but yet we do not doubt that there is truth and purity, and the contrast with depravity and falsity will make it appear more beautiful, and often being disappointed in those that we have set up as samples of moral rectitude or personal bravery, will have a tendency to draw us away from the world, up to the source of all truth. We must always bear in mind that man is fallible in his nature; the creature of circumstances that unless he be guided by the Eternal, he may prove false to himself and all that are dear to him. The more I see of the world the more I distrust it; and the more highly I prize those dear tried friends at our own fathers hearthstone. Since I wrote you I have been to Danville, and I am sorry to have to say it, but I must to you; I am ashamed of and perfectly disgusted with Uncle Payne's family; they are
