I have been permitted to know intimately many of the leaders in great moral reforms on both sides of the ocean; but a braver, sounder heart was not to be found than that which throbbed in the breast of Neal Dow.
On his ninetieth birthday the hale veteran sent my wife his photograph.
She placed his white locks alongside of the photograph which Gladstone gave her, and she calls them her duet of grand old men.

The closing years of General Dow's life, like the closing years of Martin Luther, were clouded with anxiety.

He saw the great movement which he had championed checked by many difficulties and suffering some disastrous reverses.

Some States which had enacted total prohibition forty years before had repealed the law.

In the five States which retained it on their statute books its salutary enforcement was dependent on the moral sentiments in the various localities.