Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-12-10

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Address of Joshua IT. James,
Delivered before the Wilmington Section Cadets of Temp

Delircred before the Wilmington Section Cadets Of Temper
My YOUNG FRIENDs-Having been appointed bv
you to address you in behalf of Temperance this af-
ternoon, shall say but little, feeling how inadequate
is all can urge TO the Importance of SO great cause.
The Temperance numbers increasing fast. and
ny-a great many-hsve been snatched from the
drunkards grave by the kind hand of some Temper
ance friend. The Temperance cause is great one.
and worthy of diligence. This field of glory is in
deed wide ;a renown is left there for all. Let US
therefore excIam, in the language OF Scripture, " The
harvest truly is peneous, but the aborers are few
pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he will
send forth laborers his harvest" AS Cadets of
Temperance are 10 fill the places of the Sons. AS
boys, 10 take the places of those who go before
us. AS men, may we ever keep in mind the great
principles upon which true Temperament is founded.
AS fathers, may proffer to children the
poisonous draught that leads 10 the drunkards grave
Let us indulge short time in tracing the drunkarl's
progress. Sometimes it begins at home the father
has wne,< cordlas, &c, to drink after dinner
of beverage. He hands the fatal cup 10 his son and
daughter; they both drink and when grown to such
tina: their senses reel and in this state the
drunkard commits acts that would make his blood run
cold were he sober. And for these sometimes they
are branded. sometimes whipped, and sometimes they
are hung. Imagine 10 yourself, then. fond father
handing 10 his darling boys glass of wine,
aging them 10 drink of what they do not like, by
his example. Imagine two healthy, blooming boys,
full of innocence and beauty, cut off by the fell de-
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eous drunkards, guilty of murder and other crimes,
doomed to expiate their sins the scaffold Oh In
temperance war has killed his millions, but thou hast
slain thy tens of millions. War has taken one mem
Der of family. but thou hast taken the whole Thou
hast dused thy self into the breasts of conquerors of
DID, philosophers, and sages. Hast thou rot corrupt
ed man, fra man. in all the ages that have gone by
But enough for the past the future is yet TO be- Let
US forget what is gone by, and look only to what we
hope may yet come May we live to see the time
when Temperance shall be triumphant. and when In
temperance shall be forever banished from the land OF
our fathers choice the land of their death. native
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Brother Cadets, shall conclude by offering quo
tation from an eminent writer, Mr.. Halves. No new
arguments can be presented. nor need there be, to in
duce YOU to advocate the of Temperance. Rea.
son and revelation, the motives OF three worlds, pro-
claim, as with the voice of seven thundefs, in the
monitorya language, Touch not. taste not. handle
not total abstinence forever. Temperate drinking
is the downhiII road 10 ntemperance. and Entire alb
snence from ardent spirits is the only certain proven
Tive OF intemperance' These notices should be IN
scrbed upon the door post Of every house. that the de-
sroying angel may pass by, Like the phliactenes Of
The Jews, they should be fastened upon the forehead
/ Of every man. upon his wrists, and npon the nem O