The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-15
The American Temperance Union.

SIXTEENTH ANNIVERSARY.
This anniversary meeting held on Thursday
evening, at the Broadway Tabernacle. The attend
ance was good.
CHANCELLOR WALwoRTH presided, supported on
the platform by the Vice Prcsdents, and several
cergymen, who, by his invitation, assembled it
from the body Of the building. The Navy Yard
band we're in attendance, and, at the hour ap-
pointed for assembly, and throughout the evening,
performed some excellent music.
The Rev. Mr.. RyINGToN, Missionary to the
Choctaw nation, offered the opening prayer.
The Rev. JOHN MARSH, Corresponding Secretary
read an abstract of the annual report.
The report compared the traffic in spirituous and
intoxicating liquors to the image in Daniels vision
whose head was Of fine gold and its breast and arms
Of silver but its feet part of iron and par of
clay. The wealth of the world Zone hundred millions
of dollars in America two hundred and fifty millions in
Brittany has annually been laid upon its affairs but
like the African slave trade and the opium trade of
China 1t Is the worlds curse and stone will smte
and break 1t in pieces that ii shah be like the chat
the summers threshing floor For two hundred years
the legislatures have cndeavored to bride and regulate
this giant evil but the Maine law has risen strange
and destroy it, The report presented in detail the
character and workings of this law the impression it
has made on the nation, its enthusiastic welcome, first
by the National Temperance Convention and then
by State and local bodies demand in other
States by million petitioners: its free and powerful le-
gsativc discussions and finally its adoption in Mime
the rich events of the nineteenth century In preparing
the people OF the States for this law the American Tenn
perance Mon has been an humble laborer with other
organizations and has issued in the year IS Journals
100000 Youths Temperance Advocates 10 900 pamphlets
500 600 pages of original tracts nearly all bearing ON this
law The report gratefully noticed the active opera
OF other organizations the aid of pulpit and the
press auded the temperance In merchant ships aud
lamcnted The continuance of the spirit ration in the
navy now tending backward 10 the horIil baTbsrity
the hoggng system Ii gave cheering intelligence from
New Brunswick. whore the Maine law j. adopted; from
England and Scotland where II L. looked with hope
from Liberia Maine law republic from south Africa
and the Sandwich Islands IL noticed with regret the
decease Of j ". Lcavitt Esq. long q the escom-
mttee and the prsstrate condition ~ Rev Justin I'd.
wards D. d. and in view of he ,ast nersts o. stake,
OF the power OF the enemy the power 20 tfuth tn rprt
Of the age the good done and the Fnmls.d AID of the
Almighty exhorted the friends Of tho 81 H. q good
courage, and play the good trds u cssslnx The
stone that is cut out without hands shall suite tbs ien
image and break all oppression In pece ani hr S>one
will become great mountaia aud GA With blssssaaess
the whole earth
Mr. CRAMPro., OF Rochester. Ia tAe aisence Of
the Rev. A. E. Campbell, u. u, Of New York,
moved the acceptance and adoption u the report,
which was seconded by
The Rev. j. I. PECK, ID. D., President Of Dickin-
son College, Pennsylvania. In 1915 a traveller
stopped at bar-room in Lowell, Massachusetts,. A
carewom woman, in an excited state, entered, and
begged the landlord would not give her husband
any more rum he had once been in comfortable
circumstances, and one Of the kindest helpmates-
now all their property, dollar by dollar, disappeared,
passed into the possession fthe dealer-and herhus
band only returned at late hour of the night, 20
illtreat her, and threaten her life. While she was
speaking poor inebrate entered and shrek told
it was her husband-her appeals were disregarded
and she was forcibly pushed out-the unfortunate
man went to the bar and drank and the seller put
put his sixpence in his pocket. What should be said
OF a law which tolerated such traffic Away with
it, (Applause) There was one thing in the report
and one in the resolution, which he objected to- or
rather the language. To his mind, the Maine law
was not new principle Of legislation, and proposed
nothing new-no principle that had net prevailed
since the origin of all laws. The great object Of
legislation was to redress wrongs. If stranger
took your horse, the law said there was violation