I Do Not Regret Having Braved Public

Answering A Letter From A Church Asking What Else They Should Try After Having Failed To Raise Enough Money On Bake Sales, Bazaars, Suppers, Etc. Why Not Try Religion?

Great Grief Makes Sacred Those Upon Whom Its Hand Is Laid. Joy May Elevate, Ambition Glorify, But Sorrow Alone Can Consecrate.

Relaxation Is A Physical And Moral Necessity. Animals, Even To The Simplest And Dullest, Have Their Games, Their Sports, Their Diversions. The Toil-worn Artisan, Stooping And Straining Over His Daily Task, Which Taxes Eye And Brain And Limb, Ought To Have Opportunity And Means For An Hour Or Two Of Relaxation After That Task Is Concluded.

The Best Use Of A Journal Is To Print The Largest Practical Amount Of Important Truth: Truth Which Tends To Make Mankind Wiser, And Thus Happier.

While The Right Of Suffrage Is Conceded To Thousands Notoriously Ignorant, Vicious, And Drunken, ... A Constitutional Denial To Black Men, As Such, Of Political Rights Freely Secured To White Men, Is Monstrously Unjust And Irrational.