The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1844-12-30

for they Hpl lived they cOuu, nan nANel ana
half starved and not educated at h'l-with most
wreiched example before their eyes What encour-
agemeat had the wife or the children 10 attempt any
thing Ito make any exertion, The children nre a.
buscd and rumped on ut home, and they grow up
without selG.respect, without shame and without
principle Can any thing respectable he expected of
;hem' And if they do rise, must be through n
world Of difficulty .1s
How many thousand families have been ruined in
s0me such way as this The father was drunk.
ard aud the mother-what could she do? She en-
dured, hoping against hope and for the children 3
sake bore up against tho curreut; and many tnlc
disguised sud desparng heart under joyful coun-
tenance, till at length she died of broken heart;
died at the hands Of him who had sworn 10 protect
her
Those and things like these, tho effect OF mr.
dent spiritnot casual, accidental, but common, nat
nra effects every where, in every town, in eve
ny neighborhoOd, and in every connection. Look
witch way we Will, we see some Of the effects. The
greatest wretchedness which human nature in this
world il called to endure is connected with the use
of ardept spirit rhsre Is nothing else that degradcs
and deblsas mnn like t-nohin5 too base for him to
do to obtain his fyorile drink. Nothing else sinks
tho whole nnn-so completely destroys, only
all moral principle but all scf-respsct all regard TO
character, all shame, all human feeling The drunk
ard broat out from every kind Of cndearias con-
nexon, md broat over every kind Of restraint; so
completely extinct is human feeling, that he bo
drunk the funeral Of his dearest relative, and call
for drink in the last efforts Of expiring nature.
n
for noble purposes and endowed with noble faculties,
degraded, disgraced polluted unfit for heaven, and
nusnRce on earth. iIe is the centre Of circle
count up lis influence in his family and his neghbor-
hood tho wretchedness he endures and the wretch
ness he causes-count up the tears of wretched
wife, who curses the day Of her espOusals, and Of
wrechcd children who curse the day Of their birth
To all This positive nvil which ardent spirit has
cd, Odd the happiness which bu, Cor il. this family
might have enjoyed and communicated Go through
neiehb orhood a town in this way, count up all
the misery which follows the train Of ardent spirit,
and you will he ready to ask, the regions ci etrr
nal death send forth amy ;hing more deadly? Wher-
AVERT goes, the same cry may he heard lancnta-
ton md mnurHing and woe; and whatever things
pure or lovely, venerable, of good report, fall
before it These are effactS-and | need say
gnorc upon this point. Can any man deny that "lhe
OK is wont To- push with the horns?
81. II ia this been testified to the owner? or are
the makers aud retailers Of its effects! The
effects manifest and they have eyes, ears and un-
Aerstlndhg9 well as others. They know whatev-
err pros. they make is at tho expense Of human life
or comfort: and that the tide which is sweled by
their unlnl'owcd merchandise sweeps ten thousand
yearly to rain. But this is not NIL The attention Of
The public has Of late been strongly turnel to tins
subject. Tie mjads oC men have been enlightened,
and the responsibility pressed homo upon them
The subject las been presented to them in new
light and cannot hut the Rbsuvdity oil repro
batting tho tempted, while the temptsr is honored-
of blaming drunariS and holding il reputation those
whose business il is - make drunkards, But are the
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