Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-05-14

The Good Tempiars of the S. ate met in
convention at the hall Of Rock City Lodge,
In this city, yesterday, the attendance being
quite large. The following resolutions were
offered by T. q. Bracking, of Lodge No. 1:
Resolved, that we, as Convention of the
Independent order of Good Templars,
here assembled, do most highly appreciate
the action of our late General Assembly
in their passage of the bill respecting the
sale ard use of intoxicating liquors, as a
beverage in the State of Tennessee, and we
most heartily tender to them as a body,
our sincere thanks for their noble endeav-
ors to aid in the relief Of our country from
the greatest evil which has ever cursed any
land or country, viz: the evils Of intoxica-
ton; and that we sincerely and sadly re-
greet that the bill did not meet formal in
dorsement of The Governor of our State;
for we have to lament that In and through
his veto oil that bill, that the cause ofintem-
perance, with all of its attendant evils and
horrors, has received strength and renewed
encouragement, which calls loudly for the
prompt and efficient action of all true lovers
OF temperance, to labor the more zealously
for the advancement of its noble principles
and interests, and to stay the fearful tide Of
incompetence, with all of its ruinous con-
sequences.
Resolved, that inasmuch as intemper-
ance, poverty, ignorance and moral ard
civil degradation are 30 intimately and in
separately blended in the same current, so
much so, that wherever lntemperance ex-
Is, there all of those other conditions are
tho aaeUitGble results; (they being the legiti-
mate offsprings of that dominant vice.
that it is the sense of this body, that it is the
Imperative duty of every man and woman
in the whole land, who have at heart the
welfare of our race, and the advancement
OF christian civilization, as well as human
prosperity and national happiness, to put
forth their utmost endeavors to Danish the
evils Of intoxicaLiOn and intemperauce from
the face of the land and country; and that
the surest way to accomplish this happy end,
is to remove The temptation from our midst,
and to convert the brain, the time and
the SOU andered property which is now be-
ing worse than wasted through the avenues
and channels of intemperance, into high
er order Of intellectual accomplishments,
aud Of the pure and noble virtues of high
and refined morality, and the acquisition
and resources Of wealth, and brighter and
more prosperous future, by which all races
of mankind may be mutually blessed, and
the name of God greatly gloritied.
Resolved, That statistics fairly and con-
clusiVely prove that in all the States where
late laws have been put in force suppressing
the sale and use of intoxicating drinks, that
The plan is working well for the accomplish
ment Of great goot, and is meeting the fav-
orsble approval and cooperation Of all good
people where such laws have been
tried; that we most heartily recommend to
our Legislature, and trust that at their
next session that they will enact some
wholesome laws by which the great and
grOlUing evils Of intempera ce may be
met and averted The condition of cur
land and country demand it. And the
sixty-five Thousand petitions that went
up from all parts of the State,
earnestly importuning, as with one voice,
for our General Assembly to put into
action some means to aiu in relieving the
country of those evils which have borne SO
heavily upon society in the PRONUNCIATION
of crime Of every sort, of heavy taxation,
and Of moral and religious degradation, GER
tainly calls loudly and wisely for some
Wholesome laws upon this subject in the
State of Tennessee.
Resolved, that as the sale and use of in
toxicsting liquors are nowhere authorized
or tolerated in the Holy Bible, but, on the
contrary, is everywhere throughout the
Bible positively and strongly condemned as
a beverage, we do therefore most solemniy
and honestly regard the sale and use of all
spirituous, malt liquors, wine, cider and all
other drinks, whether fermented or distilled,
or by whatever process they may be derived,
if they have the power to intOxicate man,
as of very doubtful and dangerous pro-
priety, and in direct opposition to all the
best interests of men and the nation, and
is highly reprehensible to the Christian or
moral character Of all persons who may en-
gage in the traffic or use of it in any way
for or leading to its use as beverage.
The resolutions were adopted.
Another meeting will be held at O'Clock
this morning.