The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-06-16

mayst, tbs thou alone canst bring to pass the
greatest contamination of guilty deeds, Danish
ing all fear or remorse from the excited mil
lion! Thine is the essence of destruction
thine tho matchless stimuant to the most fu-
rious carnage, riot, and those brutal deeds
called fendish) which are found amongst the
annals Of humanity! Can we expect to see
nation stepped in blood hurting defiance on
high, and banishing that uoyd which here is
never heard, if it be not reeling in drunken
ness?
Thus do work, and thus succeed Not
only on the grandest scale do | prevail, con-
quering en- masSe but universally and unceas-
ingly am | at my deadly work ON scattered in
dividuals undermining all creation, and paving
the way for every enemy of mortality to enter
in and possess.
When plague, pestilence, and famine are
licensed to their appointed work, whom do they
destroy? Not their allotted number only, but
ali those besides, whom | have prepared,
through means OF. my cmpoisoned draughts-
by waste, improvidence disease, and guilty ex-
cess-to fall a prey to those who claim these
victims as their own, when here they are duly
registered
Subtle, sometimes slow, but always fatal,
is my influence All-penetrating too it reaches
incu III every uSc UT Cllmt, UT sldtlOn ana COn-
dition and ever is subservient to our common
aim.
"'Who sings the praise of war The drunk
| en- poet He who most excels as such, is he
| who has drank deepest of the midnight bowl
| His frenzed brain teens with glowing elo-
| quence, which captive leads the world to me
"'Again: What lends the greatest aid to that
| dire passion, gambling but the accommodating
| Of h. ,1al H.
born of despair, enters the ruined wretch's
reeling brain-what needs to carry out his last
resolve but another glass? Then all is Ger
"'The murderer, too-nO matter what his
object, or the cause-resorts to me for courage
and assistance ere the deed is consummated
"'ln short, where can be found a haunt of
crime, den of iniquity, sink of loathsome
vice. (such as we love to cOntemplate,) but my
genius hOvers over it, susta'ns and makes it
| fourishl' Yet can penetrate, unseen and I'M
suspected, to the fairest bowers of earth.
dwell amongst the best and highest of the
miserable race from which ] seize my willing
prey Ito drag them down to the lowest depths
of hell,) who leave behind the seeds-crime,
disease, insanity-transmitted to their darling
offspring, thus by them, in turn, to be perpetu-
| ated.
az might say more, but that find already
have made good my claim, far beyond my own
Wanting. Fill, then your goblets to the brim,
| for It's meet that we in these Internal regions
should do honor to our own invention will
propose the health of him who worthily does
here preside-scorn, hate, and defiance to all
other power
GAS these words fell from the scoiler's impors
| lips, a voice OF thunder rent the air, command
ing silence.
That instant were the demon crew PROSTATE,
writing in abject terror, and their features
bore the stamp OF misery intoerable to look
upon
| Gan angel of light ineffablc appeared on high,
and at distance incalculable yet from the
| divine messenger u radiant stream of glory
| ilumed the vast expanse-and thus the phi
| spakc:
"'KnOw, ye most accused and most miserable
ones, that your vile blasphemy and impotent
| defiance have reached the Throne of Grace ),
and, 10 remind Yea Of the great CreatsrAs Power
and Mercy towards his creature man, look
here behold this Pledge of Temperance, which,
to those who sign, with prayer to the Almighty
shall prove a tower of refuge impregnable
Now back, trembling, to your increased tor
ture, and bear in mind this solemn truth Of
Holy Writ that they who appeal to the Lord,
trusting and repsnting, are beyond your reach ;"
After such fearful vision, who could fail to
abiure the fatal cup? Who could hesitate u
who would be wanting in gratitude for those
gracious promises which alone can impart &C.
ourity and hope to the sinner