l^xticitt 



N writing this Life, I have endeavoured 

 to keep in view the fact, that the early 

 years of Bishop Quarter gave the 

 promise of that virtuous career which 

 his after life realized: and therefore 

 have I dwelt upon the manner of his 

 early training. Again: I have introduced observa- 

 tions that might, to some, seem not strictly war- 

 ranted by the subject; but it will be found, I think, 

 that they go to describe the danger and violence of 

 a disease, so that the judicious selection of the rem- 

 edy applied by the Bishop and the success of the 

 cure, may the more fully exhibit the skilfulness of 

 the physician. 



To guard every loop hole, to avoid every error, 

 would be impossible. Nothing terrestrial escapes 

 the common condition of imperfectibility ; and the 

 writer has besides to urge in extenuation of his 

 errors, the novelty of his situation in appearing 

 before the public as the author of a book. 



Would that it were worthier! with all its faults, 

 however, it is sent forth, confident that the reader 

 will look rather to the subject of the picture than 

 to the manner of the colouring ;— to the gem, than 

 to the setting. 

 Chicago, April iqth, 1849 



