The Columbian fountain., 1845-12-06

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Sour cause is going down." said Judas
/" and price is set upon the head of our
Master; and if do not betray him somebody
else will. And why may not as well pocket
the money as another 20 If you consider 1t
privilege to pocket the wages of unrighte-
BUSINESS, do SO. But do not pretend to be
the friend of God or man, while you count
it privilege to insult the one and ruin the
other. This is the most common excuse
for retailing 6 wish it were banished from
the earth; but then what can do?n What
can you do? You can keep one man clear;
you can wash your hands Of this wretched
business. And if you are not willing to do
that, very little reliance can be placed on
your good wishes. He that is unjust in the
least, is unjust also in much. | can hardly
conceive any thing more inconsistent with
every generous feeling, every noble princi-
pie, than retailing ardent spirit at the pre-
sent day. The days Of ignorance on this
subject have passed BY; every man acts with
his eyes open. Look at the shop and COM
pany of the retailer. His principal furni-
ture is a barrel, two or three bottles and a
half-dozen glasses He has few other
things just for show, brooms, earthenware,
tobacco, &c. The inventory is soon made.
! say he has few other things--for even
ne is ashamed to appear as dealer in spirit
only, His shop needs no sign every drum
kard knows it as it were by instinct. And
even the blind might discover it by infalliblc
tokens, and the company is combination
of oil ho oh >a1. -
there stands the retailer in the midst Of dissi-
patton, and human nature, in its last stages
of earthly wretchedness, in all it's degraded
forms and filthy appearances, surrounding
him. And his whole business is to kindle
strife, to encourage profanity, to excite every
evil passion, to destroy all salutary fears,
to remove every restraint, and to produce a
recklessness, that regards neither God nor
man-and how often, in the providence Of
God he is given over to drink his own pois-
on, and to become the most wretched of this
wretched company. Who can behold an in
stance Of this kind, without feeling that
God is just to him. I" He sunk down into
the pit which he made, in the net which he
hid is his own foot taken. 'gl'
When we think of the years he has spent
IN this service, the quantity he has scattered
abroad, and the misery he has caused, who
can calculate the responsibility And who
would envy him, even though he had accu-.
mulated fortune; or who would take his
gains burdened with all this responsibility =
But some one would say, | neither make nor
sell it. But you drink it occasionally, and
your examples goes to support the use of it.
7 ou see its tremendous effects, and yet you
receive it into your houses, and bid it God
speed. As far as your influence supports it
and gives it currency, so far are you par
taker of its evil deeds. If you lend your in
fiuence to make the path Of ruin respectable
or will not help to affix disgrace to that
path, God will not hold your guiltness.
You cannot innocently stand aside and do
nothing. A deadly poison is circulating
over the land, carrying disease, and desola-
ton, and death in Its course The alarm
has been given--a hue and cry has been
raised against it. Its effects have been de-
scribed, seen and felt Its victims are of
every class and however wide the differ
ence in fortune, education, intellect, it brings
them to the same dead level. An effort has
been made to stay the plague and sue
cess surpassing all expectation has crown
ed the effort Still it RACES to an immense
extent What will every good citizen do 2
Will he not clear his house, his shop, his
premises of it.? Will he not take every
precaution to defend himself against it, and
use his influence and his exertions to di-
minish its circulation, and thus diminish hui
man miseryi If he fears God or regards
man, can he stop short of this. Can he, in
the plenitude of selfshness, stand up and
say" I'll make no promises-Pll not be
bound-I am in no danger5 ~ If he can
say this, and stand aloof, shall we count him
a good citizen! speak as unto wise men,
Judge ye what say. G.afm a
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/ The following short sentence of advice,
by-Wm. Penn, should be kept in the minds
of all young persons who think of commit
ting matrimony -" Never marry but for
love, but see that thou love what is lovely.''
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FoR WINE BIBBERs-To get the Juice
of the grape in wine countries, a boy is put
into tub, in his bare, dirty feet, breeches
turned up, and he then trots about pressing
the delicious JUICE from the rotten and mixed
mess, called grapes. Inviting, isn't it?
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" Pat,' bawled out an Irish stevedore adj