“I might admit also that the fates of the Don and of myself have been somewhat similar in at least one respect. If I am not mistaken he encountered a windmill or two. I am not sure but I have done the same.”

“… at the close of the summer of 1837; a new religious paper made its appearance in Richmond, bearing the name of The Watchman of the South. Plumer was proprietor and editor. With a strong pen he upheld the views of the Old School Presbyterians, and in the following year (1838) he was chosen moderator of their [...]

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The Sabbath “…must be given to things which take hold on eternity.”

“No man can seriously read and consider this precept [the fourth commandment] without seeing that it is of vast importance. It is a law claiming to regulate a seventh portion of human life. If a man lives twenty-one years, this law claims the entire control of three of them; if he lives fifty years, it [...]

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