The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-11-18
Address
From TIE W0rld's Temperance COnvention,
held IN NeW York, September, 1853, 10
the GOUeTnmentS of the Eor,h

~ y ~" ASHtPTunce COnOentt07l
a heId IN New York, September, 1853, 10
NE Governments of the Earth.
Ihe sacredness of our cause, the great
interests involved in its issues, and the
earnest attention which it is exciting In
the public mind, prompt us to address
you. Assembled in Convention to give
new stimulus to The Temperance Relor.
nation, and to kindle with fresh ardor
lis trends in this community, we desire
to reach you by the force of our opinions,
and secure your earnest cooperation in
the noblest and most urgent philan,hro-
pic enterprise of modern times.
God, in his providence, has placed in
our hands an instrument the most effect
i've ever welded against the monster. In
temperance. ALI former measures we
may regard as so many voices crying in
the wilderness of this mighty evil, Dre.
pare ye the way for a prohibitory law. /
Moral efforts, and the diffusion of infor.
nation in regard TO the extent and enor.
NIFTY OF the evils of the rum traffic, were
indispensable 10 create the power TO Sc.
cure and sustain this legal enactment
And, as in the history of the past. we
have seen that the mighliest feforma.
tions are often brought 10 a successful
triumph BY the simplest means so in
this, in season of darkness and discou. I
ragement we have beheld one arise. be-. 4
lore unknown 10 fame, who, by securing l
Itne passase. q q simple Law, has in his I
1p.'i1' AAile fiaadt4 oI ms
wee, rolled back The swelling tide OIL
temptation, restored to wretched homes \
peace and happiness, taken the curse
from a fathers lips, and the fiend-like Il
splnt from a husbands breast, and de. i
monstrated to the world what can he
done BY the force of public opinion EN-. \
bodied in law. We make no extraya.
giant utterance when we say that what
Newton was to science-what Fulton II
was to progress-what Washington was
to true hberty-Neal Dow is to the Tenn. i
perance Reformation. The work which II
he has wrought has already entered as
an element into the civilization of the
nineteenth century, and will advance
wlth the progress of that civilization in
all lands.
Archimedes said, "Give me snot
upon which TO rest my lever, and I will /
move the world" In a prohibitory law
we have the fulcrum, and all that we
wait ior in this country and in Europe. /
IS the lever fpublic opinion with which
70 move the world from he darkness
and Wretchedness, and carnage of The H
'hlef of vices, and lift it into the SUNLIGHT
'eauty and purity OF Temperance. And
Ve are confident of the ultimate success.
'ecause the God of virtue, purity and re.
glon IS with us. The conflict with ad.
erse powers may be protracted and Sc. ,
ere. Our foes may be numerOus--mav
2 epuenched In thousand citadeIs- !
lay be sustained by vast multitude
mo are under the dominion of appetite !
OF IN the movements of Divine Provi-
ence We hear the trumpet's blast calling y
ne Temperance hosts to q quicker march :
nd thrilling them with new zeal to as' \
III the strongholds of the enemy. =
In seeking your cooperation, we are q
npelled blythe enormity and aggravated \ Il
Aaracter OF the evil which we are labor- ;s
g TO suppress. Words lose their force i
men we attempt TO describe II: ian. a,
lage breaks down under the weight Of +,
q sutterlngs and crimes which il occa. 10
ons. Images, epithets, the most com m
extensive and intense utterances. tail Il ~
It forth the evil'in its true light Under IL
atlstlcal reports there are living forms ~
degradation and sorrow, which, should II s.
ey appear before us, would fiji the sis
lnd with horror. Even the dealer in H IN