to do our full duty, and we have no desire for self-agerandizement and self-glorification. Our reward will come, if, in time, this complicated machine can be adjusted so that it will run smoothly, without friction, pay a fair return to the owners, and become so much a part of the daily life of the public that no more attention is paid to it than is paid now to drawing water from a faucet or turning on an electric light.
Shall we not advance the interests of New England, and the peace, prosperity, and contentment of her people if we are careful to be temperate and accurate in our statements and criticisms of others, and if we try to follow the principle the patient Lincoln laid down when he said: “I do the best I know—the very best I can; and I mean to keep right on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything; if the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
I have faith in the future of New England
