The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-08-29
GREAT TEMPERANCE DOINGs

A grand mass meeting Of the Young
MEMS T. A. Society Of Baltimore
attractive music and grand semic eff
ect-aNe speeches By Protestants and
Catholics, showing the true character
0fthas aew mOrem entS-Me topics DIS
cussed- The proposed State Temper
anee CQnrentiOn-Me need Of egtrG eT-
ertions and more effective measures, as
moaO universally teH By temperance
men, &c, &c.
The meeting of"Young Mems To
tai Abstinence Society of Baltimore "
which took place on Tuesday evening,
proved one ofthe most gratifying events
that has marked the progress Of the
great Temperance Reform in our city.
At the appointed hour, the delightful
grove in front of the venerable German
Reformed Church, Second street, which
is under the pastoral care of Rev. Elias
Heiner-the place so happily chosen
was literally crammed with auditors Of
both sexes, fair and benevolent woman
not forg citing to lend the smiles of her
appreciation. The very street also was
donseIy crowded with people anxious to
catch a glimpse ofthe enchanting scene,
and drink in the music from the Blues
Band, which was in attendance. The
grove was brilliantly illumed by means
Of lamps suspended, in dazzling ar
ray, from rods stretched from tree to
tree, along the n leading to the
speakers stand, as we'll as in front there
of. To the eye Of the spectator, they
strikingiy revealed the inscription {:
"YOUNG MEMS T. A. SOCIE-
TY, INSTITUTED MAY THE 3Olh
1914, which was painted upon a strip of
white canvass, and extended across the
front entrance of the stand, giving no
slight effect to the scene, and doubtless,
inspiring the heart of many a member of
the society, besides ourself,with feelings
Of allowable pride.
On each side of the speakers stand
were seats crowded with those for whom
they were designed the ladies - the
Band being placed Immediately in the
rear. The speakers stand was occupi-
ed by the clergymen of various denom-
nations, who were present, in obedience
to dictates Of the worthiest kind, officers
and members of Senior Temperance So
%cieties, including father Keener, repre-
sentatives Of the press, and the orators
of the evening, who (named in the order
of their appearance were James Hoban
Esq, Of Washington City, a layman of
the Catholic Church, Rev. Henry Sill
Ger, of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and Rev. r. J. Breckenridge of the
Presbyterian Oh. W. are thus explicit
because some person had gived out the
i dea that the Young Mems Society had
already become tainted with a despicble
sectarian exclusiveness an absurd i'm
putation further contradicted, if needful,
by the presence ofRev. E. Heiner ofthe
German Reformed Church, who offered
up the opening PRAYER, and Rev S. p.
Hill Of the Baptist Church, who closed
meeting with a benediction. The
chair was occupied by the end Vice,
Mr.. Gibbs, in the abesnce of the presi-
dent, who was not in the city.
The Spe eches were varied in matter
and manner, and usually interesting.
Mr.. Hoban, owing to a painful degree
of physical debility produced by i'll
and medicine, did not exihipit his
famed powers of voice and jesture' to ad.
vantage, yet his effort was listened to
pleasure as well as profit. His
.heme was, chiefly, the intellectual raw
ages of in~temperance. He described a
.numberof examples ameng the gifted of
his own school-mates, who have found
an early grave ofinfamy. He portrayed
he well known and deeply-to-be-deplor-
career of Robert Burns, in effective
manner, and warned all young men dis
posed to be too self relying, of the la
nentable end to which a similar career
would be sure to hurry them!
MIR. Slicer dwelt chiefly upon the obi
of the traffic in intoxicating
in all its grades and phases, in
the most obvious means for its
Observation-Disclosures of the use
the part of the drinkers, in whose
lands rest the destinies of the maker and
he seller. He poured perfect floods of
indignant rebuke upon the drunkard ma
lers, and contending that the idea of the
emperance men pretended not to pro-
scribe the dealer, as absurd in the ex-
rene. He was disposed to show no
but to have the grog-selIers
understand that, in as much as
heir interests, as composing only the
minority, as are opposed to the good of
he majority, they must, soone or later,
i've way, and that in accordance with a
fundamental principle Of our government
= the governing will the majority. His
of what might be called hydro
more correctly than is canine
badness, was positively electrical, con-
the entire of his immense audi
nee with laughter
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