OPINIONS OF GREAT MEN.
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Woe unto him that giveth his neighbof drink,
that puttest the bottle to him, and makest him
drunken.-Holy ,orit


No proposition seems to me susceptible of more
satisfactory demonstration than this-and ] am
sure no person can give it one hours serious
thought without asserting to it-that in the pre-
sent state Of information on this subject, no man
can think to act on Christian principles or do
patriots duty to his country, and at the same time
make or sell the instrument of intoxication.--Hen-
ry Ware, Jr.


Can it be right for me to derive living from
that which is debasing the minds and running the
souls of Others or that which is destroying forever
the happiness of the domestic circle, and which is
filling the land with women and children in con-
dition far more deplorabe than that of widows and
orphans or which is causing nine-tenths of all the
crimes, or nne-tenths OF all the paupers in the
community y.-Francis Wayland.


am deeply convinced that the evils Of intem-
perance can never cease till the virtuous in socie
ty shall unite in pronouncing the man who attempts
to accumulate wealth by dealing out poison and
death to his neighbor as infamous.-John Pier
pont.


/ challenge any many who understands the ma
ture of ardent spirit and for the sake Of gain
tinues to be engaged in the traffic, to show that he
is not involved in the guilt Of murder.-Lynan
Beecher


They who keep these fountains of pollution and
crime open, are sharers to no small extent, in the
guilt which flows from them. They command the
gateway of that mighty food which is spreading
desolation through the land, and are chargeable
with the present and everlasting consequences, no
less than the infatuated victim who throws him
self upon the bosom of the burning torrent, and is
borne by il into the gulf Of woe.-San,uel Spring.


Say not g / viii sell by the large quantity
have no tpplers about me, and therefore am not
guilty. You are the chief man in this business,
the Others are only subalterns. You are "poi-
soner general. Wilbur Fisk, ID. ID.


The men who traffic in ardent spirit, and sell
to all who viii buy, arc posoners general; they
murder his majesty's subjects by wholesale; nei-
ther does their eye pity nor spare And what is
their gaini Is it not the blood Of these menu
Who will envy their large estates and sumptuous
palacesl curse is in the midst Of them. The
curse Of God is on their gardens, their walks, their
groves a fire that burns to the nethermost hell
Blood, blood is there the foundation, the floor,