Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1858 — True. [ARTICLE]

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Patriotism, in our day, is made to bo an argument for all public wrong, and all private meanness. For the sake of country a man is told to yield everything that makes the land honorable. For the sqke of country a man must submit to every ignominy that will lead to the ruin of the State through disgrace oi the citizen. There never was a inan so unpatriotic as Christ was.. Old Jerusalem ought to have been everything to him. The laws and institutions of his country ought to have boon more to him than aßthe men iri the country. They were not, and the Jews hated him; but the common people, like the ocean wates, moved in titles toward his heavenly attraction wherever he went.— ll. W. Beecher. nays, “Woman’s imagination is to dream of heaven, and her soul to love the earth.”