The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-07-08
HENDRYsBUReH, June 27, 1858.

bHS hSuiuli Vi yOuI paper " INFORM
the friends of temperance of the pro-
gress we are making in the cause.
We have a Division of the Sons
Of Temperance, numbering eighty
also a Union of the Daughters which
has lately been organized, mum bering
about twenty. Both Sons and Daugh-
ters are striving to forward the cause
Of temperance-the cause of human
ity-the cause Of God.
We have but one rum.hole, at this
time, in our village. The keeper of
chat is a degraded Irishman, who fears
not the froWns of an angry God, nor
heeds the cries of starving children.
or prayers and supplicatons of heart
broken wives. By the assistance of his
wife he has been issuing out the tide
of burning ruin for some length of
time, which has engulphed many of
our citizens.
There is another place of resort
kept here, which goes by the name of
a family Grocery, and pray, of what
does this consist? A little candy, a
few cigars, and plenty of beer. 1t is
a place where the youth of our town
are schooled in vice. These engines
of death must and shall be destroyed.
Every feeling of humanity cries out
against them; the tears of wives and
children say amen to their destruction.
The Word of God pronounces the
heaviest against those that put the
cup to their neighbors' mouth.
And shall these go unheeded? shall
their derision still defeat our aim?-
Let every Daughter and Son of Tenn
perance answer no. Our prospects
are bright, at this time, for stopping
the sale of this poisonous stuff.
The Trustees of our Township have
taken hold of the law of last winter,
and have passed an ordinance for the
suppression of those tippling shops,
and the sale of all intoxicating liquors
as beverage, which act will take
effect on the first of July. And now
the friends of intemperance-all those
who are in favor of those sink.
holes of misery, have taken the
alarm. glhey called q meeting few
DAYS ago, by posting up notices in pub
lie places, calling on their friends tc
rally as sons of liberty, in defense o
their self-styled rights, Their meet
ing being organized, they appointed 1
committee of five to draft resolutions
to express the sense of their meeting
I will give you one of those resolu
tions, which may serve to give you al
idea of what kind of principles those
men possess.
Resolved, That, as sons Of liberty
we pledge ourselves to each other, tt
oppose at the ballot box, all laws anC
ordinances gotten up by bigots, dema
gogues, fanatics and fools, having fol
their object the abridgment of oul
personal liberties.
And they also urge that, as their
fathers rebelled against British tyran-
ny from principle, that they would be
degenerate sons if they tlmely sub
mitted to legislation equally perni-
cious, concocted by fanatics and as
piring demagogues.
Consequently, would suppose from
that eloquent flow of rhetoric, that be-
cause their fathers could not have a
log-rolling or husking without hav-
ing good jug-full of that liquid fire
which, no doubt, has sent some OF
them down into the abyss of wo,
that they too must enjoy the same lib
city. Is it not surprising that men,
who are blessed with common sense
and who live in this age Of light and
knowledge, will pursue such a sinful
course: and the greater portion Of
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