power, on the shoulders of an excited populace.
Bloodshed, domestic violence, impracticable efforts to
attain an impossible perfection, and all the evils of a civil
conflict are forgotten or blindly attempted, in order to raise
themselves in the arms of those they call the people."

"I know your present condition," answered the young
Seneca, openly smiling. "The Manitou may have ordered it
for your good. Trust to HIM. There are days in which the
sun is not seen--when a lurid darkness brings a second
night over the earth. It matters not. The great luminary is
always there. There may be clouds before his face, but the
winds will blow them away. The man or the people that
trust in God will find a lake for every See-wise."