Hence arises that over weening complacency and self-esteem, both national and individual, which at once renders them so extremely obnoxious to ridicule, and so peculiarly restive under it.
If they will scorn the process by which other nations have become what they avowedly intend to be, they must rest satisfied with the praise and admiration they receive from each other; and turning a deaf ear to the criticism of the old world, consent to be their own prodigious great reward." Alexandria has its churches, chapels, and conventicles as abundantly, in proportion to its size, as any city in the Union.
I visited most of them, and in the Episcopal and Catholic heard the services performed quietly and reverently.
The best sermon, however, that I listened to, was in a Methodist church, from the mouth of a Piquot Indian.

It was impossible not be touched by the simple sincerity of this poor man.

He gave a picture frightfully eloquent of the decay of his people under the united influence of the avarice and intemperance of the white men.

He described the effect of the religious feeling which had recently found its way among them as most salutary.

The purity of his moral feeling, and the sincerity of his sympathy with his forest brethren, made it unquestionable that he must be the most valuable priest who could officiate for them.