The national Republican., 1861-01-18
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GRAND DIVISION OF THE Sons OF TEMPER
ANCE.-Quarterly Session.-The Grand Di-
vision Of the Sons of Temperance Of the State
of Maryland met yesterday morning at Tenn
perance Hall. The session of the Division
was, as usual, private, and attended by men,
bers Of the order from most parts of the State
An invitation having been extended them to
call on the venerable General Lewis Cass and
Mayor Berret, they left the Hall in omnibuses,
about 81 o'clock, and proceeded to the resi-
dence Of General Cass. On arriving there
the Division entered, and in a few moments the
General appeared, and was addressed by G. W.
p. Monroe, as follows:
"General: We are pleased to visit you, not
only on account of the high position you hold
in our land, but because you have heen, from
youth up, an advocate of our cause. If we
cannot call you one of our own order, we re.
gard you as fellow.laborer"
General Cass remarked that, although he
was not q member of the order, yet he was
glad to meet them, and hoped the cause would
prosper.
Alter general shaking of hands, and inter.
change of good will, the members of the Grand
Division then proceeded to the residence of
Mayor Berret. Upon the appearance of the
Mayor, Mr.. Monroe addressed him, stating that
this was the Grand Division of Maryland, now
holding its session here, and they thought it
their duty to visit him, as Mrs. Berret was
visiter to the Division.
Mayor Berret replied that there was no body
of men in the land who would be more cor.
daily welcomed by the citizens of this city than
for if he was not q temperance man, he was at
least temperate. He hoped their visit would
remind those at the head of the nation that this
was the proper time to reform and he hoped
also that the cause Of temperance would gain
friends among them. He gave them a cordial
greeting to the capital of the nation. If the
ladies, as he was glad to say his wife had done,
would only lend their help, they would come
out safe.
After expressing many good wishes for the
Mayor and his lady, they returned to the Hall,
well pleased with the manner in which they had
spent the afternoon.
The Public Meeting at NigM.-At half past
seven o'clock the Division met at Temperance
Hall, and took up the line of march for the old
Trinity Church on Fifth street, accompanied
by fine band of music. A large number Of
persons had already assembled there.
Tho mating nppnad with n fprVpnt
prayer by the Rev. Mr.. Hera.
G. w. p. Monroe made a brief address, in
which he apologized for the non appearance OF
some of the speakers, and explained the princi.
pies of the or Ter.
P. G. W. P. CAN'T, of Anne Arundel county,
Maryland, was next introduced, and made an
able appeal in behalf the cause. He thought
the man or woman who offered the first glass Of
liquor to a young man, was greater evil to
society than the keeper Of public drinking
house.
The habit of ladies setting out wine for Wis
tiers, and giving it to their children, he depre
Gated, and appealed to those before him to give
up such habit, as it only tended to create an
appetite for liquor. He then alluded to the in
auence of the ladies', and the beneficial results
from their intercourse with the members, espe
cially in his own neighborhood, where, as fal
as he knew, there were only two young mer
who were not members of the order. He CLOSED
with an appeal to all for help in the cause, ant
urged them to push on the movement. Society
needed reforming, and with the help OF tht
ladies, success was certain.
Rev. Mr.. Hera, of Baltimore, was then intro
duced, and spoke in his usual happy style o
the causes of the curse Of intemperance. The
manufacture and vending of alcoholic drinks
was the chief cause, which was persisted il
because money was to be made by it. The ar
ticle manufactured, although some excused th'
use of it, alleging that it was good medicine
could easily be substituted by a genuine medi
cine.
The vast amount of money spent in half
century for liquor (some $780, 100000
would yield interest enough to send missiona
ries to every part of the globe, and place ever
man in possession of Bible. While the rail
road and steamboat accidents kill about fv
hundred persons annually, intemperance send
forty thousand souls unmourned to perdition
In every hundred cases of murder, where tn
alleged cause is unsoundness Of mind, tina
unsoundness is caused in ninety.nine cases b
liquor. The forty thousand who die ANIMAL
leave at least twenty thousand widows and on
hundred thousand children who perish fron
want, or are brought up through life G
wretchedness.
The speaker spoke at length of the benefit
which would arise if people would give up tn
use of ardent spirits, and thus compel the dis
tilleres to close, excepting those few whic
would have to supply the demand for alcohc
for mechanical purposes, and closed by appea
ing to the audience to push forward the cause
so as at last to be greeted with the words {
our Father, Well done, good and faithful SCI
want"
After benediction from G. W. P. Monro,
the Division then took up the line of march tt
Temperance Hail.