Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-03-13

nObled by the holy sacrament of Mairimony.-
Here there are reciprocal duties OF parents 10
children, and Of children to PARENTS; of
husband 10 wife aud Of wife to husband, aud
these duties are binding under pain of NOR
tai sin. Is it not plainly evident that the Just
fulfllInent of these is totally incompatible with
drunkness, and are We not daily witnesses of
sins against these duties without number Of
omission and commission contracted by the
drunken husband aud father, wife and mother,
son or daughterP Look at TINT drunkard. He
a husband and fatherf Why, his wife has not
change Of clothing, and hischildren shiver with
cold and nakedncss, and cry for bread. Whose
boy is that arraigned before the Judge for house
breaking He is the drunkard's son. Poor
boy His unnatural father drove him to steal
to satisfy the carvings Of hunger, while he, with
one hand was pouring the vile liquor down his
throat and with the other, his hard earned dol
lars into the grocers till What slatternly dirty
wretch is that, with her bloated and black eye !?
She is the drunken wife, whose husband, per-
haps afar off fighting the battles ofhis country,
little dreams that all his pay earned at the price
OF blood and toll, helps TO ruin his family and
make his wife sot, There is that son aud
daughter, taught TO drink from their very era
dies, brought up in ignorance of their religion,
und utterly demoralized by bad example. In
early youth they found their way to the saloon,
and the low haunis of debauchery and vice, and
following the practice learned at home, they
curse their father aud mothernow, and perhaps
raise their guilty hands to strike them; bringing
down the curse of God upon their own heads;
and TINS by ntempcrance and its fruits the
whole family is deprayed and ruined. Every
member of it sinks into a miserable and dishon- :
ored grave, as says the Holy Scripture. "Their
last old age shall be without honor, and il they
die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech
of comfort in the day Of trial. for dreadful are the
ends Of wicked race" W
| No sin Tell me, then, what is sin, If this be
not? Would 20 God, that sinful it is, il were
not the very worst sin of our day; the prime in
iquty ofthe people, the poisoned source of pro-
life origin of nearly all the other sins they COM
nit the begetter OF most of their temporal mis-
cries aud afflictions aud the ban TO their social
amelioration. ,i. s.a.iI.i..8
Assemble together the sinners of every class
among us: those who scarcely or never are seen
at Mass those to whom the priest of God preach
es in vain; and you will have before you an ar
my ofdrunkards. The son goes to. work aud
lies TO his parents to keep back part of his wa
ges for drink aud gambling. The dishonest
clerk flches FROM his employer, that he may have
the means to riot with his boon companions at
the bar of the neighboring groggery; and when
excited by liquor and filthy conversation, to
spend the rest of the night in way that will
not describe, but which makes the devils in hell
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the prisons, 10 the brothels and speak with these
outcasts of society; approach the scaffold where
the wretch, whose hands have been imbrued in
the blood of his brother, must now expiate his
crime ask them to tell you the first step in
their downward course aud it will be strange il
you do not hear the same reply, drink, drink.
Our holy religion is religion whose base is
charity, whose walls are,charity, whose topmost
stone is charity, aud drunkenness destroys the
sacred edifice from roof to foundation. The
home of the drunkard is pandemonium of an
CRY demons; quarrel. naIreds, envies, calumnies
unhappiness, jeal9usics, disease despair, suicide
murder every social evil follows in the train o
this damnipa vice. "Who hath woes ?" says
the Scriptdre "whose father hath woe ? who
hath contentious who falls into pits ?who hatl
wounds without cause who hath redness o
eyes Surely they who pass their time ovel
wine, and study to drink off their cups.
l. [Ifdrunkenness were ever more vividly pic
tued than in the following extract, we have ye
: to see it'll
Poverty and misery, filth and disease stall
abroad Throughout the land: like so many skele
tons they meet usat every corner, and they hud
; die away their victims into closets unhealthy
; pest-stricken tenements, cherries and comfort
t less. The house of the drunkard is indeed
sad sight TO look upon. Enter one, dirt reign
> supreme. Dirt on the floor; dirt on the win
> dows; dirt on the broken chairs and tables; tn
. bed is heapof dirty rags. Dirt on the man
dirt on the woman; dirt ON the children; tn
Q very dog is NANCY. The door is tumbling OF
its hinges; tho broken window panes stufTe'
with old rags; the plaster peeled off and falleI
g down in many places, and what is left begrim
. med with smoke from the crazy stove-pipe.-
Q The cupboard, empty of everything TO eat con
2 tains only few old broken plates, bottles, an
, rIist-eaten tins. The fire is out in the stove
! the night is coming on : the winter wind is ris
ing, bitter blast now it rattles the crazy win
dow frames, and fcl1ers the guttering tallO'
A CANDLE There is silence in the house now tn
man is off spending his last dollar at the garin
bar; the wife is on her way to the pawnbroker
1 to pawn stolen shawl for money to buy bee
/ and the sickly whining children have at las
sobbed themselves to sleep.
a Desolation, misery, starvation, crime; here
D a home for you.