The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-03-16
Fer the Ohio STAR
il sIEress delivered before tIse Hsnyen-
. ma ladies es'Tenaperamce League.
nr mas. ELIZABETH 8. uALL.

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EPabfiskfd BY request Of Tie League.l
To the Ladies' Of the Temperance Loaguc,
respecting tie Temperance Reform
It csnuot be expected that subject so hackney
cd, as is the one under consideration, can elicit
thoughts which are new, or especially interesting.
But although onr theme is one of great aniiq-
uity. stil it may be profitable to review the past
aud gather irstructieu ffom thence, that oar ia
ture course be not mpeded, but that we arrive al
the goal Of our highest expseisfi9us.
Tits no " nearly thirty years since thu attention
of the pilantlropic has been more particularly d.
rec,ed fotIIe Importance ofthe Temperance Cause
The pioneers in this enterprise deemed itnecessa-
ry 10 obtain pledges to total abstinence only from
Alcoholic drink. SO called. They seemed to over
look the fact, that cider and beer, and their con-
co.nitanis. were more dangerous enemies to.con
ten with. tIan pure Alcohol, but this epoch pass
ed away without their realziug their expecthtious.
which were to see our country, than called ma
tioo of druDkards, diseuthralled.
But they were not discouraged. second seige
commenced aud a renewed effort was made TO
obtain pledges to abstain from all drinks as a bsv-
srags whose work would carry death mora sure,
and carnage more terrible than all the artillery
in the world. This seigs was long and severe.
but need nor the facts. for you ell know
h5w many influential persons conteuded in this
warfare, for the great privilege Of using cider at
least as beverage or they expressed it, sitting
under their own vines aud fig trses Tor rather APP
p.s trses,) ,lnmolsstsd. And although some pro-
gress was m.ds, yet deeper thought agitHted the
public mind, and the question was now asked. can
NOT something be done, to rescue the thirty thous-
.aud nebriates who annually fail victims to Iuteu-
sperancea
This work, which commenced in Baltimore
called the Washing gtonian efIrf, has been more
successful. than any of its predecessors. Many
druukard, from the lowest depths of depreciation,
has been restored to his family, and to socety-io
usefulness and respectabty, by the timely aid Of
the Washingtonan movement. Sep. by step,
has fhs noble Cause progressed, slowly but surely,
bat as you are familiar with all the facts pertain
ing to it, we will only glance at few particulars,
just to refresh our memories. that we may engage
in our present enterprise with more courage, and
animation. We have not now as formerly, to con
tend with the prejudces of edncation--we have
only to fight with wickedusss in high plsces.
This leads me to say new has dawned up
on US, a new light shines, and by its effulgen
b4ightness, we see land we ars not mistakenly W.
sac, that as long intoxieaticatng drink in ami
form, is creature of law, and as long as it is re
putabIe, 10 manufacture and sell the liquid FIRE, We
look 10 vain, for the consummation OF our hopes
in vaia may we expect, that our sons will be free
A. t,ad ahn
our tables respectable and happy. Let notthe in
sidious monster revel in our midst for noae Gf u
are exempt from his fatal grasp of US can say
that this dread destroyer shallno desolate our fire
sides, and bring in his train of evils, greater scour
ges, than ever escaped from the box of Pandora
And shall say now, what truly believe =
Shall be sustained in the assertion, that upol
woman, frail though she may be in her physica
structure, yet, upon virtuous woman, more thai
upon the sterner sex, devoiyes the responsibility
of creating public sentiment, that will forca ou
Legislators 10 give US wholesome laws. laws o
Justice and righteousness, that will visit with pains
aud penalties the traffic 10 Intoxicating drink, unit
Ii is banished from society. and is allowed 9th
eer place in our midst, than to subserys medical
or mechanical use?
good will follow our exertions! Let me answer
much every way. In the fret place, God mad
woman 10 be help meet for man, not only to dres
the garden of Eden, and to keep il, but TO suggep
in emergencies, methods. by which their prosres
in improgement and menral Cultivation might b
greatly enhnnced We should not suppose. tina
emanating, as they did ftom the hand cftAeir crea
tor, they iutuitively knew every thing but tin
they were left 10 devise ways aud mems, whc
would call into requisitpn all their reasoning facu
ties, and which would keep up full exercise {
the physical powers,as well Gs moral, and thus t
themselves for higher and still higher state {
happiness and usefulness Over the coarser an
rougier material of nature, man seems desline
BY his physical strength TO preside, and in tha
sphere. we should be willidg to give him the pre-
commence, but when We come to the beautiful. Il
the tender. to such exercises call into aciio
snliat il termed the morally sublime, there wotna
may justly claim to excsl.
Who acts the part of f.ithfuness to the frien
like woman! Who watches without complaining
oyer the sick and dying, administering as an ange
of mercy to suffering humanity, like woman =
Who eudures poverty and neglect, ah, cruel neg
lect, from him who is sworn to be her protector
but has, by his midnight reveis and earousals, vic
lated every pledge to fidelity, like forgiving, Go
like woman! Who f,lows ths erring child, vii
tears and prayers whichmoy the adamantine heal
like woman? Who washes tho Savior . feet wit
tears, and wipes them with the hair of her head
but woman 10 word, who is found last at tn
Gross and first at tisSepuchre,bu but devoted conse
Grated woman? Ia ailthese,and in many more par
sicuars, woman admits of no superiority, and if a
"a parent, she is entitlsd to equal honor, then sh
may claim at least, equality. In thus claiming s
much for our sex, trust do not render myse
Justly amenabe to the charge Of arrogance.
these things so,then in this great moral enter
prize of tho Temperance Reform. where wona
is found to be the greatest sufferer our exertion
are needed. and We should form one mighty pha
anx. to pull down the strong hold Of the enemy
And here let me propose few questions Tor tn