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