Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS.
A TEMPERANCE ADDRESS.

Some unknown friend-to whom we owe
an apology for our neglect-sent us a copy
about a month since of an address delivered
before the Springboro' Temperance Society,
by Mrs. Rebecca Janney. We laid it aside
for perusal at some future time, and inadvert-
ly omitted noticing it until now.
Temperance addresses are as plenty as
blackberries, but Il temperance address by a
woman is something out of the order Of things,
and indicative of an unusual state of moral
civilization in both speaker and AUDITORS
Our very heart leaps for joy whenever we
find that the Angel of Truth has descended
and so troubled the water Of woman's SYM
pathy, that she is impeIled to make a public
appeal in behalf of her degraded fellow be-
ings, and is made willing to incur the odium
cast upon those of her sex who travel beyond
the bounds of what man has prescribed as
" her appropriate sphere" We rejoice to
find those whose ideas of woman's duty and
destiny extend beyond the making of bread
and the darning Of stockings. Welcome to
all laborers in the moral vineyard, but thrice
welcome to those who bring with them a wo-
mans heart and a woman's sympathy. Her
devotion to the cause Of truth-her faithful
ness to the purest embodiment of Gods love
that the world ever saw, has been beautiful
y described by the poet,
"Not she with trait orous kiss her Saviour
stung,
Not she betrayed him with unhallowed
tongue;
She, when apostles shrank, could danger
brave,
Last at the cross, and earliest at the grave"
But to the address some extracts we pre-
sent to our readers, and regret we cannot give
it entire. Rebecca Janney's views of Tenn
perance, it will be seen are by no means con.
tracted, but pass over and far beyond the
use of intoxicating liquors, briefly traversing
almost the entire field of Intemperance. We
regard it as an interesting address, as the pro-
ductlon of one who thinks, and we trust her
talents are employed in the cause of Anti
Slavery, as well as that of Temperance.
:" believe a great part of the corrupt state
Of society has its origin in the cradle. MANY
people seem to think when a child cries il
must be for something TO eat, and without
any reference to, or knowledge of what its
little stomac can bear, they set to cramminq
1t with something altogether unsuitable and
improper. After IA time the child cries again,
and they again renew the examining o6era-
ton. And SO they go on, examining the
cnl.u win an improper quantity and guilty
Ot fond and callinn q; il
able 1t knows not why; it longs for some.
thing it knows not what. As its little n ind
comes TO have a knowledge of LANGUAGE. The
truth-seeking spirit developes itself-it wish.
es TO know the why's and the wherpforps of
every thing. The mother may be busy. or
not have thought upon the subject. She NAV
win a box OF the ear, or a kick, tell il to be-
gone, and not bother her; or to plaster up her
own lgnorance,and appear to know more than
The child, tells 1t a f~alsehood. Upon this
pivot too oisen bangs the character of mn.-
lhey are unhappy and uncomfortable thew
know not why. They ask for a knovledGs
oil what they see and hear around them -tbei
parents 40 not give 1t 70 them, and thew seek
1t from the corrupt world abroad. They conId
not place confidence in their parents, tbera.
Tore they do not respect them, and of icoErse
no longer heed their advice. Thew lose tbo;r |
pilot, and sail down the stream of time snb.
Ject to every breeze of passion or vice thai,
may chance to blow them along, until thew
are extraordinarily lost-unless the Wash
i,ngton Temperance Society can touch a ten.
chord that is yet left, and save them from
the awful precipice upon which they are stand.
ing. They cease to respect themselves he
cause they know how the world looks down
upon a wretched, homeless wanderer. Tbsw
a desire to do better, but they know No,
where to bsgin.-No one pities, no one com
forts Them or stretches out a protecting arm.