The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1843-03-25
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tenn of ethics" II would have been Just
as app opns 10 have rol us Il at Comet
had made its appearance III the heavens.
tie charges us with "teachlug a new sys-
TEN Of ethics" Not true. This "mon-
sler' is the off. pring Of is own magma
lion. ALSO of reducing the standard Of
morals" How By making drunkards so.
her. Nay, says Vmdex but by calling your
members temperance men. Vindex knows
full well that in the use CT the term
in its modern accepallon we simply
pronounce our 'members' free from the
use of intoxicating drinks. We defy
"Vindex" to find solitary man among
thu millions OF leetotalers who has ffen
taught or made To believe that he is neces-
sarly moral man because he reIrans
from Intoxicating drinks. Not man a.
mong them but who would reply to Vim
dex in his search, Sir you insult COM
mon sense. Notwithstanding the fa-la-
cy and injustice Of the charge, he hangs
on TO it like drowning man to a float
ing straw. "VindeX" seems to query
whether the temperance we advocate be
the temperance of the Bible. Verify il is.
We advoca'e total abstinence from ntoX-
icallng drinks, and for this we have the
venerable example of the Rechabites
whose pledge was, awe WILL
DRINK NO VINE" (see Jeremiah
AXXV.6,7,) and who kept the pledge
for upwards of 300 years. Wine was
then the only Intoxicating drink
This was no unlawful affair, Cor God
manifested his approval by a special
promise and blessing. See verse 8 also is
and l9. Here then is voluntary tell
perance society like ours, only that ours
included the mnre alal drinks since inven-
led. II it was right then voluntarily 10
refrain from wine, by what process of
reasoning will Vindex show it to be wrong
no"2 We would also modes;ly refer him
to the examples OF the wife OF Manoah, of
Hannah, Of Samuel and of John the Bap-
lis.
The temperance Of John was certainly
quite scripiural, for ii was according to
the word of God by the angel, "lle shall
drink neither wine ncr strong drink. -
With these venerable examples before
us we shall feel quite safe until "Vindex'
brings "thus saith the Lord" thou shall
not refuse 10 drink wine and strung drink.
We also demand from "Vindex"
thus saith the Lord" ye shall moi al
Ok any one public vice unless We al the
same time attack them all. Unul then we
shall proceed in our work, aud concen-
tra,e our energies against thus "mosl dire
IuI aud lnvrleiale species OF lnIemperance"
and when We have uprooled II us we ex
ppct to do, we will make the more vigor-
Gus attack sonew here else. Does "Vn.
dex" mean To say that because we confine
our organ zed effort to one vice that we
sanction or cease to oppose other vlces2
But what is lie doing in the mean time.
Why does not he with his "warranlabe''
means andshis deficient christianity" ups
root the other vices Of the day2 When
an enemy is hard pre-, sed he seeks to
make a diversion OF his assallant to some
other object or point Of attack. Hence
the cry of our enemies why don't you at
tack other vlces2 hoping in the meantime
to recoverfrom the onset. But we are not to
he thus diverted. This cry against the tenn
perance reform because il d, es not in
cIude all immoraItles is trick of the de-
vii Ia serve his own cause. divide and
conquer" is our maxim aud when we have
subdued this giant foe, if "Vindex" has
not been successful with the rest we will
come to his aid.
Is it candid in 'Vindex" when profes-
sing to trace our lineage and fix upon our
",mrenl'ge" to stop with Nahomet, when
he must have known of the temperance
society Of the Rechabies formed Genius
res before Mahomel's day2 II he did not
know it, he is guilty of ignorance;if he did
know II, he is guilty of misrepresentation:
lie may seize either horn of the dilemma
he ple,ses How does the prohibit on Of
wine by Mahomet bring our cause into
dtsrcpue2 Mahomet taught "lhere is one
God" Does it bring the great truth Of the
exis ence of God into disrepute because
the Inpostor taught l'2 What pity that
"Vindex" should allow Mahometans to
excel him in the virtue of self denial.
His logic on this subject is near Of kin
to the Neutrality-suspicious. is an animal:
but man is an animal:-ttlerefole man is
mcase!!
He also attempts to fasten upon US the
false and slandcyous imputalion of pro-
posing milk. Tamarind Water, or any
thing else" Arsenic of course not excep-
ted,) as a substitute for wine at the sa-
crament. have before me the enquirer"
a periodical devoted to the swine aues-
ton" in which MIR Delavan says-"The
question is not whether the fruit of the |
vine or wine shall be dispensed with at
the Lords table; bu. whether the highly