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.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

True invective requires great imagination.

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.