New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-10
THE HON. NEAL DOVE THE ACADEMY.

The Ron. NEAL Dow, in response TO an invtation
from the Executive Committee of the State Temper
ance Society, gave account last evening in the
Academy of Music of his late Temperance mission TO
England. About four hundred persons constituted the
audience.
The Rev. DR.. MARSH, after short sketch OF Mr..
Dows labors in this country since his return, said that
the Mayor had given them assurances that he would
preside; but to-day he had told him DIR. Msrsh) that
the arduous duties If bis office rendered it necessary
for him to retire to bis home to an early rest.
After prayer, DIR. TYING was introduced. He said
that il was grand thing Of Henry Clay that he said
he would rather be right than be President. He (Dr.
Tyng) would stand TO Temperance, and stand TO il
Ms long as single flag could float. He had hoped to
see the Mayor in the chair-the man who had made
so good beginning in shutting the grog -shops and
lsgerbeer saloons the Lords daythe man Of whose
name he loped to be able to change letter and cali
bin The man. Net mole than hundred years ago Q
new Mayor promise him that he would shut up all
the grog-sboIs on Sunday if there was any law that
would do it. He would not judge Of the presen
Mayor from that. He hoped our new Mayor would
do better. But the other evening he had seen tho
orator of our country speaking in that very building;
still, however mehuous and persuasive was his ora
tory he would in after time be remembered not as az
signed her piohibtory liquor law and the President
Harvard College when intoxicatOn banished from
her Commencement dinners. The Temperance men
were now only little band but they were right, and
they were of success. He saw great many mora
velvet cushions than occupied seats, but there were
only ten of them who were true, from those ten eggs
would be Matched such swarm of eagles as would
elevate the world He soemnly believed that tbs
Maine Law, fully carried out, would be panaces for
every political evil for he thought that all strife and
the laws which engendered il the offspring Of in
toxcation. Take away the fuel, and what wonld be-
come of the fire There would be no more knock
downs in Congress- there would no more false consti.
tuiioDs voting frauds to occasion them.
The Hon. NEAL Dow was introduced amid applause.
He sad that the question of Temperance was tho
most important question to which the Mayor could
turn his attentions II was a cause with which many
would claim fellowship when il was successful lie re-
fered TO the statistics of ntemperance in England
60 900 Englshmen destroyed by strong drink every
year--6OO, 900 drunksrds all the whie-a million Of
wives and widows, and two millions Of children suffer-
ing from inten perance. lie had asserted that l20-
100000 Of pounds lost TO England by the use Of
Intoxicating drinks every year. That assertion was
contradicted by leading morning journal in London,
which c)Itended that the loss to England was only
ECO 900 600. But whenever shilling was expended for
drink another wasted in loss of labor There was
already great wakenrg of attention in England TO
Temperance. Now it wa. in many places easy matter
to get a license where, year or two sgo licenses
were granted to everybody who applied. In Maine,
though the Prohbitory law had been repealed, the
Legislature ives engaged in the construction Of new
one which would be repealed He was as
tonished at the prevalence Of inoxication 10 New
York Not long ago be met in the street three young
men well dressed and apparently Of good families,
but in melancholy state Of inebriety. When he came
up to them one Of them asked him, in very drunken
way if he could tell him where the Post.O Office was.
He stopped and showed them the way, and was about
going On when ope Of the others who had been reenu
and swayiDg about, mumbled out: DO you know 4
there s any Letters there flor u.s." Such an example
Of intoXicafionwas a Disgrace TO New-York.
Mr. Dow continued to speak at great length On
Temperance generally and the benefits of the Maine
Law particularly giving his usual illustrations Tho
audience gradually diminished until the close