Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-07-02
Temperance.
To The Editor Of the Belmont Chronicle:

10 he EGtLOr ot The belmont Chr0Rlci2:
SIR-In perusing your interesting paper
| regret 10 see SO little in its columns, on
the subject Of Temperance, and why is
there not more said, and written, on this |
subject, by the females of our land! They |
may say, perhaps, they are not capable ofI
writing any thing OF advantage to them
Sc ives or others, some may even say they
have not the right; had they The intellect.
Where is there ore female; who is not ca
pable of writing her protestation against
this monster vice. however public their ef-
forts may be, let them be given in earnest
and truth, and they will be heard. Do you
presume to say sne has the right tn con-
Germ herself with such affairs as these!-
That this is man s responsibility alonel |
say if it is right for man to take part IN
good cause;it is also right for woman. They
were created alike rational and moral beings
the same laws govern both, and were it not
for mans Injustice, her mind W uid long
have developed itaeii more iully, and sic
would Lew Eli that station in society which
is lr,pe. she hould fill.
|, y .utecd true; hat btr pow,rs Of
mind fail 10 give utterance TO her wretci
nedness; her enslavement There is no law
guage however clear aud demons rative thai
can truly portray to you; tha so ard
wrongs the wives and m thers Of the d.
graded ineriate have TO encounter Tken
why not ae' with uneceasing energy in rhi-
great, this glorious :ause Of | EN- perance
Wives and mothers, whose spirits have been
blighted and crushed; by the sad reality OF
husband or sons intemperance habits
how can you be silent when there is so
much for you to dol Oh would that nv
feeble pen could picture to you, the scenes
of drunkard's home. That miserable
hove!, w ,fh Lrcken windows and decayed
walk, yes, all around was the blackness "t
di~pair-wIthn how dark anG drear. There
hey more ;han widowed wi e and half clad
starving children, gather around the scatter
ed embers,-wiIh shiverng forms ,and hag-
geredC ountenance that mutherI counIenance
" here once shower the light of mteIlectual
beauty, has grown dim with sorrow and care
That mind whose gem of intellect has just
begun 20 expand and unfold It's brightness,
have been crushed, dethroned. by mans in
human passions We can still see her, at
the death and solemn hour of midnig.t;
when all should be enjoying slifes sweet
restorer balmy Sleep" In dread anxiety
! ava iiIng the inebriate; return from his mid
night reveling. Is long past the midnight,
hour, and yet he comes not; each sound
that falls upon the ear, is thought to b. his
well known foot step; but is but the how l.
ing of the pitiless blast, as it rushes through
the open creVices Uf th- old hut. He comes
at last, she sbrinks with horror rom his ap-
proach.
With pa led limbs and. distorted feeling,
he enters his abode OF misery and woe
! There is no being who should claim more
OF our sympathy than drunkard's wife; ford
the one who stood at the alter to love.
cherish and protect her through life. has
become her bitterst foe. Oh who could but
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man cease 10 envelope this beautiful earth
of ours, in darkness and crime!
Thus seeing the degrading, demora lizing
effects o. lntemperance mas our community
at large, let us try with reserved zeal an
unceasing energy, TO arouse the people to =
a sense of their duty-a duty which is call
irg long and loud from mountainand valley,
| So, .b,,b
ana beautiful palaces: from the woe stricken
wirow and orphen - the ha ps mo h-r nd
cal d WHY dre we deai TO the rIIi whrn
II Is c"nt .nr'aliy penetrating our very >
deepest r.ceasl Or all the bunes To :. 4 rty
ana human happiness, that of Intrmp nnce
/ Is Ote oI IN" greatest 1t not only dea.~o,
the physIcai powers,but deIarnne>t,te m ID
/ debuses body and soul. in.emprr.ncr h~s
a tendency to excite the animaI passions,
/ by aronsing feelings o. h.uei ani
every one while umdcr tbs influence, ,hr
most daring deeds Of in amy aud or IN re
committed. Go in our p nIten iaies uus
Asy .umS and see there IN. work u IL
DIR, nd monster; 90 ask that poJr dc. radru
being u he tolls from mora ill night, the
caurse o! his being their, he vii, answer
the Intoxicating bouI! AK too that wild
and sh;vering maniac, Why those frantic
shrieks, and lamentable moans! The an
swer will be the wlne cups poisonous sting.
Thus eeng all q! thi- gre /. hese cr W.
il" evils, continually before Us. let Il, dear
-,ter-. ,hrnw in cur miG +" hasten on the
{ u! !-e ol '"mper inc" n".r m.Gsl. L..
US reason with them, let u, enrrea,. hem,
to cease from 50 great an vii as dealing nut
thut deadly poison, to ceas yes, from robbery
from murder. 1t robes the wife, and
child of the husband and father destroys
their force, their happiness and sends them
to premature graves.
The intemperate and unrefecting ones
may scoff; but providence will smile upon
us, for doing our duty to ourselves and God
BELMONT, June 18th, 1857 r.
ST ALBANs, Vt, jam Il