The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-01-30

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we not strive for the same results in ou
various localities? Shall not the same un
relenting foe be subdued all over the
world? Let the millions of dollars once
wasted in Maine, now be expended upor
her farms, her bulldogs, her schools, he
means of education and religion, anC
soon, among all her sister republics, she
will be an object of universal admiration
But why Maine alone2 Why shall no
the wives and children, and the already
deluded, stricken men, scattered all owe
the hills and valleys of this vast land, re-
ceiVe the same protection! In asking fol
law, we abandon in no case, where it is
available, moral suasion. But there are
upholders of intemperance who are be.
yond Its reach; and we must either, with
our children, wither and die under its
scorching tyranny, or rise in our majesty
as free people, and by that same arm
which shuts out the gambler and the
counterieiter, and destroys their imple-
ments, shut out and destroy this bloody
demon, which has stalked forth with un-
blushing ettrontery and rioted amid the
tears and groans of its bleeding victims.
Greater moral triumphs there may not
have been than our eyes have Witnessed
in the progress oftemperance; but greater
things than we have seen, shall we yet
see. Difficulties there may be in other
States, greater than Maine has had to en-
counter. Our populous cities, our mer-
chant princes, rolling up their wealth, our
vast importers and mighty distillers may
laugh us to scorn and bid us defiance
but doth not God know! Is he not an
avenger? Doth he not hear the cry of the
tatherless? Hath he not said, fWo to
him that buildeth town with blood, and
establisheth a city by iniquity = and may
he not, for the iniquities Of her traffic
asend pestilence into the city, and blood
into her streets, and give us a triumph
before we ask it?
Brethren and friends from this privi'
legged mount, this delightful gathering, we
beseech you in all parts OF our rising,
far spreading, and noble republic, and
throughout the ad jacent provinces, to
rouse to new efforts and bid our land and
the world be free. This, be it remem-
bered, is the forming age of nation, des.
tined, we believe, to be the mightiest on
the globe, and a model TO all tnat come
after us. If we lay the foundations right
if we have respect in all we think and do
to the moral and physical laws of his
kingdom, God will own and bless Us
and the nations of the earth, taking
knowledge of our prosperity, will follow
in our wake, and we shall be instru-
mental of preparing the earth for the
reign of Him in whom all are to be
blessed.
Letharmony and love pervade all our
councils. Let there be no internal strifes
and collisions. Let US be generous, noble,
and firm. Let our dependence be upon
an Almighty arm. Let the philanthro=
pists, and patriots, the friends of law and
order, ministers and churches of our land
see, that in all our organizations, we seek
not ourselves, but the public good. Let
those whose habits we would reform,
whose business we would destroy and
lOOl Oul iOlONOl1 bGC tlldt VIC dlO oCluotOb
by the kindest motives and most generous
dispositions. Legislators we must have,
magistrates we must have, who will give
us and our children protection from the
traffic. 1t is right, therefore it is our
duty, which we owe to ourselves, to our
children, and to our common country, to
go to the ballot box, and there secure
them; to do that, in defiance of all the
outcries Of political aspirants, which men
do in thousand cases, without caIumAy
or reproach, for far inferior private and
social interests. Thus moving forward
in one harmonious, unbroken phalanz in
the strength, and with the aid of the Lord
of Hosts, we shall soon see removed, not
merely from one State, butfrom our whole
land, from a continent and world, one
of the direst curses with which earth has
been afflicted.
Rev. ]. MARSH,
SAM'L. F. CARY, Com.
II