The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-09-16

II WIN over MUCH care, Toll or mental
labor. Prematurely old, his days
shortened by over work in young
years as his furrowed face and almbsI
Phrensied eye huriedly indicates, as
we see the flash of the lamp upon his
dark visage, as he approaches with
tha peculiar American Step which i'm.
pels the body forward at railroad
speed. Shall we get out of his way
before he walks over US? Whatif he
is a crazy man? No; the spirit was
night--no false raps here. It is that
good missionary. That man who
has done more to reform that den of
crime, the Five Points of New York,
than all the Municipal Authorities Of
this Police hunting, and Prison.pun-
ishing City, where misfortune is
deemed crime, or the unfortunate
driven tOit by the way they are treated
instead of being reformed or strength
ened in their resolution to reform, by
hard words rather than Prison bars.
Sir, said Mr.. Pease, what brings you
here at this time Of night, for know
there is an object; caml aid you!' m
Perhaps, ! don't know--a foolish
wilma little chid-one of the
miserable, with drunken mother"
"Come with me, then. There are
many such. am just going to visit
one who will die before mornings
swet little girl born in better days,
and dying but you shall see and
then we will ialk about the one you
would seekto save" s.. 2'a|
We were soon threading narrow
alley, where pestilence palketh in
darkness, and crime, wretched power
ty and filthy misery, go hand in hand
to destruction. 2 ~
Behold" said our friend, "the
fruits of our City excise. Here is
the profit of money spent for license
to kill the body and damn the SOUL,
Proven by the awful curses and
loud blows Of drunken husband
upon a wife once an ornament of
society, and exem plary member of
Christian Church, that came up out
Of one Of the low cellars. which
human beings call by the holy name
of home. '0- 1910. 49,
The fetid odour of this filthy lane
had been made more fetid by the late
and almost scalding hot rains, until
it seemed to US that such an air was
only fit for a charnel house. With
the thermometer at Sc, at midnight,
how could men live in such a place,
below the surface of the earth. Has
rum rendered them proof against the
effect of carbonic acid gas?
We grouped our way along the foot
of an outside stairs case, where our
conductor paused for moment, call
ing cur attention to the spot. "Here,"
said Mr.. Pease, "the little sufferer
we are going to see tainted a few
nights a ago and lay all night exposed
to the rain, where she was lound
and beaten in the mourning by her
miserable mother, because she had
not sold all her corn ..
"Great and unknown Cause, hast
thou brought us to her door?" Our
friend stared ut did not comprehend
the expression. "Be careful" said
he, "the stairs are very old and slip
perry"
"Beat her!'' said we without regard
ing what he was saying.
eyes, beat her. while she was in a
fever of delirium from which she was
never rallied. She has never spoken
nationally, since she was taken. Her
constant prayer seems to be to see
some particular person before she
dies"
"Oh, if | could see him once more
-there--there--that is him-no, no,
he did not speak that way to me-he