The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-08-05

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tiEnohy, and BY q cloud Of witnesses,
and viii prCEeit again. gdWould You
have more testimony9 Then let the
departed visit the green earth again. 81 p
Break the turf above your mould
ering homes, ye host Of drunkards-
shake of the grave dust from your
crnmbling brows and stalk into court
in your tattered shrOuds and bony
whiteness and testify against him. Say
unto him as Nathan said unto the
royal murderer, thou art the man
Come down from the gallows thou
rum.maddened man-slayer-grip the
bloody knife again, and stagger into
court, and testify against him, Say
unto him as Nathan said unto the
royal murderer, thou art the man
Crawl from the Shiny ooze, thou
drowned, drunkard victim, and with
suffocation's blue and livid lips, testi-
fly against him. Bring that rum de-
ranged suicide into court with his
throat cut, and let the dripping gore
drops testify against him. Make way
Gorthat frost stiffened corpse, there,
IT'S the drunkard's wife, driven from
her fireside to die in the snow storm.
Let the frozen tear on her pale and
icy cheek, testify against him. Break
thy seal Of silence, thou unrelenting
past, and let the shrieks and groans Of
his dying victims come back, wailing
down upon the night-winds to testify
against him. UnroI and read thou re-
cording Angel, the murder indict-
ments against him, which thou hast
written in the book of Gods Remem-
brance, to testify against him. Snap
your burning chains, ye spirits damned
by alcohol, and rush up, all sheeted in
fire and dripping from the blazing
waves Of he'll, and testify against him
-plead-'plead like angels, trumpet
tongued, against the deep damnation
Of your taking off,
SGod made man in his own image,
in the image of God created he him.
Who, with impious and polluting hand,
defaces the image and supercription of
his maker, and stamps him with the
counterfeiting die Of the Devil? Al
cohol. Man by nature walks erect
lifts his forehead to the stars-power
and dominion have been given to him
over all the creatures Of the earth-he
is natures King? Who breaks bis
sceplre Of authority-takes from him
his imperial crown, and degrades him
below the brutel Alcohol. Who de.
stroys his reason, hides her bright
beams in mystic clouds thstroll around
the shattered temple Of the soul, cur
tanned in midnight? Alcohol.-Who
pollutes his heart, and robs it of every
noble and generous emotonl Alcohol.
Who makes him q mailman and then
lashes and halloos on the mad pack Of
his vilest passions? Alcohol. Who
fills our jails with felons, and hangs
yon trembling wretch upon the gal
iowsl Alcohol. Who crowds our
aims houses with paupers, our hospi-
tails with disease, and our grave yards
with dead? Alcohol.
Does any Of you want to be a fool
nay, worse, become the jibe and
derision Of fools? Let him drink Ii
quor. Does any Of you | don't care
how proud and virtuous you are, does
any Of you want to be a rascal with a
hang gallows look. or become a low,
vulgar blackguard9 Drink liquor. q
If you are a father, do you want tc
see your children ragged and ignorant
growing up young candidates fol
the penitentiary and gallows? DrinA
liquor. If you are q son, and you
want to pay with black ingratitude the
debt you owe your parents, and bring
down their reverend grey hairs in sor'
row to the grave, drink liquor. If you