This is the truth

Printed area measures 22.5 x 17.7 cm. Verse in eighteen stanzas selected from thirty-four stanza version. Some textual variations in individual stanzas. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments; within matching border of type ornaments. In lower margin below border: Tribune Press, No. 3 Canal Street. According to the Providence Directory the press was at this address from 1856 to 1859. Poem, also entitled "The dictates of reason, or, a solemn warning to unfaithful ministers" is attributed to Nathaniel Ladd, of Sanborton, N.H. in Ebenezer Hovey's "The true ministers and false ones" (ca. 1815). See also Bristol B 7248. This edition not in Checklist Amer. imprints, Bristol, Ford, or Shoemaker.