The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-18
The Hsly Alliance OF Tenperanee-lts
Progress aad Oonse q uences.

ioly Alliance. There will be grand cold water
demonstration at Metropolitan Hall-s banquet Of
he National Temperance Society-at which General
sam Houston, the Hon. Neal Dow, the author of
he Maine Liquor Law, and other notabilities, will
be present. A magnificent gold medal, weighing
our ounces of pure gold, is to be presented, on this
occasion, by General Houston to Mr.. Dow. On one |
side the seal Of the Nation Society,
the national eagle drinking the pure waters oftem-
perance as they gush from the solid rock; on shs |
margin the inscription, "National Temperance
Society, organized Sept. %, 1850; Incorporated
Feb. l, 1851" The reverse contains an elegant
wre sth Of oak and laurel, surrounding the fol-
10 wing inscription presented to Neal Dow for
eminent services in the temperance cause. New
York, Feb. ls 1852 We are informed that the
tickets for the banquet-price three dollars each
are nearly all TAKEN and that the society have issued
limited number of tickets, at fifty cents, for the
gallery, intended chiefly for the ladies, and not en-
tslipg the holders TO any share ia the good things
Of the banqust-a punishment almost as cruel as
that which We are informed in ancient fable IN.
fcted on Tantaus in the Internal regions, who,
fainting with hunger and thrst, was surrounded by
the most tempting fruits and the most refreshing
streams Of water, yet was not permitted TO touch,
taste, or handle, food or drink OF any kind II is
curious arrangement this, on the part of the COM
mittee, to initiate Pluto and tantalize the ladies'
While the teetotal movement is thus going for
ward in the state of New York-and above
al, in the great metropolis--it has extended to
other States, showing that there is central body,
probably at Washington, pulling the wires, and
simultaneously putting the politicians into aston
in various parts Of the country. We learn that
Mr.. Benjamin Il. Miller, one Of the Native Ameri-
can members Of the House of Representatives, from
the county Of Philadelphia, introduced bill last
Wednesday, into the Legislature Of Pennsylvania,
prohibiting the liquor traffic, in any shape or form,
and being far more stringent in its provisions than
even the law now in force in the State Of Maine.
The introduction Of the measure produced q consi-
darable stir among members, and has caused more
than ordinary excitement among wholesale dealers,
.ailers and various interests that will be serious
ly affected by the law, should it be enacted by the
Legislature 1t has also been just introduced into
the Senate Of Indiana, though not adopted. |. has
been brought into the Legislatures Of Massachu.
setts and Rhode Island In Conne:tic and other
States tho movement is making rapid pro-
gress ard in . very hort time We may expect to
see its ramifcations spread over the whole Union
East, West, North, and South In this State
it is already advancing with the speed Of loco
motive; but TO- night full head Of steam will be
put on, and q new impetus will be given to the
Holy Alliance, that will make it 20 ahead with a
vengeance; and unless it gets of the track. or
bursts its boiler, it will be crowned with speedy
and complete victory.
This Holy Alliance is curious one II is
composed Of as many ingredient as the witches
eauldron Of "hellbroth,' described in Shak-
speare's Macbeth. 1t consists of "black spirits
and white, red spirits and gray,"-wily politi-
clans, red republicans mad republicans, social
lists, Fourierites, communists, aboli.iensts-w
livered and blsck-livered-spiritual rappers and
clsirvoyants, disappearing atheists, and pious
ministers OF the Gospel-all associated and
ffaternized, and exhibiting as much harmony as
ssthe happy family" of the cat and the rat, tho
hawk and the sparrow, the eagle and the swan, tho
fox and the goose, the wolf and the lamb, and
whatever other csrnvorous beasts, and birds, aud
reptiles, collected in the same vast cage with
those genter creatures which, in the wild state
their ordinary and devoted prey. 1t is q most
marvellous sight, and actually anticipates the mil
lernium foretold in Holy Writ, when "the wolf
shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
lie down with Tie kid, and the calf and the young
lion and the failing together, and little child
shall lead them. And the COW and the bear shall
feed togethcr-their young ones shall lie down
together; and TIE lion shall eat straw like the
OK. And the sucking child shall play on the hole
Of the asp and the weared child shall pat his hand
on the cockatrices den" Thus, in the Holy Al
lance, there are no antipa!hies, and no evil pas
sion touches discordant string. All is harmony
and love; nd the only drawback upon such CON-
ple;e happiness is the apprehension that it nay not
last for thousand years-not even till the spoils
are divided
But We fear that though the Alliance IS s, holy,
SO happy, and SO harmonious within ITSELF lis action
will not produce much happiness, or harmony, or
satisfaction outside. II will be peace ct hems-
war ebroad-war to the soalping knife and toma.
hawk. 1t will be war Of aggression and death,
without hope or compromse-the standard Of tho
Alliance being black flag, with deaths head
and cross bones painted either eide. 1t will be
q war agsinit great variety Of classes and into-
rests and if it is successful il viii overturn from its
foundations the present framework of trade and
commerce and social and domestic life
1t is not the rumsellers and rowies, aud the poll
ticans who managed the primary elections by the
copious Of grog, tina. will be alone affected by
this movement. II is not the five thousand five
hun dred vendors Of rot gut-Irish, Germans, Anne.
rcans- and their walters and Enthusiastically
numbering some hundred thousand perseas in all
that will be demolished at some fell syoop" i: is
not merely the of,e holders, place hunters and rum
politicians that will be decapitaied BY the guillo,inc
OF teetotalism II is going to produce tremendous
effect upon agriculture, and trade, and commerce,
real estate, and other property. The grain formerly
used in brsweiies and disiilleries will lie ro.ng
for want Of a home market, in the farm yards
Of cur agricul:urists, or they viii be com.
PEELED to eel it at greatly Deprecated pr.css,
or export to foreign markets already glutted.
When the farmer gets bad prices for his prolice,
/: is needless 10 soy that be can afford TO maze
~. very few purchases at the dry goods stores. /
The rents Of stores VIII DO affected to.a great I
Iten. ard many OF them viii be left N caut /