Excerpt from Young America's Dream: Or, a Discoursory Interview Between the Spirits of Liberty, Tyranny and a Citizen of the World, an Allegory

The author of Young America's Dream has published it at the request of many friends, and not because he flattered himself that he was giving to the world a multitude of new ideas, for he believes the play to be a true pulsation of the "world's heart, " and that he has acted only in the humble capacity of an Amanuensis, in transcribing that pulsation to paper.

Of the critic, he has only one favor to ask. Their scapal may be sharpened to as keen an edge as their surgical abilities will enable them to hone it. And that one favor is that their lance may be "sharp, " for of all pain that of being stabbed with a "dull" knife is most torturing.

It may not, however, be out of the author's province to suggest a word for those "carpenters" who live by "razing." Let no man abstract a single "stone, rafter, " or part of my little "cottage, " who cannot fill its place by a better one, that will add to its strength and perfection. If he cannot "mend" - and still persists in "sawing, " he must content himself by having his "music" for his pains - and always the good nature of The Author.

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