Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-05-19

OOOn DOynlO0 DtBdH ~ nbRitC nIo DuSl-
ness, and lie was secretly pointed out as a
man of incorporate habits. At last he was
Stunned, shaken off by the very men who
had led him astray. Who are the most gull
ty1 Let Heaven judge.
Here let US. pause, and ask why it is, that
so many look upon a fellow-being verging to
the brink of ruin, without speaking one per-
~suasive word, or doing one kindly act, to win
him back to virtue! Why is it, that, when
fallen, they are thrust down still farther, by
taunling and contempt! Oh, such was not
the spirit of Him who came ito seek and TO
save that which was lost Such was not
the spirit of Him who said, Neither do |
condemn thee; 90, and sin no more How
often, instead Of throwing the mantle of cha
rity over a brothers sin, instead of telling
him his fault between thee aud him alone
is it barred to the light of day, trumpeted to a
cold and censure.loving world, until the VIC
tim either sinks into gloomy dependency,
and believes il hopeless for him to attempt
amendment, or else stands forth in bold def
ance, and PUSHES headlong 10 his ruin. Not
one human being stands so perfect in his iso-
lation, as to be wholly unmoved by contact
with his fellows; what need, then, for the
daily exercise of that god-liie charity which
'suifereth long and is kind > which r%ejoiceih
not in %iniauity, which 'bea ieth all things, no.
peth all things, endureth all things
Seven years have gon6 with their records
10 etermty-where is James Boynton nowl
In one room of a miserable house, inhabit-
ed by many unfortunate victims of poverty
and vice, lives he, who, on his wedding-day,
had entered a home which taste and luxury
rendered enviable. Sgualor and discomfort
are on every side. His four children are pale
and sickly, from want Of proper food, and
close confinement, in that deleterious atmos-
phere. They have learned to hide away
when they hear their fathers footsteps, for,
alas to his own, he is no longer the good
natured man. Fallen in his own esteem, fire.
q%uently the subject Of a rlbald mlrth, his pas
sions have become inflamed, and he vents his
ill-humor on his defenceless family. tie no
longer makes even a show Of doing something
for their support; and 10 keep them from star
walton, his wife works whenever she can find
employment.
A few slore years, and where is Mrs. Boyn-
ton Tremble, ye who set an example 10
your families of which We cannot %foretell the
consequences! Tremble, yo whom God has
to be the protectors, the guides, the
counsellors of the woman We have vowed to
love and cherish! Mrs. Boynton, like her
husband, has fallen! In ain evil hour, harass.
ed by want, ill-nsed by her husband, she tas-
ted the fatal cup. 1t produced temporary for
getfulness, from which she awoke to a sense
Of shame and anguish. All, she had no mo-
lher, no sister, no woman friend, who truly
cared for her, TO warn, to plead, 10 admonish!
Again she was tempted, again she tasted, and
squalid home was rendered ten-fold more
wretched, by the absence OF all attempts at
However great may be the sorrow
md distress occasioned by a mans love for
drink, it is not to be compared TO the
deep wretchedness produced by the same
cause in and it is matter for thank.
that SO few men drag down their
with them in their fall.
Providence raisedsup a friend who took the
barefooted children of the Boyntons from being
daily witnesses of the evil habits Of their pa
and so dnlled were all the finer feel
ings Of his nature, that James Boynton parted
from them without struggle.
Like the Lacedemonians of old, vino ex-
posed the vice to render it hateful in the eyes
of the beholders, we might give other and
more narrowing scenes from real life but let
this one suffice. Thank God, for the change
which public opinion has already wrought!
Thank God, for the efforts which have been
made to stay the moral pestilence! Oh, It'll
fearful to think how many homes have been
made desolate-bow many hearts have been
broken-how many lofty i%ntellects have been
BUNDLED! 1t is fearful 10 think of the mad
ness the crime-the awful deaih-which
follow the steps to ruin!-Union Maga.ine.