Young men anxious for places in the gift of the government found that winking at Frank Miller's vices and conforming to the demoralizing customs of his place were passports to political favors, and lacking moral stamina, hushed their consciences and became partakers of his sins.

I believe that the whole nation, white and black, is losing moral stamina.

Virtues were born everywhere,in England, in France, in Germany, in Holland,which were a savor of life unto life: loyalty, self-respect, fidelity to covenants, chivalry, sympathy with human misery, love of home, rural sports, a glorious rural life, which gave stamina to character,a material which Christianity could work upon, and kindle the latent fires of freedom, and the impulses of a generous enthusiasm.

On a close examination, very few of these black or aged bees, will be seen at the opening of the spring, as, not having the stamina of those that are younger, they perish from inability to encounter the vicissitudes of winter.

It was the widow's crusethe loaves and fishes; carving could not lessen nor helping diminish itthe stamina were leftthe elemental bone still flourished, divested of its accidents.

It has the effect of reducing their stamina, and thus producing consumption and diseases arising from general debility of the system whereby life is shortened."

During the Renaissance and Reformation the old social and economic systems, so laboriously built up on the ruins of Roman tyranny, had been destroyed; autocracy had abolished liberty, licentiousness had wrecked the moral stamina, "freedom of conscience" had obliterated the guiding and restraining power of the old religion.