Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-03-20
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

the CndlnS which nave eilSldVGQ tncm 10 any
vice, and to assume in the earth the station toE
which natures God intended them, decent
respect for the opinion Of directors and desire
to crafty the curiosity Of posterity, require
that they should declare the causes which have
impeled them to this determination.
We hold these truths to DC selfevident-l
That all men are bound to pursue their true and
Substantial happiness; that they endowed
by their Creator, with certain unalienablcl
rights; that among these arc life, liberty, health
and freedom of action; that to secure these
rights, man is constituted a rational creature,
land wholesome laws have been instituted in
society; that whenever any habit becomes de-
structive of these ends, it is the right and duty
of mankind to alter or abolish it; and to estab-
fish practices calculated to promote their pres
lent and everlasting welfare. Prudence, in
ldeed, will dictate, that any course of conduct
Hong pursued, should not be abandoned unless
obviously wrong and injurious; and according
lily sad experience has demonstrated that the
people are disposed to writhe under the curse
|of lntemperance, and still submit to its numer-
ous and grievous evils, rather than redress
their wrongs, by abstainlng from an indu
lgence to which they have been long accustom-
tomcd but when a long train of abuses, tend
ling invariably to the same result, has produc-
led settled conviction that the world will be-
destroyed by this fiery deluge, unless its proud
waves are stayed, it is their right, it is their ill.,
Indispensable duty, to look no more "upon the
cup when 1t is red;' and to provide new
iguards for their future sobriety. The history
lof Prince Alcohol is of countless injuries
and infections; all having in direct object and
tendency the destruction of the body in the
grave, and the soul in hell. To prove this, let
facts be submitted to candid world.
He has caused three-fourths of the litiga-
lton, cirl and criminal, in the courts, by silen-
Icing the admonitions of conscience, imparting
,artiticial courage to the nerves, hurrying his
subjects into imprudent contracts, buying what
. they did not need; making them feel that they
b were "rich and increasing in goods" when
l. they were poor and without the means Of com
e plying with their engagements.
BY dethroning reason he has filled our mad
l. houses and lunatic asylums with large pros
d portion of their unhappy inmates.
l, He has in the United States alone, one
70 Province of his dominion, reduced 100000
= yearly, to pauperism, to be maintained by the
/. labor of the temperate and industrious.
f, He has shut up, annually, $4,000 of her
lie population in the debtors prison; sent out co.
Is 900 murders, robbers, thieves and ncendiaries,
- to make havoc in society; rendered from 800
n to 500 thousand citizens habitual drunkards,
n and made draft unon the sober mart of the
community for 80 to 10000 recruits to fill TN
d The wasting ranks of intemperance.
a. He has chartered uuon all the VILLAGES
= towns and neiehborhoods in the land. persons
Il to traffic in moral ratsbane; scattering fire,
o brands, arrows and death upon individuals, and
r. the once peaceful abodes of families convert-
is ing the husband and the father into tiger and
+ demon disspatng property; clothing once
}, happy wives with the habilimen,s of widow
O hood and woe, and substituting squalid pover-
Ity and Indebtedness, for sunny prospects, as
o an inheritance for orphaned children.
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