The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1851-11-27

l was landing from the boat. distinctly
read in your eye the glimmerings of noble
spirit. Your form though shattered, be-
speaks no ordinary man. Though, like
thousands, you have fallen and become
destitute and miserable, I still esteem
you as man, and am persuaded that you
can do, what 1 and hundreds Of others
have done, that is, break loose from this
dreadful bondage, and once more become
free and happy. Friend r. know your
case and can sympathize with you. You
have been led astray and step after step
the destroyer has deceived you. You
have been secretly and unconsciously de-
coyed into your unhappy condition. Now,
as friend, propose your relief. There
is yet hope in your case. Ifyou will but
exert those manly energies that you posses
if you will form the heroic determination
to dash from your lips the deadly cup, and
with the fortitude of true man, assert
your independence. 1 vouch to you an
honorable rank and reputation in society.
lam stranger to yourself and your circum-
stances. I know not but you are stran-
ger in this city; if SO, you are much in
the same situation with myself. I am
foreigner a poor reformed sailor. / have
but fifty cents in the world. But though
a stranger in this country, and an entire
stranger to you; though l am poor and
unlcarned, yet have the feelings and
sympathies of man Having broken the
CALLING fetters of intemperance, l cordially
extend my helping hand to you. 1 know
your feelings: you would be free you are
bound in unwilling bonds. and it may
be, friend R., that you have some relations
and friends, perhaps an aged father, whose
hoary head is bound with age, while his
feeling heart is wrung with anxious long
ings to see his unfortunate son yet become
the support and solace ofhis waning years
perhaps loved mother still waits to en-
brace and bless her once no5le son. 1t
may be brother or a sister yet stands
with ready arms to receive you. And were
to judge from those =: anly tears that are
now upon your cheeks, should conclude
that in some loved spot you had known the
priceless smiles and affections of a partner.
Indeed have you yet in the sacred marri-
age covenant the tender sympathies and
ardent love ofa woman's heart Is there
home, a lovely wife, and parental hearth
to which you can yet resort If so, how
noble, how necessary, how wise, how manly
and how sacred the duty for you to once
again assert your right, your dignity and
your happiness. Forsake, I entreat you,
your habit, your cups and your companions.
Boldly and nobly resolve to become a free,
happy and useful citizen, and again cause
your friends to rejoice.
Father A. paused for moment, when
R. wiping the tears from his eyes and sup
pressing as much as possible his agitated
feelings, thus replied Kind Sir, with the
candor of man, confess your appeals
are forcible and right. You have expressed
the feelings of my heart, and excited for
the first time, in many long months,
ray of hope and happiness for me. Think
not strange that I weep, for weeping be-
comes me; and could you know my story
your sympathetic heart would almost bleed.
With shame and with just penitence, ac-
knowledge, l confess myself a ruined man.
But as you say, I have fallen by lure.
The treacherous demon, alcohol, wooed me
by his a,tful proffers while but youth,
and has been silently knitting bis subtle