The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-09-02

strobe backward and forward across the
yard, and we found warm tears falling upon
our own hand.
And 90 the scene continued until the mass
gave back AMI a shout rent the air. "He'a
ouf-le's dlioep That excited crowd would
have borne that saved man with wild and
frantic Joy In Triumphant procession through
the city. He was saved from his living
tOmb.
One m saDed! His family would vel
come him Is one from the dead. Our
thoughts were busy as we wended our way
10 the Office. How ready people are-how
happy--to save one life. When danger
comes upon citizen like the swoOp Of an
eagle from clear sky, all gather as one
man to the rescue.
The same people look unmoyed upon the
footprints Of blood which thicken at their
very doors. At MONDAY, plague stalks
before them, dragging It's victims to q worse
than living tomb. Men have had their
vitals eat away BY inches, and died in
II chains, helpless, uncared for. Girded with
demons aud writhing and frothing in a
worse than a demons hell, men Of mind
and manhood have thrown out their arms
II in commissions, and died at their own fire.
sides with their teeth tearing their own
H flesh. Their maniac howl came up like the
despairing wall Of the lost. And was there
any gathering to the rescueP Any excited
populace eager to saver Before God, nO!
| With a passing remark, the corpse of a
citizen-a husband and father-was borne to
the church-yard, and the marble shields
him who was killed By inches.
But one such case
Father in Heaven many have died thus
in Auburn. Since our brief residence, we
have seen their blood smoke like an incense
of wrath upon the iron track and in the
public highway There was one who
n wrestled with delirium tTemens upon the
sidewalk in, broad day. He would have
lived and died sober man. But, said he
and the tears coursed in food down his
bloated cheek, 81 must die drunkard
There is not a rumseller in the city who
L will refuse me rum so long as have money
Poor CO He was robbed, degraded anC
killed by the TumselLers Of AubaTB, and ID
at rest in his grave. Did his neighbour
rally to save him2 Was there even re
monstrance against his murder?
a We might pursue the record and invok,
from the past spectral train who havt
! died by law in a Christian community
! The followers of Christ even, have passe
4 by the other side. They have not onl,
E held tee garments Of the murderers, bu
have themselves cast the stones. And all thi
r time children have gone about sorrowing
i and wept in vain. At the desOlate home
!. woman has been tortured with a cruelt
/. more refined than hell can boast. Hopes
: bread, hearts blood --all have bee
4 wrenched out day by day as years hav
n gone slowly by. And did men and wome
" ever gather around that accursed home
. save the lost one from the clutches {
q licensed fends, or beat them back frOI
3 their human preyH NeUer. Thus tn
! innocent and the defenceless-the child an
q the mother-have been robbed of paren
4 and husband, and bread, and happiness an
4 means for long years, and no shout {
indignation has ever gone up from darker
d ingcrowd against the worse than heathenis
. wrong.
% We love humanity better when we see
n stretching an eager hand to save victil
= from living tomb. But we turn with
= tear from that cold and cruel barberii
n which slumbers quietly while citizens an
! neighbors, with all their hopes of ear
~ ! and heaven, are slaughtered in open da
~ And the deepest, basest damned enc in v
4 must turn with loathing from the hum
4 4 fiend whose hand is raised by UOte or ofct
I act against his brother man,-CGyugG Chi
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