Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Niagara river” in article pos=60 of The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861., [Electronic resource]:
...and go home-- it can no longer do mischief or do good.
Thank Heaven for that.
It is as powerless to control or shape or alter the great stream of events, as is a child in a skiff, floating on the Niagara river , to change or arrest the direction of the current, and make the cataract pause and bear it backward to the shore.
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