d by our drunken appetite.

The lecturer, in the concluding portion of his address,
depicted in a tone of high moral feeling, the degraded
condition of Great Britain as a nation, in consequence of her
extreme drunkenness. He shewed that habits of intemperance,
or feelings and prejudices generated by intemperance,
pervaded every class, from the highest to the lowest, the
richest to the poorest. Statesmen bowed upon the altar of
expediency; and, above all, the sanctuary was not clean. As a
Christian nation, we were paralized in our efforts to
evangelize the world--partly by the millions upon millions
actually expended upon ardent spirits--partly by the selfish
and demoralizing feelings which this sensual indulgence in
particular was known to produce. How could we, as a nation,
upbraid America with her system of slavery when we ourselves
were but glorying in a voluntary slavery of a thousand times
more defiling and abominable description? In our own country,
it might be said that there was, as it were, a conspiracy
against the bodies and souls of her people.

Now in any Court of Justice, he would take his stand upon the fact
that the man who made that speech must be a _monomaniac_, and he
believed no competent tribunal, after hearing it, would receive his
testimony as to the character or conduct of any nation on the face of
the earth. Or if there lingered a doubt on the subject, he should show
from the burden of his charges against America, that he spoke in the
same general spirit, and nearly in the very same terms of her as of
Britain, although the fault found with each country was totally
different. He spoke of each as the very worst nation on the earth,
because of the special crime charged. Any man who could allow himself
to say that the two most enlightened nations on earth were in
substance the two most degraded nations on earth; who could permit
himself to bring such _railing accusations_ successively against two
great people, on account of the sins of a small portion of each, which
he had looked at till he could see nothing else, and with the
perseverance of a goldleaf-beater, exercised his ingenuity in
stretching out to the utmost limits over each community; a man who not
only can see little to love anywhere that does not derive its
complexion from himself, and who, the moment he finds a blot on his
brethren, or his country, instead of walki