The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-08-09
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PREPARED FOR THE VERMONT PRESS BY
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE VT.
TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.
SELECTIONS FROM THE 'CoGNIAC CLUB
Continued.


E., the next in the dark catalogue,
is vet living an aged and respectable man.
Ii is true that he belonged TO the Club, but
he did not enlist for life, and very soon omit
them. One may truly say of him that he
escaped will. the skin Of his teeth. The
wonder is, That he has been ever since
temperate drinker, and yet has seldom or
never allowed himself to be overcome with
strong drink. He has been upon the brink.
but kind providence has prevented him from
plungi1g into the dark abyss beneath. He
is man of very correct moral department,
a good member of society, and generous III
the support of the gospel. He has filed
some of the highest offices in the gift of the
people of his state, and deserves well of the
Church and the world. love 10 linger in
this place to do honor to the man, who stood
where almost every other man fell. 1t was
truly affecting, not long since, TO hear him
say to Young lawyer of high promise.
who was beginning 10 think on his ways -
Noc is your time, sir: 1 hare Sinned a,Cay
my day of grace, and hope you '0iH NOT DO
as / haze done.
F.. He again is an honorable ex
ception. and il will be many a moon before
we meet with another. He was early en-
listed in the Club. and met with 1t steadily
for many years. But a piou' wife and
children hung about his neck. aad held him
back from a total shipwreck of fortune,
family and character. We Should be glad,
if we could know assnredly, that SIP Of
Cogniac is mol the motive that carries him
still three hundred and sx'y-five evenings in
the year through dark wool TO the village
where he used 10 meet his favorIte Club.
And we should rejoice too, if kind heaven
would give us some iufallIble assurance that
he shall not live 10 increase the dram Till II
obtains the mastery. and we will all unite 10
bless the preserver of mis- house forever,
and say" Strong is his hand. and mighty
is his right hand"
1t NAV SEEM strange that the Cogniac
Club, after having been The whirlpool into
whose vortex so many brilliant prospects
and hopes had been swallowed up, was not
feared and stunned as is the maelstrom,
on the coast of Norway, by the mariners Of
the deep. Although the whole population
had gone into mourning, and the gray hairs
of MANY doating parents had been brought
down in sorrow to the grave; although the
tears of widows and of orphans had tiowed
freely. and were flowing fast as their woes
increased, vet no stay was put 10 the current
of death. But the cause was PLAIN. ne
moral sense of the whole population hau
been corrupted. They looked upon rum
The innocent, and not as the guilty cause
of the Ten thousand woes 1t produced, and
the nIaoues it engendered. linen no war
&c ax,erm;nation had been commenced
against the grand destroyer of their peace.
Io Foe, families nourished 10 their houses
the very monster that was cutting of, with
his deadly blows, not only the first born OF
The household, but the whole rising gene
ration. How strange that the very liquor
that was drowning their souls should nave
occupied the first place On the sideboard ana
in the closet. If friends met TO congra-
tulale, il must be over the cup oil burning
find. If TO transact business, II must DC
over the glass of rum. What a sign, y
see men making merry win '"e 49, en
that was the next moment TO app y the loren
to their dwellings, and level IN the aus, lhe
.o.,,u,,,l,,ed fortunes of years, 10 see them
unfold their brightest projects 10 me P.J :
49, of an enemy, who was both able ano
liz 20 undermine them forever. Anu
Stranger still, that they could remain 'gno'
ran, Of the character OF one VINO nau 0ee"
saa;ng. from the very first day OF his exist
. g most destructive war against tneir j.