Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-10-12

which grow out of tho family constitution
How important, then, that The duties arisin
from those relations, should be sacredly ot
served On this most vital subject, how lu
aud explicit is that Revelation which God ha
given of lis mind and will. Break up The fam
lily, and you break up society. Whatever tends
therefore, 10 loosen the family bond, tends j
its degree 10 overthrow society. This is con
sideralion for the conscientious legislator; Will
he that has heart 10 weep with those iha
weep, will yield his sympalhies to those VIII
! sorrow In no common sort. Ransack the wor
Tor wretchedness in It's worst forms, and W,
believe il would be found, ordinarily, not at ih
home Of The drunkard, for home he cannot b,
said 10 have--but ct the comiorless abode O
the victim of strong drink.
q. Those engaged in this traffic, expos,
themselves and their families to imminent danger
We ask your special attention to this reason
1t brings The suhjec, home. Many who are en-
gagged In the liquor business, have aroiind then
Interesting families, as we well know. For The
welfare OF those families you feel, as you should
"a lively concern. They are TO inherit or lc
Scatter your esiates-lhey are to bear up youi
names, with honor or with imlamv, when youl
heads are laid low in the dust, Now we ask
those of you who can extend your recollection
backward for twenty. thirty, or forty years, to
inquire and see what has been the history o
those liquor sellers and their families, that have
passed under your observation for iha, space
of lime. How many strong men have fallen by
the insiduous destroyer with which they have
been in league; and how have the families oil
those men, in whole or in part, reaped the sad
but natural consequences 10 which they were
exposed by parental folly We need mol men.
lion names. Your memories will do that office
Now we ask you one question Can you re-
member one family, long engaged in the sale OF
intoxicating liquor, that has wholly escaped all
the attendant evils with which ri ghieous God
has linked it. By what rule then can you
promise that you and yours shall furnish case
of singular exemption from a common result.
We are aware of that strong principle of human
nature, 10 make exceptions in our own favor.
But we bid you beware. All before you have
presumed in like manner What has come
upon them, ,UiH come upon you. Like causes
produce like effects. Now look upon those
dear children whom God has given you, and
ask yourselves whether, in contempt of The
teaching of all history, you will GO on in your
present course, with The desperate hope that
you and yours shall escape The penalty OF gen.
eral law. Look al that pratlllng bOy, as he is
The witness Of The reveIry, the pollution, and
the blasphemy of the bar-room;- look at that
young man, just about 10 enter on the Stage of
action for himself, whom you, perhaps, have
stationed 10 deal out that vile and aduherated
cup of death TO your deIuded customers, and
ask yourselves whether they shall share The sad
doom of the drunkard. No Your feelings re-
volt at The thought. You would rather follow
them TO an early grave. Will you then expose
them any longer. Again we say beware---lesf
you lay up for yourselves matter for pungen,/
buI boo'less reflection and self-accusallon
should abandon this business,
because God condemns it, We state this rea-
son last, because il is most important, and be-
cause we want you 10 bear il in mind You
may esteem il small matter to strive with
your fellow man, and TO sci yourselves in oppo.
sition 10 their principles, however clear and un-
answerable; bu, 'woe 10 him that slryeh with
his Maker" Without attempting TO present
the whole Biblical argument on this point, we
will content ourselves by adducing one solitary
passage from the book Of God "Wo unl0 him
that glveih his neighbor drink, that puttes thy
hollle 10 him, and makest him drunken also
Hab. 2. is. Is moi this declaration perfectly
plain and simple. Ii il means any Thing al all,
what can il mean but just what it literally i'm
ports. Can any ingenuity or Guessing perver,
i, from its direct and obvious sense. Then
any passage Of the Bible may be treated in
like manner, and whai becomes of our infallbie
rule of faith and life. We are thrown out at
sea, without rudder or compass. But we en-
terrain no such dishonorable opinion OF The
Word Of God. Its principles 10 guide our faith
aud 10 govern our actions, are broad, plain and
simple. "Tbe wayfaring men, though fuoIs.
Shall not err therein" Now we will not ask
if you admit The supreme authority OF the El
bic; for if we are addressing any who DENY
hat. we have no hope of producing conviction
on their minds. But we take for granted tha,
you admit the Bible for what it claims 10 be-
Then we ask you to weigh well tha, fearful de-
which we have ciled,
We might name MANY otI.er cogent reasons
as the ground of-our petition; because the sale
Of those dtnks, by Wholesale or retail, is wrong
aud tends 10 evil from whatever mimi Won may