The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-05-05


pepers about it, and had the felicity in the course OF
very lew days of seeing myself posted that
hu mark me well speak not this ironcs allyn that
honorable fraternity of the q Reformedv from Boston,
ranging on down towards and believe quite as as
New Orleans But the next mail-the very next mail
frrm ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS time TO have started from home
aer these events had occurred with self brought
the news that the most rdnary taken place
and just at that very particular time village from
whence camein the town of LeXington-and all
the district which, represented in Congress that there
Temperance Society formed lust about the time that
their representative in Congress had taken the step
without sort OF communication between them The
president and vicepresdent Of this society gen
ticmen that, If am judge of the mater-and
ought to bc toleraliy fair onc| left most com
ortaby in state of most comfortable nebriety (great
augher the last night that passed through the city
We needs celebrate my departure after that rational
fashion, and did celebrate it after such fashion that
was with very great difficulty indeed that was enabled
70 commence my Journey eastward Peas OF laughter)
Certainly the condition in which then left them rendered
ment, either moral or ply steal. loud and continued
langhter) In the adjoining county had abroher-who
required indeed of me- the other night in Washington that
ever alluded to this subject would be kind enough to
draw line OF distinction between him and my self he
never was as bad as was (pea of aughterl and who
joined Temperance Society the 7th of January
al might the very precise day that his elder brother
Washington took the step without any communca-
ton them And the next thing heard of him
was that he lecturing away very learnedly the
subject OF temperance in the neghhorng counties How
happened il then that these simuitaneous take
place this subject in different parts OF the world with
out any communication correspondence, conspiracy
between the parties concerned? say, isn't it strange
IL
doesn't 1t mark this least of the extraordi-
nary movements of the human mind, which have
been exhibited Gentlemen, it is movement of the hui
man mlnd. II is not the movement OF any particular
individual any particular collection Of ndividu-
ais. 1t is not ascribable, nor can it be ascribcd
to any particular exertion agency whatever seems
to have swept and to be sweeping the world it'll
the force of awhirlwnd. Whence it comesI about
to say-we know notbut perhaps that might be indulg
ing in that vein Of scepcism Of which have spoken too
far, in this presence and before this audience Whence
then does IT come and how has happened9 May it not
be that there surrounds the human understanding moral
atmosphere just as there surrounds the human body
a natural atmosphere May it not be that certain
changes produced and certain effects impressed upon
that natural atmosphere which breathe, which those
breathe it feel and are influenced by at the same time
all the earth there not be also effects alike
universal in this operation, produced by the medium of
that moral atmosphere May not be that he who has
formed the human understanding may have connected by
some inscruable tie of sympathy all the minds which He
has called into being fancy rather than philosophy
to suppose that thus be connected by secret and
serous bond Of union, which cannot understand,
and which we cannot explain, but whose influence
own And that this cord OF universal sympathy thus
tabished by the hand which all may be from
time to time by that master and creating hand and
respond in tones OF moral music whose murnrngs re-
echo throughout the whole human race loud and long
continued appausc3 And surely if ever there
time, and there facts which would favor such
suppositon this the very time and these are the
facts. And the agency toohow simple And to the eye
of cold philosophy-how utterly inefficient! What
an event according human reason of adaptation of
the end What disproportion between the
effect produced and the insrumenaiiy which achieved
it Temperance pledge! simple declaration that we
will drink no more ! And the temperance pledge offered,
and temperance prsached not by wise and phloso
piers but those Puckcd from the ranks of tho very low
est oucasts of society Men without chnracterwithout
any of the ordinary means Of mnucncc-wihout learn.
ing-without wcalth-without social dignity-without
eloqucncc even except that all power full eloquencc
which deals only in truth These the instruments
which that power whatever it may be, which has set
about this revolution has chosen to effect That will
go on, gentlemen do not permit myself to doubt Its
final and complete success could not and would not
astonsh more than that which has already hap
pened ! know that the temperance cause has yet
vast difficulties to encounter know that it has yet
to graphic with the most serious opposition-aye,
and fear with the bitterest hostility. Il has
counter, not reasonnot truthnot argumentbut has
to encounter pecuniary interests and which potent
than all put together established and evil
habit known by the of "Fashon," and elegance if
you please 1t has all this to encounter and the death.
grappe in which it has close at last has not come on
was thinking long since of what could oppose it
the temperance cause-of what could be said against it.
