Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-05-19
VOL. XIII. No. So.

groes on the wharyeS, as they are meas.
uring wheat. l was Is years a periodic
al drunkard Had a man told me l
should be such, would have laughed
him to scorn.
Mr.. Mitchell complained of cold and
WEAKNESS, and begged to beeScused from
further remarks tins evening.
Mr.. Shaw next addressed the meeting.
He stated as before that he was brick
layer but had been in Baltimore, noto-
rious drunkard. He had worked 10
hours hard, and then gone night after
night, to the tavern. and spent sometimes
hall, and sometimes the whole of his
earnings for iiquot. Last October 2
months, he got hurt, and was laid up IA
weeks. Loss of labor and Doctors bill
cost him so dollars. he told his wife he
would never drink any more rum He
got out, and his friends were glad 10 see
him. One and another said, Come take
a little something to drink. No | wont
| said. o, come, take a little sangaiee.
I took little, ard soon little whiskey
and brandy, and all was over with me-
Next they formed the Washington Tenn
peranee Society. | signed the pledge
When I signed felt like a man who was
signing heavy note. But no sooner had
given my name than felt relieved /
woke from my wretched course: felt like
a man who had been seven years asleep.
Before, if | saw a man half drunk, l
would take him to tavern and get him
whole drunk, and then make fun of him.
Now feel for drunkards, and must and
will do all | can to save then. For ten
wears [ never went into church. Tie
Saturday night after l signed the pledge.
l said to my wife, | want breakfast right
early tomorrow morning. What do you
wan. it early for, said she. am going
| to church. Going to church, said she, If
YOU will 90 to church, I'll have break
fast before daylight. L went and have
been steadily ever since. e-s .s.. -.
Mr.. Shaw addressed himself much to
working men, and assured them they
would never get ahead if they spent mo-
| new for liquor [ would earn, said he,
ten dollars week and be in debt at the
end of it. That is the way | prospered
two years ago. Now, said he, if Hive
long, I'll be worth two brick houses be-
fore die. With an unusual vein of good
bumor, Mr.. Shaw entertained the audi
ence for some time and then sat down
amid loud applauses.
| After Mr.. Shaw, Mr.. Casey came for
ward with modesty and diffidence. He
said, when he looked back on what he
once was, and found himself addressing
that audience. he was wonder to him
self. Standing where he did and amid
the RESPONSIBILITIES that rested upon him,
he felt solemn. He said it would seem
utterly impossible that from first drinking
a little LIQUOR, he should ever be reduced
ho the character and condition he bad been
in. He had been deeply sunken. Had
wasted all his little meals. He was OF a
free and generous nature, wiling to treat
the company, while his family were starry;
ing. He had returned home at mig ht' and
rolled himself upon his bed without bring
mo anv thing to his family, and had otlen
prevailed upon his wife to let him have
/, the last cent she had earned by her needle,
That he mighFgo with it to the grog shop.
= Three months longer, he was confident
!. would have finished him. But ne was
:. lsaved, aud now bis only desire was 10
k save others. We have slept, said he, ov,
9 er the desolation, and even now we arr
e not half awake. He entreated and I'm
n nlored the citizens Of New York TO hav
n compassion upon the multitudes anon!
j them going down to destruction.
a MIR. Hawkins took the stand after MI
n Casey. He repeated in more aftectln
f. manner, what he had said of himself I
Green street. He had concluded that h
o. had strength Of mind enough not to, be
r. drunkard He never meant 10 be one
n But before he was aware OF II, he wa
* one, and no being on earth cogld tell 10
d niseries that he had suffered, the remorS
~ of conscience, the agony of soul, II
s. shame and the disgrace. Often did =
es reform for a shorI period, but one glass ]
d. ale would wake up his old appetite, an
40 he fell. Again and again he reiorme
en- and again fell, on single glass OF ale.-
m He mentioned this as warning ca
IL not said he, who or what man be Is, II
Ii. trifss with strong drink, ne is 10 datlge
. There is a viper there, and i will sls
1e him before he is aware oil. it In Bal
a. more we have one thousand men, v
or will testify that they cannot touch q s.
n. gle glass with any safety. There Is n
RS said Mr. H. man on whom We have
If. claim in this work. Ii you hire m5
and he drinks. you are injured. injured
Ter your work, deprived Of time, lose 20
if homes. debt. If the drunkard owes y
not ever so much he cannot pay you !.
We cilizens and patriots, we are bo1ltd d,
ust cone up 10 the help.of this cause. =
to. hand of God is in. il, and it must presa
)nr II you were in Baltimore you would
Nv the hand of God in il. And now We ha