Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-10-21
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INTERESTING REFLECTION,

INTERESTING REFLECTION. s.
i" One OF the greatest consultations afforded tu
iny mind by the success of the temperance
cause is the reflection that my child will
not be a drunkard."
To this remark, made by a distinguished
lady, now no more, the heart of every parent
assents. That the progress af the tempe
rance cause will be SO great at the period
when the child, which is now an infant, shall
appear upon the great theatre of life, as to Sc
cure that child from the miseries and woes
OF lntemperance, must ceatainly carry conso-
lation to the mind of every parent who is
deeply solicitous for the future welfare Of his
children. If any father or mother could lift
the veil of iuturity, and see that son, now so
loved, perhaps idolized, a bloated polluted and
polluting creature, reeling under the infu-
.ence of Intoxicating p~oisons, the remainder
OF life would be wretched. TO such a parent
this world would be a vale of tears and the
silence and the solitude Of the tomb would
be welcomed, as the place where the wicked
would cease from troubling, and where the
weary might be at rest.
The temperance reform does indeed lit
the veil of future years, and discovers 10 the
parents of the present generation their chill
dren, and their ehildren's children, freed from
all the woes and the curses of iniemperance,
the smile of gratitude upon their counienances
and the language of benediction upon their
lips. In that day, no poor outcast shall stag
ger along our streets no drunkard's broken
hearted wife shall mourn in solitude and
want a husband lost: no drunkard's child
shall cry for food, or blush for the deep degra-
dation of a dfunkard father the prolific pa
rent of disease and poverty, and crime and
premature death shall be driven from the
abodes OF men, and this earth, which has so
long been a field of blood, shall assume the
peace and beauty of Eden. Ny child wiH
not be d drunkard" Cheering thought
an animating prospect does it open to
the mind. AIm-houses, and iaiIs, and peni-
tentiaries, and State Prisons will then only
as monuments of the vices of an age
gone by /; and the evils consequent upon the
use OF intoxicating poisons, shall exist only
upon the historic page as go many records of
The degeneracy, o. the errors of mankind.
s My child ,oiW neuer be a drunkard I" Where
ia the parent, his soul animated with this re-
who will not resolve to enter upon a
more vigorous effort, and to make a more de-
struggle against the common foe !
What parent is there who will not give this
,reat reform the full benefit of bis example,
lis efforts and his prayers? Generations I'M
'orn are to reap the advantages of present eff
ort. And how it will smooth the pillow of
and cheer the pathway to the grave, if
he dying father or the dying mother, in the
asst moments of mortality when the eye swims
nd the voice falters in death, shall be able to
ST have done all | could to advance the
enterprise, and | have a strong
onfdence that child wiH nerer be a drunk
'rd.
Extraordinary dueL.-A fatal but extraordi-
airy duel took place in France, in the COM
1une of Maisonfort, department of Seine-et-
,ise, Two gentlemen having quarrelIed over