Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-05-11
A New Temperance Lecturer.

There arc many able temperance
lecturers already in the field and do
inc excellent service. The names OF
White, Gushing, Adams, and Powers.
in our own State, occur to us as we
write, and in other parts of New Eng
land, there are Cough, Jcwctt AID Dow,
and many other good men and true
They are strong in argument, and
earnest in eutreaty, and their elo-
qucncc has accomplished wonders in
reclaiming the drunkard, giving sta
bility to the temperate, and rousing
to action in the cause of temperance
the friend of the nation and Of humani-
ty.
But a temperance lecturer has re-
Gently arrived from Europe, before
whose superior abilities all the most
eminent speakers on that subject will
be compelled to "hidc their diminished
heads" He will plead the cause OF
temperance with a power ard pathos
which none Of them have been able to
attain. During q recent tour in Eu-
rope he has excited q great sensation
in every place he has visited. Even
the monarchs of Europe have paid him
marked attention, and taken official
notice Of his approach to their domin-
ions. The rumor of his coming to this
country has caused the authorities OF
cities, the legislature Of States, and
even the Congress of the United States
to make preparations for his recep-
ton.
When he has finished his tour
through this country, he will have dc.
monstratcd beyond controversy that
total abstinence from all that can in
toxicatc is the only safe rule of life
His reasoning On that subject will be
so powerful that even the rumscllcl
cannot gainsay or resist it. Drunk
ards themselves will be so moved by
his appeals that they will abandon
their cups, temporarily at least, anC
multitudes of moderate drinkers vii
be induced to abstain entirely. Mer
who have argued loudly and long tina
ardent spirits is q good creature o
God, will be silent, and will be moro
: than content that the good creature
shall be let alone. We predict these
results because they have followed
, the visitation of the lecturer in prcviou
years, This is the fourth time he ha
visited America. and on each previou
occasion these have been the results
| This powerful lecturer, gentle reader
is the Cholera!
Whenever and wherever the cholcr!
, has ragged, the immense majority of al
its victims have been the intemperat
: and dissolute. The uncIeanIy ant
miserable abode of the drunkard ha
been the chosen haunt Of this pesti
: lence. The hound does not pursue tn
4 fox with surer instinct than tn
: cholera pursues the Incorporate maj
: ana the wolf does not fasten its pang
, upon the lamb with q deadlier rrasl
: than that with which the cholera seize
the drunkard. These are not random
! statements. The evidence upon whic
t they arc based is just as incontrovert
y bic, as that which pro 7es that war is
= destroyer of human life. The histor
r OF cholera is a history of the death q
the Incorporate. When it ragged i
farls some years ago, nearly ever
/ one of its thirty thousand victims wa
accustomed to the free use of intox
n eating drinks. Nine-tenths ofall VIII
; persisted by the pestilence in POLAND
!, were of the same class 1t was no
}, known that single strictly temporal
9 person died of this disease during it