The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-09-23
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DEAR SIR :--On Saturday last a spleR-
did demonstration was made in This town
in behalf of the Maine Law. A mass
meeting of fairfield county was held,
which had been adjourned over from the
preceding week on account of the
weather. AT 10 o'clock, A. NJ, pre-
cession was formed and marched through
the town, consisting of The Ethopolis
Band of music, car elegantly srrsyed
with flags, flowers and emblems, and
filled with group of thirty-one merry
and beautiful young girls, each one re-
presenting a State Of the Union; also
several omnibusses with singing clubs,
and procession of children with BAN
ners, ending with private carriages and
citizens. Alter passing around the town,
the procession and people at large filed
off into an enclosure, prepared on the
beautiful hill in the city, overlooking the
surrounding country, where probablya a
thousand persons listened TO various APP
peals, addresses, reports and songs, and
seemed 10 enjoy themselves highly. The
names of the speakers, being unacquaiht-
ed here, we were not able TO obtain;
but the speeches were of the right stamp,
direct, earnest, argumentative and con.
vincing, and you will probably have an
official report of them. This movement
is called fanaticism, but it is certainly "a
madness" that has remarkable "melhod
to it." The ladies' were present in large
numbers, and showed deep interest in
the proceedings. The day was fine, and
heaven smiled on the occasion. DR..
Jewett was expected to be present, but
his engagements elsewhere probably pre-
vented so desirable consummation.
1t is a matter of great satisfaction that
so many able, high-toned and well edu-
Gated speakers are enlisted in this cause.
We have known many Of them, of old,
and we have heard them pour forth
streams of eloquence in behalf of the
highest interests Of society.s We can
assure the people Of Ohio that this cru
sade win 90 incalculable good to the
State in other respects than those oil tem--
perance, by giving an impulse in an in
tellectual and moral direction, vivifyins,
vitalizing and electrifying the great null
titude with some better inspiration than
the clink of dollars and the eternal jargoR
OF business. 1t is speaking the State
into new being. 1t is saying, ''let
there be light" and there is light. Ohio
will leap forward to its glorious moral
manhood and true giant power, of which
it has been shorn by the dismal chills
and fever of drunkenness, through this
temperance action.
AS we looked on the Lancaster pro-
cession, we felt anew, what we have
often felt before, that the strongest eIe-
ment of American character is enthus-
asm. When rightly directed it is an
element of immense power and useful
ness. Here, for the first time since
creations morn, has vast and wide
lying nation been allowed to show forth
their true instincts. Man is here coming
to himself. Scoffers yclep it fanaticsm,
but tits the better nature rising up and
demanding its lawful sceptre over every
baser passion. Liberty, Temperance,
Education, Peace, Brotherhood, are the
new banners in human history that are
to marshal the hosts of mankind and lead
them on TO their glorious victory and
destiny.
LANCASTER, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Sep
tember 12, 1853.