History, Like Love, Is So Apt To

Principles . . . Become Modified In Practice, By Facts.

No One, Who Is Familiar With The Bustle And Activity Of An American Commercial Town, Would Recognise, In The Repose Which Now Reigns In The Ancient Mart Of Rhode Island, A Place That, In Its Day, Has Been Ranked Amongst The Most Important Ports Along The Whole Line Of Our Extended Coast.

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.

Should We Distrust The Man Because His Manners Are Not Our Manners, And That His Skin Is Dark?

God Has Given The Salt Lick To The Deer; And He Has Given To Man, Red-skin And White, The Delicious Spring At Which To Slake His Thirst.