Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-07-19

! will be men and women.
From the chair of State. from the Pulpit
| and the Bar, from the Mechanics Shop and
the Field of Agriculture, time will sweep the
bloom and yigor of manhood. The present
generation with all its boosted wisdom and en-.
terprise and all its abhorrent vices and corrup.
tons will vanish at the touch of time and an
other generation will ell their places. Youth
now "to fortune and to fame unknown" viii
occupy the chair of State-lips unused to elO-
quence. will proclaim "peace and good will to
men,"-the victim of injustice vii find others
to plead his cause and avenge his wrongs, and
earth will pour her treasures into the lap OF IN.
other generation.
Then give TO the present generation of youth
the tuition and guardianship of Sabbath Schools,
and incucate the great principals Of the Bible,
and when time mows down the present gener-
alton of men the world will bet must be, IN
lieu of one of vice, wickedncss and immorrali'
ty to one of peace, harmony and quietude. May
We not hope then, that parents and teachers will
feel an interest in this noble attempt Of youth
to promote the cause of religion May We not
hope that the smile of parental appreciation,
1 will cheer them on in their noble attempt to
redeem the world from the cHFse of SIM
May we not hope that parental council and per-
suasion will lend helping hand to enlargo
their numbers widen their influence, and give
prominence to the School. As YOU value tho
veal. as you depricate the ruin Of your sons and
/ 7
I labor that the interests of the School may bo
advanced and its high destiny brilliantly
wrought out
! In conclusion permit me to submit feS consd.
crations for the Sons of Temperance, who have
houored us with their presence on this OCCASION
| Gentleman, you are engaged in a great, good
and noble canse; YOU have but to cast your eyes
around you. to see that much is yet 10 be done.
/ and single glance out will convince you that
that so far from being victorious army with.
banners floating triumphantly over you, You are
rather little band of unconquered patriots
who havn made good your retreat into your lit.
tie castle; which however, ! am proud to say is
impregnable to the assaults of the enemy
i You should hold upto your view, the beggcry,.
want and misery that scorns description,-t
follows in the wake Of drunkenness every where.
Bring up to your mind the aged form bent be-
meath the burden of accumulated years wrecked
in body, mind and morals, by Intemperance
youth blasted in bloom BY its pestilential breath
manhood in its vgor, stricken down Ike tbs
stately oak. by the furious blast. Woman,
helpless tender,-clinging to husband who
has forgotten his every VOW at the nuptial altar
woman wan and fearful, brooding over the
ruin her husband has brought upon her-wo-
man, Drawing the pitiless night storm, aloro
rather than meet the storm Intrmperance has
conjured up in that husbands breast, or woman
sinking beneath the helish violence Of that arm 4.
that was sworn to protect her. Visit our pris-
on houses and our Criminal Courts. our aims.
houses and our lunatic assylums, and behold
the work Of the destroyer therel Let your in.
designations be as sweeping, as vigilcnt, and as
ceaseless as the deadly work Of the destrover's
hand. say let this be done and your interes.
can never cool-your zeal can never want life,
and your patriotism in the great cause of TEN.
perance Reform will he animated. and vour
swords will never seek their seabbarls as long
rs single is raised in hostility TO YOUR
cause-until the last tear is dried,-th. last
wall of the widow and orphan has ceased its
echo, and the blood of our slain brethren hs,
hnshed its cry for Vengeance upon the mar.
tyr's head.
Your cause is good, noble and benevolent
one, and involves the happiness of Millions
That cold hearted se6hsness, which can stand
with folded arms, conscious of its own security
upon the very brink of Intpmperance. and be-
hold with eye of Indifference, the infatus =
ted drunkard, with his crazy bark bearing him.
self his family and his hopes for time and for
notwithstanding with feaful rapidity downward
towards the Gulf Of hapless irretrevesbe ruin,
such an one, hope is not to ne found in the
bosom of your selfdenying, selfsacrifcing Or
der. No, raise the shout Of warning, until IL
shall rise above the thunders of the mad and:
turbulent wave of the sweeping tide of ruin
Extend brothers hand, and with a brothers
Kindness snatch him from the fatal CURRENT
You shonId keep in constant view the evil You
combat, the object of your organization, and
the good you effeet-zealous and persevering
in your work of kindness-true to yourselves
true to the veal Of the victim Of Intemperance,
and true to the noble object of Your institution,
and doubt not, MANY redeemed drunkard,
many wife, daughter and SISTER, will rise up and
call YOU blessed and embalm you worthy deeds
in tears Of OVERLOOKING gratitude. Soon will the
strength of the enemy be broken, the indigna.
ton of a reformed and renovated public opinion
erase his very foot prints from the soil Of free
dom, and whole land redeemed from the curse
of Intemperance, shoL: cold ,cater, cold rGter
for erer.