Among other things, he said: 'The gentleman commenced his speech by saying that this _young_ man--alluding to me--must be taken down.

I am not so young in years as I am in the tricks and trades of a politician; but,' said he, pointing to Forquer, 'live long or die young, I would rather die now, than, like the gentleman, change my politics for a three thousand dollar office, and then feel obliged to erect a lightning-rod over my house to protect a guilty conscience from the vengeance of an offended God!'" "It is difficult to-day," says Mr.Arnold, "to appreciate the effect on the old settlers, of this figure.

This lightning-rod was the first which most of those present had ever seen.

They had slept all their lives in their cabins in conscious security.

Here was a man who seemed, to these simple-minded people, to be afraid to sleep in his own house without special and extraordinary protection from Almighty God.