The abandonment of false dietetic habits, lasciviousness, and all other forms of sensuality, requires an energy of will which the mass of the people have not, and never will have, under the 7 th of Romans administration. Moral Reformers and Physiologists may run to and fro, and knowledge of the natural laws may be increased ad infinitum, and still there will be no radical and lasting reform nothing but the fitful and backsliding righteousness of the revival system, till men get power to will healthily as well as to see clearly. So the social reforms, of which Abolitionism is the most prominent representative, sadly need soundness of heart to work with, and to work upon. We fully believe that the mass of the people in this country are convinced that American slavery is a sin against God and man. Sin is not a very dreadful affair.
Every body sins.
The church and clergy sin. The best of men sin in thought, word and deed, continually. Certainly not till it is turned out of the pulpit, the church, and other respectable places. It is as much the privilege of nations to sin, as of individuals and more, if any thing. Let it be understood that sin is to be actually turned out of the world, and let Abolitionists begin the business in themselves and work at it till they have established in the heart of the nation a new moral standard, by which all sin shall be branded with infamy and set apart for the curse of heaven, and slavery will soon be at the mercy of their arrows, stripped of its harness.