“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.”
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
