Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-11-25

ius siCtinlS Ial into the hands at :
kiml masier, he may be s'oing thor
a Kindness by forcing them from tl'
shorco ofheathcn darkness and il
attendant hosrors ; while the deale
in spiritlous liquors, if his nostruln
arc misused, 81 far as his inAucnc
is concerned, not only binds his vic
Tins to cruel MASTER, hut ruin
them for time and eternity. Liitl
docs hc imagine, that he is giving
currency to one OF tho devils mos
powerful servants, by whom NOR,
sonls have been ruined probably ,l,a,
( by all his other emissarics united
Many perhaps are now bewaiIing i,
the pitof wo the eSects oftI,at spirit
which. while on earth, they procured
---of whom 1---a cIirsstiau :!
Some Of our wise Legislators were
last winter shocked at The idea of til,
States receiving revenue from lot
ferries. Probably they did not con.
slider they were at the same time sci
ling licenses to retailers to poisnlI
its inhabitants. and spread misery
and wrctclcdness through the land
-.-rcceising a revenue, in some in
stances. at least, at the sacrifice ot
the peace and bappines, Of families.
OF life itself, yea, of the eternal life
Of mary souls
Dncs the reader think these ex.
prcssions heated ?-.lct him tra,el
through the country and behold tic
multiplicity Of means for distributing
ardent spirits---see at almost every
!urn offhc road one OF these licens.
cdsgrag shops, with hcre aud there
a sign of those licensed grng shops,
with here and there sign OF tl,p
can and an invitation to the waywa, d
traveller, intimatiny, at least come
and drink-a-soc to, as you pass A.
long. in the after part of the day.
here anti there and there al uncon-
scions visitapt crawling in an idiot
''ic state from QUO OF these placcs--
follow him, IL you have heart To do
II, as he staggcrs along. now aud
then licking The ground, till he reas
rl,cs lis once peaceful Ilomc--
:. He's coming" cry-fhc little inno-
cents, as they look through The win
dow but Ills not the cry Of joy,tllat
wcicones the kind parent as he ap.
proacIles his tender iamiIy.--ah, no,
tits the cry OF fear, of horror. See
them flee from him as from a mons
tcr--.lock now at the broken hearted
mother, as shctakes up her alright
cdboy AID bathes him With her tears.
4" AI," says she To her children.
:" your father loved you once--l,c
loved me ;---hc was Kind husband
and proviient father but now are
fasaken /, yo,r little tcnder ice' feel
the nipping frost; your tatiercd
clothes arc falling from yuu, and !
have no new ones to give you arc
hungry but l have no bread TOR You;
the neccssaries ofiife your father was
once wont to bring homo 10 cheer our
hearts, are now changed for the rum
bottle, wh ich some demon has furnish.
ed him with. perhaps as the reward Of
his days labour--O cruel employer:
come and behold the fruits Of your
iniquity /! see the miseries Of the
wretched mother and her worse than
fatherless children, entailed upon them
by your thurs. for gain !"-Let the i'm
agination supply the remaining part OF
the awful picture. -.
Scenes similar to this may be Wit
messed almost every day, by the ob.
serving and inquiring traveller, as he
passes along, especially if his business
leads him TO become acquainted with
the circumstances Of each family he
passes. SO much has the writer been
impressed with such instances and the
coa sequent crime of keeping auch
grog shops, that on every such place
he passes, he imagines he sees printed
by the side of rum, brandy, &c. on
their shutters The ,oay to helI-yea,
reader, Start. not at this-ior the time
coming when every such place 'cM be
looked upon by all, as the most direct
and surest way to endless wo.
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