The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-05 00:00:00

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for one, cannot read the article in your
*nal of this morning upon the perilous condition to which
many of oar brave men in the But expos* themselves by
the ohms of spirituous drinks, without a more demon-,
Motive expression of thanks than the emotion which your
fearless sad ezeelleat remarks called forth. Oa the ground
which you take, I cannot more to enter farther than to
add that the prevalence of such intemperance in our army,
having long pressed heavily on the hearts of many deeply
interested, has also been mesa to owe its existence to ea
wailer origin than the present exposure of our soldiers to a
hot alienate, or the events of war. The shame in many cases
begins where, in all cases, civilisation demands that it should
end.
Now is the man made a soldier ? It would appear, by
whet is *nested, that to enlist men for OW army wording
to Tyros, it is either necessary that each man or boy
should be made regimentally tato:Jested, or that the recruit
is taught to outsider it his first privilege to be so—all ander
the eye of • well-seasoned recruiting sergeant, who is
gravely to look onand watch the workings of that spell
which, we are thee told, is the only owe by which military
rage in Instead is brought oat. If that were the cue,
what ea argument for Mr. Bright. But the truth is, it is
practised, and it messeds enly because drunkenness is Eng-
lead's trail eestom, aad men forget that it is England's
astir vice, the seed of meet of Emgland's heaviest
crimes.
The painful manes witnessed at recruiting stations tell
tie tale why " ping foe • soldier" breaks the hearts, with
each bitter sorrow, of mothers, sisters, sad lovers, sad why
it is synonymous In their minds with reckless eanerjastead
of, as it should be, with ea entrance on ea honoareble pro.
Session, leading to reformation of character where needed,
and to a wider Geld of action and advancement in life
for all.
The Wier of this present war are, we hope lad be-
lieve, wading to many high results; and the re of
Florence Nightingale may marl a period is MOW%
history Doped heroic woman's devotion far as So a pooplo's
osii-meaod dignity, which can own no (allowably widedught
so degrading to humanity as drunkenness.—l am, ha,
Juno 2 A SOLDIER'S FRIEND.

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