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At No Period Of The Naval History Of The World, Is It Probable That Marines Were More Important Than During The War Of The Revolution.

It Is A Governing Principle Of Nature, That The Agency Which Can Produce Most Good, When Perverted From Its Proper Aim, Is Most Productive Of Evil. It Behooves The Well-intentioned, Therefore, Vigorously To Watch The Tendency Of Even Their Most Highly Prized Institutions, Since That Which Was Established In The Interests Of The Right, May So Easily Become The Agent Of The Wrong.

It Is The Fate Of All Things To Ripen, And Then To Decay.

The Vulgar Charge That The Tendency Of Democracies Is To Leveling, Meaning To Drag All Down To The Level Of The Lowest, Is Singularly Untrue; Its Real Tendency Being To Elevate The Depressed To A Condition Not Unworthy Of Their Manhood.

Whenever The Government Of The United States Shall Break Up, It Will Probably Be In Consequence Of A False Direction Having Been Given To Publick Opinion. This Is The Weak Point Of Our Defenses, And The Part To Which The Enemies Of The System Will Direct All Their Attacks. Opinion Can Be So Perverted As To Cause The False To Seem The True; The Enemy, A Friend, And The Friend, An Enemy; The Best Interests Of The Nation To Appear Insignificant, And Trifles Of Moment; In A Word, The Right The Wrong, And The Wrong The Right.