The Columbian fountain., 1846-04-11
CHOICE READING.

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:" II you enhghen the people, do not forget that this
is but half the work. Let them be made virtuous and
religious, or you leave them exposed to danger
than they were before"
EIGHTEEN SHOTS FROM OUR REVOLVER
WHAT is THE TRAFFIC WE ARE ASKED TO IL
cENsE?
Let all who don't wish TO get hit, stand
clear while we answer:
/. II is an uarighteous traffic.
And no license can make it otherwise. 1t
takes "a mans money, without an equiva-
lent He asks for bread;--it gives him
serpent, and sends him away stripped of his
money, to be curse to his family.
2. Il is a deceitfM traffic.
1t promises to do good, and only does
evil. Every advertisement is LIE. If the
liquors were what they promised to be, the
buyer would yet be deceived; but they are
seldom so-area a hidden compound of dead
ly drugs and poisons. The liquor cask is
Salan's lying mandatory. Here, after
5000 years of labor and toll to deceive man,
is his great achievement
s. as yorker ot iniqmiy.
Bringing all the causes of wickedness to-
gether, lust, pride, ambition, revenge, and
love Of gold; and let them kndle into ac-
ton the fles Of hell, and all will not surpass
the mischief that flows from this traffic in
intoxicating drinks. A man who, without
it, will do almost no evil, will, through its
power, do every thing bad; murder the wife
of his bosom, curse his father, and damn
forever his own soul.
A. A destroyer of The rich.
Thousands on thousands of great es-
tates has it swept as with the bosom of de-
struction; and family after family, once roll
ling in afiuence, has it sent, amid bitter
tears, to the comlortless poor-house.
5. Nm oppresSor Of The poor.
1t grasps his precious earnings; takes the
bread from his children; secures mortgage
kon his litile habitation, and makes him grind
iniron bondage.
6. Cruel
Oh, how cruel! 'My husband was once
the kindest Of men. Now, oh, how he
treats me! Oh, the woe, the wounds, the
slriles, that rum-shop creates, and it cares
not 1t takes the last bag of corn, and
leaves US to Starve 1t strips us of cloth
ing, and fuel, and fathers love, aad laughs
at our tears y
7. UnmercituL.
IL have asked him on my bended knees,
not to sell my husband rum He says he
viii We urged, begged him not to send
US TO the poor-house. He said the rum bill
must be paid and the mortgage sued up.
lie thrust my husband into the street at
midnight, in bitter storm, drunk and friend
less, that he has not since moved from his
bed."- Uife's complaint
8. Man-hating
The traffic has no love for the race; hates
its happiness, is a murderer from the begin
ming 81 challenge any man, says DR..
Beecher, "who understands the nature Of
ardent spirits, and yet, for The sake of gain,
continues TO be engaged in the traffic, to
show that he is not involved in the guilt Of
murder" at is traffic." says Chancellor
Walworth, "n the souls and bodies of
men,"
y. JOn-utSHONOTtHg
The noblest work Of God it despises; blotS
out from il his image, and turns it into
dwelling, bIoated drunkard.
10. God-Proroking
When God has made THIS beautiful world
and placed in it the chief workmanship of
lis hand, it comes in to defiIe all; to lay
waste all, to cause him to repent that he
had made man upon earth Oh, what a
place, God may say, has this traffic made
Of my beautiful world y!
| l. God-defWng.
God says, Thou shalt not kill" The
traffic says, will God says, "He will
turn the wicked into hell, with all them
that forget him" 9 The unrghteous shall
not inherit the kingdom of God" "All Ii
ars shall have their part in the lake Which
burneth with fire and birthstone" The
yender lies about his liquor, and defes God,
first to discover, and then to punish. "Who
knoweth AID who seeth us :" and, ir God
sees, he de6es his wrath and sells on.
II. Reason-dethroning.
Oh, The number Of insane in the hosp-