Temper of the Times

.—What a wonderful source of contemplation! What an endless field of spe­culation to the thinking man! In the times of Junius, in that period when the present Chamber­lain of London was a man, and at the reluctant close of the American war, what national energy was displayed! What spirited resolutions were en­tered into! What manly remonstrances! Every man was permitted to exercise the faculties of man! He might then, with impunity declaim against ini­quity, oppression and military massacres! A King was not then a divine, a Prime Minister infallible, or a Priest the Viceregent of God! It was not then libellous to expose the conduct of corrupt Judges, nor was it treason to censure the blind and misguided, yet persevering, policy of a crowned man.

“Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis!”