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WESTERN AFRICA 
from the guilt of making ardent spirits, and 
who take to themselves praise because they 
do not keep a doggery on the ground where 
they distil the liquor, but barrel it up and 
send it to market without having any 
drank, or any one injured by it, remember 
that the damning effects of their distilleries 
are felt fearfully in Africa, and in almost 
all heathen countries. 
Think you, Mr. Distiller, that the Africans 
are better qualified to handle such a dan- 
gerous article with discretion, and without 
abusing it, than you are? If, with all the 
restraints of the Bible, and the frowns of 
public sentiment against the habitual use of 
ardent spirits, there is danger of being over- 
come and destroyed by it in this land, the 
liability of being ruined by it, soul and 
body, where all these checks are unknown, 
must be vastly greater. Is not a dangerous 
weapon safer in the hands of an enlightened 
person, who at least should have control 
over himself, and whose position in society 
throws around him a powerfully restraining 
influence, than in the hands of one who is 
already low in vice, and who has nothing to 
