The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1852-07-24
ADDRESS ON THE PRESENTATION
OF THE TEMPERANCE BANNER. .
BY MISS FRANCES E. CAMPBELL
Perry's Bridge, July 10, 1852.


ADDRESS ON THE PRESENTATION
OF THE TEMPERANCE BANNER.
BY MISS FRANCES E. CAMPBELL.
Gentlemen-We are this day assem-
bled for the purpose of paying tribute
of respect to your Division. The bene-
fits resulting from the practice lead US
to believe that it is of the most vital
interest to society, therefore we are
truly happy to see the order of Sons of
Temperance now permanently estab-
lished in our community, knowing that
you have, by your persevering efforts
and noble example, banished in great
measure the demon of intemperance
from many of our now smiling and
happy family circles. We do not hesi-
tate to predict that the time is not far
distant when the pestilential breath OF
the inebriate will no longer dare to
contaminate home on the Vermilion.
When we contemplate the many bless
ings to be diffused throughout our coun-
try by the continued habit of temper
ance, we find ourselves unable 10 ex-
press satisfactorily our unbounded ad
uliratiop of your self-deniai. You have
only to persevere in the elevated path
yea are now pursuing to arrive at. the
highest position of moral grandeur.
We trast that the banner we are
about to present to you may convey to
your minds all that we fail to do by our
language. 1t is our most ardent desire
that it may prove the lovely messenger
of peace and good will TO all men: that
it may be the means of drawing the
members of your Division still more
closely in the hnlr hands Of fraternal
love. and that all who approach within
IT'S influence may partake of the soul
inspiring sentiment inscribed thereon.
Yes, we trust that those fairest and
sweetest flowers of Paradise will ere
long spring forth in every heart and
blossom with resplendant loveliness.
Gentlemen, trusting that our gift
may be received with emotions OF
pleasure. by every member of your
Division, now, in the name of the
ladies of Vermillion, deposit in your
hands this sacred symbol of the trium-
phant cause of temperance.
THE ADDRESS ON THE RECEPTION
OF THE BANNER -. BY JOHN c.
WHITE
Lodies.cf Vermilliom-To tell you, in
view of this most appropriate and esti-
Unable gift which you have just pre-
sented to Kermillion Division, No. 55,
of the Sons of Temperance, in this
beautiful, banner of our Order, that you
have our sincerest and warmest thanks
.wonld! be indeed but feebly and poorly
expressive of the many and grateful
sentiments and feelings with which it
fills onr minds and inspires our hearts.
Yes, ladies of Vermillion-fair donors
of this treasured gift-we more than
thank you. We hold, not only in graft
ttude, but in esteem, in admiration and
in honor, the noble spirit that prompted
This offering. And in receiving from
your hands this acceptable tribute of
your regard for our cherished institu-
.tion and its great and blessed cause,
we hail it as another evidence of wo-
mans superior love and appreciation of
virtue, and her ever active. and heart
warm sympathy foFfthose who are en-
gagged in virtues holy and ennobling
cause.
We hailit as proud and worthy gift
from ,ihe mothers and daughters of
EVeEmillion to Sons" who glory in pro-
claiming their Order to the world as
the best and sublimest moral associa-
ition of which civilization can boast,
and the noblest motive to action, and
the highest reward for effort, in which
is the reflection that its destiny involves
nothing less than the purity, the peace
and well being of the domestic circle,
and that success with US is but another
word for the happiness of woman.
Were we asked what is it that gives
to the beautiful Order Of the Sons of
Temperance its highest commendation
10 the esteem and favor of the world,
.our answer would be, the fact that it |
,eombats, and seeks to exterminate, a
vice whose most direfnl work of ruin
and misery is wrought amid the homes
and families of our land, and whose
Interest woes it is gentle woman's lot
TO suffer. Intemperance, that terrible
vice Of vices, that 80 fatally preys upon