Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-06-15
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
New YORK, June 9th, 1859

AOnh3 COAS obh, 1OCOs =
I did not have time to resume my summa-
ry of the proceedings of the National Divis-
ion, before leaving Philadelphia. believe l
closed my last letter with the commencement
of a notice of the Grand Reception demon
stration at the Academy of Music. And it
was really a grand affair.
AT a quarter past eight o'clock the Nation
al Division entered the stage from the left, =
and were received with rounds of applause.
Alexander Henry, Mayor of Philadelphia,
presided and was conducted to the presidential
chair by D. ". Jewell.
On taking the chair, Mayor Henry alluded
to the presence of delegates to the National
Convention of the Sons of Temperance from
many of our sister States and the provinces
of North America, to devise such measures
as would tend to advance the principles of
the cause of Temperance. This cause is one
that appeals at once to the feelings of every
man. In conclusion, he expressed an ardent
hope that much good might flow from the
National Division of the Order, not only to
the people Of our city, but the State at large
and in every part of our Union. He con-
!, graduated the delegates upon being received
2 by so large and brilliant an assembly.
! Mr.. b. D. Townsend, the Worthy Patri-
! arch of South Carolina, replied in a brief and
j eloquent manner, in which he alluded to the
t institutions of our Government and the insti-
: buttons of Temperance, inducing at times con-
), siderable applause.
r Mr., Samuel L. lilly, the Provincial Secre-
!, tary of the Province of New Brunswick, spoke
of the cause of Temperance as being beyond
h the mere lines of Nationality, and will con-
tinue so as long as there is one drunkard left.
q The cause is one that has done more to break
down all prejudices that have existed between
two great nations. He spoke of the beauties
and harmony existing in the councils of the
Order in almost every part of North Ameri
ca, and recently a Grand Division has beer
M establis ,led in Wales. He had come a great
distance, others had done the same from 9th
re er parts, to attend the Convention, and h
r. could not think better city could have beer
selected than that of Brotherly Love, for W,
= II + are indeed a band of brothers, our object be
ns ing the redemption of mankind from the des
lat olating tyrant, Rum.
General Carey, of Ohio, was the mex
70 speaker. He alluded to the disastrous effect
,st of the rum traffic in a style of %eloquence an
:. of-hand oratory that brought down the hous'
us During his remarks, he said that in Ne
ow
til York an Asylum is about to be erected as
Ial- refuge for the drunkard, and that there al
se' 2, 800 applicants already for admission, anon
o1a whom are twenty who were formerly mini
nts tiers of the Gospel; forty or fifty lawyers !;
ing hundred doctors, and four hundred wome
who have fallen from the first ranks of I
inv spectability. In New York, room for 12s
ion 900 could be occupied, and in Pennsylyan
there are 70, 900 habitual drunkards now.
= 1t is for these we labor. He contended tn
ons Government had no right to license anybo'
'rit- to sell intoxicating drinks, and on this poi
In a he dwelt at considerable length, ~convulsi
.oi1 the house at times with laughter and applau