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MR. EDiToR.-For number of years past there has been scarcely member of the Enquirer but what has contained more or less from those, who poor cause that will not bare the test of scrutiny :- and as large portion of the community are fully of the opinion that the manner in which the cause of temperance is carried on by those who claim to be it's advocates sets both reason and revelation at manifest defiance, and having full confidence in the liberaity of your sentiments, have taken the lib- erty torequest that your columns may be opened to receive few hints and reasons for our believing as we do. In the first place an attempt to dictate to men under a free government like ours what they shall eat or drink, or wherewithal they shall be clothed, in direct violation of all moral and reli- Ous liberty, and attempt to force upon the pub lie total abstinence principles, to refrain from all Intoxicating drinks, is to make the traditions of men the rule of faith and setting the Scripture at manifest defiance and say it without the fear of being contradcted that doctrine of this sort can- not be warranted from any portion of the sacred writings and further add that he who claims to be temperate ought to be temperate in all things. Of all the worst sorts of intemperance islander is the worst' and for men to islander their neighbors, who to say the least about it, are as good as them selves, for not conforming to their notions of right and wrong is without all excuse .,f.,~'i.-,

 And this is not the worst of it. How many of our Clergy are engaged in this wholesale slander and abuse, who ought in all concence to be better employed Among the many passages of Scripture which might be brought in support of our position is the second chapter of John where Christ made large quantity oi wine to be drank as a common beverage This think is sufficient to all our pur poses at present. NEw ENGLAND FARMER,