As patriots, they are called on to oppose strenuously its every encroachment--yet they dare not; for should they venture to declaim against its errors, they endanger their popularity and incur the risk of defeat at an ensuing election.
Florry, I was once conversing on this subject with a lady who had recently visited Europe, and inquired of her if she had not marked the evils and abuses which existed in the papal dominions through which she traveled.

She whisperingly replied--'Certainly, my dear, I could not fail to mark the ignorance and degradation which prevailed, but I never speak of it, because, you know, it makes one very unpopular,' Here, Florry, you have the clew to the mystery.

Americans quietly contemplate this momentous subject, and silently view the abuses which are creeping into our communities, because if they expose them, it is at the hazard of becoming unpopular," "Mary, can I ever, ever forget that hour in the churchyard ?" Florence sadly said, as they rose and proceeded to the house.

"Oh! it seems branded on my brain; yet I must cast this new grief from me, for enough of anguish was mine before.

Still I feel that there is a path just ahead, and it seems lighted up.