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Should any one object to the forego- 

 ing observations, as ill-nataredly pointed 

 or unnecessary, to such we would observe, 

 that respect for the ashes of the dead can- 

 not justify us in sacrificing the interests 

 of the living, and, with them, our own in- 

 tegrity. The advocate oi^ Truth and A^a- 

 tu7^e is bound at once to oppose, and ex- 

 pose, every doctrine which intrenches 

 upon their just prerogatives ; because he 

 is sure it is for the interest of the present, 

 ^s well as future ages, to have "the truth, 

 " the whole truth, and nothing but the 

 " truth,'' laid before them. 



The substance of what Mr. Forsyth 

 has advanced, in regard to pruning forest 

 trees, is briefly this : — No wound can be 

 healed, effectually, except it be dressed 

 with his composition. A sort of reason- 

 ing highl}^ detrimental to the interests of 

 timber owners ; as no one that believes 

 him will care to prune a single tree, mucli 



