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c'ul(!S tli<^ " faliiicies " and "follies" of llic movemont must 

 include in liis sneor sonio of i\w Ix'st intellects and f,'reat('st men 

 of this and former ages. Sir [saac Newton, wlien asked to 

 smok(!, said : " I will make no n(iccssities to myself." IMio 

 groat P^dvvard (.'. Delevan, in a letter to tlio members of Con- 

 gress, says: "Prohibition of the sale of intoxicating drink, as 

 a beverage, as also of Toljacco, would, in my opinion, not oidy 

 1)C humane, Imt the true policy of governments." 



As the article is emphatically thrown down, we think we 

 can bear the exclamations, " Fanatic I" " Enthusiast !" " lm[)os- 

 sible I " " ]\ren would never listen to such a preposterous pro- 

 ])0sal !" • "As well try to stop the thunderings of tlie miglity 

 Niagara." Not so fast, good brother! How was the Hrst 

 lieiorm 15111 treated, how tlu; bill for the repeal of tht; Corn 

 Law, and that for the abolition of slavery? 'I'hey said it was 

 exceedingly dangerous to free tlu; slave, for he would deluge; 

 th(; West Indies- with blood. Lai'''e sums would Jiave to 

 bo paid to tin; master. Scripture was used to support 

 slavery. It was im})ious to denounce slavery, for Moses 

 legalized it, and Paul sent a fugitive sla\(! back to Phile- 

 mon. For a score of yeai's W'illierfoicc; fought against this 

 ti'allic in human blood, and the result is well knowu. W'v 

 boast of our grand glorious ag(> of ])urity of morals and religion, 

 and smile at the vagaries, eccentricities, and absurdities, or ai-e 

 horrified at the hollowness, ignorance, superstition, and gigantic 

 wrongs which loom darkly out of the past. But are we 

 perfect ] " 



"0, wad some power the giftie gi'e us 

 To sec nursol'.s as ither.s sec ns, 

 It w;itl frae nmny a Miuidcr free us, 

 An' foolish notion." 



H;is not our age defects? 'riiough nioi'e )irogr(^s ha> breii 

 unide during the past one hundred years than in the preceding 

 one tliousand, ai'o we not yet very imperfectly ci\ili/ed1 

 Another age will lest the value of this. The present lias 



