The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-02-06

This, with the exception Of our own, is
the hardest county in Ohio. Distilleries
are very numerous, and a vast amount of
capital is invested in the liquor business.
The farmers and mechanics have been hard
to enlist in the good cause, for the distille-
ries furnish a market for the grain, and bar
rels, and other things are to be supplied.
We are glad to see movement in the right
direction in that quarter The press at
Dayton, the county seat, is speaking out
and the Ministers of the Gospel are waking
up, and the state of things is most hopeful.
Arrangements have been made to hold
weekly meetings, and the clergy have
pledged themselves to sustain them.
The destruction Of the liquor system,
and the multiplication of grog-shOps on
the plan of free-trade is beginning to alarm
the fears of those who kept quiet when this
bloody business was regulated By iaI0, and un.
der the semblance of Courts Of Justice. The
Dayton Journal of last week has several
excellent articles on the subject. In speak
ing of the lowest class of drunkeries, he
says" they must be brOkea up"
So say we, and the more genteel slough
4aquallY dangefo6s establishments, must
go with them. In speaking Of the state Of
things, the Journal editor remarks:
1t is not, perhaps, generally known, yet
such we are assured is the fact, that not
| few of these dOggeries are now the resorts
of apprentice boys, who are encouraged to
spend their evenings at games of various
kinds, and are receiving their first lessons
literally being prepared to enter upon the
life of the drunkard or the gambler With
such institutions of iniquity, will it be
surprising if large number Of that class
who should be among the most useful of
our population-really the "bone and
sinew" of our Community--the source of
our prosperity--will it be surprising, we
say, If, instead of holding such a position
in manhood, these boys shall become a
pest to society--criminals to be prosecuted
candidates for the penitentiary-and by
the influence Of their example, spread the
contamination with which in the doggery
they were themselves first innoculated I
We wish the editor of the Journal would
come out " fiat footed" for the Maine law.
1t will be the height of folly to begin
crusade against the miserable dens kept by
foreigners, while the more reputable liquor
sellers are unmolested. The genteel land
lord must surrender to the officers of the law
his cut glass decanters of brandy at the
same time that the jugs of whisky are
seized in the gambling hell" They are
as cause and effect-the former creating the
necessity of the latter
DR.. Hall, of the Presbyterian church has
shown his colors The journal says:
The sermon of DR.. Hall, at the Third
street Presbyterian chnrch, on Sunday
night, was one of the most powerful and
eloquent to which We have ever listened
His delineation of the temptations and
snares with which strong drink and its
accomplishments beset the young--and of
the monstrous evils, the crime and the suf-
fering which confirmed intemperance pro
duces, was startling, terrific. He seemed
literally trumpet-tongued," as he present.
ed, with all its horrors, the "deep damna-
ton" which in all its consequence attends
the " traffic in liquor"
| Among the large audience present, we
doubt if there was single individual who
even felt inclined to resist the influence
which the language of the preacher was
intended to produce.