. Richard Henry Dana, jr. ... speeches in stirring times, and letters to a son . allow our-selves to doubt it. We may venture to congratulateyour Honors and your Excellency in advance, thatwhen this decision shall have gone out, whether it 426 RICHARD HENRY DANA, JR. give pleasure or pain to the one side or the other, thequestion will have been decided upon those prin-ciples which it is manifest the treaty determined itshould be decided upon, not from some local or na-tional view of policy for the present or future; notfor the sake of what some persons hope may by-and-by result in something be
. Richard Henry Dana, jr. ... speeches in stirring times, and letters to a son . allow our-selves to doubt it. We may venture to congratulateyour Honors and your Excellency in advance, thatwhen this decision shall have gone out, whether it 426 RICHARD HENRY DANA, JR. give pleasure or pain to the one side or the other, thequestion will have been decided upon those prin-ciples which it is manifest the treaty determined itshould be decided upon, not from some local or na-tional view of policy for the present or future; notfor the sake of what some persons hope may by-and-by result in something better than the present treaty;but that you will have confined yourselves to exactlywhat the treaty asks and empowers you to do, — todetermine what is now the pecuniary result of thecontrasted articles of the treaty. On such a determi-nation of the controversy, whatever may hereafterfollow from it, each of your Honors will know thatyou have been governed by principle, and by thatstrict rule of conduct which alone can give a manpeace at the last. LETTERS FROM A FATHER TO A SON. /^■(7l ^H 3 Oi^ c ji XVILETTERS FROM A FATHER TO A SON Note by the Son One problem, ever old and ever new, taking each generationsubstantially unprepared, is the treatment of a son by hisfather. Of course, each new father ought to be prepared, butrarely is he. WTiat father, having brought up a family withboys, has not wished in the retrospect to have corrected mis-takes? A father who feels otherwise is pretty surely a bigot to hisown past. I suppose one explanation for this state of unpre-paredness is that few realize the real psychological crisis thereis in early childliood. Again, the father is usually preoccupiedin earning the support of his wife and coming children, in mak-ing a home, in establishing his own career and laying the foun-dations of hoped-for success in hard work. Besides that, the problem is not a simple one. It is many-sided. A father who thinks he has solved it with his first sonfind
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