Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-03-04
TERMS oH ADvERTxssNa

ent and future welfare of millions of fathers
and sons far and near, many of whom are
besotted, it may be, whilst under the very
voice of our ministry.
We need the naked truth respecting this
grave matter; this will be heard, and this
our Divine Master will bless; and in view Of
truth. we may soon learn, that the time 10
simply laugh has passed away, and the time
to act has come.
Ministerial intellect, science and moral en-
ergy, should be brought to bear upon this
momeutous subject, and be assured, such an
investigation would bring up to the surface
of this ocean of iniQuity, strange things
impure and horrible things. Such process
upon the face of society would reveal one
prolific cause of Astounding miseries in rela-
/ ton to bodies and minds, and present spec
tace of corruption as impressive, as though
! You were to enter some grave yard, and lift
/ up three or four feet of earth from the sur
! face: Clear away the smoke, the smoke of
! the battle which tobacco is waging upon man.
and we shall see the dead and dying all
around us.
Let clergymen take this subject seriously
in hand and it would create individual and
public conscience, wake up the nation and
/ the church, and bring on crisis like tho
! Temperance crisis, and exercise from the boz
dy polite, this huge ally Of Alchohol, this
progeny of the pit.
/ The mode of action, l conceive, requires
no originality. The quo modo is obvious
! We need not look far. We have model re-
! forms as precedentS.
Action should DC both individual and So
cial.
What then, have we individually, person
ally to 10 in this matter! 1t is plain, |
| think, that each minister who uses this mar
cotc as a luxury, can and should drop it;
and his example will be his first and most
| influential step in measures of reform.
Each, it is fair to presume, can govern his
own household; hence he should Danish tho
nuisance from his own promises.
Each in his own way can bring the truth
to bear against this immortality, as well as
against other imm6ralities; and that brother,
imagine, is not very rich in gifts, who can
bring nothing from the great storehouse OF
the Bible against lust SO manitcStly at war
with the soul.
1t is true, the whole Bible he might use in
assailing habit SO impure, expensive and
useless; but in his straits he might read GER
tain passages in Leviticus to certain gentle
men who chew the cud in the House of WoT-
ship; and if that does not answer the pur-
pose, he might hurl the whole of that veneer
able economy; an economy Of physical pusr
ty, upon them rs an avalanche.
Individual influence, individual action, is
peculiarly effective. 1t begins with our own
persons then moves as friendly wave over
the family, over the parish, over schools,
towns, counties and states; it is precisely
that which is requisite to meet this enormous
evil, and such as all can exercise. 1t is not
utopian, but practical, direct, pungent, and
does the work. There may be social action
the use of this poison is in many aspects n
social vice, and measures to eradicate the use
of it may assume a social form.
We are not indeed prepared to specify any
particular form of organized effort; still such
effort is evidently feasible, and Indispensable
in successfully coping with an evil of such
magnitude; an evil so completely entrench-
ell in the Iitals of state and church.
1t is not to be expected that a reform
pointgdly in conflict with the most tenacious
habit known in the history of our race, a
habit which holds the vast majority in facin-
ating and bewitching bondage, can become
popular in day or move onward unaided
with a momentum Of its own.
Neither should it be expected that indi
viduals men in humble circumstances, UNI
paid, unchcercd by others, can breast this her
culean evil with any flattering hope of sue
cess.
There is much public work that should 10
done. Schools, colleges, clerical and medi-
cal associations, should be addressed, and
their cooperation solicited in this movement.
Lectures may be delivered; tracts written !;
public journals filed with pertinent articles,
statistics collected, statistics respecting the
terrific increase in its cultivation, manufac-
ture and traffic. In a word world of work
| is to be done, which, in current language,
calls for "material aid" together with the So
cial and hearty cooperation, of every patriot
and every christian.
The evil is great in peculiar and obvious
FORM 1t is becoming alarningIy SO. Our
Young men and lads are becoming thorough
| IL poisoned, and either n reform or marked
depreciation of the race must inevitably en-
sue.
But we despond not, for there is hope
Individual and social effort, we'll directed Of
one half the amount, which has been expen-
dcd upon alcohol, think, with the blessing
Of God, would thrash this mountain Of evil
till it shall become a plain, and. that at no
very distant time.
Be this AS it may, | am confident that pi
ETY. and PATRIOTISM church and state, urge us
to DO what we can in repelling the ravagc-
of this insidious destroyer.
Yours with sentiments Of much esteem,
GEORGE TRASk.
FIrCHBURG, Feb. ), 1853.
Boston Liberator