New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-20
The Cause Of Temperance Onward.

gratitude 10 Almighty God that the Temperance
Reform is extending its benign and purifying infin'
ence TO o greater or less extent throughout orr
world
The evils resulting from spirit drinking, and tie
traffic in intoxicating liquors had become enor-
NOUS. and so overwhelming that If some general
movement had not taken place to check their eva
influence ruin and desoa,ion seemed inevitable
The almost universal belief that intoxicating liquors
Az beverage, were beneficial and even neces-ar!
was rapidly preparing not only the people OF tnesa
United States but the world for universal nlempc-
rance Now most hoPP,iy. this great delusion winch
has en,iced millions Of human beings 10 destruction
10 rapidly passing away the experiment oil eNf"'
abstinence has been tested. and millions have pro
claimed their verdict. That Intoxicating hq''o,s
az a LereyaQe are nereJ tel<fci0l but 0fc0Vs m
FURIOUS.
While there remains vast amount Of labor yet 20
he performed by the friends and advocates 0. total a
.,;oence before this blessed reform do lis perfect
work. every friend Of humanity cannot but rejoice
that It's advances are steady and rapid far and wide
The great value Of the reformation j. now felt and
scknow lodged by all classes even those who do
not practically yield 10 its requirements, give o.
their verbal appreciation. Is happy and saluiary
influence is now exhibited in the harvest fields and
the work shops Of the nation. Our cities and vl'
lagos, unhaypily are still great sufferers m Their
moral and pccuniary interests, from the use o. ana
the traffic n nlox ica,ng liquors and the estimate
of these immense crHs Though almost beyond
computation cannot be- too frequently placed be-
fore the community through that powerful engine
the press
Hon. b. F. Butler. late Attorney General oi
the United States after a most careful investigation
Of The evils resulting from the OF Ardent Spirits
found that the ye0rly lass TO the State OF New
York. is Eighfecn Millions Of DO''ors and TO The
Cn,fed States one Hpndred and Fltiy Millions oi
Dollars In this estimate, Mr.. Butler did not take
into account the evils resulting from the use and
traffic Of the Infamous decoctOus and mixtures sold
throughout the land, and called r'ne, nor those
evils resulting from strong beer, cider and those
other vile poisons sold and drank under the aurirg
name Of cordals These would have added fifty
Der cen, OF loss TO his calculations Could il be- poe
slble TO save all this enormous waste OF property
BY the universal adoption Of the principle OF toia
abstinence. il would according 10 Mr.. Buffers est
mate. founded on ardent spirits aonel enable tie
e,are of New.York TO sustain debt at per cent
interest Of about Three Hundred and FJty MI
hons Of Dollars for any rational public improvement
and our Nation n debt TwcutyegH Uandred
Millions Of Dollars at the same Of interest The
State could make with this Eighteen Millions here
tofore wasted in Rum. over fourteen hundred miles
of Railroad ycariy at sl2,5OO the mile. and the
Nation for the 40 millions wasted land corsc than
wasted over eleven thousand five hundred miles O.
Railroad yearly at the same cost
These estimates may appear cNuavagent but
taking the Union now at 20 millions and estimating
cents as the average cost of strong drink to each
person per day, it would amount to the enormous
sum of tro huHdred and nineteen millions OF dol
lars yearly.
The pecuniary loss is a small consideration inview
Of the moral blight which tie sale andusc Of intoxi-
eating liquors iniiict upon rhe community The debt
Of Grca, Britain il not quite thousand mil
lions Of pounds sterling. In ten years, taking the
population at thirty millions and the use OF strong
drink at Sd sterling per day TO each il would
amount to 1868 $50 600 pounds sterling, 36s.75O,-
900 more than the whole national debt. There
would be but little doubt, would the people of
Great Britain abstain entirely for ten years from
the use of all intoxicating liquors. the saving 10 the
whole nation would be equal to their present debt
in capital alone Why will not political economists
look into these estimates
Should not these considerations have weight with
oil classes in the higher well as in the more hum
bic walks of life. and induce every individual not
only to abandon the traffic ia intoxicating liquors
but also their use as a beverage Let the people OF
any civilized nation universally adopt the principle
and practice of caf,rc abstinence and il is almost
impossible to begin To estimate the vast advantages
that would accrue 10 that nation in moral pkgsicai
and pecWniary view.
The foregoing remarks aud estimates have been
elected by the late interesting intelligence from
Germany
IAN the German societies AZ Hamburg have adopted
the pledge 500 German physicians. in addition 10 a
large number pledged have expressed themselves in
favor OF abstinence. Rev Mr. Seeing an Efficient friend
of the cause hes preached within Is months beside.
before sundry assemblies In Protestant sections oi The
country. IN 20 Catholic churches IN consequence of
which 30 90 men. over 10000 women. and more than
20 600 scholars took the pledge The number socc.
ties In Germany increased within Il menihs from 40
up to 1872 and probably yet more not including in this
ssumstc Upper Si!esia and Posn2. In Upper SAcsis,
where the evil was not less great than formerly in Ire
land. Father stephen BszazswsN began a Temperance
movement and already 100000 men and women have
taken the pledge, partly through him. partly through
other clcigymcn Ry Upper Silcsa the Grand Dnke.
dom OF Posns has been elecncd that there the en-
tire Catholic clergy rose Tor H. ike preaching
from all pups total abstinence and already 100 900 have
given their pledge"
In closing this communication let us appeal TO the
american pcopl, 10 come up Immediately to the
pledge Of total abstinence What great and glo
rious example TO the world should this whole ma
ZION a. one man throw of the alcoholic yoke and
by 90 doing end all the slavery which that yoke has
occasioned so long as a single individual in the
nation countcnanccs the OF Intoxicating liquors
~ a beverage in health. the victory over the de.
stroyer is Incomplete. Let then each individual in
the nation feel that the final triumph OF the cause
rests with himself and act accordingly and the good
work is finished +. c. ID
Later from McNico.
We learn that gentleman who arrived in this city
yesterday morning from New Orleans. which city he
left on the llih inst states that news had been NJ
oeived at Mobile tina, the French ig-ofwar Mcr-
cure had arrived a, Pensacola from Mexico with