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Rh and moral improvement of man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights."&mdash;.

"This is true liberty, when free-born men, Having to advise the public, may speak free; Which he who can, and will, deserves high praise; Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace: What can be juster in the state than this?"&mdash;.

"According to Johnson, 'the glory of every people arises from its authors:' yet our literary men are less honored than people of title; the writers of our leading journals are unknown; and we see much more respect shown to a Rothschild, or a Baring, than to our Faradays and our Owens."&mdash;.

"Such ministers will not suffer the law to be made the backsword of Justice which cuts only one way."&mdash;.

"How do you find the government of the Great Mogul?' said the counsellor. 'Abominable,' answered the Brahmin: 'how can you expect a state to be happily governed by Tartars? Our rajahs, our omras, and our nabobs are very contented, but the citizens are by no means so; and millions of citizens are something.'"&mdash;.

"Remember there was a fraud, and a very gross one, committed by one party or the other. If the State of Louisiana chose Kellogg and the other candidates on the Hayes ticket for presidential electors, and the Democratic politicians, knowing this, did, nevertheless, deny the truth and fabricate a false return for Tilden, which they persisted to the last in trying to pass for a true one, they were a combination of most redemptionless rogues; and it will be recorded, as an aggravation of their crime, that, when the righteous majority of the Electoral Commission crushed out their falsehood, they turned about and, with calumnious accusations, charged their own guilt upon their innocent opponents. The converse of these propositions is also true. If the Tilden electors were duly chosen by the people, and the Republican leaders in and out of the State altered the returns, falsified the records, and constituted a counterfeit Electoral College, whereby the people of the State and the Union were cheated out of the President whom they had legally elected by a large majority, then it is only anticipating history to say that all who aided, abetted, and encouraged that offence ought to be classed among the worst malefactors of the age."&mdash;.

iron sharpens iron, scholar sharpens scholar, so this dialogue had quickened the vision of the student. The love of study, ever a passion with him, received a fresh enthusiasm and derived new vigor from the daily exercise of his faculties in the