The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-01-13

Mr.. EpIToR:-The following resolutions
were adopted by the Quarterly Council of the
Sons and Daughters of Temperance held in
Morristown Ohio Jan. 4th, 1854, and ordered
to be published, will you please give them a
place in your proper.
w. II. CLARK, R. sec'y.
Report Of The Committee on Resolutions of the
Quarterly council Of the Sons d Daughters
Of Temperance Of Belmont County, Held at
Morristopn January, 4th, 1854.
RESOLVED, That, "Ni Desperandum," is our
motto: and, notwithstanding our apparent
want of success in our late effort in Ohio,
we nop nail our flag to the mast, and proclaim
to oil opposers, that we "never wM surrend-
er."
Resolved, That we see the silver bow of
Temperance, rising higher and higher, and
higher, and spreading wider and wider on the
black hitherto portentous cloud of intemper-
ance. We see men "clothed and in their
right mind" who, not long since, were raving
maniacs, or besotted imbecies,-we see the
well clad school-boy, bounding on his way,
rejoicing in plenty, who, lately, skulked in
dark hooks and corners to hide from view
his rag covered body,-we see the laughing,
skipping Miss in neat attire, lightly tripping
her way to the halls Of learning, who, was
wont to crouch away in some secluded place
to conceal her want pinched frame and tear.
ful eye from the gaze Of giddy passers by
We see the cheerful, happy wife and mother,
with her heart beating high with hope and
pleasure, whose face was, lately, but the
index of despair, from whose home content
meni, peace, and love were banished, from
whose heart was crushed out hope; whose
future in life, was dark as Erebus; whose
life was but living death. We see the So
changed in relation to the reception of the
fiery wine cup, few and far between are its
resting places, more compared with the many
stands it lately occupied. We see healthy,
salutary public opinion, (slowly it may be:
but surely,) pervading the whole community
in relation to the use Of all intoxicating
beverages. And we who see all this; who
have by our exsrtions in part at least chev-
ed all this, shall WE relax in our efforts, or
gnooly retire from the contest! Never! No
Never!! We are enlisted for life. Our only
inquiry 10 WHcI, HoW, WHeTei Cun We UOSt
effectively strike the monster vice, ntemper-
ance.
RESOLVED, That to continue to make ourselves
FELT for good, we must keep up our organiza-
tions we must agitate, agitate, agitate; we
must shew no quarter to this giant evil; we |
must ask no favours at it's hands; we must
prose cute tho war to the death Of the habit |
of drinking, and the death of the traffic in
the drink.
Resolved, That it is the imperative duty oe
every Son and Daughter of Temperance,
now, to double their Zeal and diligence,
when the enemy a-e carousing in fancied
security over their, as they think, late victory.
Resolved, That we earnestly urge all TEN.
perance individuals, and associations of every
name, to urge on the temperance movement,
with renewed energy, knowing, as we all do,
that, "truth is mighty, and will prevail"
r. HAMILTON,
M. r. WRIGHT, Committee
J.s w. HEANEY, on
AGNES v. GASTGN, Resolutions.
NANCY AMBROSE.