28 FROHIBITION. 



WORDS OF WARNING. 



Let us profit by past experience. Let us learn the principle 

 of liberty. Principles are greater than measures or men : and 

 the principle of liberty, well defined, is the greatest of principles. 

 He who is on the side of liberty, cannot but be on the side of tem- 

 perance. When all this zeal is spent, this gush exhausted, still 

 will abide the star of liberty. Beware, then, that your sympathy 

 and o-enerosity be not imposed upon by any false clamor for the 

 "public good." Know well that "law and order" are inseparable 

 with equal liberty, and that true temperance cannot be advanced 

 by the constable, but by education, growth, and better conditions. 

 Scrutinize well the hoofs and horns of this blind crusade, that would 

 make its inroad upon popular government by exciting prejudice 

 against a certain class. Permit no false construction of paternahsm 

 under the name of "protection," to barter away the right of private 

 contract ! Indignantly repel every such encroachment upon a 

 purely defensive government. 



