The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-10-18

The County Association met at Cumberland
Centre on Wednesday. The weather was verv
hne, and the attendance large Very few oc-
caslons, we understand, have drawn together
at this place larger number. especiallv from
the surrounding towns. Nor is it too mueb to
say that more intelligent body was never con-
vened on a similar occasion. For attention,
for quietude, for appreciation, nothing remain
ed to be desired. With such an audience there
is inspiration, and it was received and found
respiration in able and eloquent remarks in
choir music unsurpassed, if not uneoualed in
any portion of the County, and in select read
ing, both OF prose and poetry seldom, if ever
excelled, by any novtiate in New England
Inc CHAIR was occupied by E. III. Starbird,
Esq, OF Falmouth the President of the Asso-
citation, who is always at his post, and who in
many ways rendered efficient service to the
cause Prayer was offered by Rev Mr.. Gerry
Resolutions were discussed and unanimously
adopted recommending the holding of State
Temperance Mass Convention at Augusta in
January next; the necessity of the co-opera-
ton OF woman in the promotion of the cause;
that especial regard should be had for the
young; that more generous support should
be given to such newspapers as favor temper
ance, especially to the Riverside Echo, the Or
gan of the Good Templars; affirming the pow
er OF the pulpit and invoking its aid in the flu
ture; and raising the inquiry whether alcohol
is absolutely essential either as medicine or
for mechanical purposes
But the resolution upon which the chief in
terest seemed to centre, and which called forth
the.most earnest and emphatic declarations
was the following:
Resolued, That all future legislation in this
State unfriendly to prohibition will be firmly
resisted. whatever danger, real or supposed,
may threaten other causes. m III &
Hon. Woodbury. Davis, in speech marked
by logical clearness throughout, showed the ne
cessity of prohibition and its harmony with
other laws upon the statute book, and in
strains of fervid eloquence entreated the
friends of temperance not to yield one iota of
the ground of prohibition already occupied,
nor to make the slightest change in existing
laws, and to render them more sure Of vigor-
GUS execution.
Hon. A. e. Stevens, our Mayor, in a peeu-
liarly felicitous and beautiful manner address,
ed the boys, and must have won their hearts,
$3.50 So@As'AaS ehciAi, 40 uouUbiCoS ut I'LL
others present, that as boys, now, before they
shall reach maturity, they can exert wide
und benef1cent influence upon fha enmmu,- itv
IN this ~nd every other wise direction. The
thought, if not entirely new, is very suggest
i've and noble, and should be more strictly en-
forced.
Further remarks on the various topics in
troduced, some times humorous and ALWAYS
impressive, forcible and practical, were made
by Rev. Messrs. Weston, Underwood and Jor-
dan, Messrs. Walton, Humphrey, Beale, Dow
Rich, Leach, and Drs. Tukesbury and Hall
To the reading by Miss Isabella Prince allu-
sion has already been made The prose selec
tions were from DIR. Beechers's famous six
temperance sermons, delivered forty-one years
ago, and almost prophetic as comprehendng
at that early day the necessity of such legisla-
ton as now exists, and of other measures
which have been constantly employed o
the music, led by Mr.. True, nothing more need
be said, except that a hearty and unanimous
vote of thanks was passed, not as a mere COM
pliment but as due to distinguished merit. A
hymn written expressly for the occasion by
Mrs. o. S. Beale of this city, was sung with
fine effect, and received with great applause.
The next meeting in November will be held
at West Falmouth. ~ SD Wf8tstA