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nations. We have seen, in consequence of the \var, a gen- 

 eral breaking down of all moral restraint among a large 

 class of our people, leading men to run wild with hazardous 

 and unscrupulous liaste into any scheme that promised to 

 enrich themselves, even though it might l^ankrupt the gov- 

 ernment that gave tliem protection; and, as the fruit of such 

 work, we have, to-day, in our land lorecks, moral and 

 financial, on every hand. Men, in hot haste for wealth, 

 have been left to commit great sins with greediness, so 

 that we have at times been led to exclaim, witli Jefferson, 

 ^' I tremble for my country, wlien I remember that God is 

 just." All good and true men to-day deplore the unsettled 

 condition of affairs in our land, that have come upon us 

 through reckless extravagance in living and doing business, 

 and which, sooner or later, Avill overwdielm us as a nation, 

 unless we take good heed to our w' ays in fleeing those hurtful 

 and deceitful lusts which drown men and nations, alike, in 

 destruction and perdition. 



Tliere is a general feeling of distrust pervading the minds 

 of men engaged in other professions and pursuits, at the 

 present time, owing to the fluctuations of values and the 

 uncertainties of the currency, amounting almost to despon- 

 dency, and, in many cases, resulting in bankruptcy ; so that 

 a young man, in casting about for the choice of a calling, 

 to-day, sees little that is inviting to his ambition or flatter- 

 ing to his liopes. 



Would he be a lawyer I The country, and, I presume, 

 the world is so full of second and tliird rate men of this 

 profession tliat almost every village and hamlet can boast 

 of its lawyer before it can of its doctor or minister. For 



