The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-02-04
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TEMPERANCE MEETING.

49, 49, - T.
iContsddoh, in Cadiz, on the 9th Of Jsnua
~, 1851 The meeting was. large and in Z
ssEFsiugs and z lively feeling was manifest
ed, thus proving that Harrison County is
fully EEake on The great subject which at
the present. more than ever. is sgitadng
sxsry community /
The Rev. Heron opened the meetng with
prayer
The society then went into an election of
officers, which resulted as follows-Judge
Lee, President. DR.. Wilson and Allen c..
Turner, ESQ., Vice Presidents. j. p. Wood,
Secretary.
"A committee consisting of Rev. J. Kerr,
Rsv, Dool. Cyrus McNeely, Alex, Wilson
land VIM Asi Giles, was appointed to
prepare resolutions expressive ofthe sense
pf this meeting.
The committee having retired, the Rev.
sDsPs MrToHELL. Of the NJ. L. Church, took
the stand, and delivered one of the most
stirring appeals We ever heard in Cadiz.-
He showed among other important facts,
Abat the amount of liquor used annually in
The U. S. was 10000, 900 gallons, and
the money spent, time lost, DC. considered
the cost was incslculable. 1t being impos-
. bic to do justice to this great effort without
giving it entire, NE shall not attempt to.
sketch it.
The Rev. JAMES HARTzELL, then address
sed the meeting. His speech was short but
eloquent. He urged upon every friend of
Temperance the necessity of united effort.
Then committee on resolutions, through
VIM, A. Giles, reported the following, which
were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS :-Ever since man turned away
from God as a source from whence true en-
joyment is derived, and from his service as a
means of obtaining the favor and protection
ofHeaven, he has been prone to minister to
his passions in improper and bodily gratii-
cation. None to which he has resorted have
been more destructive than that which re-
suits from the constant use Of intoxicating
liquors as a beverage. 1t may foramoment
afford qualification, but at last it bites like
y serpent, and stingslike anadder." 1t tends
70 form an artificial, unnecessary and dan,
gcrous appetite, which in the end leads to
ruin and death-ruain in fortune and fame
death, temporal and eternal. Look at the
81 effects which have been produced. The con-
tgtant use of intoxicating liquors as a beve-
rage, have caused more tears to flow
gnnined more families-blightcd more bril-
liant pFospects-broken the hearts Of more
Eives-created more wretchedness and
misery-impoverished more communities
consigned more of our fellow men to untime.
ly and premature ~graves-made more or
phans-and has sent more souls to an end.
less he'll than anyo.her vice. Yet such ha.
been its power todeceive men, that although
evil litter evil has rolled in upon them like
the waves ofthe sea, and although they have
daily evidences of its deleteriou effects, We
they viii drink-driak md die. This de
ception has been the most complete and ia
tai ofany that has cursed our fallen race.
In view then of the effects produced upol
our fellow-citizens, by the manufacture anc
sale of intoxicating liquors, we the citizens 0
Harrison County, without distinction of par
~ ot'sex, in mass meeting assembled, DE-
appeal to our State Legislators-in behal
of the widows and orphans now pining ii
want-in behalf of those wives and chill
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dren whose misfortune it is TO have drunken
husbands and fathers-in behalf of the mar
who is convinced that he is doing wrong
but cannot avoid it because the tempter is il
his way-in behalf of those who are now in
mates Of dungeons through the agency o
this We've appeal to them in the lame o
svsHod, virtue and religion, to place such a re
ktraint upon the traffic as wi | make mel
; afraid to engage in it. The good of tn
community and the interests of religion de
maad some action OF the part Of cur Stat
Legislators. r e -,
! Therefore be it unanimously
Reselssd. That e regard intemperanc
as q monster whose very breath spread
contagion and death-who has for ace
blasted mans brightest hopes and desolate
his fragrant bowers Of domestic ioy-whos
destructive wand has swept ~unnumbere
d~nfiiions down to perdition-whose fearfl
RtNaread has pafaied empires and whose thur
desing roar has shaken republics from til
galaxy Of nations.
Resolved, That to successfully BATH
against this vice, we claim that the followin
is the only sure foundation on which Ten
perance men can stand-"Total Abstinenc
from all kinds Of Intoxicating or maltliquors.
Andby this we pledge ourselves to be 20,
ernedd during life--truly and faithfully.
~ 'sResolusd, That we as a branch of Ii
sa great Temperance Army-as those who Ct
logic the gushing fountain-as those VIII
sing Of purling streams, and the cold cake
bucket that hangs in the wcll'-we com
tobattle against this hydra-headed mons.t
ito snatch from jewelled hand the glitte,
ing goblet-to dash the poisoned draugl
from the lips Of our fellow-men-to lift tn
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