Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-07-12
ADDREss

Delivered on the 4th OF July, l843, al the
Sabbath School and Juvenile Temper
ance celebration, in Stroudsbarg.
MY young Temperance Friends:
rise TO encourage yeuin The great
and noble enterprise in which you are
now engaged.
am confideAt inpredicting TO YOU en-
tire success; and anticipating great haPpi-
ness if you do not become weary, but re-
main always zeaiously effected IN this good
cause. However. like espouslng every
sother truth, YOU must in this anticipate op-
position and persecution. The grounded
all opposition ca Temperance and lem
rerance societies, arises from two causes,
viz: Interest and Appetite. The latter,
ihoneh The most prevalent, is the least for
snidable. Under the government OF this
first Tvrant, are TO be found the temper
ate drinker and the unfortunate drunkard,
whose influence diminish with the great
increase of light and information shed up
on the public mind by the Temperance
agency.
The second Despot, "Tyrant Interest, !"
which is opposed to this good cause being
surrounded with his allies of professional!
dignitaries, cannot be snbdued as readily
as "Tyrant Appetite" His professional
classes arc distinguished as Doctors, Law
yers, and Liquor Sellers. The First class
contribute TO his support because ot the
great increase of their own emolnment, as
their living is obtained from the pains of
The afflicted. which is produced too ire
uaerstlv nv The use of intoxicating drinks.
They find 1t TO their advantage not to DIS
courage, but rather. to encourage IT'S Tree
and intemperate use. However lnvldIous
this remark NAV appear, it lsnevertheiess
true. There are, however, and we are
clad that it is 50, few honorable excep-
tions in this class-hut they are as rare as
the white black bird.
Thst am not mistaken IN the origin
and increase of disease by the use OF Aico-
hoIic drinks. invite your attention TO the
testimony of Doctors Sewal, Rush, and
Bronson:
I. DR.. Sewal, Of Washington city, in
letter from New York, states that OF two
hundred and four cases of Cholera, in the
Park Hospital, there were only SIX tenn
perate persons, and those had recovered !;
while one hundred and twenty two OF the
Others. when he wrote, had died, and that
the facts were similar in all the other hos
pitaIs.
2. DR.. Rush says, Ardent spirits pre-
dispose to every form of acute disease.
They also predispose 10 them in all cases.
Even the moderate use of them, like
bold invader, seizes the very vltals OF the
constitution.
8. DR.. Bronson, of Albany, who spent
some time in Canada, and whose profes-
sional character and standing give great
weight to bis opinions, says, lntemPerance
of any species, but Intemperance In the
use of distilled Liquors, has been more
productive cause of cholera than any 9TH
er, and indeed, than all others.
The second class of scientific gentlemen
whose induence'is against you, are they
whose interest is greatly augmented by the
feuds, broils and riots, which have their
existence in the immoderate use Of intoxI
eating drinks, but have their termination
in criminal prosecutions in yonr different
courts. The cause you are labouring to
promote, is laying the axe at the root OF
the tree, and with one stroke 1T must cut
off every vestige of this ill-gotten GAIN
Perhaps IL is this truth that leads 10 that
spirit of apathy and indifference which is
manifested by this class of Professional
men towards you. Eneed only TO bring
forward one case TO substaRtiate tins posi-
iien: This was the case Of man who
committed crime while in state OF lntox
ication, but who was advised by his coon
rel 10 feign before the court insanity, and
when prevailed upon TO speak he should
invariably answer spoons BY this
stratagem he was discharged, and when
the client returned to the Lawyers office
he told him he would now take those ten
dollars, to which the client Immediately
responded "spoens"-but the wise coun-
sel told him il was not Spoons now, but
the money must be forthcoming.
Thus YOU perceive. my young temper
ance friends, il may be spoons to get drunk.
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