The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-10-14
Tntemperance.

ODss sved IS it were, It is at once
Ne master and God he bows su-
a;DeIv % its tyrant power, and obeys
its thousand dictatlYs capricel be is
'Ied captive by It's seducing falsites,
ana while he imagines them to be
s.actual curiosities, they are only the
merest gossamers Of the tempter, that
tantalize the vitiated vision Of cheat
ed and ruined nature. From a noble
and yirtuous man, it reduces him to
the most loathsolne wreck of mortali-
ty; it corrupts the image of the Al
mighty, in which he is made; it burns
away the sacred beauties Of the ''im-
mortal man." destroys all sympathy,
withers the broad-spreading trte Of
humanity, thar casts its shade upon
thousand grateful bosoms, and
smites in darkness the fearless eye Of
pity it makes the man less than the
brute it eats his very soul out Of
him, kills him with a triple death, and
winds him in a shroud of stenched
darkness ; it crUshes The wheels of
fortune, steals from the purse of
wealth the last cent of her once
proud treasures and as it falls into
the ghostly till of the death-dealer, it
tinkIes the death.knell Of the deluded
victim as he quafs his last glass Of
poison. -
Aye, Intemperance, thou art grim
monster, sitting on thy throne of
SOULS, cemented with the blood of the
slain, and the tears and signs Of
widows and orphans, while thy horri-
bic smile Of triumph makes the sun
reel in darkness, and the earth black.
ems as if swept with the smoke. clouds
of Tophet Thou snatchest from the
snowy neck of weeping Virtue her ho.
lest treasure, and wringeSt from the
fair finger Of Truth the royal ring Of
Heaven thou tearest away the chain
that binds man to his God, and doom.
est him to torture, and ere his time
has come, putting out the light of life,
leaving thy viclim to grope in tenfold
darkness, which is haupted with thy
gloating fends lorever!g '@#
Thus may we justly address the
most hateful, exacting, tormenting ty.
rant of man. It's intemperance that
never fails to bring suffering and ig-
nominious death to its devotee. 1t is
the greatest enemy that man has, for
it reconnoitres every passage that
leads to the happy world, intercepts,
allures, conquors and drives back the
once noble disciple of Virtue to dun
geons and chains. 1t makes the com
mon weaknesses Of mans nature turn
traitors within him, and with their
thousand voices of deception constant
ly thrilling in his ears, they bewilder
him until be yields himself a captive
to their clamorous appeals and when
once they feel him in their hellish
grasp, they soon hurl him down to
The tomb.
ln'emperance has done what no
other evil can do. 1t manufactures,
out of once moral men, the army of
Satan under its tutOrship desPera.
does and despotS graduate. The earth
is now peopled with the wrecks Of
once mighty men, while their very
dust groans aloud and haunts with |
horrible fear the shuddering world.
Intemperance saps the foundations Of
pure nationality, vetoes the better. pro.
gress of all moral institutions, cuts
short the measure Of improvement,
blights the bloom of earthly hsppi /
ness, pours deluge Of crimes and
evils upon the world, robs man of
prosperity and heaven, and finally |
leaves the thrice-cursed victim to be-
queath only his diseased and stenched /
body as a legacy to his mourning and
heart-bFoken family or relatives.
What can te greater enemy to man
than IntemperanCe .---BOAle Stopper.
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