New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-11

.r,p and they are gone. In confsrring Of
tn'ehthood, the candidate knees before his sover-
ejsb who puts has sword on his head and SAYS,
RISE up Sir - ard on but IN confeTlng the
last degree on drunksrd he says and 90 to Is,
| will TO, say where and this Is the consum,
nation 81 the honor OF drunkenness ana the result OF
their project OF education, by which they carry
their pupils through Well. now. would ASK, sup
posing your grocer druggist should vend anysh'ns
10 rnenoer Of your famiiy-arsenic for instance
and death should nsue, would he not be put 10 the
| Tombsl Or suppose some rufian should assam your
daughter your son would not the nre OF lhalSua,,
ton rise TO the heavens and would not you csu
ON the administrators of the law 10 protect you ron
such asgressionsi Certainly you would ani as men
OF religion prefer recourse to the latter rAtner an
| the infection of summary chastisement nave
| precious document III my hands, one OF century,
anew thing under the sun, one issued fro II our rum
selling citizens against the passing OF the pronios
| law met here to protect ana one curious
fact is that this curious document contains arsu-
ments-but it has impressed on It, at the same tme
capital bunder They say tney nave
of drinks is good for the health, the comfort, ana
the happir ess of those who use the m and tna coio
water has killed as many, or proaacea as many many
been published. Well, can only say, nave no oo-
! lection to there being appointed CommiHee 70
get up statistical detail of ths victims 20 coia
water loud applause little anecdoe In
reference to this was then mentioned py the
speaker-that OF John Brown whose friend agreed
to sleep in an apartment adjoining MS sleeping rom
! OF Death The guests seemed to be respecsaoie, or
! rather what is termed comfortaole-had good
piano and performed whatmight be termed aiunefM
| dirge accompanied with a doggrel song designed As
a carcature on the temperance cause and the use Oh
| cold water John Brown was merry fello " and ne
had a merry wife, but he fell In Win one ., 'hoso
| long faced cold water men who induced MN 70 sign
| the Pledge. Soon after his face became long, Suu
| his poor wife regretted him but at last ne
| died. On the post-mortom examination, hoHeseL
nothing was found IN his stomach og1 rs wos
however painful sequel 10 this story the poor EEL
low who might have been said to have performed inc
| dree al poor John Browns" decease became con-
fImed dfunkard in very few weeks after, tell into
an area and was killed; but his death orig mated
from something else than cold water We are toid,
will not listen to any such law this, and tina! Tenn
| perance men will be the first to have their heads
broken Iapplausel but as boy was always
taught that" "a barking dog never oites.. toneeIsI
Inever knew a set OF men seriously bent on mis-
chief to advertise 1t In the newspapers oeiofehahd
tCheersl There is no fear and'l am g al the Peo-
PIE of New.YoIk begin to see TINS proa,9So;y law
will be carried. THE speaker resumed MS sea
amid general accamation.l
Rev DR.. TYING next addressed the audience. He
made some preliminary remarks. in that spn'sd
and happy style which well belts the Doctor ana
in which he is so much at home He was used to
cold water such men were always ready win
something, and here they differed frsm the rum
drinker, who was frequently called Jug without
bottom. There was nothing like cold water now
1t came dropping gently down from heaven, and was
found as dews upon the grass. He was glad 10 see
that neither cold water dirty streets had pre-
vented that goodly number before him from being
present on this important occasion. This cause
was especially our own 1t was no foreign move
ment, but originated among ourselves It's heart
was not the heart of British oak OF which there was
only one species, and that now fast dying ouf IL
was the true American oak OF which there were va
rious species ana varieties to be found in every
| ,x.I in ~ nf 81 -
tApplansel 1t was told that Louis XVI hearing
a great noise in Paris, said to his Minister, This
revolt" "Sire" SAID the Minister, this is not
aNvolt-it is a revolution" so we may say, 3D.
served the Doctor OF what Is called the Temperance
Reiorm--ths is not revolt, but revolution. You
saw if 1t were revolution, 1t would begin with the
upper and more influential classes. But where did
YOU ever know revolution to begin with the upper
classes 1t begins where every revolution mas De-
gun and ought to begin, in an organized resistance
OF those who had suffered oppression before; You
never see revolution beg with the upper classes
Men who in the lap Of luxury and drinking from
. cups OF ivory and gold never desire revouIion--
1t Is the people Who rise because they can no longer
submit TO the intolerance and Tyranny OF their op
pressors. And what Temperance Revolution could
get.irg their wealth by, the evil; and 20
whom it presented nothing but veins OF gold and
! silverl Would they be likely to begin any revolu-
| ton in the case The revolution had commenced,
and now carrying Oh by the people every meet
ing had a very powerful effect, and made a great
advance toward the success OF the object. But
this ews of the Maine movement was far ahead
; of all that had been done yet. The matter
was already settled there. 1t sounded to him like
the trumpet of victory he listened to 1t, and ne
thought we might now sing the old tune of go
to bed, Tom" There was something uncommonly
appropriate in the very name OF this wonderful
. movement 1t was the Ler magna-the man L1w
IL stood the statute book as the main Law that
sustans the fabric of health and life and strength
shuttu out from its very border the fell destroyer
r that would impair them. The Maine LA was 10
be handed down to posterty as the best OF our civil
q Ar.1a a,-t1l lou oil cd from tla
to West, dispensing blessings in its way, so this,
second to none for It's Importance should go forth
and blessings attend it The cause should spread
In all directions and stretch across the Atlantic
| other legislation should claim its kindred and
: say, 81 also caHsd after the Name Law. ="
This law was direct 1t grappled with the foe. II
bearded the lion IN his cen 1t laid hold OF the thief
by the throat beats out, said he It's its head and
brains and all that 1t contains The Doctor alluded
\ to Major Jack Downing, Of Maine ana now Jacks
gone said he more would deny his merit He play.
fully referred to Ezekiel Bissell's chum with one
wheel and smasher, which made good butter the
State had been churnng all day long in vain. II
, Congress had made that law they would have put
fifty whe els in it and made it no better then. The
Doctor had felt so much Of the old Adam stir
ing IN him as to be tempted TO say many hard
, thu Is about the liquor dealers, and now they had
nothing more to saw He would look on them with
resptct for their candor He would say to the liquor
dealer, how the ne " Ia wiwould reevehim hewOuld
need DO license-no more Of the heavy investment
, ne speaks ONO more fine furnture-no more wine
glasses. They would be like Eiruscan vases, relics
OF al age gone by. He would need no rich saloon.
Pass this law said he, and it will you much taxes
IL Will save you many bad debts All bad deos were
liquor debts. He never knew an instance of a cold
water drihker failing TO pay an amount when due.
The liquor seller says 1t is the community, they
must have 1t and will. have put il away in an
upper room l have put II in the cellar and
another man has sold 1t there they will have
II" This smasher said the Doctor is VIVA. settles
lie business Pass this bill, and we release you
non tre responsibilities OF your position. Like the
woman III the poor house at Bangor, even then
might say d" II you had passed that law before my
husband would not have been dead, nor my children
faiheriess, nor In the poor house" How May
children were yearly driven from their homes aud
lovely daughters throw n into the whirlpool before
they were ht to enter on the cues of life and Wild
| daMs lefhf lness and I'M