The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-07-27
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exerted IN the pulpit and by tue press
cOncurred in by generous public sem
limsnt, asd led on by fair women. II is
confidently believed that much will be
donO towards lssssning the use Of this
fell destroyer
Young Gentlemen: The time has now
come in our advancing civilization, and
in the improved moral and social state d
society ,as veil as in the business affairs
and transactions Of life, when sobriety
in n young man is looked upon as his
best passport-his strongest reeommeu.
dation-hiS richest aud most precious
jewel. No good business man to-day
will associate with him in business, or
give employment to q drunkard; and no
parent who cares vol for his family, is
willing to 500 his daughter in.er-marry
with an incorporate man. Not even
tho yeDder Of ardent spirits would be
willing to sec his daughter marry q
drunkard. He only sells him a dram
for his mOney-not that DO cares for
him,-for the very fact that he is a
drunkari causes him to dislike him, and
ho only allows him to come to bis bar
when be has money! pOy for bis drinks;
for when his purse 10 empty and bis
property all wasted and spent, no con-
domus him for his proaigncy, and drives
him from bis roof, as unworthy Of hiG
further notice or respect.
What must DO the feelings Of the in.
ebriate when his money is al spent, his
property all wasted, bis reputation
blasted, his friends all deserted him, bis
wife broken.hearted his credit gone and
his children crying for bread /? bliser-
abs indeed must 30 the feelings ofthat
man when reduced to snch state Of
dcstitution. TO whom is he to apply
for sucoor? He has no Just claim upon
tbs community in which he he has spent
so miserable and Improbable life for
he has dono nothing to merit the kind
Offices Of the virtuous and good. To the
destroyer Of bis health, bis peace and
bis happiness, he can only look in vain.
Who then but q kind mother-a for.
giving sister, or an affectionaio wife, can
this lost son, brother or husband turn
to and be again received with open
arms. For this womanly affection, thi,
noble charity, this God.like forgiveness,
the Womcn's Temperance Movement, II
pOrscvered in, cannot fail; for it Is q
cause Of love and mercy-ofjustice and
right. tmay DO ridiculcd, Knocked at
and spit upon and bad men moy tread
upon It, and stamp 1t under their fcOt,
and offer 1t insult; but like the Religion
Of the Gross, it will override oil opposi.
ton aud defy all its enemies, and never
stop its rcsistloss march, 'lill its stand.
ard is raised in every valley, and It's
banner is seen floating on every hilltop.
And may tho good work 60 on until
every drunkard throughout the broad
land shall SEQ his error and turn from 1t
when all crime committed through It's
influence shall be done away, and the
las. boiler which distills tho intoxicating
draught converted into trumpet, to
sound the glad tldings Of the victory |
Tho time for the general uprising
Of the people for the final overthrow Of
so great an evil as that resulting from
tho incorporate use Of intoxicating LA.
uors to the human race, seems, in tho
Providence Of God, to have come; and
it is to DO hoped tho day is near at hand
whom tho last drunkard shall have re.
formed. and as q recompense to the
women for the good they will have ac.
complishcd by their Temperance Meye.
ment, he be heard to exclaim. in a voice
so loud that every ear throughout chris.
tendon shall bear, that "he would not
exchange the physical sensations-the
mere sense of animal being which be.
longs to man who totally refrains frem
all that can iutoxicate tho brain, or de-
range tho nervous structuro-the elas-
ITCHY with which he bounds from bis
couch in tho morning, the sweet repose
it yields him at night-the feelings
with which be drinks in through bis
clear eyes tho beauty and tho grandeur
Of surrounding nature; that 10 would
not exchange bis conscious being as a
strictly temperate man-,hc sense Of
renovated you.h-the glad play with
which bis pulse beat hcalthful music
tho bounding viyaeity with which tho
life blood courses iis exulting way
through every fbro Of bis framo-tbo
communion high which his healthful
ears and eyes hold with alltho universe
Of food, tho splendors Of the morning,
the softness Of tho evening sky,-i6o
bloom, tho beauty, tho vordure Of
earth-the music Of tho air and the
waters, with all tho grand associations
Of external nature re.opOned to the fine
avenues Of sense, should tempt him
back, with all tho wealth and all the
honors which o wosld eau bcstow: not
for all tia. time and all that earth eau
give would lc cast from him this pre-
cicus pledge Of q liberated mind, this
talisman against temptation, and plunge
again into the dangers and horrors Of a
drunkard's life I"
lp all that long list of criminals
whose trials and convictions Gil our
criminal law libraries, there arc none
whose cases presen. a state Of circuui.
stances and facts so telling upon our
feelings, and which 80 invoke our
deepest sympathy, as those young men,
who. Ia I'm unpuarled moment wern