Vermont is a country unto itself.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.