Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-02-18
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
NEw YonK, Feb. 10, 1860.

90 much on legislation. Let them apply the
iedge Of entire abstinence Let each man be
Aw to himself. Make the resolution Of abb
tinence and then keep it. This is the great
aw of benefit 10 him and his family. Legis-
alton will not reform man from personal bad |
labits. Reason, conscience, Judgment love,
oligion, must do this work. Let one Of the
Iiends who will be there, Spencer of the An
.lyst, Mr.. White of Plymouth Church, or that
onp devoted and unWcaried friend Of every
rood cause, John A. Foot, or the eloquent
Carey, take along the "speech of LORD CHEs-
rERFIELD, delivered in the House of Lords,
February 81, l743, against licensing Gin
shops" and read portions Of it to the Conven-
tion, TO see how much VIC are in advance of
hat anOblc Lord SO distinguished for his
literature, his wit his elegant manners,
and his power as an orator.
Chesterfield said: Luxury, my Lords, is to
be taxed, but vice prohibited, let the difficult
ties in executing the law be what they will
. Would you lay tax on the
breach Of the ten commandments
You are going to lay tax, and consequently
10 indulge sort Of drunkenness, which al
most necessarily produces q breach Of every
one of the ten commandments.
"What name we are to give this new fund
l know not unless we call it the Drinking
Fund.
"The use of those things which are simply
hurtful, hurtful in their own nature, and in
every degree is to be prohibited.
"When l consider, my Lords, the tendency
of this bill, l find it calculated only for the
propagation of disease, the suppression of
industry, and the destruction of mankind;
find it the most fatal engine that was ever
pointed at q people; and engine by which
those who are not killed will be disabled, and
those who preserve their limbs will be de-
prived Of their senses"
Such were the opinions Of CHESTERFIELD of
Gin-shops one hundred and seventeen years
ago. This excellent speech will be found in
a volume of "British Eloquence, embracing
the best speeches of the most eminent Ora
tors" by G. A. Goodrich, D. D., Of Yale Col
lege, published by Harper s. Brothers. This
excellent volume should be in the library Of
every household, and your State School Com
missioner should place copy of it in every
School Library in the State. 1t is full of
history, instruction and wisdom. This single
volume is worth a dray-lOad of ordinary
books. Let me commend it TO the young men
of Ohio. 1t will make their minds rich TO study
its eloquent pages; it is almost library Of it.
self.
The recent destruction by fire of a large ten
ement house in this city and the loss Of a
number of lives, has called the attention of
some of the thinking men and humane 10
these Wretched houses. They are physical
and moral nuisances: from four to six stories
high, and with but one flight Of stairs, and con-
tain from seven to twenty-five families each.
Mr.. Halliday, in his "Lost and Found" states
that "there are many blocks in this city COW
ering an area of not more than 400 feet
SQUARE, that contain nearly twice as many
| families as are found on all the Fifth Avenue.
| In single one of the blocks found nearly
| 700 families and population Of some 5000
souls" This sta5ling of human beings is ter
ribly destructive to life as we'll as morality.
From the volume referred to I learn "that in
1910 the deaths in New York were one In eY-
cry 445 Of the population, in 1855 one in ev-
ery twenty-six and third" Should cholera,
or yellow Jack" or ship-fever visit this
city, the tenement houses, and filthy streets,
and pestilence breeding sewers, would pro-
duce victims by the thousands; and the peo-
pie sleep in perfect quiet and safety over this
seethingacauldro of destruction. The Sani-
tary Committee may publish its alarming
statements, physicians of reputation may
sound the notes of alarm, the records of death
may be published every week, but as long as
Broadway is in q passable condition, who
cares? Let them remember-"The avenging
Deity is shod with wool"
1 have been reading for few evenings a copy
of work just issued from the press of FOllett,
Foster d Co., Columbus, O., "ADELA, THE OC-
ToRooN," by II. L. Hosmer, Esq, of Toledo, o.
have found it an interesting volume. While
the story is exciting and strongly interests the
reader there is throughout the volume, sketch
es of many of the prominent statesmen and
politicians of our country as they appeared in
the active scenes of the "Compromise Ques>
tions'' in 1850. The story is a terrible one
against the system of American slaveEy--it re-
veaIs its lighter and its darker side in che most
truthful colors; while it unfolds with great
power and directness the sOrdid and mercenary
| feelings the love of pOwer-the utter heariless-
ness, and worse than brutal character of the
influence of the "accursed system" upon the
STAKEHOLDER. It is an able argument and q
powerful plea for colonization. The effect of
slavery upon both races in the free as we'll as in
the slave States is well delineated, and the ar
gument is conclusive and overwhelming, that
even in freedom, in this country, the negro
must ever be a menial-he can never rise to
social, civil or political distinction. No matter
what his talent, bis cultivation, his power, his
moral worth-he is a negrO-he cannot rise, the
ban is upon him, He has but one hOPe-there
| is for him, as Mr.. Hosmer thinks, but one couE.
| A. fh,k IL 50 rsChk
There he can hope to benefit himself and his
race.
This volume will DO good; while the story
will interest and excite the better feelings o.
our nature, and teach US to abhOr and oppose
| the extension of a system productive of sucE
results as the author describes with so much o.
graphic power, it will conViAce the reader thai
coloniSatio1 in Africa is the only hope of good
to the African. The friends of Freedom and O
Colonization cannot do better work than e
circulate "ADELA, THE OcToRooN," among the
people. If some members of Congress whC
believe that slavery is the only thing worthy o
the protecting care of this Republic will give
this Book a notice in q Resolution, Messrs
FolIett, Foster & Co. may expect fortune, anC
do heap of good to his cOuntTy-aEd to bOti
races.
| y ne Wihd was UeiIiOle last 4Iluay' 'O'
BOreas" fairly "cracked hi cheeks, in blowing
off roofs and steeples, and blowing down hOuseI
and pounding vessels, and cutting pTanks will
signs. Hoops went up some-se did hats
You could but laugh to see them go. 1t wa
dangerous TO walk the streets, as chimneys
bricks and blinds were "laying round loose"
CIR CHARLES II. BIGELow publishes
"Card" in the Boston Journal, in reply to tn,
censure of the Coroner's Jury in the "Pember
ton Mill" calamity. Capt. Bigelow is an &C
complished Engineer, and one of the mos
thorough, energetic, faithful, conscientious me1
/ have ever known If ever a man endeavored
to do his duty, to all concerned, while he wal
Engineer of the Essex Company" that mar
was Capt B. he was educated in a thorough
school He left West Point with high reputa
tion; he had the second honor, think, of hi.
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