Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-02-11
4 Strong Temperance Speech.

We find in an Eastern paper the following argu-
ments in favor Of Temp france by Mr. Edward Bains,
of England, who is the member of Parliament, we
believe, for Iced The following is extract from
his speech:
The peculiar danger of toxicatng drinks is in
their extreme seductiveness, and in the all but I'M
conquerable strength of the drinking habit when
formed and their peculiar malignity is in their
being the parent or nIr6c OF every kind OF crime,
wckedne s. and suffering.
g. say boldly that man living who uses intoxi-
eating drinks is free from the danger Of at least
casonal and if of occasional, ultimately OF habitual
excess. | have myself known such frightfu instan-
of persons brough into captvi to the habit that
t&ere seems to be no character, position, or circum-
stances that free men from the danger. have known
many young Of the finest promise led by the
drinking habit into vice, ruin, and early death
have known such become virtual parrcides. have
known many tradesrlen whom ii has made bankrupt
have known Sunday scholars whom it has led to
prison. | have known teachers, and even superin-
tendents, whom it has dragged down to prohigacy.
have known ministers of religion in and out Of the
establishment, Of high academic honors, of splendid
eloquence, nay of vast usefulness, whom it has TaS
cinated and hurried over the precipice of public in
fanny, with their eyes open, and gazing VII horror
on their fate. | have known of the strongest
and clearest intellect, and of vigorous resolution
whom it has made weaker than children and fools.
have known gentlemen Of refinement and taste
whom it has debased into brutes. | have known
poets of high genius whom it has bound in a bondage
worse than the galIeys, and ultimately cut short
their days. | have known statesmen, lawyers, and
Judges whom it has killed | have known kind hus-
bands and fathers whom it has turned into mon
sterS. have known honest men whom it has made
villains. have known elegant and Christian ladies
whom it has converted into bloated sots.
= Is it not notorious that under the ravages Of
drunk mess the land mourns That it is this
which, may almost say exclusively fills our prs-
ons, warehouses, lunatic asylun1s, our dens
of pollution, and our hospitals; which causes most
of the shpwrecks fires, fatal accidents Crimes out
RACES, and suicides that load the columns of our
newspapers: which robs numberleSs wives of hus-
bands affection, and numberless children of a pa
rents fondness which strips thousands of homes of
every comfort deprves scores of thousands of chill
dren Of education, and almost Of bread, and turns
them on the streets which leaves SO many places
of worship almost empty, and so many Mechanics
Institutes languishing, whilst the pothouses are
crowded which brings down (it is estima ted sixty
thousand of our population every year to a drunk
ards grave 4?
And of all the victims of intemperance, be it
remembered, there is not who did not begin by
moderate drinking, Or who had the remotest idea
when he began that he should be led into excess"
LEVI SILLIMAN Ives, the Bishop of North Carroll
ma, who has seeded to the Catholic church, was the
twenty-ffth Bishop, in the order of appointment OF
the Episcopal church Of the United States lie is
a native of Vermont, and was originally settled as
a minister, Congregatonalist Society, in the
county of st. Lawrence, n. Y. The effect of form
ing certain acquananceships and intimacies, at that
time, it is said, to direct his attention 10 the
Episcopal church. which, abandoning his Congrega
honal flock, he entered, and came to New York city
where he married daughter of the venerable Bish
op Hobart, and was settled Rector of St. Luke
Church, in Hudson street. On Thursday, Septem
Der 22d, 1881, he was consecrated Bishop of North
Carolina, in Trinity Church. Philadelphia At the
time of his detection from the Protestant faith, he
had been Bishop twenty-one years. and was the third
living, IN the order of conservation. His wife. who
accompanied him on his visit to Rome, is said t.
nave strongly opposed his joining the Catholic
church, but now begins to defend him from the at
taeks OF several Protestant minister's who also &C
companied him to Rome
The New York Evening Post says An epcurear
critic who has attended both the rival operas with
a view to comparison between the two distinguish
ed PRIME donne, gives the following as his deliberate
opinion: 20
II he only difference, beyond doubt,
/ 'Iwixt Sontag and Alboni,
! Is that the eats sonr-krout,
The other, aeaccaroni, F5s mi