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

maze ~ ms tresoi 10 DO lie can't walk. II fuddles
his brain blears his eyes, dsadens his ears, swes
his body, and dwindles his legs (Grcat lauehter5-
What ruin does Il not work upon his heart and moral
constitution All the rest it does Que might over
look, II it only made him sick, destroyed his beauty
and sent him TO premature grave-fh only dilapidated
forgive it. Man must die and what only acceleracs this
few days weeks, might be overlooked But there is
the dyiner part which, the authority of citation
breathed into him by the Creator He alone of ali
creatures, becomes unhesred destroys his reason his
heart and moral organization. Nothing else DESTROYS
parental feeingthat feeling which, when all hope of
life has forsak zen him, still cngs TO him. 1t is alcohol
alone that has the power to do this. You may
give arsenic to man, you may poison him,
still at the point of death he thinks OF wife and
child OF his country and friends. Alcohol achieve
what nothing else do; overthrow, destroy, ami
hilate the immortal soul What else poison the heart
and r the arm against the innocent? You may make
him go TO his wife and child he is still aman. Nothing
but alcohol can destroy the chvary of manhooi-can
woman-nohing but alcohol destroy parental feeling
You may have a man suffering from disease, from
POVERTY. from crime and bring him to the immediate
Of death and bring him the infant bound to him by
the strong and ndsoabe ties of parent and still his
feelings will be drawn to him. Alcohol obterates every
trace OF the great original whence he taken and form
ed. Gentlemen, might dscan. for the evils of
ALCOHOL might trace its every operation, might show the
evils which brings without the slightest particle OF be-
nct to counterbalance this evil When think
of ntemperanee trust to for it's overthrow The
time perhaps not yet come and ther. will perchance
be great struggle before the grand contamination is
achieved Let not the of Temperament speak to you
members who have joined the societyo high priests of
the emple-le not the of temperance ming itself up
with any other whatever. Great cheering1 And
above all things whatever let it eschew party politics.
cloud and enthusiastic checringD Let them fight ont
their battles by thcmsclve doni YOU 20 even into
the smoke of them. Cheers) rs too high for law. At
tempt to make statutes the subject. Il began in
weakness-leave il upaidsd by human legislation or by
human enactments Leave it TO that agent which God
has selected to be its support and which has thus far
tainei it through every trial, and which will sustain
il till its final triumph (Cheers) Let the politicians
alone. If they'll go in and Join you all very well
Let them come and when they come OH in Gods name
don't you go to them. lie. them alone. Let thom fight
their political battles and wrange and weary the very at
mosphere %n party am put do You Keep aloof Keep
nate wreches Tho doomed to be mingled up those
boils don't make any laws 70 bear hard perse.
cute them they're under law hard enough TO bear
already Qaoars of laughter and loud cheering have
already said of the temperance that it's high for
law-and its too pure for any politician to medde
with tremendous chcering) Like that beautiful and
chac ymph Diana whom once read of in classic love
who was pressed hard by some enemy from whom she
dreaded the destruction Of her purity and honor and who
then invoked the assistance Of her uelary goddess
ul fable which refer she vas turned into ystal
fountain of pure and gushing Enthusiastic cheers
and not only So but to shield her still farther and tina.
she might find more certain refuge, she went under
ground, and flowed under ground and thus went
and escaped from her glorious, beautiful native
Greece flowing clear under the and another
land ofbeauty and delight pure and undeled. (Cheers
So let our temperance initiate the example of Are
thusa Let it flow its glorious course through all
the urbid elements of strife and passion prejudice
and ignorance and party camor and malice and evils of
all this salt of discord she flowed on refused to
mingc her pure with its dark and brny waters
Gentlemen, there many, many other points of view
in which this matter may be consideredand in par.
cular which before such audience this is it would
certainly not be amss to glance at And that s that
OF the greatest the temperance will have
struggle with is that stubborn thing called fashsen
(Cheers) But as it is within the limits of possibility that
may speak on this subject again before leave New
Yorc-herc he was interrupted by vociferous cheers
waving of handkerchiefs from the ladies, intcrmin
ermngled with cries of bravo" good. bravo, 90
on Marshall" on.1 shall therefore postpone the
consideration Of that and other matters for the
There one point however that it may not be improper
to touch upon. With regard to this subject have
serily had to speak much of myself have said more on
this subject perhaps than ought 10 have said (criee of
no, no") and certainly more than should have said had
not heard that was expected to aude somewhat TO my
found from them that some little portion Of my private
history which had hoped would been private, was
known to YOU A good deal has boen said that is the
truth in this matter ere he paused and continued in
solemn tone) and(ar more cn the truth told about
And that OF the evils OF ntempcrance CHEERS
and aughter Bad in its best estate and bad enough
that is God knows man has always friends enemies
enough to make 1t great deal worse CHEERS and laugh
ter) In case, am modest enough to admit-my case
bad enough but it wasn't SO bad stated.
heers) But OH if my example could bring back to this
any who has commenced the Of In
tcmperancef it could only bring back human being
who has commenced such career, he is perfectly well
ng9 And oh if there be any high toned courageous
gallant noble young fellow, that has this
reer, although society may not consider him yet to be
dunkard although the ladies Of his acquaintance
may not consider him any thing than lively social
gallant cheerful young fellow although he may
sered one Who s not unde the influence of fanatics mr.
preachcrs and only glowing with the high toned chvarv
of youth that dores and loves TO indulge in the largest free
dom-if be such one here present OH let me
and give him some of the benefits of nv experience loud
cheersA WHY am no more a fanatic now than ever
was CHEERS and lauuhter) am as raw a fellow TODAY
as ever | was in nv lifa loud cheering and roars OF
laughtcr) | am no more gloomy now than ever / was
(CheersI The temperance cause gloomy1 Why it's the
gayest the delightful and cheerful thing upon earth
Cheers1 Temperance gloomv7 WHY its the fountain of
health And life iChecrs0 And from health flows happiness
and all the en- oy beneath the sun Tempernnce
gloomy Why It's the very fountain head and cause
and Offspring of cheerfuness and oy loud cheerinp
Our pledge perpetual (Cheers) And that's the only kind
of pledge that's good for ANYTHING enthusiastic cheers
AID if YOU don't sign pledge let any who has only
been drinking le--us sufficient to disturb the tran
olity of his ncryescoud his reasonand derangc for
time the economy of his physical and moral sysem say
just let him quit altogether for month and then just