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of moral wrongs, and social abuses,
and misguided sympathies, and human
imperfections, generally, are not only
tolerable, but proper and promising,
because they are prophetic of
remedies to be applied, and pro-
-vocative of energies to be set in mo-
-tion. That our disapproval of
certain menacing facts and
conditions is gained, and that our
earnest protestations are excited, is
therefore a happy omen, a good, and
not an evil.

With the maladjust-
-ments of labor and capital, with
the inequitable distribution of
property, with the fashionable