I will not mention his Name: He was reputed a Pious Man."-- This is one of Cotton Mather's "Remarkable Judgments of God, on Several Sorts of Offenders,"-- and the next cases referred to are the Judgments on the "Abominable Sacrilege" of not paying the Ministers' Salaries.
This sort of thing does n't do here and now, you see, my young friend! We talk about our free institutions;--they are nothing but a coarse outside machinery to secure the freedom of individual thought.

The President of the United States is only the engine driver of our broad-gauge mail-train; and every honest, independent thinker has a seat in the first-class cars behind him.
-- There is something in what you say,--replied the divinity-student; -- and yet it seems to me there are places and times where disputed doctrines of religion should not be introduced.

You would not attack a church dogma--say Total Depravity--in a lyceum-lecture, for instance?
Certainly not; I should choose another place,--I answered .-- But, mind you, at this table I think it is very different.

I shall express my ideas on any subject I like.

The laws of the lecture-room, to which my friends and myself are always amenable, do not hold here.