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