Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-09-13
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what could sho do She endured hoping
against hope-and for the children's sake
bore up against the current; and many .
time disguised sad despaiking heart under
a joyful countenance, till ali length She di-
ed Of q broken heart or died at the hands
Of him who had sworn to protect her |
These and things like these are the eff
fectsr Of ardent spirits--nSt CASUAL, acci-
dental, but common, natural effects, seen
every whore, in every town, in every
neighborhood, and iii every come xion.-
Look which way we viii, we see some al
these effects. The greatest wretchedness
which human nature in this world is called
TO endure, is connected with the use of arr
dent spirits There is nathing else that
degrades and dcbases manilike it--nothing
so mean that "a druakard will not stoop 10
it--noilting too base for him TO do to OBJ
tain bis f;ivoritc drink. Nothing else SO
sinks the whole nan-so completely de-
stroys not only all moral principle, but all
self respect, all regard to character, all
shame, vi human feeling. The drunkard
can break out frog every kind ofendear-
ing connection, and. break over every kind
of restraint; sd completely extinct is hui
marketing. that he can be drunk at the
funeral Of his dearest relative, and call for
drink in the last accents of expiring nature.
Now look at a human being, whom God
has made for noble purposes, and endow-
ed with noble faculties, degraded, disgrace
ed, polluted, unfit for heaven, and NUS.
sance on earth. He is the centre of cir-
cle-countl up his influence in his family
and his eighborhood--ti,e wretclledness
he endures and the wretchedness he caus-
cs ;-count upthe tears Of d wretched wife,
who curses the day of her espousals, and of
wretched children who curse, the day Of
their birth. To all this positive evil
which ardent spirit has caused, add the hap
piness which but for it this family might
have enjoyed and communicated. Go
through a neighborhood or town in this
way, count up all the misery which follow
in the train ofardent spirit, and you will
be ready TO ask can the regions Of eternal
death send forth any thing more deadly Z
Wherever it goes, the same crygmay be-
heard---lamentation and mourning andwoe;
and whatever things are pure and loyely,
or venerable, or of good report, fall before
it. These are the efiects--and / need
not say more upon this point. Can any
man deny that's" the OK is wont to push
with the horns p a%
"a. Hath this been testified to the owns
er or are the makers and retailers aware
Of its effects. The effects are manifest,
and they have eyes, cars and understand
ines asfwell asothers. They know whats
ever profit they make is at the expense Of
human life orscofiifort and that the tide
which is swelled by their nn,iallowed mer-
chandize sweeps tens ofthousands yearly TO
temporal aud eternal ruin. But this is not
all. The attention Of the public has Of
late been strongly turned TO this subject
The minds Of men have been enlightened,
aud their responsibility pressed home up
on Them The subject has been presents
ed to then, in a new light, and men canuot
but see the absGrciiy of reprobating the
tempted wliiic the tempter is honored---
Of FLAMING drankards and holding in repu--
tation those whose business it is 10 make
drunkards. But are the makers of ardent
spirit aware Of its effects? Look at the
neighborhood Of dislillery--an influence
goes forth from that spot which, reaches
miles ofound--a kind of constraining infiu-
ence, that brings in the poor and wretched
and thirsty and vicious. Those who have
money bring it-ihose who have none
bring corn-lhose who have neither bring
household furni.nre--ihose who have noth-
ING bring themselves and pay 10 labor
Now the maker knows all these men, and
knows their ftemperament, and probably
knows their families. He can calcalatcef.
fects and he sends them off, one to die
by the way, another to abuse his farnily,
and others, just ready for any decd 81
wickedness. VIII he say that he is moi
responsible, and like Cain, ask /" am ] my
brothers keeper r. He knew what might
be- lie result, aud for mere pittance oi
gain, was willing to risk it. Whether this
man should abuse his family or that man
die BY HE way, so his purpose was an
swered, he did not care. The OK was
wont TO push with his horn and he knew il
and for little paltry gain he let him loose
aud God will support his law in all its exs
tent, by holding him responsible for all the
consequences. But a common excuse il
that $. very little four manufacture 10 u.s.
| ed in the neighborhood, we send il of. "
Are its effects any less deadiyf In this
way You avoid seeing The effects, and pois.
on strangers instead Of neighbors. What
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