New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-15

~ 4, In many circles for a person belong 10
Temnerapce Society IL a bar 10 his admission and he
has been looked on as an outcss ana os' he
sp,es rcd since the commencement Of the world this
one has extended 10 bursting and people wiz pfooaoy
now look about them with calmer views we never |
helcnyed 10 a Temperance Society for very simple
reason We have always used good wine and hquor, as
II was intended 70 be used by it, bestower mat is IN
moderation. and when we required II hnd those VINO
are able maintain their equilibrium unoer these CIR
cnms,ances need call upon the aid OF tempe
rance pledge % protect them whilst those who unior-
tunaely cursed with innate appetite lot smuins
OF some kind afraid will never be oenehfted Dy
any pledge oath. bond, however solemnly taken II
they do not indulge In liquor. they Will In something
ese and 70 expect them 10 change the nature wnich
they fortunately born with and probably nhent
Ma much Of the question 10 expect the poor con
sumptye invalid who has descended from long Ino OF
consumptve parents TO change bis entire system ny
simply signing pledge 10 that effect
Now it was not necessary TO go out OF the heraio
Office to prove that signing the Pledge and speaking
at Temperance meetings do not always Keep
man from falling back into habits OF intoxicauon'-
We all know well that devout Christianshave fallen
into fragrant sin and that reformed inebrates have
plunged into drunkenness again. Mr. Cough case,
putting the construction upon It, proves moth
ing more Admit that he was neither drugged nor
tempted buV fell into drinking and bad company
from the mere force Of his own depraved overmas
terng appetitcs, and who but most debauched
tppcr can find in this any argument against Total
Abstinence or the Pledge?
The Herald says noe never belonged TO TEN
perance Society" &c But, unless we greatly
mistaken. this same Herald has stated within three
years that all hands in its establishment were
thorough Total Abstinence men. 1t may be- how
ever that this was said OF the Printers only.
That Reformed Drunkard has hard battle to
fight with his depraved appetltes, is most true
That he is sometimes vanquished in the contest, is
certain. But that. since the advent Of Washingto-
nanism he has far oitencr triunphed and lived and
died n sober happy, respected useful citizen, is
equally true, and that The Pledge has enaJied Mou-
sands 10 do his who rouid otherwise hare hredand
died draakards, is as clear as daylight. The true
moral to be drawn from Mr. Coughs fall.-alowing
it to be voluntary, as the RUNNERS will have it
seems to us as follows.
L. Young men berare ofthe first glass Be
ware of drinking moderately for in that seeming
moderation is the seed offuture cxccss-the founda
ton of a raving appetite which will make you its
degraded, wrctchcd slave. o flee from every form
of stimulation whether by liquors, wines, cordias,
opiaies or tobacco There is safety in an uncor-
rupted nature and an intellect alive TO your danger
There h no safety elsewhere.
Q Moderate Drinkers stop at once stop no'r
The pas, cannot be restored, and the faint already
imbibed by your system may trdnble you through
life. But resolve to drink no and sign the
Pledge at once So long as you keep it, you are
safe and you are FAR more likely keep it IL you
have publicly promised 10 do SO than Otherwise
Whoever asks you to drink, say to him have
signed the Temperance Pledge and If he be not
utterly depraved, he will not urge you to break it.
B. People of New York five thousand of your
brethren have been restored by the Temperance
Pledge TO the ways of sobricty virtue and useful
ness Five thousand once wretcbed, now COM
Portable families each watch and pray nightly for
the return OF the husband and father trusting that
he has kept that Pledge which is the sheet anchor of
oil their hopes YET, fearing that he has been tempted
TO break il. Yet you moral virtuous People OF New
York license men TO set traps for the poor, weak,
wavering husband and father ON half the corners of
your strcels--to hold out lures to win him back TO
the ways of Indebtedness and despar-to flash be-
fore his eyes all sorts of cnticemens for his per
vered appctitcs-to try their best to wake the tiger
within him which he restraints from tearing him by
his utmost strcngth-Yoa set these snarcs for these
poor, frai brcthren-that IT, you sell others the priv
cgc of doing il for five dollars head. Five dol.
lars for the privilege of plunging five thousand fami-
lies into the depths Of want. horror and despair
Five dollars for the privilege ofniamng men to com
nit all of crime and outrage even to murder
hscfl How long will you continue to replenish
your treasury from the tears of desolatc widows,
the means Of furnishing orphans
y. Tic l,onrlex. saxs that we Ill ,,nt dissent