... was theoretically the best plan. It was forced upon us by the exigencies of the war.And, independently of that, such was the infatuation of the Southern mind on the subject that there seemed to be ... VariousSubjects." The idea of my book of travels, I think, was a good me, to survey the Old World from the experience of the New, and the New from the observation of the Old; but it was so ill carried ... year, and on the 2d May, 1839, it was dedicated, under the name of the Church of the Messiah. The burning of our sanctuary had [80] proved to be our upbuilding; the position of the Stuyvesant...