Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-04-01
BY Request.
Great Temeramce Meeting at
MetrODOlilan Hall. n. U.

uuCIAOpOlisdu I1du was Hlleu TO OFcI-
flowing on Wednesday evening by the
friends of the Maine Law. The first
gallery was occupied principally by the
ladies, of whom several hundred were
present. There is no question that this
was the largest assembly ever congre-
/, gated in this hall, and one of the most or
derly. Not standing or sitting place in
any part of the house was vacant.
The meeting was called to order by c..
q. LEIGH, Esq, and DR.. ELEAzER PARM-
LY took the chair.
Mr.. G. j. WARREN presented series
of resolutions expressing the sense of the
meeting upon the general subject Of tenn
peranee in favor of the Maine Law, and
demanding It's passage by our legislature,
sympathizing with Hon. E. l.. Snow in
his political martyrdom, and claiming
him not only as the representative of the
XVIth Assembly District or as the mem
Der of political party, but as the repre-
sentative of the temperance voters of the
whole State; and declaring that the
thanks of the people are due to those
presses which have advocated the cause
of temperance in the present crisis. The
resolutions were received with great
enthusiasm.
/ Hon. HORACE GREELEY was then in
troduced. He addressed the meeting in
substance as follows: In an ancient bat
tie the soldiers complained to their gen.
eral that their spears were too short
Take step forward, said their comman-
der, and that will overcome the difficulty.
They stepped forward and the spears
were all right This is applicable to our
case. We have been several years Ia
bouring in the temperance cause by NOR
al suasion, and now we find ourselves face
to face with six thousand grog-shops |.
We have at last-taking courage by the
success of our brethren in Maine-con-
cluded to take one step forward. What
is the result? We find that the Tenn
perance question has been brought home
to and taken hold of the whole commun-
ity. 1t is paramount to and overrides
the Presidential question and all others.
We have brought the question home to
the people. In times past we have held
our temperance meetings, and temperance
men attended them. But they were
converted already. We needed to get
hold of the rumsellers and they would
not attend our moral suasion meetings;
we could not get their attention to his
subject. Well, we took step forward /;
and now We find these rumsellers keenly
sensitive when we tell them their bust
ness is disgraceful, and worthy object
of Legislative inhibition. And when we
call them rumsellers, they step in and
tell us we abuse them, call them bad
names, and all that sort of thing. So,
too, we have drawn out the press; and
some of them. who have hardly ever
heretofore mentioned the word "temper-
ance," are now advocating it, and express
sing their fears that we Will do some
thing to injure that cause! We have,
then, done something. We are on the
right track, that is certain. How sue
cessful we may be depends upon the
energy and determination of your will
the will of the masses who have come
up here tonight, in the face of discour-
agement, to testify your determination
to vote for such men to fill our Offices as
will carry on this movement. He was
satisfied by the appearance of the au-
dience present, that the Maine Law was
to be carried on by the people and car
ried through and that it would become
a main pillar of morality and virtue in
the State and this whole country.
/ Rev I. l.. CUYLER, of Trenton, n. j.,
followed. He expressed his gratisfca-
ton at finding assembled together so
great a meeting They had assembled
at this court, to hold up before the tribu-
nal of public opinion the traficker In
alcoholic beverages. In the name of
many suffering wife, mother, and child
in the name of our commonwealth, and
of our holy. religion-I impeach this traf-
ticker of high misdemeanour and treason
against humanity. He puts in his plea
and says he has the right to sell this evil
spirit Where did he get the right :!
From Jehovah? No for his word deals
denunciations against him. Can he get the
moral righs to sell it from his fellow
men for SO or SIS? If he takes that
defence up to the Judgment bar, he will
find it of little avail there. 1t will not
pass current there. Again: they may
make their living by it. Yes; and it is
true too that many of their victims make
their death by it. Every piece of gold
that is got by this horrid traffic is crus-
ted over with the tears of widows and
orphans. And are we to keep up this
miserable trade in the souls ofmen, be-
cause some make their living by it,
The temperance men might show that
they are in earnest now. Last June the
opponents of temperance did not suppose
the old folks down in Maine, busy in
growing potatoes and floating lumber
down the Penobscot.-Wereg going to do