The Columbian fountain., 1845-12-02

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On my return from your city last Thurs
day evening, learned with pleasure that
Through the exertions of that untring
champion of the good cause, brother Thos.
M. Davy,) public meeting had been gotten
up in about five hours time, and that the
members of Harmony Division, No. 2, Sons
of Temperance, and Association, No. A, OF
United Brothers, would attend in regalia, at
eight o'clock, at the Methodist Protestant
Church, which, to their great satisfaction,
was filled with ladies and gentlemen anxious
to close the proceedings Of /" thanksgiving
day" in SO appropriate manner.
A Hymn, appropriate to the occasion, was
first sung, and the Rev. DIR. Reese having
opened the proceedings with prayer, brother
Thomas M. Davy arose and addressed the
audience in an impressive manner. His
speech abounded with facts showing the
awful devastation consequent upon the use
Of intoxicating drinks, even in our own
town, and under our own personal observa-
ton. He closed his address by an allusion
to the prejudice existing against the Sons
and United Brothers Of Temperance, and
assured the audience that, as far as his
knowledge Of either (Which was furnished
by membership in both) extended, they
possessed no secret but such as is kept by
every mercantile establishment in the coun-
try, having private marks upon merchan-
die.
Mr.. VIM. D. Massey next followed; and
lin short and highly entertaining address,
urged upon the young men present, who
had not yet given their influence to the side
Of Total Abstinence, the propriety Of sign
ing the Pledge, and confuted many Of the
arguments (if SO they may be called) used
to defend the practice Of moderate drinking.
Mr.. M. concluded by introducing to the au-
dience the Rev. John S. Reese, D. d., Of
the Methodist Protestant Church.
DR.. Reese began his address by utterly
demolishing the great foundation Of rum
selling " If ! don't sell it somebody else
will,'' which species Of argument he com
pared to that Of an angler, who insisted that
he had nothing to do with the catching of
fish, inasmuch as he used no force, but
ONLY" baited his hook, to which the fish
voluntarily appended themselves. He next
proceeded to show, by sound argument and
a reference to facts, that so insidious is the
approach Of the foe, and SO certain the aim
Of his fiery arrow, that the only safety for
the young especially, was in total and en-
tire abstinence from all that may intoxicate.
He then proceeded, briefly, to exhort the
older portions of the auditory to discharge
their duty by giving good examples in this
matter to the young, and pointed out to
them the manner in which unsuspecting
youth was led into the snare by following
the example of old and respectable moder-
ate drinkers The ladies, especially, he
urged to assist in the great work, and they
nobly responded by giving % names to the
Pledge, which, with those of three gentle
men, who had the independence to do their
duty by signing, at the stand, before the
entire audience, made total of 26 as the
result of the meeting.
The ode, "Go, go, thou that enslavest
me-" was then sung, with much animation,
by the whole congregation; and the meet
ing, after the benediction by DR.. Reese, ad-
journed. Thus was thanksgiving day spent
in Alexandra. 's L.
The Bank of Baltimore has declared a
dividend of three per cent, for the last half
year '.la @ @'..A '. "@. .
The Westminster (Md.) Bank, a semi-an-
nual dividend of three and half per cent.
The Receiver Of the Manufacturers Bank
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