The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-06-05
ADDRESS.
To THE CITIZENS OF LA SALE COUNTY
ON THE SUBJECT OF lNTEMPERANcE.
E.M,,.. E.L;.nnn. ,EI.., s..... &C 1880.

colnolntu advantages OI eXuDeranCe oil
soil, salubrity of climate, variety of see
merry, and national facilities for CONNER
clal and general prosperity. it has few
superIors. Whether the traveller passes
hastily through, taking his birds-eye view
of the general surface, OF the citizen wan.
ders lelsurely over it, investigating more
minutely its natural resources, there is
found constant evidence that nature has
moi slinted her bountes in the formation
of your portion Of the earth. And alrea-
dy has the hand of industry in some in
stances, begun to make the deser, BIOS
som ike the rose--already good habia.
lions, comfortable school houses and
churches, begin to adorn and beauify our
prairles ant vllages.-Rut an evil is in
our midst that mars all our beauty anG
threatens 10 defeat our bes. hopes. The
terrible monster INTEMPERRNcE prowls
about, seeking whom he may devour.
| lie undermines the strongest constitu-
tons, dethrones the most vigorous judg-
ments, destroys the most unspotted char
acters. blasts the brightest prospects, and
brings disappointment, poverty, disgrace
and WrstchedneSS, into the sanctury of
/ the domestic circle. He converts the
! husband into monster, the father into a
brute, the children INTO plupers and Grim
mails, and the once happy wife into the
very personifcaion of wrelchedness and
sorrow. But we will specify some of
the acts Of This monster, and endeavor by
an induction of facts, TO make out case
to the satisfaction Of all. We will state
two or three propositions with facts in
proof, bearing upon the great subject OF
intemperance and its only possible rene
dy. Our court is the people of La Sale
co. We want the ear of the court, and
if we secure its judgment, we may chal-
lenge most vigorous cooperation Of its
executive power, the will.
First Proposition.
Arden. spirits is not necessary as n
common drink, bu. injurious. At TEN
perance meeting held no! long since in
Alabama, Col. Lemanousky, who had
been 90 years soldier in the armies OF
y. Bonapar,e, addressed the meeting
lie arose before the audience tall erect,
and vigorous, with a glow of health upon
his cheek and said: "You see before you
man 20 years old. have Tough, 200
battles, have IA wounds on my body
have lived 40 days on horse flesh, with
the bark Of trees for my bread, snow and
, ice for my drink, the canopy Of heaven
for my covering, without stockings OF
shoes on my feet, and only a few rags o.
) clothing. In the deser. Of Egypt have
marched for days with the burning sur
f upon my naked head; feet blsterng in
the scorching sand, and with eyes, nos
trils and mouth filled with dust, and with
thirst so tormenling, that have opened
| tue veins of my arms and sucked my owr
blood Do you ask how survived all
these horrors answer ,ha, under the
providence OF God, owe my prescrva
ton, health, and ylgor, to the fact that
never drank drop of spri,uous liquor
in my life, &c." Continued he, "Baror
o Larry, chief of the medical staff o. III,
r French Army, has stated as fact, tina
p the 5000 survivors who safely returne,
r from Egypt, were all Of them men wh'
r abstalned from ardent spirits"
D Second Proposition,
J. The sale and use Of ardent spirits is
/. very great pec,miary evil in this county
d We name this evil first, not because j, i
,. most important, but because it is tn
!, mos, tangible and touches the main sprin!
e OF human action. No, being able to pre-
o sen, the statistics Of crime and pauperism
J. with their causes and consequences il
!. This county, we must avail ourselves q
l. the well authenticated statistics of o,he
l. counties, and having thus ascerlaine,l tn
y general principle, apply it to ourselves
e For the literal statistics of Green county
G one of the prominent and prosperou
A. counties of the state of N. York, we re
N fer you TO the appendix Of the sixth anu
e al report Of the A. r. Society, found i
Y the LIST volume of Permanent Temperate
', Documents, page 1913. We can her
name only few Of the results of the ca
re- culations there drawn out in full. Dul
IF ing seven years nearly 800 persons wer
he at different times, confined in the Jail c
a. Green county for crimes. All but tire
le were intemperate. The jail expense
&c for the county for the same time, wer
he So $50, almost the whole Occasloncd h
e inlemperance. Of the paupers of III;
ID county, seven Fights became so by il
ID temperance. The expenses Of the poe
&c house for three years were Sl6,695. Sc,
h. en'eighls Of which heing occasoned b
10 intemperance, il makes the pauper bill {
10 the county for 3 years, all occasioned b
incompetence Sl4,60S. OF The dire,
Of tax raised for the expenses of the coun,
10 of Green during one year, more than ha
r was to pay the expenses Of the use Of il
n, toxica,ing liquors as beverage.
ID Now how do the people of La Sail
y county feel about paying every other do
8, lar of taxes, or rather doubling their II
re climate tax for the support Of the run
er seller, and the production Of all the legi