The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-15

setadaotory and the secretary vey msdssr proposed
that those Who had mot enough x money With then,
buttons on slips Of paper which would DO handed round
to tbcm
The Hon Judge O'NrAL was next introduced, and re-
ceived with great applause lie thanked them for
this expression Of their appreciation, and he wouli
cherish the remembrance Of this evening anon
the proudest recollections Of his life He felt that
his first duty that he should be exceedingly bref in
his RENAL ks IL he the subject fully he
would have TO depict the desoaton and the destruction
caused by incompetence throughout tho world. lie
thought that the necessity of union better under
stood by reference to history than by anything else He
related amusing anecdotes Of the original settlers in
Kentucky and kept his audience in Of laughter
lie would have the friends of temperance armed
at every point and they would certainly subdue all their
enemies They had heard great deal OF moral suasi0n
but he had come from State which showed the Ill effects
Of IT, In 1872 they prepared to destroy the wther
ing pestience until moral suasion introduced and
while seemed to promise the greatest success it
had wrought much harm TO the cause. lie introduced
the story Of the little boy in the apple tree and the far
throwing tufts OF grass ut him: but being able
TO make him come down, he resorted to stones. He
would this far advise temperance people to try
such means for the suppression OF intemperance,
they would find it successful Nine-tenths CT the
crimes Of society arise from Intoxicating drinks II this
why did they stand aloof from the Of tenn
peraDce In other States efforts had been made The
of Maine should be written in letters Of gold and
never DO forgotten. The name Of Neal Dow would be
Chased by postery with that Of Howard He had
il iptimated in of the newspapers that Newport
to be deserted. But he did not believe It, and
sure it would be false prediction God will always
smile on that which right and condemn that which Is
wrong He trusted he might pause here but he would
not have them suppose that the subject exhausted
II was merely touched upon He would now, however
speak to the ladies. The Of temperance the
cause of the woman--it is the of purity, and
wherever there is purity he would expect to find
female loyeliness lie would not have woman play
ing Madame Caudlc and lecturing her husband by
day and by night about temperance, but he would
have her set her house in order and encourage her hus
band in habits of temperance lie appealed to the ladies'
sisters wives and mothers to discharge their duty
thoroughly in reference TO temperance. The best book
they could get for the tutor of their children very
cheap one-it could be got for cent-and was called
The House that Jack Built" They, the temperance
society, the jack and this reliance the
house that Jack built. The second picture in the
old book represented wealth, in the shape Of bags,
and underneath the words, 9 Here is the malt
that lay in the house that Jack built Well they
would have nothing to do with malt but they would sub
siitute for it, Then the next page they would
find certain long tailed animals getting into the sacks,
and underneath the words This is the that the
malt that lay in the house that Jack built" These
the rum dealers and their supporters but on
the next page the aDtidote to this evil. for
there the cat that killed the rat, that eat
the that lay in tho house tfat Jack builtn His
friends beside him these watchful industrious
ready TO pounce upon and destroy the rats Of intern
perance Mr.. O'Ncal amused his audience very much
by going through the whole of the little book and sp-
plying it to the subject of temperance The reward Of
for their saving excrtions declared to be
crow OF glory and he trusted they would that
ward by their services in this cause The meeting was
dis,uisse ed wish benedction.