"I Shall Lose My Influence."

-In reply to thisreason for not being 8n ovowed abolitionist, President Green said it was singular logicto him, that a man by doing right, should lose bis influence. He thought the power of a person's nfluence was tested by the number of persons he could move in any given direction. But these men instond of moving the multitudc, were as efibctiially moved themselvea by the popular breeze as was the weathercock by the wind: and it was as logical for the weathercock to talk of moving the wind, as for them to talk of moving the multitude.