The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1853-11-16
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ladies' County Alliance.

RAvENNA, Nov. Sd, 1858.
Ladies' County Alliance met at the Free
Church. The President being absent and the
Vice President of Ravenna aEso, Mrs. Everett of
Randolph, called 10 the chair.
The Secretary was then called upon to read the
proceedings ofthe last meeting.
The President appointed Committee on Reso-
utions, consisting of Mrs. +. W. Hall, Mrs. A..
Dickinson and Mrs. G.. Price; also, Committee
on Business, consisting of Mrs. NJ. Spellman, Mrs.
c. Case and Mrs. Dickinson. T..
A communication was then read from Mrs.
Bostwick, the Presidens Of The Alliance, Us fol-
lows:
To the Ladies Of the Portage County 7empes ance
alliance.
DEAR FRIEsDs 1t is with deep regret that l
finally renquish the hope of meeting with you to-
day, of joining with you in nlutuel sympathy for the
past, and 10 counsels for the future. Had the
skies promised more favorably might probably
have been with you, but my health, though greatly
improved, is not yet sufficiently re established to
permit of fexposure to damp and chilly weather.
But must trespass upon your time with very
few words. Three months since when you as
sembled upon similar eceasion, it was with bright
anticipalions of an approaching Temperance victo-
ry in the County. Now,in an earnest deterHsina-
ton to put forth increased energies in renewed
efforts, to the end that next Autumn's election
shall tell different story, let rs forget the severe
! disappointment of those hopes.
The enemy triumphs but for ltt.s season.
Who can look at the signs of the times, at the in
creasing light which agitation is throwing this
great question, and doubt it. Intemperance may
blight and shadow our fair State a few months,
possibly few years longer, but is destruction is
certain. The eordid power of Mammon is slow TO
be subdued; and appetite, deprived, worse than
brutalized Appetite, is very difficult to contend
with But SO sure as our cause is founded on the
rights and claims of Humanity, it is ndestructible
as Truth ITSELF and must ultimately triumph.
La the mean time however there is much labor
to be done, and in erecting pure and true public
sentiment, surely ali do something. Would
that every lady would believe that she holds in
keeping sacred trust-even the development and
advancement of the moral nature of man, TO the
| fulness and perfeotness of stature for which God
designed it.
| But am OBTAINING you too long, and yet cannot
help aud'ng, Do not let your interest Tag for u
moment. Now is the time to test thoroughly the
true, and also the merely summer friends of Tenn
peranee. Dear Ladies let US sustain our Town
ship Leagues by frequent meetings, let US dis
countenance ntemperanee in every phase and
form, let US circulate Temperance DOCUMENTS and
Maine Law petitions in every nook and corner
in the giided saloon where men of wealth and in
fiuence imbibe respectfully and fashianably, and in
the dram shop by the gutter, where the poor be
sotted wreck of what ,odS manhood spends the
last sixpeucs he can wiring from his toiling wife.
Let our hearts be enlisted and our hands will not
seek vainy for work.
| l can only add that l am with you in spirit to-
day-not with cain regret for past defeat, but with
hopeful looking forward to future victories.
| HELEN L. BOSTWlCK.
| On notion Resoived, That the COMMITTEE on
Business be instructed TO appoint one or more
ladies', prepare appeal 10 the ladies' OF For'"ge
County.
Mrs. Everett and Mrs. l.. w. HILL were ap-
| pointed.