The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-06
Tine and Timely.

| Rev. DIR. Marsh, in the Angus; NUMBER %
| the Temperance Journal, dlscourses as iol-
! lows
From the hrs w have sad that the moral
/ power oil our government ana army i Oh
more Importance than the physical. We war
for the right for truth, for justice, Tor liberty
and to succeed. we must be right ourselves /;
put away incompetence, and lying, and fraud
and Injustice, and all mockery OF high heaven,
and 20 single handed to the conflict to effect
at once. without any reserves, all that God
will have us To do. Thus only can we sus-
! tain our cause, for III thus doing only can we
have Gods help and thus doing, the rebellion
will be crushed. Thanks be given that both
the army and navy have been delivered In
| the past month. from the whisky scOurge.
| One token for good Rum and slavery have
been the scourges OF the nation. Let the
chain of the slave be broken i'll this month,
and all false sympathy for the rights OF the
slave owner, equalled only by the rights of
the liquor dealer Tooth based 90 the love OF
GAIN, be broken up, and an energy VIII DC In
fused into our twenty millions OF ireemen
which will, under God, who loves the right,
make us victorious. Ii our department OF
the work land We oeileve none Is more impor-
tamil we mean to be faithful. One druken
general may lose au army. TIE liquor trahc
Is worse than all me cannon OF the enemy.
We would have every grog-sclier IN Wash
ington aud 81. Louis and every other city
where troops are gathered, sent where zen.
Pope sends the secessionists, beyond the Ilnes.
We will put tract if possible into the Ia DIS
o. all the 800 600 new recruits, saying be-
ware Of the bottle, aud so maintain the ener-
gy and power God has given you We will
induce every man we can reach, to 60 sober
into the fight, and then come home sober to
be an honor and a blessing to his country.
Nothing will SO etfectualy demoraiizc an
army as rum Its influence III camp, on the
march and on the field OF battle, is evil, only
evil and that continually Our soldiers went
into the battle ct Shiloh sober. Many OF the
rebels went into II made reckless by lntoxl-
eating drlng. The canteens OF those who
fell on the field were partially filled with bad
| whisky or smeled OF it. The canteens of our
men had nothing 10 hem but water. The re-
suit i, known to the world. We were sur
prised by superior numbers. They charged
upon US with desperate and reckless fury at
! first. But we met them irmiy. We with
/ stood their furious assaults as the rock does
me dashlngs OF the toam-crestcd waves We
came out victorious from the two days srug
| gle and our loss in killed and wouuded was
no, half as great Us theirs. That was lar
test Of whisky courage against cold water
courage. The drunken soldier has some dash
out no endurance. He may risk his life, as
d mailman does, and do some injury because
he is reckless. But all his movements are
hashy, and the soldier who is sober will new
er fail to come out victorious at last.
We tear that many officers IN our army
anxious to keep their men rom the use OF
run, use wine and brandy too freely them
selves. They think that they can drink mod
erately, temperately so as to neutralize the
effects of bad water, ETC., but are in no dan
ger OF Injury either 70 body or mind Aud
yet again and again, it is whispered that
such a general or colonel blundered because
he was drunk. y, how terrible to trust the
lives OF our brave men to leaders who Supply
vi uiauuoh unohSeifeo Win otrouS urink
Public indignation should rise like tornad
against such men, aud sweep them from
place and power. But every officer who use.
strong drink habitually, or even frequently
is in danger of taking little to much JUS
when he needs the fullest and soberest use o
his faculties. We advise all who volunteer
to avoid the companies or regiments whose
officers are not strict temperance men.