The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-03-09
New Orleans Sons of Temperance.

F! Mr. GLENN's ApDREss.-In some remarks on
the subject the other day, it was mentioned in
columns that the Order of g Sons of Temperance
is increasing very rapidly in New Orleans. This
fact is one which tells well for our citizens In the
connections we would lay before readers the
following extracts from the address of Mr. S. F.
Glenn, delivered on the 22d ult, before the Order:
Our talismans are Love, PURITY and FIDELI-
TY and of these is TEMPERANCE the Mother.
These are tie magic words and things essential
that has made the little acorn swell 10 the gigantic
oak and to them we owe the unparalleled success
that has ever attended us. We are no parasites to
wealth or power, feeling within US we ever do,
the glorious privilege of being independent. Nor
are we proselyte makers, bnt ours is garden OF
peace, wherein DESIRE in love, our fellow men
10 walk. Volunteers, and volunteers only, are
welcome in q cause where health and happiness
are more intimately concerned than in any other
association on the face of the globe. Still we
yeam for those unhappy beings whose spirits are
willing but whose flesh is weak, that they may
seek encouragement and consolation III society,
and withstand the temptation that easily besets
them Or if there those already temperate,
and who neither sell, buy the unclean thing,
much more will they shine amongst lis as prece-
dents to those who do. We n brotherhood OF
souls Our principles not less consplcuorsly
embaZoned on our banners than illustrated IN our
conduct. Morality can attain no higher sphere,
cised by us as a cardinal rule, seeks the sick and
unfortunate brother. and administers cheerfully 10
his necessities We hold with the Gospel, that
faith without works is dead, and each of us feels
that it is more blessed to give than TO receive the
sympathies of brother. Purity i'll our daily in
tercourse with our fellow men, well as with
those with whom we are linked by kindred and the
Order. is fundamental duty with Us, and one of
the conseryators of our Institution Without this
principle the best of associations have within them
The seeds of dscord and dissolution and often
prove instead of blessing. a bane to society. We
.iacobins but Their antipOdcs. Ii there is a
little mystery about Order, 1t IS for this Very
commendabe motiye-to keep it pure. Fidelity
the attribute of gods and good men, is akin to the
virtues that control us, and graces the tritmyrate
Then is it to be wondered at that we have bound
girde around about the Union i'll the short space
of five years1 That not only the empresSmen Of
professions, accompanied by swelling bands, at
tend our celebrations on this joyous day here, and
in other crowded cities, but that songs have
become p;rans in the valley, on the prairie and in
the mountain home Ii is an Order best by God
and man-by the friend the brother, the sister, the
father the mother, and she whose bright eyes
look still brighter when come 1t is the
mightiest system of civilization the world ever
knew and bears in its elements perretulty of
existence.
Leaving to the solemn admoni'ions OF the pulpit
the precepts and eternal philosophy of the Bible,
which teaches to be temperate iii all things. we
would merely suggest that in a worldly point OF
view, our grand object Of Temperance is of much
value and advantage. HEALTH if that great object
was alone to be considered, is admitted TO be the
very flower of life, without which we stand like the
caless nbless charred tree OF the forest, an $50
lated and melancholy sight. To alleviate the dis
tress pecunaTy and bodily, that sickness occasions
U.s. we forget all minor cares, and dismiss all other
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