Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-05-18
sTRoUDsBURG MONROE COUNTY, PA, WEDNESDAY, 49,


der the circumstances with which he should
find himself surrounded; but he could not help
feeling that the fact Of his being here in the
month of May of this year, in the city of New
York, in an assembly like this, TO speak on the
subject of Temperance, must be regarded as
one of the phenomena attending this most re-
markable moral revolution. The Secretary had
Given us sketch of what had been accomplish
ed in this cause, and these facts are sufficient
TO satisfy any man that this reform ought to
stand as an epoch in the history of man; as one
Of those great revolutions which sweep ever the
world overwhelming harbarism, and bringing
in civilization with all its attendant blessings.
He had often asked himself if there is not some
thing passing strange in the movements with
which we are surrounded We have just heard
OF 10000 pledges given in kentucky, and he
would venture 10 say from an intimate acquant-
ance with that people, that never in the history
Of that State had such a movement of mind been
made in a single year. Never was any thing
like il known in lhe moral political or religious
world He referred to the cities OF Louisville
and MavsvIle, and knowing well the habits of
those places as to the consumption of Alcohol,
he said it was a remarkable fact that a travel
Ter can now scarcely find i glass Of the crittur,
so few are the dram-shOps.
Mr. M.-said that he was not fond OF The mar
rellous, nor was it defect of his mind 10 be
credulous; indeed his temptation had always
been towards skepticism- there were some
facts in this movement connected with his own
history, which had filled him with asionish-
ment, and he did not think il out of place TO re-
fer 10 them. He said that four months ago, in
all the land, there was not a man who knew
less or cared less than he did about the lem
peran use. He had never been IN a ien-
peranco ing in his life; Che said it with
shame anu contrilion,) and if he picked up a
temperance paper, he threw il away, regarding
the subject as unworthy the attention of gen.
,eman of his rast ambition! On the Seuenth Of
January last at night, having had no correspon-
dence whatever with any body al home on the
subject, he signed the pledge Somebody
wrote to Lexington, KY, about il, and some
one TO the newspapers, and soon he found HIM
self posted from Boston 10 New Orleans among
the honorable fraternity Of reformed drunkards
Bat the next mail brought back 10 him the in
iclligcnce lha: at Lexington, at the very time
when he was signing The pledge al Washing
ton, there was a wonderful movement there also;
a Society was formed, the President and Vice
President Of which but few. months before
when he was starting for Washington, he had
left in a most comfortable incJTiety. They had
been celebrating his departure, in such style
that he could only with great difficulty COM
mence the Journey, leaving Them IN state oil
incapacty !or any moral or physical exertion.
He had brother in an adjoining county, who,
by the way when he was at Washington, Il few
days ago, wished me to draw line between
/ himself and me whenever | had occasion 10
speak of him, as he did not think he was ever
quite as bad as / and that brother signed the
pledge on the Scuenth Of January, and had since
/ been lecruring very learnedIy in the region
around him on the subject Of temperance.
! Observing these simultaneous movements in
distant places and different minds, without any
concert or correspondence or conspiracy what
ever, does it not lead us TO inquire by what
agency is il effected! We are compelled 10
ask whence comes 1t, and | was going TO say
4 know not, but this may ia iuu"!giag feel
ing OF skeplicism too far for the place and the
assembly. Nav il not be that there is an anal
osy between the atmosphere that surrounds the
BODY and he moral atmosphere that surrounds
The SOUL so that as changes are produced IN The
BODY by the movements in the natural ali, there
may ne some secret IDuu6HCG tlid' 'luo
/ the world Of mind, and causes these phenomena
which appear TO us so ineXplicable? May not
/ He, who formed the human mind, hare united
all minds by some mystic tie, and may not this
cord of sympathy, from time 10 time, be swept
! by the master hand and corresponding tones
be given forth from the whole human race.
( This may be mere fancy, but if there were ev-
or facts calculated to encourage such suppo-
silion, they are furnished by this remarkable ST.
mul,aneons movement
Ard the agency too, bow simple, and how
inadequate 10 The result; TO the eye of science,
how disproporrioned to the end proposed. A
temperance pledge! a simple declaration TO
/ drink no more and the pledge offered and advo-
Gated not by philosophers, but by those just
/ pIucked from the lowest ranks of society, out
cass, without character, or learning, or wealth,
ar eoquence, save The most efficient OF all, the
elOquence Of truth! these are the instruments
which that power which has set this cause IN
motion, has employed in its achievement
| That it will go on do not doubl lis final lrl-