. The American review : a Whig journal of politics, literature, art, and science. ch is hallowed by the purest patriotism. Diogenes is, there-fore, not a partizan. Our Creed is the progress of Republican Man. For DiooENES can never so narrow his minH, A8 to give up to party, what was meant for mankiBd. On the contrary, we shall roam the infected body of the world, and when we find the sore spot,shall not probe it to give pain, but to cure it; being thus cruel, only to be kind. As, however, it is our Christian duty to warn evil doers, let the subtle wordmonger, who, pro-tected by his countrys b
. The American review : a Whig journal of politics, literature, art, and science. ch is hallowed by the purest patriotism. Diogenes is, there-fore, not a partizan. Our Creed is the progress of Republican Man. For DiooENES can never so narrow his minH, A8 to give up to party, what was meant for mankiBd. On the contrary, we shall roam the infected body of the world, and when we find the sore spot,shall not probe it to give pain, but to cure it; being thus cruel, only to be kind. As, however, it is our Christian duty to warn evil doers, let the subtle wordmonger, who, pro-tected by his countrys banner, fights only for himself, beware! Let the pseudo philanthropist,who, while his voice sounds in the van of melioration, creeps himself stealthily after the scraps thatlie upon the path, beware ! Let the cunning plotter, who lays traps and pitfalls to impede his fel-low toilers on the road to distinction, that he may distance them at last, beware ! Our Lantkrnwill blaze upon all degrees of dereliction, and the judgment of Diogenes be as inflexible as a Rha-damantine Bnt •while his frown will thus be terrible to the delinquent, hit benignant smile -will be a sufficient ?aerdon to those who prove themselves worthy to belong to the great Brotherhood of such THE LANTERN Of DiociENEs will be pointed as an exemplar of good. Not only shall individuals, but principles, professions, and particular platforms be subjected toa rigid examination, the wonderful properties of our LANTERN enabling us to look beyoAd theouter and apparent, into the inner and actual; and wherever the Index does not agree with theSprings and Works within, like a Clock in motion, set to the wrong hour, we shall ourselves strike the true time of day. Endeavouring always, with impartial and inexorable hand, to assistin rooting out the noxious weeds that desecrate the garden of life : but in every instance tendingupon, nurturing, and sustaining those living traces of Heavens hand, which serve
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