Who on earth and how did happen that all mankind did
not embrace at oncel Physicians demonstrate that al
cohol is posonthey demonstrate that the of this
thing inevitably leads to disease and DEATH and universal
work OF Cceros-l read Cicero when was boy, that it
was excellent plan when preparing to conduct case,
to make out the best argument possible for the opposite
side. Well have done in this case and for the life
and soul of me | couldn't make out more than one
solitary argumenti SO It can DC cailed-on the oppo
site side and it is his:the appetite for alcohol exists
and there exist in nature formed by the Great Crca
tor, substances from which this alcohol can be made
Why then should this appetite cXstwhy should this SUBJ
exist not intended that should crafty
that appetite by using the substance which craves1
Gentlemen II have stated the argument in favor Of
alcoholic liquors fairly and this the only light in which
it occurred to that could be said that there
anything in favor of the practice of drinking The first
opponent whom have to convince the preacher who
advocates temperate drnkngthere none to be found
base degraded-as to advocate inebriety
Tins appetite is said to have been created in Has
nature prepared food sufficient for manfrom his
die to the gravcfrom infancy to old agehas not
al process the exercise OF mans ingenuity and skill all
AMI every thing necessary for the support Of his body and
restoration of his animal spirtsl Will you say nature has
not produced sufficient to sustain him without to
his ingenuity. Let consider and examine that SUBJ
stance which nature has provided for the young human
being while is unable to provide for ITSELF Are there
two things in the whole universe which unlike
between which there is dissimarty than between
the milk which the child extracts from it's mothers breast
and the alcoholic liquid which elaborated from the
of the distery Is there in the whole univ two
things as much ulike imagine it if you the
romwhich the milk howsw hch sustans and nourhcs the
chdand the accused source fromwhch the other flows.
That milk is not whskcy prove il we look to
ture shall not find any whskey shall We find that
there any natural taste for whiskcy. We may deny
that the appetite il natural md that it is acquired
does prove' Docs prove that it is not injurious aye
runou to the constitution of mani Admit the fact that the
appetite is natural and still what runous consequences
stare in the face Have the notion that the Creator
has been unjust cruel has acted in variance with all
established and harmonious rules which prevail through
all his works. That has not implanted this taste
in the lower order of animals and therefore is unjust
That among all his creatures he has left without
guidance where the instinct of the lower orders is su
cicnt to prevent them. You cannot make thing drunk
more than once but man. Try this once on any other
creature but man. and you will make it drunk
how Once upon time-and it tried animal
very similar, very nearly approximatmg 10 couple
of wicked wags in want of n joke determined take
Jacko and how he would relish the liquor The next
time they went to the tavern they took Jacko determined
that he should have of the crtter" and Join them
in their spree They decoyed him. and partly suppose,
from the spirit Of imitation, and probably or who
tellb Jackothoughh that being possessed OF faculties
pcror that he possessed capable of reasoning and
deciding wha. presented to their notice, would not
induce him to do any thing that would jnjure him. they
managed TO make him swallow quantity of the liquor,
and sufficient of it to make him drunk and very gay,
chaering lively, irocksome monkey he was, too. But
the drink passed Off aud the day he appeared very
different the fact was he looked horrd and doubt felt
very bal He looked very low and sad and disconsoatc.
The youngsters, however Were much tickcd with the
mischief they had DONE and pleased that they deter
mined to try again. They accordingly took Jacko again
and wanted him drink the liquor but Jacko would not
They tried to force him. but Jacko fought and BIT and
scratched and screamed and finally escaped to the top Of
the house where he remained could they induce him
to return to them in the house. Here see, that