The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-01-11

We are all on the Threshold OF a
new year. 1t is fitting time to make
good resolves. Whatever is wrong
we should resolve to avoid ;-whatev-
er is right we should strive to pur-
sue.
All the great interests of the world
are soon to pass into the hands of the
young. They who now possess the
property, and fill the offices of the
land, will soon pass away. Whatev-
er there is that is valuable in liberty,
science, art, or religion, viii pass into
the hands of those who are now
young. They viii preside in the sem
inaries of learning; will sit down on
the benches of justice; will fill the
vacated seats of senators will occu-
py the pulpits in the churches; will
be entrusted with all the offices of
honor and emolument; will be am
bassadors to foreign courts; and will
dispense the charities of the land, and
carry out and complete the designs of
Christian benevolence. There is not
an interest of liberty, law or religion,
which will not soon be committed to
the young men of our land. How ex-
ceedingly important, then, that they
be properly trained and confirmed in
every good word and work for the
great duties which will soon be de-
volved upon them!
The question of temperance figures
very largely in proper estimate of
character With reference to his hab-
its on this point, every young man is
watched with an eagle eye, and his
character is well understood, when
perhaps he least suspects it. The
public cannot be deceived on this
point and every young man may be
assured that there is an eye of un-
slumbering vigilance upon him.
There are certain evils which a
young man will certainly avoid by a
course of strict temperance. l. Pcver-
ty, as arising from this source. He
may, indeed, be poor if he is temper
ate. He may lose his health, or meet
with losses, or may be unsuccessful in
business, but he is certain that he will
never be made poor from intemper-
-ance. Nine-tenths of the poverty in
community IS caused by this vice =
nine-tenths of all who are in aims
houses are sent there as the result OF
it, but from all this he will be certain
that he will be saved. If a man is
poor, there is great difference be-
tween being such as the result of a
loss of health, or other Providential
-dispensations, and being such as the
result of intemperance. 2. He will
be saved from committing crime from
this cause. About nine-tenths of the
crimes committed are the results OF
Intoxicating drinks, and by course
OF temperance man is certain that
ne will be saved from the commission
of all those crimes. Yet, if not tenn
perate, no man las any security that
he will not commit any one of them.
There is nothing in himself to save
him from the very worst ofthem; and
every young man who fndulges in the
Intoxicating cup, should reflect that
he has no security that he will not be
led on to commit the most horrid
crimes which ever disgrace humanity.
8. He will certainly be saved from a
drunkard's death. He will indeed
die. He may die young; for though
temperate, he may be cut down in
the Vigor of his days. But there is
all the difference imaginable between
dying as drunkard, and dying in
the ordinary course of nature.
The good effects Of q coErke of tenn