an in his part of Connecticut,
and would do injury to the Convention; and, as harmony was
desirable, and unexceptionable men should be put upon the
Committee, his name was withdrawn. It was agreed that what was
said in Committee should not go abroad.

4. "Does Mr. Barnum's infidelity consist in his attending another
church in Bridgeport from Dr. Hewitt's?"

Here appears the cloven foot of sectarianism. One sect is to be
held up as persecuted. Here the writer assumes that Dr. Hewitt
did say that Mr. B. was an infidel; and, assuming it and knowing
it, why does he hypocritically ask whether Dr. H. _did_ say it?

5. "Is it true that Dr. H. refused his pulpit for a temperance
lecture by Rev. E. H. Chapin, on the ground that he was a
Universalist?"

Sectarianism again! What has all this to do with the meeting at
the Brick Chapel? Why is it brought here but to kindle up
sectarian fires? A pastor of a church has everywhere conceded to
him the control of his pulpit, and no one may contend with him in
this matter. Whether that was so or not, I know not, nor is it
any concern of mine, nor of the public. Such a rule the world
knows does not govern us in selecting temperance speakers. We
will not invite speakers to speak at temperance meetings who have
something else more at heart than temperance, which they will
most offensively thrust in their speech upon the meeting. But we,
without hesitation, invite men of all sorts to speak at
temperance meetings, who will speak to the point, and do us good
and not hurt. Rev. Mr. Chapin, we all know, is of this character,
and, without hesitation, I invited him to speak at the late
Anniversary of the American Temperance Union (as I did Rev. Mr.
Higginson, who differs from me perhaps as much in religious
belief), and he (Mr. C.) would have spoken, but was to be out of
the city.

6. "How can the proposed Convention be a _World's_ Convention, if
women and all who do not belong to a particular Church are to be
excluded?"

Sectarianism again! Who has said a word about Church but this
writer, and about excluding women from the Convention and all its
entertainments? No one. The basis of the Convention has not been
settled. It probably will be as broad as the world. The last
query I think unworthy an an