THE NEWEST

KEEPSAKE

FOR

1840,

CONTAINING THE BEST ACCOUNT

OF THE

March of Mind;

TOGETHER WITH THE SPEECHES, CIRCUMSTANCES AND

THE

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 8426

Astor, Lenox and Tilden

Foundations.

1896

8. ADAMS, PRINTER, 59 GOLD-ST. NEW-YORK.

PREFACE.

As the following ephemera, may possibly be of sufficient importance to attract censure from that class of persons, who consider it their especial duty to patronise the church, and who seem to feel, that it is their privilege to determine, what doctrines are profitable, and what are not; what books are good, and what are bad; the author, having some fears that their condemnations may not be thorough enough—sufficiently severe for the demerits of the book, has a mind to fall to himself and give the work a severe criticism. He would not prevent others from doing it for their own. satisfaction by any means, or wantonly take away from them any opportunity of being smart, when opportunities for the purpose appear to be so melancholy few; but having read the work more thoroughly than those who dislike it will be apt to, he has a better knowledge of the weakness, wickedness and defects, and can therefore condemn it with greater propriety, and juster