The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-11-22

give them an enlarged insight INTO tiie mysteries vi
business-of buying cheap and selling dear, ana
of driving good bargains. Such lectures, TOR mer-
chants, must cause business to look up, and stocks
to rise. Three cheers for cottons calcoes and the
corn trade. If our young mercantile philosophers will
only confne their attention to the abstract aud abb
struse sciences, they will become better merchants,
do business on sounder principles, and never turn
bankrupts. All that wanting is Mercantile Phi
losophcal College down in Hanover Square. Sc
rousy-when young merchants forsake their leg-
innate business to after unsubstantiated theories
and philosophical speculaions, We shall expect to
see Bankruptcy at the footing up of the ledger
Great Temperance Meeting Mt Concert Hall,
Broadway, last evening.
great impetus seems to have been given to all
moral and Intellectual movements in this great me-
tropolis. The temperance cause-always flourish
ing-has taken fresh start and between it and the
new reform party, in the political world, we have
fair prospect of thorough revolution in morals,
politics, and all the qualifications of social life.
very large and enthusiastic meeting of the Marshall
Society took place last evening, at their large hail.
in Broadway. After an eloquent and effective
speech from Mr.. Parker, of Boston, the meeting
was thus addressed by DIR. ]. A. HoUsToN:-
Mr. CHArRMAN-Our lot has fallen in stirring time.
On all hands we may perceive the truthful indications
that We OF TINS generation are passing through an era IN
the history of race pregnant with most momentous
results As has been well said by unthoughfu stu
dent of the worlds progress that which we have been &C
customed to call the old OF the world was indeed but
its infancy But the days of the Graded weakness Of the
world have passed away. The barriers by which the
prisoned have unlocked and the emancipated
ges of nature directed into ten thousand and in
ving channels of discovery and labor every where
at work quietly enlargng the boundaries of truth and
knowledge, and elevang, refining, nstrucng, and min
sering new enoyments to that nature originally made
little than the the full
of whose capacities and strength and nobility only few
now have been able diny to discover Applausel
The minds of men have been awakened. Never can
return the dark reign of implicit faith The spirit of nqui
ry exists every. where That philosophy-the genuine
anted,investigates relinquishes the
pursuit of the TRUTHS every day adding to its disciples
and extending its dominions Of justice order and happi
Already the happest results apparent. The
dark and frownng battemens behind which the errors
beginning to minge with the dust and hoary prejudice
in the darkness Of her unbeef at last awakens
to the conviction at least suspicion that the latter day
of light and liberty is coming Institutions and usages
covered with all the venerabeness of years which had
been identified with the existence Of communities for ages
which had long commanded and received from all,
homage ardent and sincere, it blind and
rejecting have been obliged to yield before the omnpo-
tence Of the revolutionary movement and have been
modelled and reformed, totally overthrown.-
loud applause) Still there are many who cannot
discern these signs OF the times" To them the whole
isms-and 1.-THE extravagances-and the frenzied excite
ments, which in truth the harbingers of and
disaster The agitaons which at present convulse the
religious world to its centre, and which splitting it
up into thousand new sects and factionsor there
factions alas in the churches well in the State
indicate to these purblind observers the approaching
triumph S q cold and md eSeerles' dey all that It's
moral world this class of observers regard with the most
unaffected horror the annunciation Of all those projects
Tor the ameoraton Of mankind and of course the promo
ton Of virtue and justice and order which counter
to the old notions handed down to them by their fathers
inheritance by the way of which the recipients very
seldom allow themselves deprived without lizard
struggle And then in the political world the shaking Of
States and kngdoms-he convusive strugglings of op
pressed men-Re din and shock of right conendng with
might inspire these timid spectators only with alright
The visions OF the future are full Of images of terror and
misfortuneearul and threatening those which hurry
through the dreams Of dying wicked But the
lightened and intelligent student of the times knows
that all this froh and turmoil precede and clearly
bcoken the advent of that day of prosperity and
calm for which all true citizens OF the world ardently
praythat in the words Of the eloquent Macauay the
extreme violence of opinions gradually subsides-hoste
truth ceaseto conflict and begin coaesceand that final
system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos"
At such epoch that which have feebly endeavored
to describe very important question comes home to
every man. The great prevalent reforming spirit of the
age addresses itself to all and the solemn voice of
thor1ty, asks What doest thou Stand ye here idle
Or art thou in thine sphere devotng thy energies to
the great cause Of truth and man ~ To every man and
woman in this assembage this deeply solemn question
is addressed. And disguise the matter may-how.
ever lightly may affect to treat it may rest
that shall one day be called upon to render an
account of the in which received that loud,
intelligibe trumpetongued monon to duty which the
events of the age are delivering to every man of this gene
ration. trust that do not address single ind vdual
who is so ignorant OF his destiny to suppose that
have no nober part to play in this great drama Of exist
ence than to furnish toleraby satisfactory reply to the
query" What shall eat, and what shall drink and
wherewithal shall be clothed ~ What then, ask with.
to advance the great cause of truth and virtue and benefit
those who are to come after when shall have join
ed the solemn congregation of the dead Appause) In
connecting yourselves with the great cause the Tenn.
perance Reformation you have done much in the way of
dischargg your duty to your fellow men, and the sacred
interests Of morality and virtue Ours is scheme of no
questionable utility We practical refomers and there
never before exhibited to the world organization
which so happily combines simplicity and strengthen in.
strumenality so unpretending and results magnificent
clothed with moral grandeur; obecthe overthrow
of pencious habits, Intimately interviewer with the
toms and usages of society, and to which good
fellowship, friendship, the genius of the poet, and
thousand associations, had given sanction which
it was almost presumtious TO question; our agency
christian selEdenial, benevolence and union. But
with what success has not this simple agency met!
II has exploded forever the soudestroyng that the
wine cup necessary to social enoyment has covered
with eternal disgrace the drinking usages which not long
ago threatened the very existence of society in this
try, Of morality and decency it has saved millions
Of the present and future generation from the fate Of the
dnkard and has done for the poor drundard himself
what every known nstrumentaty of reform has before
utterly failed TO effect; has rescued the poor drndard
from degradation and ruin; has brought him from his
renzed misery, amid the tombs and restored him to
ciety, clothed and in his right mind-(Appause) Such
is the cause in which we are engaged and to which
invite the devotion Of all the friends Of the human race;
and, as my friend who last addressed you would say
think that the active and efficient member Of the temper
ance society is in the fair way of fulfilling his EMISSION"
to some purpose and answering by appropriate deeds
that impressive question which said the spirit OF the
utterng in the of all men, take the broad
position that from this movement-ths temperance rcfor
mationths great moral revolutionall the developments
in the moral religious and political world, which promise
much good derive great proportion ofther nutrment
and strength Who sir will gansay hs1 The temperance
society has invited vast portion Of the community in the
advocacy and defence of certain great truths and princi
PIES has taught them the power and strcnth not only
OF comprehensive organization but also the mighty IN
fuence which single individuals exercise in com
munity II has elevated the masses from the mire of low
and grovelling animal enjoyment II has given them
taste for intellectual pleasures II has conferred on them
that nobility the seal Of whose patent hears the impress
Of the Divinity itself And the spirit thus breathed into
themthe habits Of self denial thus crcated-the setre
spect thus conferred and cherished-have accompanied
them into all their diversified pursutshave given cha
racer to all that they say and toal that they do Even in
the political movements of the day observe evidences