A Great Character, Founded On The Living

All The Distinctive Features And Superiority Of Our Republican Institutions Are Derived From The Teachings Of Scripture.

Agriculture Seems To Be The First Pursuit Of Civilized Man. It Enables Him To Escape From The Life Of The Savage, And Wandering Shepherd, Into That Of Social Man, Gathered Into Fixed Communities And Surrounding Himself With The Comforts And Blessings Of Neighborhood, Country, And Home. It Is Agriculture Alone, That Fixes Men In Stationary Dwellings, In Villages, In Towns, And Cities, And Enables The Work Of Civilizations, In All Its Branches, To Go On.

General Reynolds Immediately Found Himself Engaged With A Force Which Greatly Outnumbered His Own, And Had Scarcely Made His Dispositions For The Action When He Fell, Mortally Wounded, At The Head Of His Advance.

An Earthly Immortality Belongs To A Great And Good Character. History Embalms It; It Lives In Its Moral Influence, In Its Authority, In Its Example, In The Memory Of The Words And Deeds In Which It Was Manifested; And As Every Age Adds To The Illustrations Of Its Efficacy, It May Chance To Be The Best Understood By A Remote Posterity.

There Is No Sanctuary Of Virtue Like A Home.