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eoiislj hurled at huge and soulless corporations, which ob- 

 tain special privileges by agreeing to perform what they 

 never do or can perform ? Why did he omit to make men- 

 tion, in this connection, of the whole list of other business 

 pursuits, and neglect to show that, from each and all of 

 them, he could cull most forcible illustrations of the "lies 

 of self-interest " — from the great bankers who loan mil- 

 lions " to the best of cut-throats" in aid of the destruc- 

 tion of the liberties of nations, down to the pettiest dealer 

 in molasses and codfish, who imposes upon the wretched, 

 poverty-stricken creatures, who have no choice but to buy 

 his semi-poisonous wares, on his own terms? Where was 

 the reverend critic's scourge for the importers, manufac- 

 turers, and sellers of ardent spirits, who are doing Satan's 

 work here on earth ? Where was his whip for the men who 

 readily take mortgages on poor, down-trodden southern 

 negroes, selling the mother into one state, the father into 

 another, and the little ones into a tliird ? Wliy did he not 

 hold up to deserved scorn the adulterators of goods — the 

 men who make of rum itself a far worse poison, and who 

 enhance the powers of arsenic to injure ? He had no word 

 for such as these; but "liars for self-interest," like Bar- 

 num and Burnham, were consigned, by the reverend gen- 

 tleman's conclusions, to a part in " the lake which burneth 

 with fire and brimstone, which is the second death " ! 



It may be that when, in common even with sinners like 

 our humble self, the talented and able Mr. Huntington shall 

 be called upon to answer for that which has been left un- 

 done in this life, it will not be held as a justification of his 

 having totally neglected the sins of his " hearers," that he 



