The Delaware herald. (Smyrna, Del.) 1850-1854, 1851-05-28
efficient action.

The Temperance advocacy and press have
been elevated, and vigorous and much local
action has occurred of deep interest. Tenn
pcrance legislation has advanced beyond any
former year. Two decidedly protective bills
were reported to the last New York Legisla-
ture, and laid over for action. In Iowa, an
entirely prohibitory law has passed, and all
drinking places are TO be broke up as nuisan-
ces. The new constitution of Michigan pre-
| cludes all further license Of the traffic by the
Legislature. The Legislatures of Illinois and
Ohio have forbidden all sale to be drank on
the premises, and the constitutional conven-
tion of Ohio have given it 10 the people to say
at the ballot box in June next, whether any
license shall hereafter be granted in the State.
Vermont has decided once and again at the
ballot box, against all license, and the State
has now prohibited the sale by statute. Del
aware has made all Sunday liquor traffic a
criminal offence, and bill is before the Mas
sachusetts Legislature making the exhibition
of the implements of drunkenness evidence of
sale.
The report presents Christianity as not
bringing her forces to act as she ought against
intemperance; yet there has, in the year,
been much efficient Clergcal and church ac.
ton, especially at the West, where the Home
Missionary has faithfully toiled to resist the
incoming food. The spirit ration remains TO
curse the Navy. Better would it have been
to keep the 'colt and the cat and throw over.
board the hogshcads. But in the Congress,
Independence, and other ships, ninety in a
hundred of the scamen refuse their grog-
Merchant ships, whalers and coasters, almost
without exception, sail on Temperance princi-
pies; and among the results shipwrecks are
few. and million of dollars are now deposi.
ted in the Seamen's Savings Banks.
The report from foreign countries is favor
able. In Great Britain the consumption, in a
single year, is 22,962,012 gallons of home
spirits, 3,O44,755 of West India rum, 1885,
I39, 1865 of malt beer, 1,ls7 500 of brandy,
and 6,136,547 of wine, at cost of sixty mill
lions of pounds sterling, resulting ina fright
ful amount of pauperism, crime and prema-
ture death, IS exciting among rejecting men
alarm; and much efficient action to check
the evil has been put forth, both in England
and Scotland, with great success. The Naval
Lord Admiral has. reduced the spirit ration
one-halG, and taken it entirely away from all
under l6. The Chancellor Of the Exchequer
reports an increased consumption of tea, cof-
fec and cocoa, and proportional decrease of
drinks which intoxcate. Distinguished med
ical men in England, some Of The nobility,
and $50 clergymcn in Scotland, are now
commenting total abstinence from all that in.
toxicate. Into the Chrystal Palace for the
great Industrial Exhibition, no wines, spirits,
or beer, are admitted, and the contractors are
required to supply glasses of water, gratis, to
all visitors-a temperance lecture for the
world.
In Sweden the cause prospers under the
patronage of the King and Queen; also in
Norway, under the advocacy of a Mr.. Ander-
son. 6023 persons are enrolled in the Meth
erland Temperance Union. Liberia excludes
all spirituous liquors, and uses only the drink
which God has made. In South Africa, at
Cape Town, and Port Natal, are Aourshlng
Societies. In the Sandwich Islands is no re-
verse, The West Indies show fourshing So
ceties. la British America, the cause is very
triumphant; 100000 French and Irish Cath
olics, and 24O,000 Protestants stand pledged
to Temperance in Lower Canada, and in Up
per 80, 900 are enrolled in the Order Of Sons.
AT st. Johns, 10000. In Nova Scotia ten
counties are without license, and vigorous ef.
forts are making TO get prohibtory statute
through the Legislature.
The reports concludes with reflections on
the magnitude OF the work committed TO the
men of this age, the wonderful advance alrea-
dy made, the adaptedness Of the means en-
ployed, the folly of discourogcment, the i'm
portance of right training of youth, and the
right improvement of this, the forming age of
our country. Three pioneers of Temperance
have fallen in the year: Pond, of Maine;
LTew, of Rhode Island, and the venerable
Calvin Chapin, of Connecticut. The Com
mittee ask for the cooperation of the commu-
nifty and the means Of carrying forward. their
work.
Rev. John Marsh, corresponding Secretly,
offered the following resolution:
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