erica, and age. It is generosity, hospitality, and friendship towards
all strangers, that this country will attain her grandeur. And then,
America will be the Sun and the central political happiness, throughout
the world. Those who, in America, wish to imitate the selfishness of other
nations, are not fit to live on this soil. If the people's aim, and of all
the nations of the world, is now for having republics, and not monarchies;
America has only to give them her friendly hand, and the whole world will
be the friend of America. And the whole world will have soon the blessed
millenium. The sons of God, should be liberal. No stingy cramped head,
stepping after the old, and selfish governments, will ever do any thing
good to himself, nor to the race of man, and of this country. But, the Sun
will shine cheerfully for all the world in spite of puerility. He who
preaches liberty only for himself, is a little tyrant: and a little tyrant
is more despicable, than a big one. He is the venomous viper biting its
own tail.

The imprisonment given to Mr. Dorr for having fought against the very
despotical law of ancient England; Rhode Island reproaches, with it, the
very noble acts of the fathers of her country! It is the same as to say,
that all the acts of the revolution of this Union, against the mother
country, deserve to be punished. Had Mr. Dorr taken the arms against the
present government of Rhode Island, without having previously applied for
a modification of the despotical law; Mr. Dorr would be liable to few
months imprisonment. But, such was not the case. When he found that no
redress could be obtained, Mr. Dorr acted like a free citizen. That little
state of Rhode Island, in acting as it did against Mr. Dorr, is now in
contradiction with the whole Union. I would prefer to live in a country
under a despotical prince, than in a country where a despotical law can
condemn the high minded, who could not submit to it. A despotical prince
must, with time, die, or might be killed by a modern Brutus: a despotical
law, acts despotically, without such a fear; while it prevents the free
citizen to think with the free mind of republicans. And to be vigilant
against the bad laws of a country like this, it is the duty of every
citizen! A tyrannical law is worse than a living tyrant: and from the
moment in which a nation finds an unjust law, and does not use immediately
the required modifications, such a nation cannot be a republic. The