The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-08-26
From the (HudsoD Spirit of the Age.
MODERATE DRINKING.

Albany, related the following thrilling Incl.
dent AT certain town meeting in Pennsyl:
vanla, the question came up whether any
: persons should be licensed to sell rum. The
clergyman, the deacon, and physician, strange
as it may now appear, all favored it. One
man only spoke against il, because of the
mischief it did, The question was about to
be put, when all at once there arose from
one corner of the room, miserable female.
She was thinly clad, and her appearance in
dlcated the utmost wretchedness, and that
her mortal career was almost closed. After
moment of silence, and all eyes being
fixed upon her, she stretched her attenuated
body to its utmost height, and then her long
arms TO their greatest length, and raising her
voice to shrill pitch, she called to all to
look upon her.
Yes" she said, "look upon ME, and
then hear me. All that the last speaker has
said relative 10 temperate drinking, as being
the father of drunkenness, is true. All prac-
tice, all experience declares its truth. All
drinking of alcoholic poison, as beverage in
health, is excess. LOOK UPON ME-. You all
know me, or once did. You all know was
once the mistress of the best farm in the
town. You all know, too, had one of the
best-the most devoted of husbands. You
all know had fine noble-hearted, industrious
boys. WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Docter,
'ohere are they now? You all know. You
all know they lie in row, side by side, in
yonder churchyard; all--every one of them
FILLING THE DRUNKARDs GRAVE! They we're
all taught TO believe that temperate drinking
was sale-excess alone ought 10 be avoided;
and they never acknowledged excess. They
quoted you, and you," pointing with her
shred ola finger to the Priest Deacon and
Doctor, Gas authority. They thought them
selves safe under such teachers. But saw
the gradual change coming over my family
and prospects, with dsmay and horror; felt
we were all to be overwhelmed in one CON-
mon ruin-l tried to ward off the blow, |
tried TO breake the spell, The delusive spell
in which the idea of the benefits of temperate
drinking had involved my husband and sons.
begged, prayed; but the odds were against
me. The Minister said the poison that was
destroying my husband and boys was good
creature of God; the Deacon (,Dho sits upon
the pulpit there, AND TOOK OUR FARM TO PAY
HIS RUM BILLs,) sold them the poison; the
Doctor said that little was good, and eacess
ought TO be avoided. My poor husband, and
my dear boys fell into the snare, and they
could not escape; and one after another was
conveyed 10 the sorrowful grave of the
drunkard Now look at me again. You
probably see me for the last tmc-my sand
has almost run--I have dragged my exhausted
frame from my present home-your poor
house-to warn you ALTO warn you, Dea-
con! 10 warn you, false teacher of Gods
word!" and with her arms high flung, and
her tall form stretched 10 its utmost, and her
voice raised to an unearhly pitch-shc ex-
claimed:-I shall soon stand before the
judgement seat of God-I shall meet you
there, you .false guides, and be ,ritness
against you all!m
The miserable female vanished-a dead
silence pervaded the assembly-the Priest,
Deacon and Physician hung their heads
and when the President of the meeting put
the question: Shall any licenses be grant
ed for the sale of spurious liquors?" the res
ponse was unanimouS-" NOr'
BANK1Ne.-It is fortunate for the people
Of Louisiana, that the power of creating and
renewing charters for Banks, is forever taken
away from the General Assembly. Tn
future the currency will be composed entirely
OF coin, the rate Of which is regulated accor-
ding 10 its intrinsic value. BY this means
we shall be blessed with an unchaneeable
and invarable circulation, and consequently
our trade will not be subject to those ruin i
ous and frghtful revulsions, produced in
ormer times by the recklessness of bank a
directors, in issuing their streams of paper. a
Those revulsions with their principal cause r
will be felt no longer; at least it is at all v
ines in the power of the representatives of Ii
he people 10 say TO the few banks that now v
lrag on weary and languid vitality, that a
heir paper operations muss cease. The la C
ors of the convention have not been vain. Il
This striking of the banks out of existence z
ample recompense for all trouble of the
eople in getting up the convention and all
he expense of money that attended it. lt
Five or six years ago, one could scarcely III
axe up newspaper, without seeing an ac-
cunt of some explosion of a paper money =:
hop, if not in this city or its immediate vi u
Unity, at least in more remote part of the ID
Jnion. AT present these accidents are rare. ,.
'he banks are greatly reduced in number, a'
nd those that remain above ground, are SO
ached by the people and their public SER X X
ants, that it is difficult for them to enter o'
pom course leading to insolvency. =
After two or three generations shall have NJ
assed away, should some one write a full