Some cants are not dangerous; but the writer believes that a more dangerous cant than the temperance cant, or as it is generally called, teetotalism, is scarcely to be found.

The writer is willing to believe that it originated with well-meaning, though weak people; but there can be no doubt that it was quickly turned to account by people who were neither well meaning nor weak.

Let the reader note particularly the purpose to which this cry has been turned in America; the land, indeed, _par excellence_, of humbug and humbug cries.

It is there continually in the mouth of the most violent political party, and is made an instrument of almost unexampled persecution.

The writer would say more on the temperance cant, both in England and America, but want of space prevents him.