The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-09-09


hA#ay she ran down the street to.
wardlthat feeking center Of filth, pow
erty, and misery the noted Five Points
Of New York. L NJ
AS we plodded up Broadway, look
ING in here and there upon the pala-
ial ,spiendors of metropolitan sa-
looms give think that is the word for
fashionable upper-class grog-shOPs-
we almost ipvoluntarily, cried "hot
corn, as we saw the'hotispirit Of that
grain, under the various guises Of
"pure gin told rum y "pale
brandy "-"pure port >" heidseck"
or "ager- beer "-poured down the
hot throats Of men-and ah, yes, of
women, too, whose daughters may
some day sit at midnight upon the
cold curbstone, crying shot corn"
to gain a penny for the purchase of
drink of the fiery dragon they are
now inviting to home in their bo,
SONS, whose cfy in after years will
be, "give, give, give" and still as
unsatisfed as the horse-leech's daugh-
ters,
Again, as we passed on up that
/ street, still busy and thronged at mid
night, as country village at midday
ihtermission Of church service, ever
and anon from some side street came
UP the cry Of "hot corn hot corn J"
and ever as we heard it, and ever as
we Shall hear through all years to
| come, we thought Of that, little girl
and her drunken mother, and the
bad man +" at the cJrner grocery,
and that hers was the best, the strong
est Maine Law argument which had
ever fallen upon our listening ear.
Again, as we turned the corner Of
Spring street, the glare and splendor
Of a thousand gas-lights, and the gilt
terng cut glass of that for the first
time lighted up bar-room Of the Pres
colt House, so lauded by the Press for
its magnifcence, dashed our eyes and
almost blinded our senses to a degree
Of imagination that first-class hotels
must have such Five Point denizen-
making appurtenances as this glitter
ing room, shamelessly open inviting
to the street; when that watch-word
cry, like the pibroch's startling peal,
came up from the near vicinity, wall
ing like a lost spirit on the midnight
air-A hot corn, hot corn- here's your
nice hot corn--smoking hot--hot-
Tot corn !"'7 e.. 30 ig.r
eyes, yes!" | hear you cry-it
is a watch-word-a glorious watch
word, that bids us do or die--till the
smoking hot, fery-furnace like gates
Of hell, like this one now yawning
before US, shall cease to be licensed
by Christian people, to send delicate
little girls at midnight through the
streets, crying "fhot corn" to support
a drunken mother, whose first glass
wasstaken in fashionable saloon" !"
OF frst-class liquor-selling hotel.
f" Hot cornl' then, be the watch
word of all who would rather see the
grain fed to the drunkard's wife and
children, than into the Unsuitable hot
NAV of the whisky-still. y
Let your resolutions grow hot and
strong everyltime you hear this mid
night city cry, that you will devote
if nothing more, l5..
wv 'fThree grains of corn, mother,
NJ III Only three grains Of corn" .lr..,.
toward the salvation of the thousand
\ equally-pitiable objects as the little
girl, whose wailing cry has been thC
iheiting cause Of this present dish 0
!" hot corn ssmrl smoking hot p
Z" adi CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT.
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