The New York herald., 1845-09-16

make Il ten n there h any wishing to contribute let
ss%sn sIs% Ssvs the money r. .SsS. m%sdisssy
after the collections. will go with the speaking this
10 an impo part OF the business: After we get the
money we want to get signatures to the pledge.
The collection went on in this manner for q good
while. amidst much fun and joking Asong followed
and the next speaker called upon was
Mr. BErrs, Of Jersey City He spoke for about 6nesn
minutes using all his eoquence TO convict alcohol Of all
sorts Of rascay Il was the cause Of commsscisi iail'
II playing the mischief with the Pearl and water
street folks, who might bs found half gone at that mo-
ment in of the fashionable tipping shops r Is,
spoke OF the advance of the and gave in ustra
tion tho fact ha' in the State Of Florida almost all
judges pledged men, and that Mobile and New
Ore had their bands OF" Washngtonans" who were
every day increasing IN numbers.
The CHAIRMAN now announced that they had received
nty signature ies 10 the pie dge
Mr.. OLIVER TO the crowd )Now. do you hear that ?
Come up-come right up-do come up and sign.
Mr.. WALpRoN sung song
Mr. OLIVER now said there two ladies' who wanted to
up and sign the pledge and he hoped the example
would be followed None, however, seemed willing to
come.
CHARLES T. Mills was then introduced. He said the
principles OF total abstinence revealed this evening were
the groundwork Of the whole building the
principles which the Washingonans intended to esab.
lsh throughout the city All good men now supported
them-the phllanthr oplst and lover of humanity, and,
above all hitherto neglected class the reformed drunk
ard, who now stood forth redeemed. In every street
these principles were now promulgated by men who had
been drunkards. The wee of drinking commenced in
moderation and ended in misery poverty and woe, un.
less the pledge signed. The fashionable saloons
and barroOms In the city lay at the iounuaton OF ns
vice. which obliterates from the forehead of man the
image OF his Maker and makes him the victim and out
cast of society. This the experience OF moderate
drinker, On this very spot (said Mr.. Ms) thousands
of victims have been buried (rhe Washington Parade
ground was formerly the Potters' Field Could call
up the buried dead they would tell You that your fate
would be theirs unless you reform We must peuton
the Legislature and tho Common Council We want
the Of 100 900 voters in addition to the - 600 al
ready sent to Albany demand abolition Of the IL
and excise law Do not mistake purpose; do
think that behind this work political church III
fuence. Those who first started the temperance move
mont far from the influence OF the Church poll
tics. Humanity impels forward. We cannot bear TO
fellow men selling themsev for rum abusing
their families, beating their wives and starving their
caildren. lntemperance has annually this nation
hundred millions Of dollars and how much pauper-
ism and crime has it producedl The last refuge
of the temperance cause has been found in total
abstinence and we appeal to your love for hui
manity-to your better principles-to support it.
The rumsellers aw akethe wholesalers are awake
tho importers awake, and we must be awake
Come forward them and redeem this nation from its
STAIN and then may you sit down under the o Lib
erty with Patriotism Virtue and Temperance inscribed
on your banners. Here man with straw hat called
loudly for song but the Chairman read the pledge
again. The man insisted however having the song.
and Mr. Waldron accordingly sung Adams Ale
MIR. PARKER now came forward, and said, II q man
could not live without selling rum he ought not to live
2000 genteel vagabonds supported in this city, by
this accursed traffic These are the men who take the
earnings Of the aborer and his wife; and what these
81 900 loafers good for? Nothing Are you bent, then
starving these rummeriss out and upseng the whole
OF this stem Of vice aud iniquty2 One OF these
sellers has brass in hts lace, than there is in my
mothers old brass kettle They ask if they can't be al
lowed to get honest living their busnessi just
though they not filters Of State prisons and makers
The gentleman continued in his denunciations OF land
lords and the meeting broke up amid the shouts of the
multitude