Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1842-09-02
MISSIONARIES AND RUM.

We copy the following article from "Af-
rica's Lumnary," and bespcak for the facts
it discoses the serious consideration of the
friends of Missions in New England.
If New England's missionaries were TO
apply themselves increasingly throughout
the world in attempting to neautralize the
pernicious effects of rum, which accomPa-
MES them on their voyages and visits of mer-
cy, they would find themselves altogether
inadequate to the task We have yet to
hear Of missionaries from New England,
who were not attended TO the worlds farthest
verge, by New England rum. The Mis-
sionary and New-Ehgland rum seem to be
iuseparaby connected.
Ncw-England rum is the cause OF more
bloodshed, war, and slaye-deaIing in Africa,
than any other article of commerce--gold
aud silver not excepted Indeed il is labor
spent for nought to attemp: to secure per-
manent reformation in any part of Africa,
while New-Engand pours its floods Of rum
around this coast. Even in the insignificant
harbor of Monrovia, seventy thousand gal
Ions, is moderate estimate of the quantity
which visits us annually true it is not all
sold here-but the market is always supplied
and our citizens are kept by the ears through
this cause alone.
1t is exceedingly humiating, TO those
who advocate temperance, to be met in the
teeth by colonists, and rude barbarians, with
an argument like fhis-"We do not make
rum; Americans make and bring it to us;
and we suppose they use it too: for they
have no more sense than we aud ir they
can be Christians while making, selling, and
drinking rum, surely we, who know but lit
tie, are perfectly safe in following their ex-
ample, as far as we can"
The time has arrived, that if New-Eng-
land wishes TO escape universal contempt,
she must cease making one-third of the hui
man family drunkards. We appeal to the
experience of missionaries, III North Amer
lea, South America, Asia and Africa-to all
throughout the entire missionary lield,-
whether they do not find it much easier, 10
succeed in getting heathens TO abandon
polygamy, and ldolatry, than to conceive
them OF the evil of intemperance in drink
ingi We know it is so. And were it not
Tor New-England rum, the Methodist Epis-
copaI Mission would now number one hum
bred native converts, for every ten, who pro-
fess Christianity at this time. The princi-
I
is rum. Rum ruins more souls annually
than there are inhabitants in New-Engand.
And vet New-England manufactures all the
Mac Engiaad rum, aud continues to stand
in the catalogue, for Christian country.
A CmANGE.-The Parkersburg (Va) Ga
zette, whose editor was for Mr.. Van Buren's
administration, has declared itself for Mr.
Clay. This seems TO have been the result
of cool examination. lie says:
| "The conclusion we have como TO sup
/ port Henry Clay for the Presidency is not
a precipitate one; we have considered the
step well we have examined, to the extent
of our abilities, the measures of the two
great parties OF the country, and we have
been led to the conclusion that OF all others
proposed the Wing measures are the best
adapted to bring relief to the country, and
give prosperity and happiness to the people,
| TRAVELLING, &c. IN TIE WEsT.-These
were never before so cheap as now. The
price of cabin passage from Pittsburg to
st, Louis is Sl0-about 200 miles one
gentleman we know came for So From
ST. Louis here, 81. Freights from Pittsburg,
to St. Louis, 30 or 40 cents per 100 lbs
on Monday offered to take IL l-2, but could
not obtain load at that. m
On the lakes, we observe that after trial
of two or three weeks 'on their own book"
the steamboats, have again formed a COM
bination, tho the price fpassage is reduced
to SIG from Buffalo. 1t has been heretofore
$40. From Chicago here the passage by
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