Nebraska advertiser., 1857-12-17

OISHAtdIleS WIG nave gfanIeu II are leIt
for a moment alone, suppose their reason
should faithfully perform Its Office by
bringing causes and effects together, by
presenting iR~the very room where the
licenses had been granted the effects of
those licenses for the coming year, sup
pose that on closing the book where their
decisions are recorded, suddenly, quick as
thought, a terrific vision of the future
consequences of their conduct should start
INTO living reality before them. Here, a
murderer darts athWart the room and hews
down his victim before their eyes. There
the outbursting fame reveals the flying
incendiary. Here Gagged beneath their
feet howls and shrieks the victim Of deb
rum. On this side of the tribunal the
gray hairs of a parent are brought down
with sorrow to the grave by the worse
than parricidal blows of IN impious son
Apart and alone, her frame ~convulsed
with ~unspeakable agonies and her tear
full eyes covered with her hands, kneels
and prays with u%navailing prayer the
once happy wife; song and smile no
longer come mbidden to her lips; she
seeks seclusion; she flies from sympa-
thy; for the voice of the tenderest con-
ISOLATION fortunes her like fire. Where
now are those burning vows of love,
those attestations of undying fidelity.
which imprecated the vengeance of hea-
ven on their violation? Vows and at
testations which she had garnered inner
heart and made an idol treasure. These
priceless pearls they too have been sto-
len and melted in the cup Of abomina-
ton. See all around those groups of
desolate children; hunger and naked
ness have been their fathers love, and
snow and winter storms their mothers
breast and song.
But l will not, l cannot delineate these
intolerable realities. They cannot be
spoken by mortal tongue. They cannot
be conceived by mortal mind.
Now, if the more favored classes of
our society viii do nothing TO arrest the
progress of intemperance, which more
than all things else creates bad men and
makes bad men worse, they may well
tremble for their country, for their pro-
perty and for their families. They occu-
7 py no such high table land of security
that the pillows of popular cOmmotion
will break below their feet. The tumults,
the outbreaks of violence which have al
ready happened, are only tremulous vib-
rations f~oretoKening the earthquake that
is vet to m Fiercer paroxisms will
ensue such shocks from beneath as will
upheave the foundations of law and or
der, unseat the tribunals of Justice, and
dash the hostile classes of society against
each other as though the steady earth
itself were unbalanced and were rocking
and plunging In Its orbit. The favored
classes may think they occupy favored
apartments in the ship, but if it does
founder the state room will go down
with the steerage. Some philanthrnpists
among whom was that excellent man DR..
Woodward, who wrote a series of essays
on the subject for the press, proposed
the erection of a hospital for inebriates
Ikea hospital for the insane. My friends,
the only true asylum for inebriates has
been constructed. 1t was constructed Id
the year 1850, in the State of Maine
Neil Dow was the builder, a nobler archi-
tect than Sir Christopher Wren, or those
who poised the dome of St. Peter In the
upper air. 1t is the grandest asylum
ever erected or conceived, for its base
, embraces the whole area of the State
T Its walls are co-extensive with the boun.
, daries of the State, and 1t has 2 dome
no less lofty and resplendent than the
S arch of heaven above. Wherever thu
means eff inebriation are excluded, there
is the true asylum for inebriates.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island hav,
: spread the protecting arches of this roo
e over their soil. Minnesota has alread,
done the same-lke a young man resol
we'd to be strong and great, and therefor,
{ taking the earlyvow that promise wisdom
. and length Of days. l trust that the Elk
%celsior Territory, Nebraska, will folloy
e their example; and become a State i
y morals as well as in power. And ther
Is from the OceantO the great lakes, waite
nc and not fire shall be the nourisher of mar
and Joy and not woe the companion Of hi
household.
rs ALTOONA.
IN M r movIy