Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-12-03
. TEMPERANCE SPEECH BY
VICE PRESIDENT CoLFAX.

Iu Baltimore, on tho evening Of No.
Ysmber 22d, q Fair was given to and in
the establishment of an Inebriate Asy-
lum. Vice President Collar was an
invited guest, and on being introduced
to the large audience of spectators be
mado the following beautiful and truth.
full temperance speech:
"a work Of benerolence of humanity
toward our brethren like this should
enlis, every heart that is touched with
the feelings Of human infrmity. There
is q question that comes down to all Of
US, through the centuries from the very
birthplace of mankind, fall Of mo-
mentous interest to every one upon this
foo,stool Of God. It is that question
which Cain asked Of the Almighty, not
as a question, but al a defense against
the arrangement for his crime to his
brother. 1t was, cam l my brothers
kesper?" In every civilized land
throughout the globe, in every civilized
nation and State and community, the
answer comes back to that question,
You are your brothers keeper.
"It is a responsibility that none of you
can deny or svade. Every statute that
you find on your statute book, for tho
punishment Of crime and fraud, 10 the
answer to the question, Am l my
brothers keeper?' Every Jail aud
prison that cast their gloomy shadows
over the land; every sheriff and police
officer is the answer that the community
makes to the question a. old as mankind
itself. And, besides this, and better
than this, every reformatory and amsli-
Grating institution that blesses this land
of ours is the answer that we give to
the question that comes to US almost
from the Garden Of Eden itself.
ain the institutions Of which we are so
Justly proud, where the mind is restored
to those whose reason has been de-
throned, in the asylum for the insane,
10 those institutions where the blind are
almost made to see, the dumb 10 speak
aud the deaf to hear /; in every %institu-
ton for the relief Of the poor and dis
t,sssed, we have the answer of society
to the question, Am l my brothers
keeper and in this noble work which
you nave in~augurated here tonight for
those who have been the deluded aud
selt-destroying victims Of the tempta.
ton, that even the most gifted in our
land bring the answer of the benevolent
in the State of Maryland, that they are
their brothers keepers. God speed you.
God bless you in this noble work, Il y
"In this great world Of ours, spring.
ing, as we all do, from the hand Of n
common Creator, believing, as we do. in
the Fatherhood Of God and the brother.
hood of. man, every one of whom you
meet in your pathway is your brother
be msy be poor, he may be penniless,
be may be humble, but they are breth-
rem of the same dust, pilgrims of the
same journey, travellers TO 'the same
tomb. If God has blessed you with
strength Of will that you have been en-
abled to fortify yourselves, it is for you
to lift him up from that depth to which
he has fallen, and put him upon his feet,
and to redeem him, if possible, from a
living death, worse even than the death
of the tomb"
After abiding to the brilliant intel
lscts that have fallen victims TO intsm-
perancs, Mr.. Coltsx continued. "lti is
the miser, i. is the s,ingy and the tight.