Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-01-29

The Congressional Temperance Society
,eld their regular Sunday meeting last even
nn In the First Congregational church, cor
,ur OF Tenth aud q streets Senator Henry
Wilson presiding.
The exercises were opened with singing,
after which Rev. Dr.. Rankin read selections
from the Scriptures, which were followed by
prayer. -,-
senator Wilson said they were under OBJ
legations for the use Of the church. Ihey
were here to do their work, and hoped 90
hold ten OF twelve meetings before the al
Iuurnment OF Congress, u tue Chrlstlh
gburches would open their doOre aud AID
them 10 the work. He thought the whole
moral power Of the country should DC on inc
aide Of temperance, which, slnco the death OF
slaysry, was the greatest curse In our land. |
The man who sells liquor knows H. The |
sober man IL convinced OF II, and the man |
drinks IL feels and realizes the fact.
SENATOR PoNERoI
was next Introduced, aud said he was glad
aiways to be present In a temperance meet
Ing, and although hc could not tell anything
neS, he thought Il might be worth something
To repeat what was old. Ihls matter OF
drinking had entwined Itself Into every phase
Of society.
There we're reasons Why they should renew
their cndeayors, for the enemy came In like
n flood when the friends Of temperance were
idle. lie know there were some who had
sympathy for drinkers, but when man made
a merchandise Of tue health and the happl.
mesa q families he must confess that he held
neither sympathy or appreciation for such
class. lie wondered why this inlquliy had
not becn nut down by law. Men had preached
and prayed against Il, but Il was only this
year that the selling OF Il had been regulated,
A city had the right 10 protect ltselii there
was no nuisance or contagious disease that
ham frOfns then
why should they not have law to save them
from the evils Of splrituous liquor. IL could
lie done II the men aud women would set
themselyeA To work with arm determina-
lion TO relieve themselves OF thls bllghung
curse. lilo hoped there might DO revival In
all the churches In the city during the winter
on The subject Of temperance. He was drm
In the conviction that man had no right, aud
the l., glslature could give him no right 10
destroy the peace and happiness OF house
holds throughout the country.
aEs. RILEY, OF NEW YORK,
yaz the next sneaker, and said be had been
Invited " take the place Of Gen. Logan, and
simply wished to say 10 the society that could
they bring every man and woman In the cause
10 the meeting they would give such yotc
OF thanks and appreciation To the society rs
would shake the whole nation. Forty years
npp every parent swee,ened liquor To make
their children drink It. Now there Is not one
Ia he found that docs II, because children are
brought no TO know the evils Of Its use. The
time has come when the men who use lntoxl-
eating drinks are not wanted anywhere; for
those are selected who keep their bCdles pure.
Thirty years ago Mr., Freliughul scn was about
| tho only man Ia the Seuate who could be
| called out 10 make a moral speech; now how
great Is the change.
What was wanted nowadays was the means
| TO carry on this good work and they would
| syeep before them, like a revelation, al that
| stood in the ranks Of lntcmpcrance. lie bo-
seechrd them 10 come forward and help tho
cause, and God would give thum the victory
| HON. Mn. LANPoRT,
Of New York, was the next speaker. lie
sud he was exceedingly pleased TO meet an
Uld Iaborer In the cause. Thirty years agu
he had taken General Riley In his buggy 10
speak at a Temperance meeting In New York
State, and be thanked God they still lived
and were both temperance mon.
The mrmbers of Congress laboring 10 this
eaaise knau the work they had 10 do for they
were co,rnlzant Of the evils 10 be cured.
This insitiatc monster intemperanee Is no
resPcctcr OF persons and he warned yoane
men that u blended inc scep1re WIN inc sPanei
and he further warned those who partook OF
its favors that the day would come when they
wond cure the Inomentln which they yielded
to Its Influence. IN this United states, which
was so grand and great as 70 astonlsh the
whole world, there was tidal wave thai
passed over Us every year, carry Ing sO,V'
drunkards into tue valley o. death' Iher,
was way 10 remedy thls oViL aud the nav
was hit on the head oy hev; W; rStto. ~
little tract mat was eircnlatea soout th'
streets called Cses OF opelcy. IneIe wa
great deal In this drinking IN society, an
irOm that source he hopea tuonk recruit
would DO brought out ana mustered INTO ~
ranks. lie had iailh that some une a .,, !,