The Columbian fountain., 1845-11-29
THE COL UMBIAN FOUNTAIN
SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. %, ls45.
We are now approaching the first session

the two houses will have met to receive the
first Annual Message of our Chief Magis-
trate. Then will no doubt be laid before
them the happy condition of our country
with regard to its prosperity, and the many
sources we have within ourselves for its
continuance, under the Divine blessing
Our relations with other portions OF the
globe, we trust, will appear friendly, and
give evidence satisfactory that literature,
science, morality and religion, arr, advancing
over the earth---that these, the forerunners
and accompaniments Of civilization, are be-
ing perfected, under the advance Of our re-
publican and liberal form of government
Among the many Improvements IN our
happy land, the reformation now going on
in the Temperance cause is well worthy Of
attention. The instruments employed in
carving it on are men Of almost every grade
of talent, and from every department in So
ceiy. Hence, they afford the means Of in
formation, and present them to the consid-
Grafton Of all grades and conditions Of men,
in forms and under circumstances to claim
attention and consideration. They are great
ly encouraged from the fact that their efforts
are humane--that they are righteous that
they have the Divine approval, being Di-
vinely authorized. Not all the benefits ac-
cruing from the various Improvements and
discoveries that have been made during the
present year--not all the advantages that
may have accrued to lis from the exercise
Of the combined wisdom Of our national
and state legislatures--not all the wealth
that has been accumulated by individual en-
terprise, or the combined efforts of multi
tudes, can compare with the grand, the be-
nefcent results which have attended the
progress Of this great moral reformation.
How insignificant appear the greatest tri-
umphs Of the politician the grandest achiev-
ments Of the statesman -the golden harvests
of commerce, the noblcst attainments OF
science, or the most perfect combinations Of
art, when brought into comparison with
these results.
Does any one ask, what are these results !?
Look around you-do you not recognize
among the happy, smiling faces Of your as
sociatcs, some, that few months ago were
clothed in rags, whose faces bore the i'm
press Of despair, and whose whole appear
ancc denoted the presence cf squalid pow
crly and hopeless misery' Whence the
change! What power has restored strength
to their limbs-renewed and terminated
their bodies--given back the lustre to thei
eye-what has thus ministered to the minds
disease-restored TO heallhful, vigorous ac-
ton the intellec.--caused the mind to ex
pand, and the body to resume its erect posi-
ton! See yonder female, with the baske
on her arm-she is returning from market
laden with the comforts and necessaries o
life. Six months ago, she was the heart
broken wife Of a drunkard! To-day she il
the happy wife Of a sober, industrious, kind
attentive husband-the mother of laughing
Joyous children. What has wrought thi:
changer The Temperance reformation has
done this. In every section of the country
similar instances of its benign influence up.
on the temporal interests Of man can be
4 pointed out But do its benefits stop here
Not So The Almighty would seem to
have charged this messenger of peace and
comfort to the human family with his
choicest blessings, that whoever will fly the
temptation and resist the alluremenls Of The
intoxicating bowl, shall have again profferet
to him the golden cord which unites him te
himself, and makes him participant IN tht
merits Of the death of Him of Calvary
who partook Of the bitter cup for all ou
sakes. Its benefits are too large to be con
fined to earth--they prepare the soul to re-
ceive Divine impressions, and fit it to com
4 prehend the vast, illimitable, uniathomabls
love Of the Divine nature. aF
3r These are the benefits conferred upor
mankind by Temperance To this end W.