him up to the National Councils, and said in the act--"Look upon
him we have chosen as our representative, and see in him a type of
our principles, our quality, and our condition, as a community."

Judge Lyman, around whom a little circle soon gathered, was very
severe on the temperance party, which, for two years, had opposed
his election, and which, at the last struggle, showed itself to be
a rapidly growing organization. During the canvass, a paper was
published by this party, in which his personal habits, character,
and moral principles were discussed in the freest manner, and
certainly not in a way to elevate him in the estimation of men
whose opinion was of any value.

It was not much to be wondered at, that he assumed to think
temperance issues at the polls were false issues; and that when
temperance men sought to tamper with elections, the liberties of
the people were in danger; nor that he pronounced the whole body
of temperance men as selfish schemers and canting hypocrites.

"The next thing we will have," he exclaimed, warming with his
theme, and speaking so loud that his voice sounded throughout the
room, and arrested every one's attention, "will be laws to fine
any man who takes a chew of tobacco, or lights a cigar. Touch the
liberties of the people in the smallest particular, and all
guarantees are gone. The Stamp Act, against which our noble
forefathers rebelled, was a light measure of oppression to that
contemplated by these worse than fanatics."

"You are right there, judge; right for once in your life, if you
(hic) were never right before!" exclaimed a battered-looking