Crumbs From Liberty's Table.

Bob Ingersoll is really logical, and has the best of the argument on the Protestant side. He is carrying out the Protestant principle to its legitimate deductions. If Protestants attack the Catholic Church, they use his principles; if they want to answer him, they fall back on ours. They are utterly irrational. They have started him on his course, and then tell him to halt midway. Why should he listen to them, or obey their dictation? Are they infallible guides of the human mind, after teaching their followers that neither Christ's Church nor any power on earth can prescribe limits to the liberty that Christ has left his followers? Ingersoll only follows out their rule in explaining Scripture by his private spirit against Christianity or against the arbitrary limits these men have prescribed. -Rev. James A. Corcoran

Roscoe Conkling suggests the propriety of attaching more severe penalties to the assassination, or attempts at assassination, of high public officers than are inflicted for a like crime against common people. The sentiment to which Mr. Conkling has given utterance is a sentiment that is unworthy of him as a man, and especially unworthy of him as a constitutional lawyer and a legislator. This last week has been prolitic in conceptions and in utterances that might be natural and regular in Russia or Persia, but degrading to those who have inherited a lot and part in our American commonwealth, and disgusting to persons of sound minds. -New York Sun.

Rev. Dr. Newman of New York tells us that the crime of Guiteau shows three things: first, that ignorant men should not be allowed to vote; second, that foreigners should not be allowed to vote; and third, that there should not be that much religious liberty. It turns out, first, Guiteau is not an ignorant man; second, that he is not a foreigner; and third, that he is a Christian. Now, because an intelligent American Christian tries to murder the president, this parson says that we ought to do something with ignorant foreigners and infidels! This is about the average pulpit logic. -R.G. Ingersoll.

The British aristocracy have decided that it is not at all inconsistent with the character of an English gentleman to commit a felonious assault upon an unprotected young lady in a railway carriage. The Congregationalists church of New York has declared that a convict, a torturer of helpless babes, may be a good Christian and the pastor of a church, and that his trial and conviction are merely "rumors" that church need take no cognizance of. Valentine Baker is a high-toned English gentleman, and Shepard Cowley is a good, pious New York clergymen. -Boston Glob.

The inability to think has always been a characteristic of tyrants, and any evidences given by them of the possession of reasoning faculties never fail to astonish the world. But a certain amount of thinking must be done in this world, and, when a ruler fails to do his share, his subjects invariable do it for him. Then it is time for somebody to prepare for trouble. If the czar could only think, he would understand that, when the king will not use his head, it is right that the people should remove it from his shoulders; but the czar is exhibiting his pitiful inability to even learn the lessons of the past, and, after a few more warnings, the bang of another bomb will, in all probability, gather Alexander to his imperial fathers. -Boston Globe.

Destruction is only a weapon in our hands, not by any means the aim and purpose of our struggle. -Leo Hartmann, Nihilist.