New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-24
SEMI ANNUAL MEETIN or THE AMERICAN
TEMPERANCE UNION

Last evening the above meeting took place at the Tab
ernacle which filled with respectable and attentive
AZ "A the chair was taken by VIM. E. Dodge, Esq,
Chairman of the Executive Committee. The exercises
commenced with the performance Of several airs by the
North Carolina Band VI l. TOrisi. Master. PRAY er was
then offered bv the Rev Dr. Dewitt after which the Cor
responding Secretary the Rev Jno Marsh presented the
following resolutions with these remarks:
Derived he said of Metropolitan Hall we return to
This place which is TO Of delightful associations.
This Is moment OF intense interest The work OF reform,
which twenty FIVE years ago was an infant Is now become
a giant Hercules which Will strangle the serpent. DIX
States have pronounced that serpent an outlaw and six
more are about to DO it. The greatest wonder IS that the
Empire State and its vast com nercia metropolis nave
semi to the Captala Legislature for the purpose Of de
carnr il an outlaw and granting to the people that pro
lection which they demand We have laid on the table
Of the Senate and Assembly Of this State bills for the
entire prohibition Of Intoxicating drinks, which have been
pronounced by highest judicial men destructive TO
souls and bodies. The system OF legislation we ask
wrongs and more than anything else Wiu save 10
ne sic and public wealth
Rered That the smiles Of Heaven upon great enterprise
in all demand and shs have our caoesst
@ , in s ast and hat what ali attempts to regulate the
a failed accomplish easily and effectively done By
ESa Tbs, we Congratulate those which have
ceeded securing MAINE LAW We rejoice thai AL efforts Tor r.
mnnIs I,iit. and the general prospety We have
evidence thar eventually be tho legislation Of a STATES noe
corrupted by based by tri5e or political chcane
tie Of 81 State 10 h, present soa-a Legislature FROM whom
setting according he viii OF their Constituents my % e1gcd
early enactment Of pohotoy md protective law we AZ
for wisdom and fess from above ina thY may escape AZ
" srsn peds them our support n q Maae
Law confident they will have the blessing o. TINS anu
Rt TSst we would hail Maize Law for tas grsa.
cesse syns system which lefze the cause Of
Of Psuper and crime o.; we ank ea. Viii drive o
it al Of principle end seltresRect and a. 20 aua Psu,
make tippny house and dTsmsAop as rare no"
the omen gambling establishment the lottery ONCE OF the zen Oh tAs
Rti'ed That we would respect the Interests Of com
roerc ard sympethze with sufferers IN commeea enanss,
50 yoaby effected b. Any legislation a. they vii BE- By t1s IA We
seek but we aDnet Da men Soe ToT can we @ H.
In to those who law, expeng fsom society rs great
few Of The PTese Of roWns mees Of
CHE or ndusng appetite which soon make then ourden
Rire& that IN Of greater advance ha9
we yet known the Temperance be9sm n 1ao
duty Of temperance come up boldly 10 the ~ok 70 ,
6eIs 20 tue 81 ~ State All js eo to restrain aud root
cut the deadly make this the age when the last sas NC
which has sent It's millions 70 drunksE9s gave .,s
Rcred rejoice that the example Of America nss yea
G f Sweden 10 deuouaee the throne the conversion
besdtGfs the ofntoxcaon we ~la nh %
Grest Britain struggling there fox Maine Law wia the million,
Of HINGES row Issns me nsse .hs We pledge an
unendins conflict with and all who ioI gam are proaos
lava yoke be broker, and Temperance justice peace aud
universal prosperity perVsde al nsi0n' -. o,,
The Rev Theodore l.. Cuyler, OF the Markets. Churcn
delivered an address 10 this effect
In mite of the cold winter nights and empty seats we
vin lGmDeralce atmosphere
NAV have become chilled. A man from Frenconia, being
I'm Boston was asked If II cold in his country as
there o. saN be- in FrancOnia we have no tleronisef'
and il e. cold has mind TO- 90 we nave 10. ~
thermometers here but cur brethren elsewhere are NOV
ing Brother Chambers tells US good news from inc my
stone state and Neal Dow says that in Ne"-hamp .le
no rSons can hold their temperance meetings my "o
have 90 do here is to say the WORK must anu sla %
Were DIR LardnertO tells that the locomotive qua h1'
run 80 miles an hour would tell him to cesf tne t'
for vas coming and if he said ocean steam ~
was impossible, We would point to the Arcl,c anl
We have Uassed the Slough OF Despondi We nave
the detachable Mountains and now about whefs Iis
tan stood on the hill called Clear, ana saw I. go
Civ Il anyone SAYS ALCOHOLICS nottne Po.sOn ~ 49, -
sor which Il 4 long known be- we asS DIM f4eI" guV
- Gpterred Won p Soma say elconol IS gOOd Inc
old scotchmas who affirmed that everything was gooI
because God made il. being asked INC CEN . sYSu,
reped He IS good for devil % uiSonOl y gOy io5
["in r,,roses The Old Brewery has disappeared, and
Stcn Christianity shall have scuttled al the
groeshous, the Five f0iniS WIZ cease Inc re
f,ost coo ulaces in this City where grog is sold Wan
-. occb ~ these Kill IL man this year One says the
Me law is unconstitutonal be oannst mean against
te human constitution, because II "a known to be e1
III. for that What Constitution OF the United
Sfatrsl No OF NewYorkl / ask him u lay his
frrer OF the clause il be can. The same objection
was made in Maine, Massachusetts Vermont but the
bench has everywhere sustained the Law; and TIE
Chief Justice at Washington has declared that every
state has right to regulate It's trGe Another say
il viii lot work well. We have passed that long ego !
were YOU not awake John Neil and certain newspaper
paragraphs say /. does not work well. Wl not liquor
sellers club for their private ends! And ,no u" IA
liquor selling. why DO not the sellers OF liquor SUP
port il In Maine in the Bay State IN Khole lasnl 'hs
law Ia unrepeGed. When single state aDana9as II
We viii stop. Eut il is objected thaa we would az
stroy commerce. property. One human lnte.lect 9e
stroved outEeighs all the aggregation Of poison the
Maine Law cun exfiIguish. Do Tot insuI N4lL
20 rl AZ nrlleut a. that the father e., mother o.
yrffi i tr1rtsii-n saw iu 8lCltway rlnspaf ny
ofa tiger on exhibition whue thai tiger Is SEP. "i-lin