The Columbian fountain., 1846-07-23
TEMPERANCE ADDRESS,
DELIVERED. AT GEORGETOWN
July 4th, lS46. NJ
BY REV. W. T. EVA.

conquerable. ! have seen the tender striplipS
IN the rosy bloom Of boyhood, and the hlla-
larliy OF youth turned aside from The pains
Of innocence and simplicity by the tempting
aspect Of the sparkling bowl. have seen him
grown UP to manhood, with the cares OF
family upon his shoulders, and they depend
ing wholly upon his exertions for support,
still enslayed to the cursed habit OF intoxlca-
cation--and | have seen him spending his
time at that den of destruction, the grog shop
while his wife, the tender partner OF his
Joys and sorrows-was al home, II home
it may be called, weeping over the folles oi
her once affectonate husband, with her half
starved children around her, crying for bread.
And have seen him, TOO, moved to tender
ness by the earnest and loving entreaties OF
that wife, and melted TO compassion by the
cries of his children, resolve to reform and
be better husband and a kinder father, bat
the monster habit had seized him with firm
grasp, and he tried and tried, and retired in
vain 10 lose himself from that grasp. Sad
proof of the force of habit, and Of the bond
age into which il may bring man. And
thus it is, that old King Alcohol brings his
subjects into bondage, by compelling item
to pour down their lhroals daily and hourly
sslquid death and distilled damnation."
But his subjects are in bondage to ignor-
ace, also. Do you think, my friends, that
the universal prevalence OF lnternperance
would be an auspicious circumstance for the
spread Of knowledge and intelligence? On
the contrary, has il not always been the policy
OF The old despot TO keep his subjects in gross
darkness? What neighborhoods are there
which are the most enlightened? Are they
not those which are the most lemperale2 and
does not ignorance Of the blacklist kind prevail
where there is nothing but grog drinking and
carousing carried on? And supposing myself
to be looking down upon world where intem-
pernnce universally prevails, cannot but sup
pose myself 10 be looking down upon world
where ignorance universally prevails. How
can il be otherwise, when the old King is SO
ignorant himself? Why he don't understand
the first principles ofknowledge-he has never
been though the primer, and he don't, posi-
lively, know his A B C's, as the school boys
say.
But again: he holds his subjects in bondage
to mdolencc-lhough he is not very lazy him
self yet he seems to take delight in making his
subjects lazy He won let them work al all, or
if, per chance, time hangs heavily on their
hands, and they sigh for something TO do, that
they may while away its hours in some degree
pleasantly, he sets them 10 doing something
that is foolish and wicked perhaps it is 10
pitching pennys, or shutting cards with queer
kinds OF colored figures drawn upon them, or
rolling a ball along big alley TO knock down
a bit Of wood set up a, the other end, or per-
haps II is 10 lighting, or stealing, or numbering
---or something OF that sort. Some of his
subjects he compells 10 neglect their farms
their stock shares their poultry dies, their crops
fail, and the whole land is upgrown and over
run with weeds. He compells them 10 ne
glect their business, or to suffer il to be run
away with by clerks, their accounts become
confused, their money is lost, and they soon
become bankrupt and insolvent
And again: he keeps his subjects in bond.
age to poverty. What little money he has
circulating through his kingdom came from
nobody knows where The ragged clothes
which his subjects wear, and the mean
and dirty novels, with broken doors,
and battered out pains of glass, stuffed up
with old hats and old breeches, in which
they live, indicate their poverty. Sometimes
they win little money by gambling, some
times the wives OF the drunken old codgers
earn little pittance by doing some sewing,
or knitting, but it is all taken at once, and
with jug in hand, for remember, here in this
world, there is no hiding it by putting under
the coat in the bosom, the old soaker totters
off to the first national establishment for lit
tie of the "swate crature," thus it is that all
their money goes, and they are kept in abject
poverty. There are famed few of the sub
jects, however, who live in splendid great
mansions, decorated with the gayest and
most costly furniture, and filled with every
comfort and convenience. These, moreover,
have plenty of money--they display long full
purses, and have great Golfers full Of gold and