JUSTICE IN THE BY-WAYS. A TALE OF LIFE.

BY F. COLBURN ADAMS,

AUTHOR
OF "OUR WORLD," ETC., ETC., ETC.

"A rebellion or an invasion alarms,
And puts the people upon its defence;
But a corruption of principles
Works its ruin more slowly perhaps,
But more surely."

NEW YORK:
LONDON:

1856.






PREFACE.





PREFACES, like long sermons to fashionable congregations, are