The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-09-16
The Temperance Movement What
it Contemplates.

apce Association, Of Muskingrm County.
We request all our readers to giYeit a care
full perusal. 1t is one Of the ablest articles
we have ever read
"MEssRs. EDrFORs - The question has
often been put TO me Of late What is the
design of the present temperance move
mep1 10 Ohio 2 i will attempt an answer.
n is the creating, and sending forth
tbrougbout the entire State, such political
and moral sentiment as shall stop, and
thereafter bar, the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage, forever
in our midst. Ml rti 9r
CIV this means we design, and conf
IDENTIFY expect to transform the vast army
of drunhards, paupefs, gamblers, and god
less men, quartered upon us, into sober, in
dustfious, virtuous and independent MEM
bers of society, and render them capable Of
loving. and worthy of being beloved, We
would destroy the long criminal dockets of
each county in the State, by putting away
the cause Of theft, robbery, arson, perjury
and murder, from our midst. In fine we
would empty our poor-houses, hospitals,
and prisons, and fill our fields, factories
and churches, with their regenerated in
mates. We would have law enacted
which would seal up those fountains from
which. flow The bitter waters of poverty,
crime, despair and death, and thus remove
from the hearts and homes of weeping
thousands, mountain weight Of suffering
and wo. We would restore order and law
abiding quiet to our cities, villages and
country; and rearing our sons and daugh,
ters under the peaceful reign Of temper
ance, fit them for useful, Virtuous, and hap
py lives.
This, we feel, can only be done in the
absence of those temptations which now 80
thickly strew their path.
"Such, sirs, so far as l understand them,
are the objects sought by the friends of the
nresent movement. Such the noble end
for which they battle. These We feel, are
objects worthy our best powers and most
untiring efforts = objects to which our
hearts are linked by stronger ties than any
which bind us to political parties. Conf
dent that we have the natural, constitu-
tional, and Bible right to embrace these
holy principles, and prosecute this good
work, we intend to go calmly, unitedly and
perseveriDgly forward to its final consum-
nation. Opposition we expect. Without
it, we could not hope to succeed. As the
diamond can not be polished without fric
ton, so can no great political or moral re-
form be brought about without opposition.
What friction is TO the diamond, this will
be to our cause. 1t will be necessary to
awake the sympathies, arouse the energies,
and cali into action those mighty powers
essential to our success. Who would at
tempt 10 rear the mountain oak in a green
house? Who does not know that in order
to attain its mighty strength and majestic
form, it must freely enjoy the rain and
blast, and feel the rocking of the tempests
of heaven
"Achillesn invulnerability is only re-
ceived by baptism in sea of opposition,
and invincible hosts only become such
amid the toll and danger of the battle
field. Then let opposition come. Leaving
its old entertainments of interest and GUS
tom, we beckon it to an open field for
manly fight; yes, let it come in all its
forms. Let coalition after coalition of for
eiguers bringing their intemperate habits
with them to our State, and here engaging
in the traffic of whisky, continue to pour
forth the drunken inmates of their horrible
hells upon the Sabbath-to fill our streets
with rioters, and The ears of our little chill
dren with their terrible blasphemles. Let
others more wealthy and crafty, claiming
to be American born, continue to attract
10 their gay saloons our sons of hope and
promise, only to vitiate their taste, unhinge
their morals, clutch their fortunes, and
quench their genius in the bowls of Bac
chus.--
"Let men, blinded by mammon and dead
to all the interests of humanity, continue
to mash the corn, feed the still, and send
out the streams of liquid death. Let the
slaves of appetite, in whose future there is
no moral progress, and who, as they hug
their letters of rum, and swear by them
that they are free, continue to sDeer at min I
isterial and female interference with the |
subject of intemperance.
"Let political demagogGcs, whose God
is self, and who would basely barter the
weets of the social circle-the peace and
well being of society, for party, place and
power, continue to nominate the lovers Of |
the reiH of rum for Office, and let Chris
tian men, void Of conscience, follow their |
example.
Let mercenary party or neutral press |
sit quakiDg in cOwardly silence upon its |