The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-06-29

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Voted unanimously, thata copy be forwarded
to each of the County papers for publication.
fConcluded.)
The prosperity of any nation depends in great
measure on individual action and physical power.
How can it be otherwise than that we nation
are great losers of wealth and influence, while
there are over five hundred thousand drunkards
in our midst, who doing worse than nothing
for their own or the nations advancemertafid their
families, in many instances to be supported of
the public treasury. And here we will again re-
fer to the testimony of the Hon. Edward Everett,
who says that s In ten years it has cost the Uni
ted STATES direct expense of six hundred million
dollars, and an indirect expense of six hundred
millions more-that it has burned and destroyed
property to the amount of at least five million dol
lars.
Judge Craneh of Washington City investigated
this subject closely and came to the conclusion
that it this country ninety million dollars
aunually, aud he says if all the shipwreckr fires,
&C., caused by intemperance were included, it
would swell the sum to one hundred and fifty mil
lions annually;' enough to pay our national debt
in year, and leave balance of about three dol
lars TO every free person in the United Stafes.-~
One hundred and fifty millioi dollars annually,
enough truly to start the latent sensbiliies of tax
payers for it surely lays upon them "heavy bur-
dens greiyous to be borne. Que hundred and fit-
ty million dollars year. mark, for what ? the cd
ucaton of the young the advancement of the arts
and sciences? for tho preaching of the Gospel or
A.. IL. Il
tutions ! no, of these but TO idenlnlify the
losers by fire, for the prosecution of civil and GRIM
ina justice for the support of pauperis, all caus
ed directly by intemperance. And, ladies', are we
not connected with this system? Is our property
and the labor of our hands exempt from taxation
No! we feel, or rather we should feel deep in.
terest in this part of the subject (though in COM
parison with the moral aspect it should be but
snIali} for although our funds counted in cop
per, and brothers in gold, yet The prncipleis
the same. Our funds go to help those who by
intemperance rendered incapable of supporting
ahemselves or families; and not only that, but wS
are taxed to help replace and rebuild property
which in many instances is wilfully destroyed by
tho drunkard and his allies. What moral spectacle
TO contemplate-a professedly christian nation, II
censing and encouraging useless and Immoral
traffic, the cost of viii h in dollars is counted by
millions, and the amount Of agony endured of tears
shed, crime committed, guilt incurred, and life
wasted, mortals cannot compute. None but an al
wise God knows, and nothing but an ead'ess eter-
nifty will reveal. And shall we remain silent, in
mental and incidence and see the work CT
death spreading every hand, or shall we join
the battle for truth and right, and help our noble
band of brothers who have SO long and earnestly
fought against this soudestroying, life-embiitsr-
ing monster. which has long ecourged our land
with the bitterest of woes. Have We, rs women,
nothing to do in hs great work Of rescuing the na-
ton, from the tide Of destruction which is fast rol-
ling o'er us? Are we on account of sex, excusa-
Bile from taking part in this, next 10 the greatest
reforms of our age, because cannot legislate
Was be who buried the talent, excusRble for
not improving that, because be had but one. And
have we not yetto answer according to that which
we have, and not that which We have not? 1--we
would take half the pains, to perform share cf
the labor in this and other reforms, that we DO 70
avoid it, on account of sex, there would be less
drunkenness and crime than now. Society would
feel our influence, yes, and it would show 1t too.
Think you this nation would be annually taxed one
hundred and fifty million dollars by intemperance
if women would speak out what they feel Oh this
important subject? Let US do what We
have tongues, let use them, (the men say we
do now: but let US show them, that they have new
or known half the power women WELD by this
mighty weapon, which shall yet overthrow the
strong holds of intemperance in our aud,) we have
pens let US use them, and fill petition after pet-
| allo1G
act upon them. Is it unwomanly to do any thing
| in this great work Of rescung cur fellow mortals,
| from this fell destroyer, which is numbering them
| by inches before eyes? Let those answer
who have father, husband, or brother hound by
the accursed chains of rum. Think you if some
woman should feel her heart moved with sympa-
thy. such the good Samaritan felt, and should
| by her exerions, be the means of inducing one
| poor deuded man, to leave the destroying poi
son, which was daily, and hSur rly, draining his
| life blood that the rescued man, or his friends,
would condemn the act, because done by
an? Think you that God or good angels would
look down in displeasre because ,cOn,dn had pluck
ed one as brand from the burning no, no -
| Who can oppose the onward march of Freedom,
Temp erance, and BeneTolence, but those who
would close every avenue TO truth aud, open wide
the gates of destruction and death, and let this by
headed monster, rum. march onward with de-
moniac strides, spreading destruction, and DESC
lation every hand as the autumnal breeze scat
ters the golden leaves of the forest, and carrying
with it death and devastation, sowing broadcast
the seeds of discord and enmy, and doing every
evil work. 1t is high time the destroying traffic in
ardent spirits, was stopped in this our bsautitul
Ohio, the State that prides itself on being farth
advar ced than any its sister states of the same
age. But when we think of the fifty thousand in
| temperate persons within our boundaries and the
ten million dollars invested, in the manufacture OF
intoxicating drinks, we remember that Pride go
eth before destruction, and naughty spirit before