The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-09-12
A. gNrEMpERANCE.

sas INrEMPERANCE. -
rv,rset Of an OsatiOn delivered in the Bap-
,;s. n,eotinu-honso az Union, Warren CO.
Geo. on the 4th Of July, 1926, BY blf.
Robert Fleming.
NV female friends. we solicit your ana IN
ovs ATTEMPTS toOverfhrow this colossal evil.
Your influence over our sex is justly ack-
nowlodped. Let the young man who thinks
4 a small matter to indulge too freely in
shirts. feel The potency Of your frowns. -
Should he be SO imprudcnt as to offer to
ioill in your inoffensive parties of pleasure,
on your evening recreations, let him readin
your countenaIce a cold and uuwelcOme
reception. Give him distinctly to UNDER
stand. that however smart he may think
himself round a Bacchanalian board, you
think him unworthy of admission into your
j associations of amusement. Ali unite not
your destinies with his. He is of all men
the least likely to reform. Though your
arguments may win the gambler from his
shameful pursuit-though you may prevail
with the uncouth blasphemer to desist from
his low and ungentlemanly abit---though
your smiles and your economical conduct
in your domestic pursuits may provoke the
improyident husband to active industry
and strict frugality, yet the lover of ardent
spirits IS incorrigible. His ear is deaf to all
reasoning; his sensibilities are blunted, and
not to be awakened by all the soft persua-
siveness of your embraces,or the more melt
ing eloquence of your tears. Could we
portray before you the legions of evils
brought upon yoursex by incorporate man
could we represent in proper light the
scenes of iliquity which have stained his
character, your feeble nature would shrink
from the sickening view in melancholy sad
ness. whileall the smitten powers OF your
soul would thrill with the mournful sound,
man Is fallen. -
The case, however, of most confirmed
dr,,Dkards. is irremediable. But though few
should be reclaimed by this pointed, this
singing neglect, yet it is believed many,
cerg NAM, would be deferred from enter
ing their path. Our hopes are principally
from the rising generation. To them in a
good degree, is committed the destiny Of
our land In proportion to their virtue or
to their vice, our county will be happy or
it will be miserable we should therefore
guard them against vice in general. Good
parental government is the life of good So
ciety: and that community in which no
attention is paid to the moral culture ofthe
youth is rapidly Fastening to infamy and
DISGRACE. at cannot be doubted that if
due pains we're taken to impress on the
minds of children at an early period an abb
horrence of dunkards and of hard drinking |
in all its forms, many might in this way
be saved from shame and perdition. -
But alas! how many fathers in this Chris
tan country, (even those who have declar-
ed that they are followers Of the Lord, |
leave their children to do as they list; to
associate with whom they please, to go
where they will, and return when they |
think proper. How many youth while un-
der the parental roof, aud during that criti-
cal period when the vigilance Of parent
should be doubled, are permitted to min
gle withgthe dissolute and unprincipled, to
loiter round dram-shops and acquire habits
Of idleness and tipping. II now no sun-
common sight to see beardless boys reeling
and spewing around these pitfalls Of dee
struction.
If we love liberty-if we wish to- preserve
our country from bondage-if we wish to
save it from the iron grasp of bloody tyrants,
let us endeayor to cultivate the minds
and morals Of the rising class of the COM
munity.