Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-08-04
A man by the name of Bishop, from New

Haven, Con-, related his experience. He |
was a reformed drunkard. He had been |
through all manner of wretchedness and |
suffering, attendant On drinking and drunk
enness, even to delirium freneens, which
was upon him for eighteen hours at one
time He had squandered his earnings
which ought 10 have furnished food and
clothing for his wife and children. He had
been violent opposer 10 religion, and had
labored to draw young men into his own
wicked ways, to be his companions in his
chosen sins. He was converted by the
preaching of reformed drunkards. And he
trusted he had since been converted to God.
He was now member of the Baptist church.
They have Washington Society," in New
Haven. Seventy drunkarks abandoned their
cups and joined the Society, in FIVE weeks.
Their way is to go out into the highways,
and wherever they can find drunkards, and
persuade them to reform and sign the pledge.
They take hold of the matter in earnest
If they find them drunk, they carry them TO
their friends, take care Of them until they
are sober, treat them kindly, feed them, feed
their families, clothe them, restore them to
confidence in themselves, and thus lift them
up from degradation and wretchedness to
| manhood and usefulness.
John Tappan, Of Boston, gave an inter-
esting account Of what he had seen in Ire
land and England, in connection with this
subject, during the past year. He stated
| that in London there are as many women
! who drink and get drunk, as men. He said
there were things in the way Of The reform
alton there, which do not exist here,-and
specified particularly the spirit Of caste
the pride Of nobility-by which one class
| is deprived Of influence over another. Here
it was not so. Mr.. Bishop, Of w-Haven,
has as much influence in this meeting as
Chancellor Walworth.
Some one mentioned the case of drunk
ard in Rensselaer, County. He had boosted
of having been incarcerated in Jail one hum
dred and eighty-three times-and yet he
had never been guilty of the crime even of
petit larceny His imprisonment had all
been for drunkenness. He has now aban-
doned his drinking, aud resolved to show
the world that he can be as temperate as he
has been drunken.>
H. Bingham, missionary to the Sandwich
Islands, now on a visit to the United States,
spoke TO the resolution. Drunkenness was
a great evil amcng the heather. Reformed
drunkards were among the most active, and
efficient, and useful helpers in the work of
reformation among their fellow country men
| there.
The President of the New FORK Wash
ington Society stated that their Society had
been in existence about four months, and
numbers 900 members, seven-eighths of
whom are reformed drunkards. He had
succeeded in getting the names of all drunk
ards TO whom he had applied-hal not failed
in single case. They had lost only out
Of the 900.
The Business Committee reported the
following resolution:
Resolved, That the late temperance ref
ormation in which FIVE millions of people
out of about eight, have voluntarily renounc-
ed the use of all intoxicating drinks, and
the ready response TO these movements by
large portion of the Irish population in
America, drying up in both hemis pheres the
ofr
and securing to that portion of the human
family the, blessings Of temperance, indus
try and prosperity, have been and still are
contemplated by the American people with
great interest and do encourage the hone
that by wise and prudent efforts, all great
moral evils however gigantic and deep
rooted, may come to perpetual end.
Among other interesting remarks in sup
port Of this resolution, were statements in
relation 10 the case Of an Irish girl, in the
acquaintance Of the speaker, who left her
fathers house and her native land, because
her father was drunkard. She was bent
on escaping the odium attached TO being the
daughter Of drunkard, by banishing her
self in foreign land. But since Father
Mathews reformation has been in progress
in Ireland, she has obtained intelligence OF
her fathers reformation. When the joyful
news first reached her, she was incredulous.
But without delay she employed friend to
write for her-for she could not write her
self-making inquiry. She received letter
in reply. and took it to friend to be read
and when that part came to be read assuring
her that her father ras reformed, she ex-
claimed, "then he is my father, and Ireland