age, to ivhich the execration of some and the neglect of all, "blue laws'' of New England dead letters for the most part that, instead of the rich, red blood of Virginia, icewater shall other agencies united. I would leave them in the cold-stor- flow through the veins of the people; "isms" which, in one could have its bent and sway, would revive for us the priest- ridden systems of the middle ages. / do not care to live in zvord, would blot Kentucky out of the galaxy of stars, and purity of woman and the sanctity of religion above all earth- 108 ly things; but / hope never to grow too old to make merry erence as spiritual advisers, rejecting them as emissaries of est, too prescriptive to be happy. I do not believe that men recreate her in the dread image of Maine and Kansas. place, and have not always placed, the integrity of man, the a world that is too good to be genial, too ascetic to be hon- consigned them long ago, not embalm them and import career and my familiar associates to say whether I do not brace the sum of all fanaticism and intolerance, proposing temporal power, I do not intend, if I can help it, to be com- can be legislated into angels even red-nosed angels. The them to Kentucky to poison the meat and drink and charac- ter of the people. I shall leave my home, my professional pelled to accept a rule of modern clericalism, which, if it Commonsense will I refuse to yield to these. Holding the ministry in rev- did more harm to the people, whilst they lasted, than all