The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-19


sales of certain grounds, previously postponed.
1t passed.
The ordinance taxing fire insurance companies
was considered.
Adjourned for want OF a quorum.
A GRAND TEMPERANCE RATIFICATION MRRr-
ING.-Everybody knows that State Temperance,
or rather Total Abstinence, Convention has lately
been held at Harrisburg. The action of that body
has been published in all the newspapers OF the
country. 1t has been eminently acceptable to the
toes OF intemperance all though the common
wealth, and in order TO ratfy the action of that
convention a public meeting was last night held
at the Academy of Music
1t was a brilliant and densely packed concourse
that there assembled. The entire auditorium was
filled, and the only vacant space in the fourth
gallery TAR up beneath the roof trees. The various
organizations of Sons OF Temperance alone could
have filled dozen such buildings as our Aca-
deny, and many persons anxious to obtain seats
were compelled to turn away.
The platform occupied by prominent hu-
manitarians clergymen and officers of the State
Temperance Society. The latter body had been in
session in this city since last Wednesday after
noon, and only adjourned in time to be in attend
ance at this brilliant meeting: strong force of
the judiciary was present. lending moral influence
to the cause so earnestly pressed upon the commu-
nifty by the State Temperance Society.
There was presen: hne orchestra last night,
that lent additional attraction to the scene The
meeting was called to order at O'Clock by Mr..
Joseph Martin, who announced the officers OF the
meeting, follows:
President-Hon. Judge Allison.
Vice Presidents zone from each ward)-Thomas
T. Tasker, DR.. Andrew Nebinger, DR.. Francis
Condie, r. ]. Pollock, DR.. George II. Burgin,
Hiram Ward, John Bardsley, John Hicks, VIM
f. Ten Brock, Judge Peirce, Garrettson Smith,
George o. Bowers, Thomas Cochran, William b.
Thomas, Thomas Potter, William b. Wood, John
Jones, W. H. Stokes, Edward G.. Lee, H. p. M
BiTkinbine, Thomas Wiggin, VIM. J. Pollock,
Daniel SteInmetz.
Secretaries-Robert M Eoust John T.. M. Har-
row, j. Newton Pierce.
Judge Allison, in obedience to the call, took the
Chair, and in graceful and polished terms pro-
claimed the importance OF the temperance cause
announced his steadtast determination ever 10
tain II, and closed with an eulogium upon the
Governor of this commonwealth, who from his
boyhood had been an advocate and practiser of
total abstinence.
Rev. MIR. Torrence of the Pennsylvania Bible
Society, offered prayer, after which Mr.. James
Black, OF Lancaster county, read the resolutions
adopted by the late Temperance Convention at
Harrisburg. The resolutions take the ground that
prohibition OF the sale of liquor is the only safety
and that no legislation can make right that which
! Divine law has declared to be wrong
Mr.. Black then made an address, in which he
argued that all termented or distilled liquors
tam the same poison to a greater or less degree,
and that the only safety TO health lay in absu-
nence from both. The speaker urged that pro-
hibtory law was imperatively demanded, and
that society owed ii to itself TO choose such egis-
/ lators as would enact law of this kind. The
/ county and the State take the license money; the
dollars chnk into the public Golfers, and for so
much gold license ts given 10 deal In liquid poi
SON. his thing should be abolished. The money
mus received is not tithe of that which the
mohwealth must expend for the consequences of
those licenses.
Judge Allison introduced Senator Wilson, of
plause.
God, in His providence, (he said,) had cast our
lot IN TINS OhIlsllan republic, where we can work
| out results for our common good. We have lived
for seven years past in the greatest excitement and
struggle. We have toiled all that time for our
country, and have buried more than 325,OOO of our
brethren In that struggle Pennsylvania has held
leading position, and Philadelphia has won IL
nevolence and her patriotism.
Tens OF thousands of her sons went down in
that struggle, but the state is engaged to-day in as
ora tba -
country. In that struggle, it is said, $4,000 youne
men fall victims every year. We have an army of
drunkards among us, and now let us, If we can
save them. Drunkenness spares none. 1t reaches
the most gifted intellects in the land. Lord BACON
in his day, said that more property was alienated
and more men were ruined by this, than by any
other cause upon earth, while large share Of ali
the crimes that came before the tribunals were
caused by the excessive use of intoxicating drinks
There is going on, however, throughout ali this
land, grand movement in favor of Temperance
Since the days OF Washngtonianism there has hean
no such movements and thou gh the halls of IagisIo
ton at the national Capitol have been SO dsgTaced
there has been less OF drunkenness there this year
than at any time before. In Congress a temner
ance society has been organized, of which soma of
the noblest men are members; and some of tboss
men who have Joined 1t are reformed mem UhOno
the speaker believed would be as true 10 thar
pledge as 10 the cause OF their country. The adyo
Gates Of temperance IN washington have so in
creased in numbers, that within few mon this soma
hundreds of the drinking houses have been starved
out.
bowed the heads of nation in sorrow and In
shame, liquor was abolished from the rooms ot thu
Congressional committees. Some of those osntIa
men used to keep there their whisky and their
wine. They cannot do now, The lron. clad 90 -
OF temperance is administered to the subaItsTnS ~
Congress, and its infraction is followed bv dtSt
missaI. The Secretary of the Senate, John w
Forney, has set the example by taking the tenn
peranee pledge. (Applause) The speaker Con
tinued at some length to elaborate the idea that a
pressing necessity existed for the prohibition of
The sale OF ardent spirits. "
At the conclusion Of Senator Wilson's remarks
the following resolution was offered:
WThat the citizens of philadelphia, in rnass
meeting assembled, do hereby heartily indorss
and ratify the proceedings Of the late State Tenn.