The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-17
Temperance Lecture by Rev. Rich
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uNlulCsS upOH ltinptiHuCe, WHICH Huu Dcen
announced TO be delivered by Rev. Rich
ard Grogan. The reputation of the speaker,
no less than the interest of the subject in
hand was well calculated to call out our
best citizens and the occasion fully testified
that Rutland people are awake upon the
great question.
The speaker was introduced to the audi
encc by Joel NJ. Haven Esq, and proceed
cd TO give an interesting lecture of an hour
and a half in duration. The reverend
gentleman is u calm and deliberate speaker,
though sometimes breaking out, in the
midst of II thrilling description, with clo-
quence and much argumentative power.
| This very calmness which is so character
istic of his style of speaking has depth of
meaning and purpose which is apparent to
II close observer and which has been shown
with wonderful effect in his experience as
! Il temperance rcformer. The man who
shouts the loudcst docs not always carry his
point, nor the soonest pave his way to the
hearts of his hearers with convincing eff
| feet This speaker, as with many others
have won a deserved reputation in the
cause, relies mostly upon the power of
! illustration and personal experience for
argument and which undoubtedly have the
mghtcst effect.
The speaker took the greater share of the
time occupied by him in the narration of his
own eXpericnce-the drunllard reformed,
which was a tale OF terrible suffering, and
| pointing moral that may prove warning
to all. Before commencing upon the story
of his own life, he stated, among other
things, that if any one in the audience gave
no credencc to the facts and arguments
! given, they would be at liberty to demand
any answer they wished, and would ret all
the information they wished, and possibly
even more. He said that in connection
with the tcmpcrance.qucstion there were to
| him three great wonders; first that a man
| Of intelligence, possessed of all his facul-
ties, should enter liquor shop and call for
what he knows will ntoxicate himself. de
| grade his name and that of his family,
strip him Of his manhood and bring him
to beggary second, why man should be-
come so bad as to engage IN the business
Of Notwithstanding out this
poison that lie knows he may have adult
Grated, without a feeling of rcmorse third.
why people of this state and Of these Uni
ted States, with all its churches and organ
izatons of Christianity, temperance and
education, with all that makes nation
good and great and attain to the highest of
all, should enact such unrighteous laws
tolerating intemperance. 1t is admitted by
all that these queries cannot be answered.
The speaker then remarked concerning
the disposition of those just commencing
to drink, all being strong in the be-
lief that they would never become drunk
ards of the prevalent idea among the la
dies that none but the good-for-nothing are
in the habit of drinking, and gave some il
Illustrations concerning the same.
lie then in answer to the question, who
are our drunkards stated that in the New
York institution for the reform of drunk
ards, up to the year 1868, there had been
1,2i2 applications made of that number
thirty-ninc had studied for the ministry.
eighty were judges, onc hundred and ninety
seven were lawyers, two hundred and
twenty-slx physicians, four hundred and
siXty-siX farmers, six hundred and eighty
mechanics, two hundred and forty gentle
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The records Of the institution further show
that thirteen hundred rich mems daughters
had applied for admission. The speaker
then remarked in an effective manner upon
this fearful record and of the oyerwhelm-
ing power of this serpent-that takes from
the church the ordained minister. leaves
vacant the judges bench, under whose
power farms are mortgagcd, tools are
thrown aside, gentlemen are clothed in
rags, and woman, with all her natural
beauty and grace, is sunk into hopeless de-
spair
lie then referred to the power of intern
pcrance as shonc in foreign.countries gen
erations ago-of the case of Alexander the
Great and others. Then of our own coun.
try, IN the experience of Mcdonald of Cal
ifornia, Salisbury of Delaware and Dick
Yates of lllnois--all men of rare learning
and ability WHO had fallen beneath its
despotic sway.
The speaker then saG that in directing
his remarks, more especially to the young
men, he would relate the experience of a
man with whom he was well acquainted
n young man of rs great will and strong
ambition as any at the present day edu-
Gated in the Sabbath school, became an OIL
Ger in a Christian church, and when the
war broke out enlisted in the army. For
thirteen years Il resident of New York city,
and while in the army during the war, he
had never tasted liquor. He returned to
the city when peace was declared and went
to live in a boarding-house in the city of
Boston, near the corner of Lincoln and
Bedford streets. One evening at parlor
entertainment, where wine and liquor were
offered, he was asked by lady to drink
WIN hNi' W ltH al poIllcHtsS puSslDlc, He
begged to be excused. She insisted, until
he yielded and drank. Another kind of
drink, called " hot Scotch whisky punch, =
was passed. and here thespeaker remarked
upon the different natures and of the diff
ierent effect that liquor had upon them ;
that nationality represented temperance,
and that il one should visit one of those
large gardens about New York city, where
liquor was most abundant, he would see
every nationality representative English
man with his haf-and-half, expressing his
pride for 9 Old lIingland = the Scotch
man, with his hot Scotch" so proud of
all Scotland, and rehcarsing the doings of
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