The Columbian fountain., 1845-11-18
THE COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN
TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. Is, is45.
no DEALERS.


Now we come to continue our chat with
you, as promised in our last In our third
number, we put several questions to you, to
which we should have been pleased you
would have given us your response. When
we put you those queries, we introduced
several facts as self-evident. We then stated
that there were others equally self-evident,
and we put them TO you in the form of
queries. We now place them before you
in the form Of assertion, which we think
you would be compelled to do if you an
swer them honestly. .1a d1
l. No man will ever become drunkard
without using intoxicating drinks
2. All men cannot use intoxicating drinks,
and not become drunkards, or, to be- little
more explicit while scme may, all cannot.
3. No one has ever yet become drunk
ard without first becoming moderate
drinker. ts
A. All moderate drinkers, il they continue
to use Intoxicating drinks, cannot have as
surance that they will not become drunk
ards. i ta aa al
S. Total abstinence from all intoxicating
drinks, as beverage, is a perfectly sure and
safe course. 8,s,e ,l
a 6. If this course was adopted by the
whole community, the general health would
not be impaired. .- .. 2
z. The whole community would be more
likely to discharge all the obligations rest
ing upon them in the various relations they
sustain each to the other, and the condition
Of all would be improved. Now that we
have answered for you, as we presume you
must have done had you answered at all
we say, that when these facts are brought
before the mind, and you are made to feel
that you are accountable, and will most
certainly have to render an account for the
part you act as moral agent-when the esub-
ject comes before you in this form, and you
remember that reason, as well as revelation,
intends clearly that you should labor con-
stantly to lessen misery and increase hui
man happiness-in view Of all the misery
and disasters brought about through the in
fluence of the article in which you trade
in view Of all the comforts which arc lost
miseries pertaining to the present and future
state-comforts in time and eternity--how
can you answer it at the bar Of your own
conscience, now '-how will you be able
to answer at the eternal bar? This is close
acork but, dear friends, it is labor Of lore.
& We wish you to do right, and then we know
you will be happy. 1t is your good we
seck-it lis the good of our fellow men.
Bear with us-we love you too much to
hurt you, and if we even pain you, we have
no pleasure in doing so. 1t is your profit
we desire. If you believe us sincere in
these expressions of kindness, you will
bear with us. If we do wrong, please put
us right 1ages 9aala \
In our next visit to you, on this subject
unless we hear from you before we visit
your trade again, we shall indulge ourselves
IN noticing some of the apologies you make.
An yes, this is our hope Of you--that you
have, as you think, an apology. When we
show, as we believe we will, that you have
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no good apology, you will then meet us
with Hail Columbia" at the Cold water
Fountain, and rejoice that our Fountain has
been opened in the great metropolis of a
great people. Till then, we will labor for
your good. .,. W. sf.s-ste l.s.. o,.,,