Report of the Case from the New York Times (note)--The Right to express Opinions--Attempts to Rule the Minds of Men by Force--Liberty the Greatest Good--Intellectual Hospitality Defined--When the Catholic Church had Power--Advent of the Protestants--The Puritans, Quakers. Unitarians, Universalists--What is Blasphemy?--Why this Trial should not have Taken Place--Argument cannot be put in Jail--The Constitution of New Jersey--A higher Law than Men can Make--The Blasphemy Statute Quoted and Discussed--Is the Statute Constitutional?--The Harm done by Blasphemy Laws--The Meaning of this Persecution--Religions are Ephemeral--Let us judge each other by our Actions--Men who have braved Public Opinion should be Honored--The Blasphemy Law if enforced would rob the World of the Results of Scientific Research--It declares the Great Men of to-day to be Criminals--The Indictment Read and Commented upon--Laws that go to Sleep--Obsolete Dogmas the Denial of which was once punished by Death--Blasphemy Characterized--On the Argument that Blasphemy Endangers the Public Peace--A Definition of real Blasphemy--Trials for Blasphemy in England--The case of Abner Kneeland--True Worship, Prayer, and Religion--What is Holy and Sacred--What is Claimed in this Case--For the Honor of the State--The word Liberty--Result of the Trial (note). GOD IN THE CONSTITUTION. The Feudal System--Office and Purpose of our Constitution--Which God shall we Select?--The Existence of any God a Matter of Opinion--What is entailed by a Recognition of a God in the Constitution--Can the Infinite be Flattered with a Constitutional Amendment?--This government is Secular--The Government of God a Failure--The Difference between the Theological and the Secular Spirit--A Nation neither Christian nor Infidel--The Priest no longer a Necessity--Progress of Science and the Development of the Mind. A REPLY TO BISHOP SPALDING. On God in the Constitution--Why the Constitutional Convention ignored the Question of Religion--The Fathers Misrepresented--Reasons why the Attributes of God should not form an Organic Part of the Law of the Land--The Effect of a Clause Recognizing God. CRIMES AGAINST CRIMINALS.