Albert Barnes on a Growing Better World
A CORRESPONDENT of the N. Y. Tribune reports Albert Barnes as saying: “It is a great thing to live in this world, where so much is to be accomplished, where all is growing better all the time, and where there is a steady advancement all the time toward all that is good.” To fully appreciate these statements about the world's growing better, and steadily advancing toward all that is good, the reader must be told of a resident in the interior of Florida, fifty miles from any other settlement, who had not seen a white man since 1858, nor read a newspaper, who did not know that there had been any war in this country, nor that slavery had been abolished, and who lately brought out a negro boy to the nearest town, to be sold. In what Florida has Mr. Barnes been living that he should fall so far behind the times?