VI DEDICATION. 



also endeavoured to point out such as can be traced to the influ- 

 ence of former social institutions. Nevertheless, on a careful 

 review of our present social condition, you have no cause for 

 despondency; but let my earnest advice prevail with you to 

 sever all connection with the past by a steady advance in moral 

 and industrial improvement ; or if the events of the past cannot 

 but be reverted to, if its trials and struggles, its sufferings and 

 humiliations will, of necessity, intrude — let them rather serve as 

 beacons by which to avoid the shoals, and to steer onward in the 

 current of the future, than as provocations to disunion, or pre- 

 cedents for error. 



In conclusion, my opinion on many topics I give up to 

 discussion, but I ask and expect a fair and impartial discussion. 



Your friend and devoted servant, 



L. A. A. de Yerteuil. 



Pokt-of-Spaix, May, 1856. 



