Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-08-03
Temperance Meo1inr

W
sing many of the citizens of BRIDGEPORT.
and the adjacent neighborhoods, and in
compliance with the usual formalities Mr..
HI. Warren was called to the chair, and
VIM. NJ. Late appointed Secretary. and
the following gentlemen, to wit r.
Thomas kennedy, j. Taylor, ii. FARES,
jr., and VIM. M. Late. were elected a
Committee to prepare and report some
suitable resolutions, DC, for the action of
said meeting. After retiring short
time, they returned and offered the fol-
lowing preamble and resolutions which
were well received and very readily adop-
ted 80
DR.. James Dunkin then addressed the
meeting ina plain, caudid and appropri-
ate manner, setting forth the evils OF IN
temperance, by the statement of facts
and the application of arguments dedu5
eed from daily observations, statistical
calculations and chemical analysis, in a
style sufficiently forcible to convince the
judgement ifnot to satisfy the appetite of
the most skepical, of the deadly effects-of
intemperance. The very welcome recon.
ton and cordial appreciation of which
were eyinced by the strictest decorum,
and most silent attention of the whole au-
dience. May the fruits of his labors be
as "bread cast upon the waters"
| To be brief, your committee would
humbly suggest that they feel fully assu-
red they only endorse the views and con-
victions of large majority, if not all the
respectable portion of community male
and female, when they say that the bane-
| full and deleterious effects of intemperance
upon the peace, happiness, prosperity, in
telligcnce, &c. of any people are too well
known to need any additional proofs or
eXpositions from any source, and that the
only efficient or successful method to ar
rest, lessen and destroy the evils. is ac-
tion-frm, continued and perpetual ac-
tion-actioh by all, and especially by all
! public functionaries having the least con-
| troll over the matter; not by regulating
the current, which has been Too long tri-
ed in vain, but by destroying the fountain
! head Redemption for the evils of in
temperance can alone be secured by de-
s.roying the original element, the prima
nv cause ITSELF
That the firm advocates of temperance
may be assured much and strong opposi-
ton, it needs only to be said that intern
perance is great, general and deep
rooted evil of long standing. But the
same logic employed by the agencies de-
nouncing legal sanction, or protection in
manufacturing, trading in, or drinking
spirits in drains, slugs &c.-merely to in
toxicate-as privilege, as a right un-
der republican form of government.
may be used by the gambler, the swind-
ler, the usurer, Sabbath breaker, DC, and
with equal, if not greater propriety and
the same salutary counsel, which in be-
half of the innocent and unwary. seeks TO
suppress this numerous catalogue OF
evils, demands with ten fold force the
pleading, in defence of suffering women
and children n law for the arrest and de-
nunciation, as speedily as possible OF the
baneful effects of drunkenness. For by
far the greater shareaof the bad effects of
this unhallowed practice falls upon that
portion of community-women and chill
dren.
There is no law which does not conflict
with the views, desires and practices of
some people, otherwise there would be no
need of such law.
Your committee would further respect
fully recommend to the advocates Of tenn
perance in this and the adjoining coun-
ties, and throughout the State 10 manifest
as rapidly as possible, by every species
of lRudable demonstrations, their hostili-
tility to the course pursued by the adhe-
rents to the interests of The dram seller,
and especially to aid in carrying ont those
principles so nobly put in motion by sovc-
raj of the County Courts in Western Vir-
ginia, who have had sufficient moral cou-
rage to say, amid much opposition, that
the monster shall be Shorn of all he's hornSi
May the sober min dcd, good citizen
always duly appreciate, in public func-
tionaries such noble advocacy of virtue
and righteousness. which truly exalt a
nation But circumstances forbid further
details, therefore,
ResOIUea, LIST, That having long wit
messed the great evils consequent upon
the liquor traffic, we heartily approve of
the course taken by the County Court of
Harrison county, and some of the adjoin-
ing counties, in Withholding licenses from
all persons willing to perpetuate that
traffic and IFS unhallowed concomitants.
RESOLVED Cd, That every friend OF
temperance use all laudable means TO re-
claim every person in danger of the aw
full effe cts of dissipation.
3dly, That large number of petitions
be circulated-with separate columns for
men, women and children, to be signed,
asking the next legislature of Virginia to
pass an act to suppress the making or
traficking in ardent spirits only for medi-
cinal or mechanical purposes.
4thly, That il would be better to sup
port any man as a pauper: than TO en-
courage him to obtain subsistence by
means of the liquor traffic.
5thly, That all young ladies shun the
. Al l.