The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-01-16


Another melancholy warning has been given us.
Another sad occurrence must be added to those
which are chroncled week after week in our pub
lie journals. The terrible consequences OF intern
pcrance are again set before us, in the untimely
death Of Mr.. John Crot, who was found dead on
last wednesday morning at house few miles
east Of town. Mr.. Croh was mechanic, and whom
sober, was good workman possessed Of more
than ordinary intelligence and but for the sad
habit of iutoxicaton, good citizen and kind hus-
band and father. Let us pause here. What is our
relation to this case As wives, mothers, sisters,
AS husbands, fathers, brothers,-as citizens what
ought we to have done in this case, that did not
dol What ought we TO do in similar cases that we
are not doing2 Has not our neighbor fallen among
thieves9 Have not the thieves stripped him,
wounded him, and LEFT him for dead And have
we not "passed by on the other sideS" oh let US
enact the Good Ssmaratinr - But will any heed
the warnings Will those who are following in the
same steps, and approaching steadily and certainly
the same end, take the warning and shuu it9 What
madness seems to have taken possession Of some.
On our streets are seen, almost daily, those who
"reel to and fro, and stagger like drunken men,
We hear, almost weekly, Of some who have died
from intcmperance, and the eommonness Of this
event, seems, in so great measure to have taken
away its terribleness, that drink on and other
men sdi on, until this sbominabe business has
brought to miserable end a miserable existence.
"0h that men were wise, that they understood
this, that they would consider their latter end" We
have laws to prohibit the sale Of intoxicating liq-
uors to those who use them for that purpose but Of
what avail is the law when not enforced? We have
men sworn to enforce the law and paid to do So but
is it done' Are not wives beggared, children made
orphans and the peace Of families destroyed by this
accursed traffic 2 MEN OF PERRYsBURa Shall
this evil continue In our midstP Will you sit still
aud see your sons lured to their destruction, and
your daughters become the wives of iuebriates
You will not3 Then shut these portals Of ruin
close up these gateways to hell and Danish this de.
stroyer from among US. would to God that every
grog shop in the land had its sign rightly nterpre-
ted, and written in bra1en letters on its 'front.' that
the passer by might not be deceived Then, from
the front of many respectable looking buildings
would blaze forth these fearful words, Drunkards
made, men poisoned, and souls damned here" -
Would not the rum seller be ashamed of his sign ?
Alas, no! Gold glitters in his coffers his wife is
respected his children fed, clothed and educated
and he does not stop to remember that his gold is
coined drop by drop of the blood of broken-heared
wivcs,-that it is the price of starving children's
bread. But he shall have his reward. When he
stands arragned at the bar of God, for the murder
of husband brother or father--when the widow
and orphan Of the drunkard shall rise up as swift
witnesses against him, then shall be given him the
woe pronounced against him who putteth bottle to
his neighbor's lips and as he takes his departure
to his future home, the place assigned him in the
Word of God, we may hear his requiem already
b.ing sounded by the machinery Of his own work
shop the spirits ef the damned
WIFE AND MOTHER.
PERRYsBuRG, Saturday, JAM II, 1862.