The Columbian fountain., 1846-09-11
"THoUGHTs WORTH NOTICE."
CONTINUED FROM NO. 227

CONTINUED FROM NO. 227.
We closed our last by making an appeal 10
our respectable and influential citizens TO urge
them. fpossible, 10 wake up to the importance
OF this all important. and to them, in their pre-
sent hopes and prospects, interesting subject,
viz: The Propriety Of doing all in their power
to stop the traffic in intoxicating drinks, and
put them away from the community entirely.
only 80 far as they may be used as an article
Of medicine, to be kept on the shelf of The apo
,hecary. We suggested reason for this ap-
peal-the cases-the certain cases Of misery
produced-and the probable particular cases in
which you yourselves, Qittle as you may now
feel on the subjecD may soon be called to wit
ness in your own dear connections, brought
about by your neglect, if not by your positive
bad example. What will il avail you that you
have amassed large fortunes, that you have
educated your sons for honorable professions,
your daughters for genteel and polite society,
if by your example or neglect your sons con-
tract the habit Of using the accursed stimulus
until they get so far under its influence as
to neglect their business, lose their reputation,
squander the means you have provided, intend
ing to make them conf mfortable--respectable
and happy.
What if the accomplishments ofjyour daugh-
ters-the expectations from your worth, should
conduct them into connection with some
young gentlemen fortune. &ekers who never
learned aught Of useful employment, and when
in possession Of your child and your means,
by frequenling some Of the fashionable hotels,
squander your wealth, ruin your child, and
bring about many other items of misery, to
carry your grey hairs with sorrow to the grave.
What, we say, if these results should grow
out Of your bad example, either through your
commission or omission. What will II avail
you that you have, by transgressing la,O d.
vine, and sanctioned BY reason--what will it
avail you when reflection occupies place in
your mind, that such results as we have named
in reference to others or in connection with
yourself, have been brought about by your ne
glect--or dsobedence. Will mot distress you
to reflect that when an effort was made TO es-
tablish daily paper in this city, a paper con-
Quoted by one who could have no motive but
the good Of his species, paper free from party,
politics and sectarian bigotry, not a bare one
idea, but paper calculated 10 assist men Of
business on moral principles, TO advance the
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other proper subject connected with human
happiness. you stood aloof, you gave no couns
,enance, you preferred even TO assist those
Journals who, if not destitute OF moral prin-
ciple, seem never TO regard her claims, when
they come in contact with the interest Of the
moment or are not likely 10 pander the vitiated
taste, you would not even divide your patro-
mage Of advertising with this paper, because
it might have seemed 10 Identify you with The
temperance cause, and thus reader you unpo-
pular In some of your relations. and thereby
keep from you little Of the sordfd gold or ho-
nor, or (some,hing) after which your heart
painted. What will it avail you when you
come 10 lay upon a sick and dying bed, to
know that you have labored TO acquire wealth,
while you have neglected the only thing for
which any one ought to live, viz: to do good
as they have opportunity. The means were
placed within your reach, their adaptedness
for the accomplishment Of the ends they pro-
posed was shown you---you saw, but you turn.
ed away--you asked to be erc,Sed from any part
in the matter. @
What will it avail you when the light OF
eternity shall shine upon you, for you to have
your wealth only in remembrance to torment
you and eat up your flesh, while you remem-
Der that when you were called upon to labor
for good 10 others and to yourself, YOU refused.
Oh. think Of these things. You shall. if we
are spared, hear from us again.
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The following from the ST. Louis New Era
is so much 10 the point, we adopt it and re-
commend lis perusal:
Or The small boys who straggle about the
streets, and on steamboats,, without any super
intending control, are the persons who, in ripper
years, form the stock Of rogues and thieves that
infest the country. The large number Of little
girls who live without proper control or guar
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