The Kansas herald of freedom., 1858-12-18
Correspondents er1s Herald Of Freedom.
OF the Linn County Temperance
MOsrKl. Nov. 20, 1858.

ProceoQ1uIB On INC 4lu4 CoUuI 4cAAAPoh anu 4
Society.
MosEkA, Nov. 20, 1858.
Ma. EDITOR The second meeting of
the Linn County Temperance Society was
held at Moneka, on the 10th inst. The
President being absent II. P. Danforth
was called to the chair.
The minutes of the previous meeting
being read and approved, the Committee
on Constitution reported as follows -
Whereas, Intemperance is destructiveto
the health, happiness and moral character
of individuals, and is also equally fatal to
the harmony and prosperity of nations
for, as it is violation of every law of our
being, it is equally injurious to the race,
whether taken singly or collectively,
whether considered by individuals or by
millions.
In our own country, it has become a
great national calamity and crime, Grazing
the brain of our statesmen, uniting them
to guide the great ship, or pilot mid the
dangers of the seas, and threatens to whirl
US into the believing vortex helmless
and dismantled nation, or dash US against
the rocks whose bristling crags are rising
darkly before US.
Grown bold in its licentious immunities
and mighty in its victories over the exter-
nal, it has gathered its hosts to the con-
quest of manhood itself. 1t has broken
into the mental temple, and revels amid
its golden furniture. 1t has battered
down the gates of the inner court, let in
troops of Intervals, and the holy place is
as hall of Pandemonium. Demons of
desolation sit upon the portals of its gate
way, and the Gorgon and the Bittern cry
beneath its lofty arches, and man in ruins
is like his once stupendous cities of the
East, where now the wolves howl to their
fellows, and the satyrs dance to the hiss of
the serpent.
1t has broken up the ordinance of mar
rage, and riots midst the blood of sun
dered heart-strings. 1t sewers the ties of
over the face of the nations.
1t has leveled the walls of old Zion,
and led captive some of her modest cham
pions. 1t has sacreligiously seized upon
the sacramental cup, and poured its damn
ing libations in the very face of the She
kinah. 1t has mounted the burning ram
parts of the Sacred City, cried havoc and
let loose the dogs of war, and Christendom
is driven to the wilderness, and Peace lies
bleeding on the plains.
1t has entered the halls of judgment
in our land, bound Equity in irons, and
dragged Justice along the streets, chained
to its triumphant chariot. 1t has forced
the council house of the nation, stirred up
riot and strife, fired the assassin's brain,
f1ourished the dagger and the bludgeon,
and cloven down our statesmen. 1t has
made the days of our national jubilee
days of revelry and Bachanalian debauch-
cry. On festal occasions, the Goddess of
American Freedom is seen staggering
through the land, breathing blasphemy as
she reels before the nations.
AS citizens then, as philanthropists, as
men and women, it becomes us to use all
proper and judicious means to prevent its
further progress, and to secure its fral
overthrow. For thus saith the Author and
Supporter of natural laws, the Sustainel
of the great principles of the universe
"Your Judgment now of long time
lengtheneth not, and your damnatior
slumbereth not"
Thus the man, the family, the Church
and the State, all demand that the people
arise in their might, drive out the des
troyer from their midst, or, by timely re-
pentance, stay this angel of death mic
heavens, as he courses his way over the
world, and do it now. ere our freedom anC
manhood are gone, and the impress o
Deity obliterated forever from the face o
humanity.
Considered in detail, there is none o
all the narcotic poisons with which maj
has chosen to afflict himself, so deadly
destructive and dehumanizing as alcohol
For, while other poisons act upon and des
troy other portions of the body, alcoho
directly attacks the brain, the seat of men
tai sensation, and thus at once dethrone
the divinity within him. Instance, strych
/ nine acts upon the spinal cord oil of to
bacco paralyzes the heart arsenic in
, flames the mucous membrane; mercur
effects the salivary glands cantharide'
the renal organism; chromate of potasl
4, the lining membrane of the eyelid; 10
dine acts upon the Emphatic glands
D manganese, upon the liver; lead frs
fastens upon the muscles of the wrist
paraly zing, and producing the wrist drop
. and so on. But alcohol strikes its deadl
shaft directly at the soul, on her thron
in the brain, and man forthwith become
maniac, and goes bowling down tn
: caverns of degradation, among the rock
and ends in the blackness of darkness fol-
ever.
Ard pohereas, Kansas is just at the com
mencement of her political career, an
neither the manufacture or sale of alec
o holic drinks has prevailed to any consid
). cradle extent;
: And ,ohereas, By wise and judicior
v system of legislation, sustained by th
8 united and continued action of the pei
pie, this terrific scourge may be kept frol
our borders, and the fair plains and iuxl
rious valleys of Kansas saved from th
o desolation of the drunkard's curse
i And lohereas, A wise and judicious pee
n pie will endeavor rather to prevent evi
h than first license it, and then labor for i
a removal,
We therefore, as citizens of Linn cour
IS ty, form ourselves into an association fl
II the suppression of intemperance, an
adopt for ourselves the following
CONSTITUTION:
ARTICLE 1.
This Association shall be called Il
: LINN COUNTY TEMPERANCE Association
6 and shall consist of such as shall sign Il
4 subjoined pledge, and remain faithful
: its requirements, and of such TOWNSHIP
= or other societies as may become auxiliar.
i ARTICLE II.
II The objects contemplated in the form
: alton of this Association are contained
the following
PLEDGE:-Believing that the use of a
= intoxicating drinks is injurious to ma
; physically, mentally and socially, we vo