find that much of our prosperity as a people flows from the labors of faithful pastors, self-denying Sunday-school teachers, and sincere," zealous, but humble Christian men and women. It is chiefly by such patriot- ism, gentle and noiseless as the dew of Heaven, that our land is clothed with moral verdure and beauty, and that those who sit under their own vine, with none to make them afraid, are indebted for the peace and security they enjoy.
Patriotism springing from obedience to God, guided by His laws, and exercised in official station for the national welfare, at the certain and willing loss of popular favor and personal advantage, is perhaps the highest perfection to which this virtue can attain. Our own recent history affords an illustrious instance of such patriotism. We proceed to trace the course of John Quincy Adams, bo- cause we find in it a sanction for almost every moral and poHtical sentiment maintained in these pages; and also because his example is well calculated to quicken and t-o purify the love of country, and to convey to all lessons of virtue and true wisdom.