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 false, they are imperatively called upon to give it a public contradiction. If those eminent medical practitioners in Dublin, Manchester, and Warrington, who have published to the won that “ no cause would be calculated so much to improve the health of the community as an entire disuse of ardent spirits ;" if they are deceiving the world, or are themselves deceived, then, in the name of the public whom they have abused, I call upon every man who knows then ignorance or falsehood to stand forth and convict them.

But if they are not deceived themselves, nor wish to deceive others, then I put to the conscience of every moderate drinker who expects to stand at the last judgement seat of his God, how, with the information before him, winch has been extended by means of Temperance Societies, he can continue to use, as a common beveridge, a substance with respect to which the first authorities in the world have declared, m opposition to their own interest, “ that its continued use cannot be persevered in without the certainty of injury, and that it should be renounced by all persons in health as a most noxious superfluity.” If the judgment of the first physicians in America, in Germany, in Britain, is not sufficient to stamp distilled spirits as completely useless for all common purposes ; as calculated in their own nature to form the dim ken appetite ; and as being in their own properties most decidedly noxious; then through