New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-26

brihed 10 vote against their conVlctlJas tna!
VET be- bribed 10 stay away from the polls.
Tenncr.nce men of Michigan you must
worr, In 10 this day your brethren have
never lost battle where the people were ar
liners We, the vote has repeatedly been
eloss-so close that We must not expect the
luck TO be clrrays with US. Your State is
large. ard q liberal customer, and the rum
interest IS not likely 20 surrender It without
de.perste struggle. Detroit Is likely TO give
them quite majority, and very likely the old
French and modern Dutch settlements Will do
likewise, unless the truths Of temperance have
beep commended 10 them more forcibly and
persistently than we are aware Of You have
probably 10000 foreign-b0n voters, of whom
YOU can expect but small proportion to vote
with you. Are you duly considering these facts
You have asked for Prohibitory Law, on
the assumption that the people demand it;
deep will be your shame and co1fusion If the
people discredit the assumption. Your defeat
viii be no local matter, but will be felt by
your brethren throughout the Country. IL
will check the entire movement dishearten
your allies and ill their enemies with conf
dence and audacty. A vote against PrOhi-
btion in Michigan will be used as an argument
against permitting the people of other States
TO vote on the question at all.
Remember the Psalmist's profound observs-
ton" The dark places of the earth are full of
the habitatons of cruelty" If there be single
neigbborhOOd which your efforts do not reach,
be sure that your adversaries will there gather
a bountiful harvest A Township not canvass
ed on the side of Temperance is pretty certain
TO vote heavily for Rum. And, on the other
hand where the fight has been hottest and the
People most thoroughly aroused, there will be
the largest myorities for Prohibition.
You must leave nothing to accident. You
need manly. sensible, searching appeals to the
People through Lectures, through Sermons,
through Trscts-not Mandy. PANTY, four.page
celebrations, but Tracts which go to the root
of the matter, and show why and wherein
Rum selling and Rum-drinking are wrong, in
the light of Science, OF Reason, Of Experience,
Social Economy and Religion. Do not throw
these away, but put them in the hands of every
voter or voters wife who will read them, and
doubt not that the effect will be salutsry and
abiding.
Organize your State forthwith Engage the
best speakers attainable to hold County Meet
ings from day to day, and see that the People
are called out TO hear them; challenge your
adversaries To meet them in the field of free
and fair discussion; and call personally on all
your settled clergymen to preach sermons
TO their own congregations and then help
canvass the adjacent townships. Ask the
journals Of your State seyerally and point
edly to lend helping hand, and embody
in series of brief and pungent addresses the
facts that you would have them disseminate.
Do not grudge labor and money in cause
which will save you in taxes many times its
cost within very few years. Effort is needed,
but effort with combination and wisdom cannot
fail of success. Friends in Michigan the for
tunes of the Cause rest for the present with
you. Prove yourselves not unworthy of the
lofty responsibility