Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-13

Yourself, so noble and so gifted spare,
/ Think of the friends who love you passing we'll
/ Think of your plighted promise, and forbear. +"
Having briefly shown in the preceding number,
that the dram drinker robs himself of much that
he might otherwise enjoy, it remains now to show
that the evil does not there stop; but 1t also er-
tends TO his family and tie community in general
Almost every child of six years old, if asked
relative to the grand object of the creation of man,
would be ready to respond " to glorify God .
But in order to glorify God, it is necessary for a
man to be happy, and at the same time, labor to
promote the happiness and we'll being OF others.
Man by nature is a social being and such there
are social and reciprocal relations that every one
is bound to observe, if they wish to comply with
the grand object of their creation. Just so far
then man, by his own vohton, deprives him.
self Of the power ability to strictly observe such
relations so far is he guilty of robbing others of
what, at least, they had moral right to claim
Society is founded upon the grand principle that
each member of which it is composed is morally
bound to promote not only his own, but the hap.
piness Of others. There is a kind of linking, or
intimate connection existing in society at large );
and this is mysteriously interviewer and rami-
fed, that member of society can violate
the moral, social, reel procal relations, without
warng to greater or less extent upon the well be-
ing others. At the first thought it might appear
that the simple violation of reciprocal relation
by one man, would effect the happiness of but few
but when we come to look at the subject calmly
and philosophicaly and trace it out in all its me-
anderings how a father, mother, brother, sister,
wife, children, uncles, acquaintances, DC, may be
effected, just by one getting drunk, or by
committing any other crime by which the happl-
ness of others might be disturbed, we are ready
to excl5yim, "where will their growing numbers
end. - Look if you please at the vast multitude
of telegraphic posts on the various lines between
New York and New Orleans, and yet the falling
of one of these posts, in the swamps of the Mis-
sIsSppi, or on the mountain high may produce
very great effect at the two extremes. Is it not
then the vast multitude, with which this earth is
peoped, each of whom were placed here moral
and intellectual telegraphic beings, forming varl-
Gus lines of communications from the centre to
the circumference of the earth, that induces some,
when they see one who had been, and should now
be both moral and intellectual being, lying in
the gutter, where the swine had wallowed to say,
he njares no one bat hM8elf?
Again. the moral, social and reciprocal relation
of society, together with the obligation resting
upon each individual member to observe these re
lations, may be further seen when we call to mind
that a universal violation of any principle
growing out of such relations, would result in the
disorganization of society. For instance, if sell
fshness should universally prevail and to such
an extent, as to induce every man to act for him
and consequently society would be dsorganized.
True, this principle does prevail to great extent,
and this is one reason why there is much
lamity in the world. 1t is this principle predomi-
mating in the breast of some, that induces them to
appropriate to their use, that which Justly
belongs to others; and to deprive others of what
they have a moral and social right to claim
We take it as granted then, that no man can vio-
late any of the relations that he should snstain to
ho, 4,I
Hence then we may lay it down as an established
fact, that every man who gets drunk, is aetuated
by selfish motives for by so doing he robs the
community of what justly belongs to them. Ev-
cry man, however, is within a circumference of
which he constitutes the centre; and as the heat
diverging from the sun, weakens as itapproxmates
the great radius Of our solar system--so may
infer that the dram drinker exerts a more depri-
wing influence upon h's own wife and family than
he does upon the entire circumference of society.
There certain duties that each individual
owes to the community at large. As American
citizens, every man stands related, and owes du
ties to at least twenty six millions of human be-
ings yet the wife has stonger claim upon him,
who has called Heaven to witness. that he will
love and cherish her, than all the balance of the
twenty-slX millions consequently, the wife of a
drunken husband, with her little ones, are the first
to feel the blghting influence of him, who, in
place OF laborng to promote domestic happiness
and prosperity, has by degrees robbed himself of
all that is enobllng in man-his wife of health,
comfort and happiness, and his little ones, who
call him father of that which was necessary to
satisfy hunger, and support physical life.
There is no earthly enjoyment OF happiness to
/ be compared to that growing out of the domestic
relation of husband and wife, with pratling ones
around the family hearth, as pledges of their mu-
tual love. Such can truly say, Home, sweet
home - One writer has said, that :" domestic
happiness is the only bliss of Paradise that sur
i vived the fall; ;" yet, there is something the Sc
quel of which at last, g biteth like aserpent and
stingtheth like an adder" that has, and still
continues to change this Eden of bliss to chaos
of noxious weeds, briars and thorns, and that
something is strong drink. ALPHA.
Columbus, Miss, March, 1862.
The Richmond Wing of Saturday contains the
4 salutatory of its new editor, Mr. Mosely 1t is
brief but pithy, and and towards the close, makes
the following distinct announcement of States
Rights faith
f' A States Rights man from the beginning,
hold in the same adherence that I ever held
them, the Jacksonian doctrines embodied in the
i Proclamation and the Force Bill Whether these
rights be maintainable by abstract logic, stoI
not to consider they constitute rampant fo
freedom and barrier against central aggressions
That's enough for me. | would never surrende
one of them. Some new converts reeking Will
l Jacksonism, have thrust them forward in season
and out of season, and damaged them no litt
in public estimation. But they rest upon th
l general principles of popular liberty, and the,
will surviye secret as we'll as open assaults