Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-01-02

poison, with every form of temptation and Sc
ductive disguise, to the lips Of its victims 1t
NAV be said, if you stop the demand, the supply
will cease Of c ourse-that there will be none to
sell where there are none to drink. But this rea.
sonins will not satisfy the real friend Of Tempe.
rance. who knows that in this case the supply
creates and fosters the demand-that they nutu-
ally support each other-that the dealer IN the
first place makes the drunkard, who IN his turn
assists in making others-and that IN TINS way
the work proceeds in horrible progresslon' ne
knows that Temperance Societies may 60 on at
most forever to operate merely upon consumers
while new ones arc thus constantly sPrins,ng up
under the influence Of this dreadful traffic
Here, then, friends of retAperance,-you who
profess to be the friends Of religion Of your eoun-
try. and Of man,-here is a WIDE held OF LABOR
demanding your benevolent exertions: here Is
the grand obstacle to the cause which you are
p,edyed to advance. Be no longer content with
efforts a!mort as futile as the attempt to drain
current whose springs remain exhausted. Let
the war be waged as uncompromlsingly against
the filling of the poisonous howl as against the
drinking oft. The undertaking, we allow, ap-
pears formidable; but if it be once begun, and
that beginning followed up as ably and unil'nch
ngly as other branches Of the work have been,
YOU need have no fears for the issue. Encourage
yourselves by the fact that you are not alone, but
that thousands of the great and the good OF this
and other countries are already embarked IN the
holy war against the traffic in this DESTROYER ct
soul and body, and have nobly commenced it
We have already succeeded in establishing the
numerous arguments which have been brought to
prove the evil consequences OF using ardent spI.
ri,s, and the result is seen in the hundreds oi
thousands Of members of Temperance Societies
pledged to entire abstinence, and in the hundreds
Of thousands more who are influenced by them.
Unfold to view the true nature of the traffic; paint
il in its true coors, and rest assured that the
seller of drains, by wholesale or retail, will aban-
don the business with disgust and shame. or be
ranked with the keeper Of the gaming table and
the brothe.
We will now bring together few of the argu'
ments and opinions of distinguished men, upon
the subject of this traffic, which contained in
the Fifth Annual Report of the American Ten
perance Society The greater part OF that ex
ceIlent do, ument is taken up with the discussion
of this subject, and it does it 81 fully and ably.
that little else Is left for US but the repetition ol
what it contains.
SAYS distinguished civilian in our own coun
try. (Reuben FL Walworth, Chancellor Of the
State of New York; 1t is of the utmost lmPor'
lance to the temporal and eternal interests OF ouI
citizens, that stop should be put to the sale OF
ardent spirits as speedily as possible - Con
vince the men who make shrnes tor the gnddess
Dana that they partakers in the guilt OF those
who worship the IDIOT. and most of them will
abandon the unhallowed pursuit. Satisf, the un'
rejecting vender Of ardent spirits that he is M"
raly-respon>ible for all the crime and misery
which his maddening potatinns naturally produce,
aud he vii! rellnqush the dcmoralzing traffic.
Point the christian to the sacred page where the
pen of inspiration hath written, she who hath
the love Of Gnd in his heart, worketh no Ill To
his neighbour and he will not, for the sake of d
few dollars, destroy the temporal and eternal
happiness OF those around him. Convince the
retailer whn makes the drunkard, aud sends him
staggering home TO abuse and perhaps to murder
his wretchrd wife and starving children, that the
curse of Heaven is denounced against him who
holdeth the cup to his neighbours lips, and sure
ly he will forbear."
Rev. Henry Ware. jr professor of pulpit elo-
quence and the pastoral care in Harvard unlver-
sitv, says, "No proposition seem, TO me suscep.
tbe Of more satisfactory demonstration than this,
and am sure that no person can give 1t one
hours serious thought without asserting to it,
that, in the present state of information on this
ouuJcGts uo ihdu Sdh Nlihh III act WI SHiiSudti
principles, or do patriots duty to his country.
and at the same time make or sell the instrument
Of intoxication "
Rev Francis Wayand. President of Brown
University, SAYS" Do YOU say that YOU do not
know that the liquor which you are selling will
produce these results? Do you know that nine
hundred and ninety gallons produce these ef-
fects for which is used innocentlys ask, then,
q" Would it be right for me TO sell poison ON
the ground that there was one chance in a thou
sand that the purchaser would not die OF il?
8 Do you say that you are not responsible for
the acts of your neighbour? Is this clearly SOP
Is not he who knowingly furnishes murderer
with weapon, considered an accompices Is
not he who navigates slave ship, considered a
pirate?
" Ifthess things be so, and that they are SO,
who can dispute. ask you. my respected fellow
citizens, what is to be dones Let me ask, is not
this trade altogether wrong? Why, then, should
we not altogether abandon ~
" Ii any man think otherwise, and choose to
continue it. have but one word to say. My bro
Their, when you order cargo OF Intoxicating drink
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