F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 5

Washington became the centre of our anxieties and our thoughts. The
people of the north and the people of the west and the people of
the South that constituted the people of a great nation had from a lot
different opinions and held as to the right to make commodity of
men, of women and of small children. Yes, my child, was finally
asked to be in agreement with Christianity to condemn these people
to a life immediately without hope and they put. As you grow, my child,
and it starts to think and to act for you, you will think a lot it
strange that such great national crime as this would be due to exist
in an earth so blessed with the fruits of a mature civilization. And it
it will be a cause of he/she wonders to you that a society founded on such
disgust didn't break down sooner under the load of his
bad. And you still have to always keep in mind my child that the men,
not the sight the great crimes likewise, and that the good and great men also differ
as to what constitutes rights national and bad national. It is
it said that the great nations have gone to decline because their people
become blind with pride, and it refused to think right. A nation is
always the safe while his/her people they think right;  but you have to teach the
children right before you can have the people think right. Education
and the association had a lot for doing in to train the thoughts of men in
the South in channels of badly. Taking this perspective of the subject You
you/he/she can find a lot for forgiving in a political system in which it seems wrong
Your eyes and right in the eyes of his/her supporters. Indeed, my child, me
It would command her to treat with a reasonable amount of deference the
advanced matters from those of what they differ with you on questions
public policy, and also to remember how correct and reason is Your
it arms stronger. You never become angry with Your opponent, never the use
language that a regret will provoke her;  and if you cannot convince from
the moral strength of Your matter, abandonments the enterprise. And