The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-06-04
From tie Nec York Sun
PUBLISHED Ry REQUEST.
AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UN-
ION.
ARSTRACT OF THE REPORT

The question whether there has bee0
an advance or d decline iii the work dur
in the past year is comparatively unlm-
portant. The main point is--Are we
right?--Is the reform needed7-Are the
means adapted to the end? The magni
tude of the evil is appalling--the success
of past operations cheering. The extent
of the traffic is frishtful. In the cities
of this State are 900 liquor shops, sell
ing by a low estimate SO, 900, 900 worth
year, leaving out the trade of the towns
and villages. They are sending in year
more than &c, 600 men into the prisons
for crimes committed under the influence
of intoxica ton, and SO. .260 into the poor
houses, made paupers by ntemperance.
In New York city are ,42o licensed, and
$50 unlicensed houses, and 1896 selling
on the Sabbath and here in four and
half years, ending Dec, 1880, were COM
mitted 36,675 persons for drunkenness SIS.
20, 100 for intoxica ton and disorderly
conduct, | .347 for vagrancy, IL, 1896 for
assault and battery, 20, 202 Tor disorder
ly conduct; l IL 300 (for the most part
victims of strong drink,) exclusive of
many in the higher classes not seen
drunk in the streets or taken 10 the
| tombs. And so in other States and
cities. Yet millions have burst the chain
and the traffic is now frowned upon, de-
tested, abhorred. and driven into shades
and dens. In the great conflict with this
monster vice the American Temperance
! ~ .ria ha faIl ha-
! hind no former year. More than 60, 600
| journals and 100000 Youths Advocates
have been issued from their office with
these publications. Home and Foreign
Missions, two State Legislatures, and nu
merous' Sunday schools have been gratu
itously supplied. Four thousand copies
of the Half Century Tribute TO the cause
have been distributed. A new edition
of Permanent Temperance Documents
and several four page tracts have been is
sued. Numerous sermons and lectures
have been preached and delivered by the
Corresponding Secretary. Collections
and Donations, S ,526.o3.
Temperance legislation has advanced
beyond any former year. Two decided
ly protective bills were reported to the
last New York Legislature: and laid over
for action. In Iowa an entirely prohib-
itory law has passed, and all drinking
places are to be broken up as nuisances.
The new Constitution of Michigan pre-
cludes all future license of the traffic by
the Leg gislature. The Legislature of Ill
inois and Ohio have forbidden all sold to
be drank on the premises, and the Con-
stitutiOmal Convention of Ohio have Civ
en- 1t to the people TO say at the ballot
box In June next, whe any license
shall hereafter be granted in the State.
Vermont has decided once and again at
the ballot against all license, and the
State have now prohibited the sale by
statute. Delaware has made al Sunday
liquor traffic criminal offence, and a
bill! is before the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture maning exhibition of the implements
of drunkenness evidence of sale.
The spirit ration remains TO curse the
Navy. Better would it have been to
keep the '-colts and the cat" and thrown
overheard the hogsheads. But in the
Congress, independence, and other ships,
ninety III hundred of the seamen refuse
their grog. Merchant ships, whaers and
coasters, almost without exception, sail
on temperance principles; and among the
results shipwIecks are few, and million
OF dollars are now deposited i'll the Sea-
mems Savings Bank.
Statements are made of 6, OPS me mbers
In Netherlands, Of good progress in Swe-
den, Norway, South Africa, Liberia
(Which excludes liquors), and the West
Indies. In British America the cause is
very triumphant, 220, 600 French and l.
rish Catholics and 100000 Protestants
stand pledged to temperance in Lower
Canada, and in Upper Canada 1000 are
enrolled in the Order of Sons; at St.
Johns $4,000. In Nova Scotia, ten
counties are without license, and vigoI-
Gus efforts are making to get prohibit
ory statute through the legislature.
REV. HI. S. CARPENTER. of this city.
moved the acceptance of the Report. He
spoke with much force about those neu-
ralgic people, who are all the while ex-
cited with the cry of reaction-it is not
re action but more sober and hopeful
realization of the cause. The Tempe
rance revolution is becoming reforma
tion. Temperance is not an art, it is
work of love and mercy, to be carried on
as long as human nature shall exist upon
earth. He represented intoxication as
the magnetic fluid that gives vitality to
all other vice. The pirate bark of the
gambler floats only on the waves of alco-
holic drink The halls of her whose
chamb is the gate OF hell, are lighted
only by this baneful fire. /. will cease
to be impossible to restrain the lost wo-
men here within sound of the church bell,
| whenever they can be freed from the dan