A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.