Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-03-20

fssafls4s4-l Lave never suug hosanaas Il.
cold water--never abused .wbiskey and rum =
never had the honer of being drunk, and after
wards thinning a Temperance soeiety-nf pnss-
ing through tine mirage Of designations and AZ
Ter fourth decade. going into "tht lean and SIP
p.r'd panfaioon :" thus filling up the cycle Of
human accamp sbment--but ! do not see, that
man j. the quinttssimdi part of fraction, the
worse. for not doing all this.
In the infancy of the temperance movement,
there was palpable issue-''temperance or IN
temperance.' Every body, with rare exceptions,
was in favor of it. The institution prospered; has
acquired some strength-and at this time, 1t Is
difficult TO =ubdue The bursting flames Of IT'S anoi-
ton. 1t is family whispered, we have the power,
let Us use it. They have condescended to tell
the people of Lynchburg, whom they must vote
for for Aldermen This it is true. is small
matter. Nobody cares who are elected 10 fill
that thankless office. The next step will be to
tell u. who IL 10 go To the Legislature-and who
To Congress. In short, they will, if III y can.
swallow up every thing. Votes not weighed,
but counted
The question the people of Lynchburg have TO
decide is: sball we nllow "secret conclaye" to
rule u, under the pretense of a "town meet
ing" any oiher pretensei Never Then we
must .ay the axe at the root Of the tree
But what, pray, is to be the test, by which
this conceive will Judge of mans fitness for
ONCE w iii III Dc moral worm iHlPlIeciudi VA
cellence high sense of the obligations of jus
tice ! Never bit of It. On the contrary it
must, in the nature of things, be will you vote,
as we, tho 'conclaye," direct you
The question is fairly stated, and the idea that
the intelligent people If Lynchburg will submit
to such dictation is simply prepostorous. This
impudent pretenson is ''illegitimate offspring
of the temperance society, and the sooner they
abandon i, the better for their cause. They will
lash the ocean into a tempest
ITO watt feather, or to drown fly"
The temperance men ought to use ''soft words,
and hard arguments" When they enter the
field of bitterness-the challenge will be accept
ed. In that case they will use hard words, and
have no arguments TO offer.
They may console themselves too, if they are
ambitious, by the reflection, that all men cannot
be Madsons and Monroes-and, for the beauty
of the ALTERATION, Mansfieds and Marshalls--
though any man can, if he chooses to do so. raise
himself to the climacteric point of notoriety.
Jack Fallstaif " was great man, to eat and
drink yet. Shakespear immortalized the former;
and sam Foo:c, ''the ueritabie Sam" made the
latter "NIayor of CARAT"
Persuasion, gcntleness rectitude and sobriety
are the weapons that will fell the monster.
If "foney Lumpkin" wants to take IA bumper
at the "Three Jolly Pigeons" who shall say him.
nay. The moment you begin t. dictate to him
his physical wants. that mt ment he Is your enc
my. Moral suasion is your lever power. Use
that and you grapple the poor fellows heart, as
with hooks of steel.
Let every temperance man, who has not sunk
the voice of reason, in sort Of rassatage to his
creed-answer is it not so Then how can
you escape the conclusion, that your present
course indicates Interior purposes And the
suspieon TINT you care little about that, if tn 'se
purposes eun be effected.
"Great is Diana of the Ephesians."
OMEGA.