Editorial, 16–17 February 1844, William W. Phelps Draft
Source Note
JS, Editorial, [, Hancock Co., IL, 16–17 Feb. 1844]. Version drafted [17 Feb. 1844]; handwriting of ; docket and notation in handwriting of ; seven pages; JS Collection, CHL.
he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much the same master rebukes him. Should reason, liberty, law, light, and philanthropy now guide the destinies of with as much sincerity as has been manifested for her notoriety, or welfare; there can be no doubt, that peace, prosperity and happiness will prevail, and that future generations, as well as the present, one, will call apeace-maker. The will, at all events, and profit by the instruction; and call upon all honest men to help them cherish all the love; all the friendship; all the Courtesy; all the kindly feelings; and all the generosity that ought to characterizecleverpeople, in in a clever neighborhood. and leave candid men to judge which trees bear <exhibit signs> the best fruit, the one with the most clubs and sticks thrown into its boughs. and the grass trodden down under it, or the one with no sticks in it, some dead limbs, and rank grass growing under it— for by these [p. [6]]