New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-11
.us,,c.n Temperance Union.

Tcmoersnce Union, was held on Thursday evening
at the Broadway Tabernacle, Chancellor WAL
WORTH, the President, in the Char
The assembly was the largest that has gathered
In he Tabernacle during the present anniversary
season. Every nook and corner OF the edlhoe was
crowded, men were standing all along the aises'
and ladies were seated on the platform around the
pulpit.
After music by the Band, and prayer by Rev
Dr.. Tappan Of Maine, the venerable President OF
the Union rose and made q brief address, which
we were not fortunate enough 10 hear.
The Annual Report, read By Rev. John Marsh,
Corresponding Secretary, represented the cause as
ia sound and prosperous condition, notwthstand-
ing the apparent detection the last year in the de-
lusive cholera preventative. The Churches and
Ministry have given to it more OF their time and in
hnencc. The risings and Dpheavings OF Society to
throw of the burdens andoppressions OF legaized
trait have been more and more successful
Maine holds firm TO her prohibItory statute and
is blessed in it. Vermont has rejected the IL
cense system by popular vote OF 10000 against
! Il. OOO Massachusetts, gives 10 license IN any Of
her counties Rhode Island none but in four towns
| Ia New York, no Legislative action has been bad
but q Report Of Committee OF the Legislature has
| been submitted which must ultimately create some
definite action The Sunday traffic is greatly sup
pressed in New Jersey and Maryland The Wiscon-
sin law stands firm, and is found to operate 10
the terror and check Of all vendors OF lntoxl-
eating drinks 1t it considered a model law for
all the States. Father Mathews visit has been
well received, and has awakened some interest in
the cause at the South Temperance organza'
tioos are numerous, and in many places effective.
The Order of the Sons of Temperance being about
800 000 Temperance lecturers are dlmnlnished,
bat the labors of Messrs. Cough, Kellogg, Jewett,
White and others have been well appreciated, and
very successful The issues of Journals, Youths
Advocate, Almanacs, Tracts, Books, &c. from the
office Of the Union, have been somewhat increased
They have been sent to Home and Foreign Mis-
sioniares 10 California, to the North OF Europe and
10 many destitute portions OF our own couutry-
The spirit ration is continued in the Navy but the
seamen Of merchant ships, whalers and coasters
are now as a class very temper Good progress
il making 10 England. Influential men are more
and more impressed with the importance of the
cause as a relief for the poverty and suferings OF
the working classes. In Scotland the three princi-
pal religious determinations are earnestly engaged
In il Fifty ministers OF the Free Church have head
cd the temperance movement. The King and
Queen of Sweden are still patrons ottemperance ia
their kingdom. The Sand wich Islands have sUf
feredfrom the French aegressions and the Caliior
MIA excitement, but temperance is there still pre-
dominant. Liberia is a perfect temperance he
public. In Canada and Nova Scotia, in several OF
the West India Islands, at Madras and Bombay,
much progress is reported. More united seton,
more contributions of money, vastly increased cir
cuation of temperance tracts, is needed to ensure
success
Rev. j. c. WARREN then offered the following
resolution
Re,optd That the Report OF The Executive Committee
be &C eped printed and circulated, Wiz such documents
| as nav illustrate s main positions
| Rev. DR.. BOWLING was the first speaker. He
spoke eloauently on the influence oi the Temper
| ance Reformation iD the church. When he began
| to preach nothing was more universal than for a
minister, deacon and elder to go into the vestry
room, after sermon, and pour down the intoxicating
| drink. At Whitney, England. in 1882, he was po-
| tsly handed a glass of wine after each OF three
sermons preached on one day. This custom had
been the ruin OF many men who had entered the
ministry with the brightest hopes and purest prin-
ciples At the church. in the family visits, the cup
was regularly passed round He could mention
most lamentablc instances of ruin from that cause.
| He wished the time were come when no minister
would touch the cup, at wedding or in any other
place-when no member of church would have it
in his house. The work Of reformation will not be
done until the cup is swept from every church and
every house in the land. He spoke OF making
drunkards among the heather, and read extracts Of
letter from Mr. Dwight, who saw as the only re-
representatives. Of country at Tils in Persia two
| bOEtneaOb OF view EnBlduu mum. w e must
pc al to the Christian merchants OF our land to give
up this practice Of sending missionaries and rum
| in the same vessel TO the heather. DIR. D. pro
ceeded to speak Of the necessity OF banlshing the
private drinking customs o. our present society on
| account of the temptation thus offered 10 men to
break good resolutions. He appealed to the ladies
never to tempt the young men of our city with the
wine cup, but to throw aside every vestige OF the
tempter that led many noble souls down the
road Of ruin. We should be glad To give a full re
port of this speech, bat we have not room. DIR. ID
closed by repeating the following beautiful lines. II
advocacy of increased and relaxing efforts in the
great cause OF Temperance:
On the Earth In her for her children hath wept
To lhe grave Of the drunksrd In hecsiombs swept
While dsrk and more dark gather path
The clouds Ina, are charged with Jehovahs dread wrath
Shall wait I'll they burst aud from mountain
Nay, up to The rsseus. The lard must be torn
From the grasp OF the Demon whose we've worn
The resolution was adopted.
The Band then gave air, during which Kah
ge-ga-gsh- bowh came in, and was hailed will
cheers.
The second resolution was offered by Rev. DR.
Edwards. 1t is as follows:
Resolved Thai the continued manufacture and sale OF In
,oxieanng liquors. a. beverage 70 the scourse Of gu
country thai its encouragement and protection by iceps
laws morally and civiy wrong; and that the peopl
rgh, and should claim The night to protection iron
| its desosrDg evils.
, VIM II. Blrleigh. Esq representative of the n
Y. State Society, rose to second the resolution H
complimenied DR.. Edwards for his long and valu
able abors in the cause. Mr.. B. said the countr
was scourged by this pestilence it 10 not the dc
siructive plague that comes and goes away agai
1T 10 the pestilence that wasteth at monday nc
scourge that kills the body alone-it inhames n
passions debsses the mind. destroys the soul, ten
. poraly and eternaly. l need not describe tn
effess of the intoxicating principle; il is we
known; suffice it to say It is entirely poison, an
more to be dreaded than all the other poison
, in the world. The pain Of other poisons
often a friend; bat alcohol does not produc
this pain, and lures its victim to destructo
in deceptive manner. The wise man had said
biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adde
But he spoke then OF an ultimate effect Wer
these the effects Of the first drsught there woul
| b.. "a fex dr1nkards as there are deliberste su