The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-11-18
CINCINNATI FRIDAY, NOVEMBER is, 1853

alcoholic drinks could not view his own
work, If fully revealed to him, without
staggering. His countenance would he
\ blanched with the paIeness of a corpse--
his heart would beat with fearful rapidi-
4 ty-with trembling limbs and ouiveripg
lips ne would plead to be released from
the view even at the price Of his ayarice
Il All must allow that SO far as the evil
has powers it takes away mans health
and leaves him diseased; takes awav
MS human feelings, and leaves him a
wild beast takes away mis- religion, and
makes him a sccfing atheist; takes away
his manhood, and leaves him degraded
outcast. 1t robs, by its tempting power
!he industrious OF their hard earnings !:
1t burdens cities and nations with enor.
NOUS taxation; it produces everv crime
IN the catalogue of human wickedness :.
1t sWamPs every virtue, every tender tie
ara noble feeling of the human heart
All the com mahdments in ,be DecaIodno
and preoepts in the Bible, are swallowed
up IN this great maelstrom of vice. It is
more destructive to human life than war
famine, pestilenoe and fire combined
II sends Its victims to the grave in far
greater numbers than the eeions of Cal-
sar ever Tell upon the battle field, or the
armies OF Napoleon were ever sacrificed
TO ms cruel ambition. AT this moment
we are appalled, by the ravages of tbe
yellow fever, and by the FREQUENT rail.
road aud steamboat disasters vet allI
these .REe q bur lille account COMPARED
witsi III ges liils teiflble vice. M
would require six hundred Norwalk dis \
asters every year to equal the number of 4
deaths annually produced by the rum 4
tratflo. The yellow fever is confined to
certain cities and localities. But this
plague spreads over Christandom. There !
IS scarcely town, village or family. that
mas not furnished its victims. Its funeraEII
PROFESSIONS are constantly moving and Il
at this hour thirty thousand of the citi. \
zens OF the United States are in course \
OF preparation 10 be offered up as sacri-
noes to this cruel MoIoeh during the 4
coming year g# \
we appeal to those who occupy the \
seat OF authority throughout The civilized
world, and ask how long should so gi-
ganqe an evil be permitted TO curse So 4
clely! How long must the wailings of !.
orphans and the agonizing cries OF
widows be heard in every civ, and the 4
dearest interests of humanity be sacri-
heed to burning avarice! How long \
must this monster be retained in the
midst OF the light, intelligence and vir-
ue OF this nineteenth century? Is it not
lme that, instead Of man, Gods image, 4
yng in the gutter, that rum should take 1
is turn TO lie there? Is it not time, while
We are devising means in other depart Il
nehts to protect and prolong human life, ,
hat efforts be made to clear our skies i
rom the storm-clouds of this calamity, \ +
nd avert the lightning. flashes from the +
housands of homes that are liable to be r
truck! tai aN :
The provisions of the law to which Il
our attention is respectfully solicited, a
ontain no new principles OF Legislation, Q
ut only such as are acted upon in eyerv q
Vllized community. The right of So ii
ety to protect the health, properly and / O
yes Of its citizens, by legal enactnents, h
recognised by every government leg. R
lature and court i'll Christendo1. I'll c
'nnot be disputed without assailinp the in
isis upon which society rests. Il ex. Sc
nds, according to the opinions Of the
oct eminent jurists, not only to the en- til
tment of general laws for selE,protec- &C
p, the execution of penalties, the ap- ia
intfnent of police, and the raising of ac
mics for suppressihg rebellion or le- CT
ting foreign invaders, but to every. tn
ng that tendsto injure society. AIS "a
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