Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-03-29

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might create by traficking in fountain
!ot corruption and woe.
In extending our views beyond the
bounds ofthis Society, We notice that many
of our ablest and wisest men are deeply
engaged in devising and carrying into ef-
feet, the great princi Piles of Temperance.
Perhaps a more efficient means has not
been adopted than the organization of the
Amencan Temperance Union, which took
place in Philadelphia, May Gath, 1888.
! The Society passed several valua bic
Resolutions. ITO be found on the 85th
page Of the present volume Of Inc Tele
graph.
! That Committee suggested the pro.
priety ola national press being established
at Phl|adeI phia, from which shaIf be issu-
ed such publications as the great interests
ofthe cause may require. They propose
10 send an Agent to Europe to give and
receive information, and make such ar
engagements as will enable friends here
and there, to join heart and hand in this
good cause. They issued an address to
the President of the United States, and the
Governors Of the Provinces, States and
Territories Of America, to Legislators,
magistrates and all licensing officers to
manufacturers and vendors Of intoxicating
drinks to farmers to young men; to
women: TO teachers; to ministers and
christian churches, to give their influence
to the cause of Total Abstinence from all
kinds Of intoxicating drinks. Their call
is not confined to the United States, but to
the whole Of the American people, from
the northernmost region ofthc British Do
mnions to the southern extremit!es Of
Spanish dependencies. Should that cal
meet with an universal and hearty re-
spond, a mighty revolution would be the
ultimate result. Not a revolution that
would drain the hearts blood ofthouSands,
nor produce the CONFEDERATION Of cities
and towns; but an extlngulshIng Of
liquid flame that annually consumes thou
sands Of tenements, disc mbodying poor
immortal spirits, hurrying them in their
awful condition before their Judge to re-
ceive Il Just retributon and would thus
dry up a fountain from which issues more
disastrous effects, than from the sword,
the pestlence and famine
tional and State Temperance Societies, it
appears evident that since the adoption Of
the Total Pledge, many Of the intemper-
ate have been reclaimed. In the report
Of the American Temperance Society,
statement is made that 10000 inebrates
were reclaimed. And Gerrit Smith, in
speaking Of this great and unexampled
reform, stated that they were not reclaim
ed under the old pledge, but by the system
OF total abstinence, accompanied with cor
responding effort on the part of its friends
1t may be proper now to take general
view of the Temperance campaign and
examine the progress Of the warfare
We shall first select some Of the state
ments of Dr. Beecher, the great first
leader Of the Temperance forces
1--WE attacked, said he, what was. in the
United States the van and power of the
enemy, distilled spirits, and we carried a
multitude with US, and drove rum, BRAN
dy, gin, and whiskey, at the point of the
bayonet. from the field. But they soon
found new auxlliaries in the shape OF other
drInks-in fact they only retreated round
behind the hill, and changed their Jackets,
and soon the same soldiers came back to
the onset, and now we have got to fight
our battle over again, TO conquer those we
have conquered They ran away, and
lived to fight another day. Earth's des-
tiny hangs on this experiment, of which
God has made us the depositaries and
agents. We must now inscribe on our
banner the name of everv enemy, and
come uD to the onset In respect to my
self, if have come round slowly, it was
+ from a fear lest we should break our
forces by changing fronts in the face of
the enemy. But | am now prepared to
go against every thing that the devil can
use TO make drunkards."
The New-York Journal Of Commerce
says that, in New Y ork, Brooklyn, will
iamsburgh and Jersey City, there are Is
dI<tIIIeres, at which are consumed 10000
bushel Is of corn and rye daily, or 100000
OF bushels year y. Thus it appears that
within 50 small a circle there is annual
a supply Of the staff of life for 100000
people converted into instruments of death.
10 pursuing the history Of the miscrits
and woes that constantly attend the enc
my's march, We are led TO the disclosures
OF the original cause of the peopIng of
hospitals, aims and poor houses, as we'll
as those in Jail for crimes, and find by the
statements Of those qualified to Judge, that
Of 78l maniacs, 1872 were rendered insane
by drinking. OF 600 children imprison-
ed for crime, 400 were from families
rendered vicious by the inebriating
draught Of 200 murders committed
: annually in the United States, ninetenths
result from the noxious bowl. OF 1892
deaths in the city of Philadelphia, more
: than 700 were occasioned by drinking.
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