Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-02-29
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Thursday, February %, ls44.
ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS
A Year, uin Advance.L
FOR THE TERMS IN DETAIL. SEE FIRST PAGE
TEMPER ANCE.

Temperance Revival. Arrangements
had been made to have a Ceiebrat'on
on Washington's Birth day. Mr. =" NJ
II, STARR, ID, one OF the masters III
the City School, had been invited 10
deliver an Address. and all things were
in a state Of preparation for the meet
ing, when Judge WILLIAMS OF Bloom
ington. very OPPORTUNITY came among
MS. His Honor was waited on and
requested to take part in the meeting;
which, as it seems to be 'his meat
and his drink" to help forward the
Temperance cause, he unhesitatingly
agreed TO do. The meeting of Thurs
day was opened with prayer. by the
Rev. Mr. HUTCHINSON, after which
Mr. STARR delivered most excellent
and we'll written address, intoxicating
the doctrine most forcibly and elo-
ouen,ly that all who signed the pledge
or engaged in any benevolent effort.
should be governed by principle, ra,h-
err than by mere impulse. He was fol-
lowed by the Judge Of the I'd District
in strain of eloquence that rIveted the
attention and won the applause of the
whole audience. The exercises were
interspersed with appropriate Temper
ance Songs. The Temperance revival
had commenced, and when called upon
between 60 and 10 signed the pledge.
On Friday night Judge Williams. by
request, again addressed vast crowd
in the Methodist Church. For nearly
two hours he entertained the audience,
by his eloquen. appeals, humorous and
GOOD na,ured manner, and statement
Of we'll attes,ed and startling facts,
which most fully demonstrated the evils
Of in,emperance. During the evening
Mr. Marshal Morgan, reformed inc
briate. p. Tiele. Esq, Mayor of Fort
Madison. and Mr. F.. G. Bishop, adj
dressed the meeting with good effect.
At the close of the meeting about one
hundred signed the pledge.
On Monday evening Judge Williams
was again requested to address the
people. His effort on that evening
, altogether surpassed, we thought, those
Of the previous evenings. we have
no room to give even all outline OF his
rscapiolaiias what lie had 5sid h III ifs
former addresses, he described class
of men, "wi,h heads on their should
ers," who, with the numerous other
avenues to business and wealth before
. them which this country afforded,
might be better employed for them
selves, for their families and for their
country, than in selling that which
could do their customers no good, but
must do them much harm. The good
feeling. the good humor, in short, the
, tact with which he handled this part of
, his subject, could not have offended
. even those men "with heads on their
shoulders ''-and that was the most
cutting epithet he applied to grog sell
lers-if any of them had been present,
and even they could not have avoided
: testifving to the truth of all the Judge
said on the subject.
During the evening several OF our
best musicians who were engaged in
!, the rehearsal for the concert, came up
to the meeting and added much TO its
interest. by singing two very appropri-
ate temperance songs, with suitable &C.
. com paniments. Messrs Partridge,
Longley and Starr were the vocalists.
assisted by Mr. F. Bridgman on the
Cornet, Mr. Thorn on the Flute and Mr.
Foote on the Octave flute. We hope
these gentlemen will repeat these songs
at the Temperance meeting on next
Friday week. If they do, crowd
will come TO hear them. The evening
closed by calling for signers to the
pledge, when about 40 responded to
the call.
/ On Tuesday evening the Judge, new
er tired in we'll doing, again addressed
the crowd. AS on other evenings, he
had something new, interesting and fe-
licitous, to draw from his temperance
treasure house. The meeting was also
addressed by Nlessrs DE Hague and Y.
Hendrie to advantage. 1t was most
interesting and profitable meeting
After reading and counting the names,
which amounted to 81, the meeting adj
: journed 10 meet at the same place on
Friday nigh. Of next week.
On Monday night appropriate reso-
lu.ions were unanimously adopted by
acclama.ion, passing vote of heartfelt
thanks to His Honor Judge Williams
for his we'll timed, noble and success
} full efforts in the good cause. If the
Secretary will hand in the resolutions,
we will publish them in our next.
Thus ended the beginning of our
f Temperance movement. 1t was glo-
rious Jubilee. We have no space to
give further particulars. But the work
will not stop here. The Farmers, who
were attending Court, will carry and
: spread The influence throughout the
whole county. SO that it will no longer