A Wide, And, Apparently, An Impervious Boundary Of Forests, Severed The Possessions Of The Hostile Provinces Of France And England. The Hardy Colonist, And The Trained European Who Fought At His Side, Frequently Expended Months In Struggling Against The Rapids Of The Streams, Or In Effecting The Rugged Passes Of The Mountains, In Quest Of An Opportunity To Exhibit Their Courage In A More Martial Conflict.

A Refined Simplicity Is The Characteristic Of All High Bred Deportment, In Every Country, And A Considerate Humanity Should Be The Aim Of All Beneath It.