Excerpt from The Pearls of the Gulf: A Series of Didactic Poems and Poetic Reader and Declaimer for Schools and Families

To produce a series of poems which shall be creditable to the literature of the age, has been my aim. I might have written on murder and Jove, and have become more celebrated in the denizens of crime, and more lauded by the votaries of prostitution, but if success in poetry, or authorship in general, depends on poisoning the morals of youth, vitiating the principles of chastity in woman, and hardening the sensibilities of the aged, who are tottering on the verge of the grave, in their duties to God and man, - then I have no desire to succeed as an author, nor no wish to be known as a bard.

In offering the "Pearls of the Golf" to the public, I have little apology to make. I have written because I thought good might result. Every voice and appeal that is raised in behalf of sound literature must have a tendency to check the rapid inroads that are being made upon it by loose writers in the present century.

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