New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-05

a vorthv sire-a man amorR men In the CONNER
cial world he stood far among the tairess Aoun-
dance blessed our board. II We had not wealth IN
boarded profession, bad enough for all our wants
ard even the rich might have eDvied rs our happi-
ness. But when dreamed OF no danger, the foe.
with serpentre assembling wound his coils around
my loved and cherished ose, aud b.ighted nv every
earthly hope. Oh, never never shall forget the
agony OF that hour, When mrs, the fall conviction
fsfhed upon nv mind that the father OF nv children
my own loved and cherished husoand-wn 4
drTFkard, Oh, ye who revel "a the wealth wrung
from wido tears. and hoard up gold coined from
orphans ercaIs, were l 4 demon ddnned and wished
10 heap upon your devoted heads the Goals OF I'M
Que1chable ire could not wish you worse than that
you might drink OF that bitter cup, which then you
forced to my unwilling lips, and compelled me to
drink. even TO the ceepes crefs
But even then Ines rot the power o. my deadly
foe. Hope that angel OF mercy, spraHg up nom tue
depths of despair and with the frantic energy OF the
fresurrounded victim of the prairie flames, ssrove
10 releate him from the grasp OF the fell destroyer
j sfroye. oh God thou knowest no HARD strove TO
cunceal from ny self and others the truth With nv
husband the struggle VAS equally severe, II not IS
ardent. He saw not a. krst The danger, but for my
cake sIe bis childrsh's sake, he resolved that he
would be tree Like Samson he rose in all the con
scous streIg a. msn hoods prime but like him. who
called with an enemy he too soon sound out ne
was shorn OF bis strength and yielded In AFFECT sub
mission TO his deadhest Zoe. He was N the anacon-
oa's fode. and as well misht the Lamb escape from
the paw OF the lion as he from his eternal tormen-
tor. Thrice, before God and man. he took the solemn
pledge that he would more yield 10 the temp.er,
aud thrice he fell but TO taste In all its wed hor
Tors, cfunkarc's hell Oh yes many, many times,
when 10 eye but God and my own witnessed
his struggle, and when he knew not of my vi
lis; ! have seen BIN PROSTATE and weeping
as though is once manly heart would break,
as be reviewed the past, and looked forward to
the future. Twas then he realized his hopeless,
inetrievable bondage Yet he was not gutter
drunkard. He seldom reeled in the street he was
public, degrade sot But he was IN de mons
power, and, demon ike, he would In the ten thou
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harrow up ny very soul, and render life BURDEN.
Property vanished friends grew cold the proud
despised US, std tongues Of malice were dipped In
gall All this he with blurred visioa, and some
times keeny felt that he had brought l. all upon
those whom he loved dearer than life. Day and
his 1t teiled night and day watched and prayed
yea, weeks and months and years l Struggled and
BY the rec use OF HANDS not ashamed 10 work, but
heretofore all unused to toll |, uraidec BY mortal
arm. fed clothed and sheltered nv little ones, AID
by main force held up my degraded husband also.
And while thus gave up to sacred duty my choicest
years OF Ii e, he who would have been. but for ac-
cursed Drink my protector and supporter, driving
deeper and deeper the ba1bed arrows into my life
springs, till at last maniac like his cruel blows, Of
which DO one knew or heard, drove me, and those
~hem God had given me, TO seek shelter and pro-
lection where rum could not invade my sanctuary.
Need tell you the anguish of that fatal hour
Need tell you how it brought me to the very gates
Of death. whence after msnv days, barely es-
capped Need tell you how he who was thus for
sakeD, Ike Esau, in vain sought space Tor repent
ance and found it not though he sought 1t carefully
with tears Mol need not tell you this Nay It
is tale that cannot be toldet il sleep But will
tell you that for the last time he renewed, with
dtiDg struggle, the terrible conflict with his enemy.
IN vain he looked on this SIDE and on that for help
Help there was none, but Oh every corner stood the
ttmpter IN bright array. All around him were men
-men in the image Of their God-mer whom the
la~ called good moral men, licensed by law to send
his soul TO hell and his body to the worms Ah
too sure their work, for as he had lived 80 he
died In an instant, and when he looked not for it,
death claimed his victim. and he no more No
sympathzing hand smoothed his dying pillow No
daughters kiss assuaged his last death. throes no
son was there TO hear his last commands His BODY
fills diunkard's grave. His murderers may meet
bis soul in a world to come.
And ow tell me, We honorable men, We whom God
has commissioned with DO wer 10 avert from others
the doom which awaited my once loved husband
tell NE, have no voice in this matter Of life and
row has remained all untoid-and am but one Of
tens of thousands OF those whose griefs untold
on earth. but are daily poured into the ears OF the
Almighty.
or wrongs ard outrsgts-ot cruel and barbsrous
muIders-of suicides and hOnicides, You have q full
surfeit day by day but deeper darker susiings
o. the unprotected helpless females you have little.
Almost within sound OF your legislative halls, within
the week last past poor lost victim hopeless Of the
relief for which pray madly rushed into the pres
Of his God declaring his last words that he did
80 rather than loree bear the tormentor's sting
earth You can he ar the explosion of the death deal
ing wespon. but the sroans of the widow and orphan
YOU csDnot hear. You cannot bring the dead to life
You cannot restore to me, TO the tens OF thou
sands whom like me rln has deprived Of our hus-
banos our loved ones again But you can. yes, you
can hurl this demon from his high places. You can
put the brand OF Cain upon the man who engages in
this acc uTsea traffic You sake away this tempt
alton from those who would II they could, avoid It's
spares You can the lives Of tens of thousands
OF precious husoaT ds brothers, snd sons-and 7 is
for This We most hunbly pray. Will you turn to US
a ceaf ear and spurn us from your doors We trust
motive hope n0t-we believe not and in this faith
we will wait. Meantime our prayers shall go up to
Him who 10 Fsther to the fstherless. that He will
euide you ia His own way to accomplish this great
work MOTHER