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strong grow weak, and the weakly bow the head and 

 die ; where the innocence of the chikl is taught to 

 curse, and lie, and steal ; where the pride of man- 

 hood is quenched in the imbecile leer of the sot; 

 where the fair honour of womanhood is sullied like 

 the snow which falls in those infernal regions; 

 where God is as unknown as the pure air of His 

 own heaven ? 



I do not pen these words for ^viiting's sake, and 

 I have not exaggerated a fact to point an antithesis 

 or construct a climax. You may find all and more 

 than this verified in the records of the past summer 

 of 1855 ; but I speak of things as they have been, 

 and are, and should not be, and I lay them now 

 before you in order to draw out the causes whence 

 so much misery and crime originate. 



Man, taking him in the lowest point of view, is 

 an animal. But he is an animal of a high organi- 

 zation — his internal machinery is more adapted 

 than that of an}^ other animal to elaborate great 

 results : the fact is, he has a mind and a soul, 

 and his body is constructed accordingly, so that 

 these diviner portions may be placed in full rela- 

 tion with external objects. He possesses a com- 

 plicated breathing - apparatus, which we call his 

 lungs, and these, in their normal condition, inhale 

 the oxygen of the air to purify his blood, and give 

 out the carbonic acid gas, which is a portion of 

 the debris of his structure : he has a series of organs 



