The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1854-04-12

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duces poverty The drunkard cannot Dc
and consequently men withdraw
their patronage. His time is wasted in
revelry or stupor. His body isso diseased
that he cannot toll, and his mind so stuPi-
ied that he cannot conduct, successfully,
any business. Ills diseased appetite, with
ever increasing urgency. demands graft
~icalion, even at the sscri6ce Of the last
pi;iance, which should have clothed or put
him on his dependents. Time wasted,
business neglected, friends driven of, mo-
ney and property %squandered for drink,
and mind and body wrecked, soon clo,he
him in rags. And ever after he gains a
scan,y subsistence for himself and those
dependsn; upon him, covered with rags,
and enduring hardships uncomfortable or
he brings himself and them 10 the aims
house, or, dying, leaves them to beggary
or starvation. Thousands and tens of
thousands, are annually reduced to this
condition, by the traffic in alcoholic drinks.
You are aiding in bringing some, or many
Of your fellow men, 10 this state Of abject
poverty. -Four f(lhs Of the actual pau.
perism among the native population of this
country, results, directly or indirectly,
from the uee of alcoholic drinks.
Your business produces crime against
God and human society. There is not a
a crime ia all the dark catalogue Of hu-
man guilt, that does not often flow from
the use of intoxicating drinks. Excited,
brutalized, deranged, rendered reckless by
alcohol, men are prepared for any thing.
Thus fitted, the thief commits his theft,
the hi. hway. man his robbery, the murder
er his 5u,chery, the assassin his deed Of
blood; the incendlary fires his neighbor's
dwelling, and the rOwdy %assails, with mob
violence, his neighbour person and desiroy'
his properly. Indeed, every form of crime
that disgraces human nature, that works
mischief 10 human interests, that disturbI
society, endangers and destroys property
, and life, grows out Of The traffic in acohol
!. ic drinks. II is The united and invariabl,
testimony Of those who have the best op
!, porlunity of knowing, that at least tw'
thirds Of the crimes against society, per
; petrated in this country, even the dark
est and mos, horrid. can readily be trace
TO that source. More Than two thirds q
those who are confined in our jails an
peni,en,iaries, and Of those who expiat
their guilt upon the scaffold, can trace III
origin Ct their guilt 10 the excitement of a
cohol. Is it not APPALLING TO contemplate
that two thirds or three 6urths Of all til
:, crimes against society, committed in Ii
land, and then remember that they all r.
: suit from the business in which you a
> engaged
III Your business produces disease, miser
death and perdition. Who can fell Il
u wreichedness of that poor %drunkard, whit
=" he thinks of what he once was, what
81 might have become, and then Of his pc
y erly, his disgrace and ruin, when he loo.
e. upon the wasted form, The scalding teal
' y. The breaking heart or the opening gray
u of his once loved and faithful wife; or u
' on his children, whom he is rearing
al poverty, dishonor, squalidness aad vic
Go Who can tell his anguish, as he sees
u the future only deeper misery, and in Ell
NC nifty, unmingled woe and yet feels /
!" fire Of appetite burning so within him, Il
7" nothing but impossibillty can prevent
gratifyingill Who can conceive the nj
w wretchedness of that fond wife, as s
~ looks upon the idol other hesrtand ftelstl
q he is fast becoming a brute, a monster ;
u she partakes o fhis disgrace, feelsih pint
" ing.of poverty, experiences his brutal rsI
10 or more brutal violence; which, perha
III drives her from her home, or almost tai
'u' her life; as she looks upon her little on
No. growing up in shame, ignorance and vi
"a" which she cannot prevent; as she sufF
and weeps, and despairs, and dies Of
ivy broken hearth Who can imagine
'y wreichedness Of those children, as Z
s'S after day, and year after year, they
100 compelled to see the shame and feel
u violence Of him who ought to be their s
age port, guardian and guidel
But no human tongue can describe,
cry angels pencil portray the miseries res
The ing from the use Of alsoholic drinks
oes' Disease travels also in its train. l.
on upon the glazed eye, the bloaied
lust blotehed face, and trembling limbs.
our gard that pbrensied brain, that whole fl
not quaking and struggling as il il would sp
by ftomiIseIf with dread ofthe spectres TIA
'esS, lirium has conjured up. Look az
Inor mighty mass swept away by the pestilc