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It IS said that dlStllling spirits destroys, to a great extent, the bounties of Providence. by diminishing the quantity of grain. Does not the excessive raising of cotton likewise create scarcity of breadstuffs and other arti- cles of food? Do not many men who are joining

 in hue and cry against the poor distillers, drive their slaves, halffed and scarcely cloth ed, through cold and heat, sick or well, with merciless severity, to raise more cotton and enable them to buy more property? Let us remember, that God will not be mocked, and that in the same sentence it is said, that nei- ther the "coUetou8 nor drunkards, nor repi- iers nor ertortioners shall inherit the king dom of God" Cor vi, 10. Here indeed drunkenness is forbidden, as well it might be, but those whoa are heaping up wealth to them selves by e:rtortion or oppression, find little encouragement for reviling their honest neighbors who are engaged in an industrious calling, under the pretence of suppressing drunkenness by rendering it impossible to get drunk. Again, St. Paul says, ''be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the spirit" Ephes. V. IS.

 I have said that there is no sin in the use either of money or of spirits, in themselves considered. St. Paul, in his epistle to the Romans, xiv, fl, says, '1 know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; and to him that es- teemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean." lfthen any person esteem spirits to be unclean, let them use them not. We will not condemn them for their abstinence. But if we who endeavour to use this world as not abusingit it, are so fortunate as to hold the reins of self government over our capacities, and to keep all things within due bounds, say ing, "hitherto shalt thou go and no fur ther," according to the true law of tempe rance, let no one say to us 'swe are holier than thou," and by anathemas and lines of distinction, undertake to exclude us from the society of Christians, and to deprive us even of the privileges of citizens. Let your thun- ders roar against the drunkard and the in temperate of every description, and you may have our aid But condemn not our mode ration, by your rigid law of abstinence, and especially avoid reviling your honest indus trious brethren and their innocent and help less families. Beware how you rank some of our most respectable and conscientious far mers, with murderers and midnight assas- sins. Remember, that if you wilfully offend your bretheren without a cause, you offend your God. Recollect the awful woes pronounced upon those who defame and speak ill of their neighbors. Reflections like these should incline every man of Chris tian spirit and every professor of Chrstani- ty to spare the feelings and the characters of his bretheren though they may be unwilling to join what they consider an improper and illiberal socety-a combination of men un- warranted by history or holy writ.