Litchfield enquirer., 1830-01-07
MR. BRACES ADDRESS DeIiVcFed 6cJ6m Me TsmpCrunce SOcieIy of Litckfeld, nceemker el, lRep,
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that h prevents meR from altering their condition In the world, and FlslHg lo omnence, ThIS cousIdera. ton forces itself most powerfully on young men, who feel now growing inclination to this vice. but are ou. V whA tho outside circles Or the vortex of destrue
 On The desire OE rising ln the wovld of oceUnyInp some space ln the eye of their contemporaries s n terwoVen deeply in the IeSlWo or every human hears But evon the suspicion of indUlging In ebrc,y places
 bar tO all improvement or hopes of elevation. Let young men think of this Nnd Orsake the death bringing bowl hrSakO It whilU hsht Is tender, and easily rent, when ISrti,ude and energy re strong, and can burst the bonds Os sampson did those of the Philis. tines. Were any ONe IO whisper M your ear, ",hus IAr shalt thou go and no farther" in your aspiring and ambitious COUrse what shutder at the prophecy would pcrvNde your heOr, and ye, requires no heav. en inspired prophet to prehc, Imbeci,y in forming and IOiy H executing all plans for future cmincncc 10 hlm whose daily bosom friend Is the bot,le and that aor few VaU struggles hold oven s,ationa. " condition, the dreadful march or relrograiation ! will commence, to terminate only n dshonor, and bsggary, and the grave.
 The next link in this cham of evils Is tho misery |, produces to tho family ot the drunkard.
 The iHIehpeNIe man cannot stand alone tn the world NM isolated being. Other fair and poody trees have grown up beside him, whose bouVhs nrc inter. locked with his, and who will be uproo,e,, or shat. tered and torn, by his fall. ls he young man. and cnn he bear on his soul the curse Ihn, must result from the ruined peace of his paronIs1 He has deceived them by aIr pvomses, or has dospiscd their warnncs aud has brought their grNy hNrs with sorrow to the grave" Can it hallow the midnight revCl or swccen tho intoxicating draught, or give scnso and meaning "to the sound aud fury signlying nothing" of the drunken riot ,O reflect that he has wrung out and drank up tho hfc.blOod of her who boro him1 The dgrncC brought upon brothers and sisters ana other family fcndp; thu blush thu, must mantle their cheeks a' witnessing the staggering, polluted, loa,hsomo oh. ec. they call reO,ion ought to deter thosc who pyU. iess the feelings of humanity, from this vice. Du, # tho drunkardbo husband and father the evil is iM. 6n'cly worse. Tho pOrcn, may look for consolation in 0thcr and moIe rational children; tho brother or sister or friend may seek other tcs and forget the brute Hs On alien to their blood But tho wre,ched and abused wife, and the deserted children, can have no refuge but the gvave solnre bu, thu, which the world cannot give. Enter the house or him who Is the slave of this ,yran,. You mOy knowM full easily, by hs broken wndows i,s fallen Csnce the old roots and pieces oG boards scattered at tho door for fuel the shiveFng and furnished inmates are lowering over asl that s e oC fire and consuming all ,hN s leN of food; and who made them wro,ched, md poor, and amshed, and rugged, hoOted u, by tho idle passers ] and pitied by the cOmpassonN,c1 Who made that late blooming cheek pulc and thu, bright and bCaul ihl eyU dlm and oartIli Al whose coming, do those e~~avsRg Rnd terrified chlrsn cling o ,hrir mother and forget their cold and their hunger, and their nakedNess, ai the approach of a greater cvli The druMkNrd, thc brutal parent has donc this. Brutal did say M s too mild an epithct. The bru,cs, sav age and fierce and wild, as they may bo, love their offspring and regard their welfare, and even the vu. turc, gorged with blood and defled with impurities,
 has her nest and her young and "over her unshclled hrood tho murmurng ring dove sits not more gently" bn. man, degraded, intoxicated man. carries his hell. sh character home with him home. that sacred on. closure, into which nough but what s blipsu should ever inrude. The husband and the father cntcrs but tO add te the misery Of cold and oi famine, by his brutality and hS curses; and she, whom ns he once felt, "thc winds of heaven ought not to visi. too roughly" must endure the loathsomeneSs, tho disgust the pollution "f drunken husband. Surely lhe Eastern pr rnishncnt of tying dend 10 living body s but slight emblem Of one tied for life 10 filthy and degraded brute when affection mus, long since have gone out in tic presidential damp Of his impure atmosphere, and respect and fobcarance have cxpir. cd under treatment, thn must make Satan blush for his dcbascd followers. Can his children respect him Fear him, they may; for in the paroxysms of n,cmpcrance, but little regard is paid to justice or mildness in punishment, but love and respect him they cannot Aud where are his duties as a parcn, "The nurture and admoniton" of the bottle is all hc instruction they receive. They ask for bread, he gives them worse thau stone; they ask for fish, he gives them serpent indeed. The mother cannot al. ways under such depressing circumstances discharge all her duty faithfully. Obliged, she is, to perform the double relation of both parents her instructions her example and her prayers enumerated by the example and the of the father, and the chi- dren too oien grow up bu. to perpeiuae the genera ton of drunkards, and to lead the woud.be wise to declare that drunkenness is hereditary. True, there arc some exceptions and bright oues too, this seTton, where the influence of the mother has been sirOng her exersiOns great, and her example powerful as to bring up her children to sObrictS and responsibility: in the of heaven, such mother will shine forth n superior brightness and receive, with fuller and sweeier emphasis the declaration, "well done, good and faithful servant"
 But there is still greater ev,l, than all that have been repeated, to which they are but the drop the ocean.
 The ineIIec, may be degraded; the hopes Of friends