American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-06-12
From the New York True Sun of Wedn esday.l
GRAND TEMPERANCE CELEBRATION

GhhND EhF EhANCE CELEBRAIlON
$1,000 SONS OF TEMPERANCE IN THE
FIELD-GKEAT DEMONSTRATION!
Al an early hour yesterday morning the usu.
al hustle and activity that Precedes every event
of magnitude and importance IN the city OF
Gotham was visible. On every side was seen
the star spangled banner floating in triumph
over the City Hall and other public buildings.
The morning was rather cloudy-neither too
warm nor too cool, but eminently well calcu-
lated for the great festival which was to take
place. The several steamboats, aud rail road
cars were crowded with the deputies of the
Temperance Societies of our sister states, who
intended to participate in the great Temperance
Festival, which by previous arrangement was to
take place yesterday, and by the time all were
assembled not less than fifteen thousand men
were congregated in the might and majesty of
freemen, to. bear witness to the mighty reforma-
ton that has within few years been accom-
plished over the slayer of mankind, the destroy
er of family peace, and the thief that steals
mems senses.
At IL o'clock grand national salute was fir
ed under the direction of the committee of ar
rangements, and at about O'Clock the several
representations who were to take part in the
great procession, which was about to follow,
marked out by the committee Of arrangements.
The banners belonging to each of these re-
presentations were of the most elegant and APP
propriate kind. We were particularly struck
with one which appeared to attract the atten-
ton of the immense multitude who witnessed
the procession. 1t had scene in the house of
a drunkard depicted in the most startling man
ner. On bed might be seen drunkard, evil
IDENTIFY laboring under the horrors and mseres
of deIirium tremens, while the anxious wife,
with all infant in her arms and care and ankle
ty depicted in her countenance, was listening
to the conversation of two gentlemen of the
Total Abstinence Society, who had called in
for the purpose of reclaiming the inebriate,
who was lying on the bed The children too,
with down cast countenance were listening to
the tale of misery the mother Iecited to the
strangers. Other banners there were, equally
affecting and equally calculated to bring those
who are addicted to the poison, to a sense of
the danger impending over them.
The immense procession then proceeded ac-
cording to the arrangements marked out, viz
Up Hudson to l4th street, through 18th street
to and around Union Park to Broadway, down
Broadway to Bond street, thence to the Bowery,
down Bowery to Grand, street, up Grand to-
East Broadway, through East Broadway toI
Chatham street, through Chatham to the Park.
During the progress of the procession it was
augmented considerable in numbers, and at the
time it reached the Park, it numbered proba-
bly, twenty thousand persons, judging by the
time that elapsed from the entrance of the lead
ing column to that of the last.
On reaching the Park we found an assemblage
of several thousand persons waiting to witness
the exercises which shortly afterwards took
place. The immense platform that was erected
Tor the accommodation of the presiding officers
and members ofthe press was Immediately occs-
pied by those for whose use it was put up, and
the exercises Of the occasion commenced. The
scene at this moment was truly grand and PIC
turesque. What with the immense assemblage
around, the sparkling jets of the fountain in the
Park, the immense sea of heads before, behind,
and wholly surrounding the great platform, the