It has pleased him to charge me with the unbrotherly crime, the unchristian crime, the un-orange crime'-- here he smiled more blandly at every term, and then brought his smiling eye to bear on his antagonist--'of lifting him out of the channel about twelve o'clock at night, where he lay--I may say so among ourselves--in state of most comfortable, but un-orange-like intoxication.' "The audience now being mostly drunk, were tickled with this compliment to their sobriety, and cheered and shouted for more than a minute.

'Go on Cantwell! By Japers, you're no blockhead!' "'Under Providence, and with all piety I say it, he will vanquish the yallow sinner over there.' "'Brother Cantwell,' observed Mr.M'Slime, 'go on--the gift is not withheld.' "Another smiling bow to M'Slime, as much as to say, 'I know it's not--I feel it's not.' "'This, gentlemen, and dear brothers, was my crime--I acted the good Samaritan towards him--that was my crime.

May I often commit it!' "'Is that your pretended charity, sir ?' said Yellowboy, whose temper was sorely tried by the other's calmness; 'don't you know, sir, that you cannot become the Samaritan unless I become the drunkard?
and yet you hope often to commit it!' "No notice whatsoever taken of this.
"'-- But perhaps there was still a greater crime in this affair.

I allude to the crime of having, after the account of his frailty had taken wind through the whole country, ventured to defend it, or rather to place it in such a light as might enable the public to place it to the account of mere animal exhaustion, independent of the real cause.

And I have reason to know, that to a very enlarged extent I succeeded--for many persons having heard of the circumstance in its worse and most offensive sense, actually came to my office--' "'Yes, after you had made it public, as far as you could.' "'-- To my office, to inquire into it.