Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-06-28
Letter from Montreal.
FESTIVAL OF THE SONS OF TEMPERANCE.
II. G. WooD, Sec.

held under the auspices OF the Sons of
Temperance last evening in Mechanics
Hall was a splendid affair. Besides the
refreshments consisting of ice-cream,
jellies, cake and pies of various kinds,
music by the Band of the Seventeenth
Regiment, songs and duets by first rate
singers, the addresses of eminent tenn
perance men were uncommonly excel |
lent.
Rev. A. Duff Of Sherbrooke, c. E., pre-
sided, and over the platform were the
British and American flags, and between
them one which displayed a highly mag
nified Scotch Thistle,
The Chairman expressed the hearty
welcome of Canadian teetotalers to the
brethren of the Lower Provinces, and
the United States being body which
spread itself from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. Instead of National Divis-
ion, he thought they ought to be con-
tinental division. He hailed those pres
ent from the other side Of the lines as
CCCbOOItCio vi Vic LJOOhCl bOhSuC
with themselves, and was delighted that
their starry flag now waved over a unit
ed nation. At this point the speaker
was Interrupted with an outbreak Of
applause which lasted several minutes.
ave too" said the speaker, "have had a
slight brush, and it will probably do us
good by showing to both outsiders and
insiders that we are united, free, and
a contented people. (Great cheering.)
DR. BRADFORD of Kentucky, NJ. W. P.
responded in behalf Of the National Di-
vision. He said these delightful re-un-
ions were every year strengthening the
ties which bind the two nations together.
The very principles of our order forbid
anything but peace. We make war up
on nothing that is not already warred
upon by all good and enlightened men.
In reference to the assertion often
made that drinking was as prevalent
now as at any former time, DR.. B.
stated that within his recollection drink
ing was associated with every social &C.
currence, the clergy participating as
freely as an body, but now the most
loathsome drunkard would despise the
minister whom he saw even taking
glass of wine.
Mr.. J. N. Stearns of New York said
that new start had lately been gwen
to the cause of temperance in New York
and elsewhere. Twenty or thirty new
divisions have been Termed, and forty
thousand members have been added
since the last list had been made ont.
The New York y-laws for the closing
of taverns on Sunday had been enforced
so far as to drive the drinkers to Hobo
ken, and afterwards to Canada. The
speaker said he almost felt like regret
ting that they had been driven back
again. (kpplause.)
Mr.. Stone of Connecticut discoursed
in humorous strain about wooden nut
megs, horn gun-fints and wooden hams,
and closed by presenting the Most
Worthy with good sized ham which
had been manufactured out of piece of
Kentucky sycamore.
S. L. Carlton, P. M. w. P. from Maine
gave minute and very satisfactory &C
count of the workings of the Wain law
in his State. He said they took the rum
seller and his eask of liquor and put
them in one cell and the latter in an
other, with a brick partition between
! them. His countrYmen had cleaned out
the rebels, and to some extent also the
troublesome Feniars. They had also
cleand out Slavery, thank God, Gap.
plause, the church had been renovated,
and the Maine Law had made rumselling
! infamous.
G. w. Slack of Massachusetts, said it
was forty years since the Boston Tenn
| perance Society was formed. He under
| stood that more than ten million dollars
| capital was embarked in the liquor bust
ness in Montreal. The temperance eff
fort, though not entirely successful, was,
however, not failure more than the
first rude efforts Of Sir Humphrey Davy
and Robert Fulton were failures. The
addresses as we have already intimated
were uncommonly eloquent, and were
received with great enthusiasm and ap-
| plause by the large audience present.
NJ. b.