Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-11-01
MORNING LEADER.


out the State We're well represented, and much
interest was manifested in the success of the
Order and the Temperance cause. Gen. S. F.
CARgY, G. ". P. of Ohio, made the following
REPORT.
! Worthy Representatives. BY the rapid flight
OF time, we are brought to the Fourteenth An
nual Session of this Grand Division very
few of us participated in the deliberah,ns Of
this body at its first meeting. In this ever
changing world we can only hope that truth
will aOide forever. We will all pass away, bat
| the principle we maintain will endure. Some
of our early contemporaries have rested from
their earthly labOrs; others have grown weary
in well doing, and returned to the service of
their cruel master, OF abandoned the enterprise
as hopeless. The mutability of human organi-
cations may be learned by the history of those
who have been honored with the highest office
in your gift. Three have departed this life, all
of whom died members of the Order, and strong
in the faith of its ultimate triumph; one viola
ted the pledge, and has continued to live in to-
tai disregard of his obligations as an honored
| Sou of Temperance; two have suffered them
selves to drop out of the Order; while six are
still more or less active in the work.
This institution, in the fourteen years of It's
existence in Ohio, has passed through every
variety of trial incident to all human organizs-
tions having for their object the elevation of
society. Our Division rooms have been crowd
| ed-again they have been almost deserted, and
again a new wave of prosperity succeeded, fol-
lowed by decline of interest Our faith and
unbelief, our hopes and fears, have alternated,
and but for confidence in kind, merciful, over
ruling Providence, we would doubtless long since
have abandoned our greet and glorious work.
Christianity has been struggling for eighteen
hundred years In Ter like discOura gcrlents, vet
to-day, the sun of righteousness is the only
light to scatter the darkness OF hfe's pathway
and dissipate the gloom of the grave. Our Or
der has been the gateway of hope and happi-
ness to thousands, and if it is abandoned,
whittier shall the tempted flee, where shall the
stricken be healed, OF the Cnwary find 4 refuge
from the alI-pervadins destroyer? The utter
ance, that our Order must not, shall not be
given up, meets with hearty response from
every Representative present. Animated with
common purpose, we have left our homes and
come hither to consult in regard to a cause dear
to all of us-"the cause OF all mankind"
In submitting my Annual Message, it graft
es me to be able to report that the Order in this
jurisdiction is in better condition than it was at
the beginning of my administration. This i'm
prOvement cannot be attributed to personal ef-
forts on my part. have been SO environed by
other duties and cares, that have been able to
give very little personal attention to the work of
| building up Divisions. Under other crcum-
stances than such as have surrounded me the
past year, would have been more abundant
in labors" Calls for my services in different
and distant portions of this juri i5diction, have
been repeatedly aud persisteatly made, and it
has been painful to me to decline many of these
invitations My highest earthly ambition is to
| ho int fI,o k,lr
united to extend, establish and perpetuate. The
report of the G. ). will show that our Order is
in a hopeful, if not flattering condition. This
competent, laborious and faithful officer, in
very important period of his official year, was
| summoned 10 the bedside of dying mother
in a distant State, and bis prolonged absence
resulted in some delays and Inconvenience in
| distributing passwords and answering official
communications The Brothers well knew that
nothing of an ordinary character would inter-
fere with the prompt discharge of this officers
duties.
Many of my Deputies have done their work
| faithfully. Among those who have labored With
unusual zeal to DO their whole duty, and who
| deserve especial mention and conmendstion,
/ are Brothers John +. Williams and Morris
| Squires, of Medina county, John Brown, of
Noble county, T. D. ROyse, of Clermont
| ~
Samuel j. Thomas of Cincinnati.
We cannot recall the past-whether our work
be well or i'll done-we cannot, if we would,
unseal and alter the record What shall be
performed in the future that remains to us, is
now the ail-important question All our inter
ests, as members of families and neghbOrhOods-
as citizens of the State and nation, demand that
our membership be multiplied a hundred fold
in this jurisdiction. Wisdom in the selection
| of means, well directed efforts, faithfulness
and perseverance, with the continued blessing
of Heaven, cannot fail to secure this blessed
result.
A brief enumeration of some of the things to
| lie done, will not be out of place.
First-Every member should be true to his
pledge-attend every meeting Of his Division
pay promptly his dues-labor faithfully to in
duce his friends to join-take Temperance pa
per-live, speak, act and vote as becomes "a true
Son of Temperance.
Second-Divisions should get up and sustain
public meetings, procure lecturers, circulate
tracts and temperance papers, establish libraries,
or reading rooms, when possible, build and own
Division HalIs-make the place of meeting the
central point whence should radiate an influence
that would make the whole neighborhood feel
the necessity, and acknowledge the value of the
Order We must do more to yitaize the Or
der, SO that It's every movement will be instinct
with life so that it will be respected by the good
and feared by the workers of iniquity We must
be recognized as the City of Refuge for all who
would flee from the snares that beset them-as
well as the unconquerable foe of ali who traffic
in intoxicating drinks. The power against which
we make war has now complete control of all
the departments of civil Government. We must
dislodge the enemy from this stronghold, and
{ compel the State to wield its mighty arm In his
overthrow. The liquor traffic must be Outawei
, and exterminated Our Division rooms must
be the rendezvous, where we shall enlist recruits
for the war. This internal traffic has given uS
no quarter, but sacrificed every age, sex and
conditon-and we can show Il no quarter. 1t
is war of extermin0tion, and we can appeal to
the God of Justice to give US the victory.
Whatever else we may do at this session, let
US resolve, with will and purpose, that our
membership shall be doubled the ensuing year,
an l its power activity and efficiency increased
an hundred fold.
Having an unwavering faith in the intrinsic
excellence and superiority of our organization,
its eminent adaptation to the demands of the
age, L announce my discrimination to buckle on
its armor more closely, and do my duty in any
position in the ranks where my services will tell
most for the advancement, enlargement, pros
perity and glory Of our beneiieent Order.
| ST. CARY, G. W. P.
The FIRST PRoPELLERs on THE LAKEs-The
following bit of information we clip from the
Detroit Free Press
The propeller Vandalia, Captain Hawking
built by Sylvester Doolttle and partners, about
the year 1912, at Oswego," was the pioneer of
this useful and now important branch Of our
lake marine; her success being fully equal TO
the expectations of her owners. They added
the OswegO the next spring, and followed her
with one or two other similar vessels that sea-
son, with such improvements as were suggested
by experience. The same spring the proPellers