h was a demijohn of
brandy containing four gallons, and this did not serve me three weeks.'
This can be proved, and I mean not to say anything I can not prove, for I
hold this as a precious jewel. It is a well-known fact that you drank one
quart of brandy per day, at my expense, during the different times that
you have boarded with me, the demijohn alone mentioned excepted, and the
last fourteen weeks you were sick. Is not this a supply of liquor for
dinner and supper? Now sir, I think I have drawn a complete portrait of
your character, yet, to enter upon every minutia, would be to give a
history of your life, and to develop the fallacious mask of hypocrisy and
deception under which you have acted in your political, as well as moral,
capacity of life." So much for the apostate Quaker's character after the
close of the American revolution.

Mr. Lecky, an infidel, says, "It was reserved for Christianity to present
to the world an ideal character, which through all the changes of eighteen
centuries has filled the hearts of men with an impassioned love, and has
shown itself capable of acting on all ages, nations, temperaments, and
conditions; has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the
highest incentive of practice: amid all the sins and failing; amid all the
priestcraft, the persecution and fanaticism which have defaced the church,
it has preserved IN THE CHARACTER OF ITS FOUNDER AN ENDURING PRINCIPLE OF
REGENERATION." If such be the fountain let the stream continue to flow.

SHALL WE UNCHAIN THE TIGER? OR, THE FRUITS OF INFIDELITY.

By Eld. A. I. Maynard.

An infidel production was submitted to Benjamin Franklin manuscript; he
returned it to the author with a letter, from which the following
quotations are extracted: "I would advise you not to attempt unchaining
the Tiger, but to burn this piece before it is seen by any other
person.... If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be without
it?" He informs us that he was "an advocate of infidelity in his early
youth, a confirmed Deist." He says his "arguments perverted some other
young persons, particularly Collins and Ralph, and when he recollected
that they both treated him exceedingly ill without the least remorse, and
also remembered the behavior of Keith, another 'Freethinker,' and his own
conduct toward Vernon and a Miss Reed, which at times gave him great
uneasiness, he was led to suspect that his theory,