The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-03-14

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related induce, bu, one father to train u
y y his children 10, total abstinence as
Q menus Of increasing their chances of
5 happy life this essay will not have bee
q s..s'Tis but q drop--I need it now,n1 /.
s---ss--The staggering drunkard said;
''It wac my food in infanc,-..
'sS My meat. and drink, and bread, '.'l
j A drop drop--oh, let me have, goo,
II will SO refresh my soui! ,a efiI
He took il trembied--drank and died,
Grasping the fatal howl"
Mr.. Chapman. in his personal observa
iions on the effects Of intemperance il
New York State, remarks that
ain one poor house, as my cenifcat,
will show, Of one hundred aud ninei,
persons relieved there the past year, were
nineteen wives Of drunken husbands, ant
seprnty-one childIen Of drunken fathers
In almost every Jail we're husbands con
fined ior whipping their wives, or fol
Otherwise abusing their families. In one
nin,, and in another three, out of the
four who we're then in prison were con
fined for whipping their wives. But when
we fleet that buI a very small proper
ton Of these brults in human shape are
thus punished, the amount Of misery and
domestic suffering arising fiom this cause
excel ds the powers Of The human mind
to compute; and yet The sale Of that
which causes all this, is not only toler-
att d, but is AUTHORIZED BY LAW. Could
we collect the wives and children Of this
class in great amphitheatre-place in
an outer circle the manufacturers and
veDders, and fix them there until zach
mother and child had told the history of
their griefs,-of their downward course
fiom afiluence or competency, from le-
spectabiliiy and domestic happiness, to
poverty, 10 misery and wretchedness
could the scenes Of domestic discord be
all acted over-cond The blows Of the
sworn and once loved and cherished
protector, now transformed TO a madman
and brute, be made to sound in their
ears, with the shrieks oil these wves.and
mothers and the wailings of their inno-
cent children; could they, for the occa-
sion he furnished with powers Of Ian
guage TO desctibe their days Of toll and
misery, and their nights Of unmitiga;ed
unmingled and unvaling sorrow and an
guish; could they throw into their coun
tenances all the agony which has so Of.
ten wrung their souls, all the disgust
and oa,hing. which the conduct of their
husbands and fathers have caused them
could these men hear The prayers of these
wives for their husbands, that the tempta-
ton which had so besoited them might
not again be thrown in TO their way--and
finally. could The secret tears which they
have shed, be made TO flow in full view
ofthe circle Of makers and dealers which
surround them-could all this be done,
is there soul not absolutely leagued
with the great adversary and templer
himself, who could for another dav or
hour continue in his unholy business!n'
What sad picture this is! How shall
we remove the cause Of so much we
and misery? By exhibiting an example Of
Temperance in our lives and conversation,
and by urging the young by precept at
least, where we find i, difficult to add the
example, to observe total abstinence
from strong drink except where it is pre-
scribed in disease as medicine.
Twas a little hoy, playing at marbles
in the streets of Dundee, at the close of
tie eighteenth century, and have at length
p ssed the noon ofthe nineteenth. Had
been the violent person described by
some, I had not lasted SO long, but in
eaily life I was taught by common cut.
tom to drink strong liquors. In the fam
lily, at weddings, IN ball rooms and assem-
blys, a: The death wake and at the chris
mn;ng, in the tavern and out Of it, when
visiting friends and when showing them
hospitality, the bottle was ever present,
ever indispensable, and not to drink was
mark Of disrespect or rudeuess. Such
was Scotland near "the Grampian Hills"
forty years since; and find il difficult,
even at this late period entirely 10 con-
qucr early habits, although probably there
are few who taste liquor at all more
habitually abstinent.
The elective franchise. by independ-
ent land owners, exercised. as in the Ri
dings Of York, by single districts, loses
much of its power by violence and in.
TEN perance. What shame and dis
grace il is 10 county wien it needs
soldiers with fixed bayonets 10 aid its
frcemen in expressing public opinion! g
Are representatives obtained by open
ing drinking houses and whiskey shops,
and filing those who can be persuaded
TO frequent them with spirituous liquor 70
destroy their reason, Or employing brandy
soakers as editors--are they likely 10 sit
down and provide in Parliament q renee
DIV for licensed intoxicalion leading TO
murder! Who was 10 blame in the case
I am now abou, stating, for rendering a
family motherless, and depriving ahghlyi
respected citizen ofthe lover Of his syouth,
the cherished companion of his Joys and
sorrows! eai % bsmnsai 3; 1oiasf'fE
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