The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-11-26
NEWARK, o. Nov. I7th, /

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Mr.. Editor; don't know whether
people generally see things as l do;
am rather persuaded they do not.
My reason for thinking so is, that
among your many correspondents,
few or none of them seem to see
any thing to aOonder at in the temper.
ance movements Of the day. Some
tell us Of things encouraging; some
Of things diScouragingj some of things
worthy Of all praise and some of
things worthy, Of all condemnation.
But it is only now and then that we
are told of any thing strange. This
surprizes me--is itself a struAge thing
/ zee SO much that is wonderful,
that il seems to overshadow every
thing else. Permit me. for the sake
Of variety, to cali the attention Of
your readers to some examples.
10. /. It astonishes me that SO
many Of the professed friends of Tenn
perance stand aloof from the Sons
Of Ie11QeT0Rces
This is what any one might have
anticipated at first. Only few years
before the organization Of the Order,
the great Anti Masonic faror swept
over the land. A mighty out-cry
against secret societies was the result.
That the Sons should fall under
the ban Of this prejudice, or conscien-
tiousness, or whatever it might be
called, was not SO strange. But that
this state Of things should continue is,
I think, among the @sarvels of the age.
Let it be remembered, that the class
Of persons to whom refer, approve
Of the object Of our organization,
Nay, more, they profess to be seeking
its accomplishment as great desider-
atum. We aim toperpetuate the prin-
ciple Of total abstinence from all that
can intoxicate, in those who already
practice it. This, they say, is praise
worthy, and for this they claim to labor
as zealously as any body. We aim to
win all others over to the theory and
practice of this principle. This, too,
is their Object, nor would they pretend
to be temperance men at all if they
sought any thing short of this. We,
moreover, are united to a man, in the
determination to secure with all possi-
BILE speed such legislation as shall cut
up the liquor traffic foot and branch,
And who. with the results wrought
out in Maine, Rhode Island, Massa-
chusetts, and Wisconsin before him,
can rest satisfied withany thing else
Doubtless, the great body Of those
friendly TO the temperance cause,
whether in the Order or out Of it,
whether in the Church or out Of it,
have fixed upon this as the very least
ultimatum, Why, then, not Join us,
and thus unite all our forces and
hasten on the victory | say it Is
orange they don't. Can it be shown
to be otherwisel
i have already intimated that fact
like this was not SO much to be W0n-
derea al, when the Order first ap-
peared. Since that, years have passed
away, and freely admit, that i any
thing had been developed, contrary
to our professed principles, Or il the
community or individuals had been
in any way injured BY the working q
the organization during this lapse Of
time, no reasonable man could marvel
at the present state Of things. But
how IS 1T Neither the world nor
the church pretend to have made any
discovery Of the kind. We have i'm
posed silence upon no one, in regard
d anv cause Of complaint which he
NAV have found while IN connection