The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-24
MARYLAND.

Fair in Aid of the Baltimore Inebrfn:e
Asylum-Speech Of vicc-President Coliax.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 90, 1869.
fair 10 aid in the establishment Of an inebriate
asylum in this city, under the auspices OF the ladies'
OF Baltimore opened here tonight at the Maryland
Institute. The three Communicates OF Knights
Templars OF this city present in full regalia
also an immense crowd. Among the distinguished
persons present Yves vice.President Colfax
who was introduced TO the vast concourse by Mayor
Banks In q few pertinent remarks. On coming for
ward, the Vice President, after BRIEF predatory
marks, said:-
work of benevoence aud OF humanity towards
our brethren like this should enlist every heart
that is touched with feeling for human infirmity.
There Is O question that comes down to all OF us
through the centuries nom the very birthplace
OF manknd iuil OF momen n interest," 10 every
which Gain asked OF the Almighty. not as q ques-
tion but as defence against arraignment for his
In lev every civilized land throughout the globe.
in every civilized nation and State and
question, .'You are your brothers. Keepern It is
q responsibility that no one OF you can deny or
evade Every statute that you find in your statute
book for the punishment OF crime and fraud Is the
answer to the question. "Am my brothers. keeperr'
Every jail and prison that cast their gloomy
officer is the answer that the community
makes to this question, as old as mankind
ITSELF And besides this, and better than this,
every reformatory and ameliatory institution that
blesses this land OF ours Is the answer give to
the question That comes to us almost from the
we are 80 justly proud. where the mind is
restored to those whose reason has been
those institutions where the blind are almost
made to see the dumb TO speak, the deaf to hear In
every institution for the relief OF the poor and dis
tressed we have the answer OF society to the ques-
ton cam my brothers. keeper" And this noble
work which you have naugurated here tonight for
those who have been the deuded ana self-destroy-
ing victims OF the temptation, even OF the most
gifted in our land, brings the answer Of the
IN the nso,s 81 to Of Maryland that
easy peed God bless you in ms noSs
work. In this great world Of ours, spring
Creator; believing as we do in the fatherhood OF
God and the brotherhood OF man, every one whom
you meet on y0ur b pathway your brother lie
criminal fallen, but they are brethren OF the dust
pilgrims on the same Journey travellers TO the
that you have been enabled to fortify yourselves 1t
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, n possible, from living death, worse even
than the death OF the tomb.
Alter abiding TO the brilliant mteects that have
fallen victims to tntemperance Mr.. Colfax con-
tnued:It is the mser, 1t is the ssinRy, the penu-
rious and the tightfsted who are free from this ev
resist the temptation OF social glass; the genial
man. the generous man, whom this tempter nnds
US vc sna s o lou can nnd
IL casts Its gloomy shadow over the marble
mantes OF the rich the most brilliant worshipping
at that shrine through temptation which they can
not resist and which urges them on to drunkard's
death and to drunkard's grave. / tell you my
friends there Is only one way In which you re-
slst the temptation There Is only one tasman, and
that s 'Touch not, taste not handle not the uncean
thlng.n In the earlier years OF my manhood, when
l saw young friend who had been travelling
the same pathway with myself when / stood
by his bedside and saw his soul leave his
body calling upon God to damn his soul In
his delirum, / for one resolved that would turn
my back upon 1t henceforth and forever. Appause.)
1t Is the true pathway in private life, in public he In
social life and In individual life.
During the evening very fine chair was pre-.
sented to Mrs. Colfax which received in her be.
,, half py Mr.. Samuel Shoemaker with appropriate
| remarka.