Patriotism Is The Vital Condition Of National

It Is Not The Ship So Much As The Skillful Sailing That Assures The Prosperous Voyage.

There Is Very Little Moral Mixture In The 'antislavery' Feeling Of This Country. A Great Deal Is Abstract Philanthropy; Part Is Hatred Of Slaveholders; A Great Part Is Jealousy For White Labor, Very Little Is Consciousness Of Wrong Done And The Wish To Right It.

The Pride Of Ancestry Increases In The Ratio Of Distance.

A Man's Country Is Not A Certain Area Of Land, Of Mountains, Rivers, And Woods, But It Is A Principle And Patriotism Is Loyalty To That Principle.

Anger, Even When It Punishes The Faults Of Delinquents, Ought Not To Precede Reason As Its Mistress, But Attend As A Handmaid At The Back Of Reason, To Come To The Front When Bidden. For Once It Begins To Take Control Of The Mind, It Calls Just What It Does Cruelly.