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ll be put in force by other means; but we did not imagine that the object was to change the very geography of nature in a point so essential. We only put on record against it an unavailing remonstrance. The scheme is more than heathen. When old Cato repeated at the end of every speech his perpetual formula, even in a Roman Senate, there was a Scipio always ready to retort."And my opinion is that Carthage should stand." "We hold with Scipio, not with Cato. But even the purpose of the cruCato. But even the purpose of the cruel old Roman was nothing to this. A hostile or rebellious city, destroyed by ordinary means, may be rebuilt, and be to other generations, if not now, these at of comfort, prosperity, and happiness. But this 'choking up forever nature's channels of life, intercourse, and plenty,' is a measure dictated by neither wisdom nor any feeling with which Christian principle could have any sympathy. It will make us expressly execrated as is becomes known by all the civilized world. Nor is it to be over