Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-01-31

TEMPERATE DRINKERS are
three classes of them Those who
know it is wrong, EphgamiteS joined
to their idols, confessing to a life OF
mingled crime and folly, shining against
light and knowledge, trampeing on the
ties which bind them to family and
friends, wilfully forfeiting the respect
of society, and recklessly pursuing a
course whose end is invariably worse
than the beginning. Those who
neither inquire nor care whether it is
moral or immoral, refusing to exercise
the discretionary powers with which
theiEs Creator has endowed them, and
gratifying their desires, as an animal
does its appetite, without fear or fore
cast of the future; and those who rec
ognize the difference between good and
evil, safety and danger, butregard tenn
perate drinking as harmless, if not
necessary.
What infatuation Even suppOsing
it to be necessary as a medicine, if ten
are killed while only one is cured, it
remains more of a malady than a
remedy.
A little now and a little then, in ex-
treme heat or extreme cold, leads to
another and yet another glass, by an
almost inevitable sequence and irri-
sistible fatality. Besides, if a father
does not require total abstinence, per-
haps his family does; for children
finding their parents slaves to the
habit infer it is right, and not having
enough discernment to discriminate
between the moderate and the immod
crate use Of the article, they are easily
led beyond the line of moderation fal
enough to form an artificial appetite
which has no natural limit Every
child looks upon its parents example
as worthy of imitation. At the tender
age in which its principles are as firm
" formed as second nature, it wants
no better evidence of anything of in
trinsic worth than its parents devoted
to it. Early associations and frs
impressions, usually stamp the desti
ny of the Individual for either veal o
woe. Hence, how important that tn
iather, who cannot forego the infatu
ating beverage for his own sake, shoul'
iorbear the use of ardent spirits TO
the sake at least, of his sons secur
ty. He who would not, should stee
his heart, by times, for the enduranc
of that day, when in his old age, tn
rhost of besotted son shall arise frol
the tomb, with the stain of blood upo
: it's front, laundering in his ear: "Y o
are my murderer J!
have heard beastialized sons ours
the temperate drinking of religion
, parents, as thei. instrument OF I'll
downward direction. Moderat
! thinking at the fireside, fashionab
as it is pernicious, merits the rewar
it often gets-fallen and besottc
L sons. 1t is a startling fact that a
soakers once occupied the position
moderationists, and none of them ev'
= took the initiatory step with the
&c tention of becoming 9, sot, or even WI
u - the supposition thst he was in Il
ID east danger of such humiliating dc
~ tiny. Nor did any one ever becon
OF a confirmed inebriate in day. /
IT, passes through a regular apprentit
IS ship, longer and more expensive tn
Ie' would make him a mechanic, physicia
&C, lawyer, or divine; and while they
graduating to responsibility and hon'
he is graduating to debauchery a
o., disgrace. Temperate drinking, ST
ev. practiced at SO many hearth-stones,
lh fhl The fruitful mother of drunkenne
which fills and pollutes the land W
. drunkards; the stepping tone of q
!, 5ipation, leading to the drunkar
grave, and terminating in the dru
= ards hell. Until it is cast away fr
. the household, neither legal nor mo
suasion will be potent enough to k
m amnl some men out of those regions OF m
as al desolation and death into which
:s ,ss. wine cup, presented by fair hands,
9. the brandy bottle passed around +
. lily circle by pious parents, has al
6. ged and drowned unnumbered victi