The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-10

I pOlnGmenLs, and maintain his POSI-
ton as a lyceum lecturer. Mr.. Cough
IS an actor, story teller, natural
lspeaker, an electric orator, and he
exhausts more vital energy in a two
hours speech than a ditch-digger or
q wood chopper would exhaust in a
day Yet his temperate habits en-
able him to keep up a supply of
strength he needs, so that the de-
mands. made upon him are seldom
dlshonored by sickness. He is wise
enough to recuperate by wooing
sleep to his rescue, and one good
nights rest is usually sufficient to
repair the damage done TO the sys-
TEN by his great effort in public Is
there victim of alcohol who can do
it as well? Is il true that an orator
needs the inspiration of wine to
bring out his best thoughts and his
most brilliant work. Did AIr. Cough
accomplish anything worthy of no.
tice while he was violating the phys
ical laws by the use of Intoxicating
drinks ? Did Jersey lightning do
as much for him as "human light
ming" does? Gen. Cary is a man of
brain, culture and considerable for
tune. He drank moderately, and
had not much sacrifice to make
when he signed the pledge. He was
volunteer in the cause, and became
its advocate because he wished to
make the world the better for his
having lived, and because he liked
the mental exercise and the excite
ment of public speech. The same
amount of labor devoted to politics
would have sent him to Congress, or
placed him in the Senate, OF in the
gubernatorial chair, but it would
not have accomplished one tithe the
amount of good, nor have gained
him a more radiant record on the list
of fame. Heis about the age Of Mr.
Cough, perhaps a few years his ju-
niOr. Like him he can endure an
amount of work which would pros
trate man who seeks stimulation
at the lips of the bottle. Gen.
Cary is a politician as well as a tenn
perance man, and he has shown to
the world that be can leave the re-
straints of home, mingle in the soci-
ETY. of those who drink rum, and say
''non with emphasis, when he is in
yited to drink. He travels exbens-
lively and constantly comes in contact
with classes of men, who think they
can rot be cheerful, social and hos
pitable without the conviviality Of
the wine cup. The drinking usage,
SO long interviewer with customs
and habits in fashionable life, is The
spiders web in which many human
flies are caught and slaughtered.
When a prominent man has the eour-
age to refuse to "walk into the par
lor," and be taken into the meshes
that have been braided for him, we
chronicle the fact because we are
proud of the example.
When can the temperance men
and women make the sale of intoxica-
ting liquors odious and unproftable?
Thank God the hour is near at hand,
when distinguished men ike Ex-
Senator Wilson give their influence
of total abstinence from Intoxicating
liquors and help to lift others to the
highest peerage of the best society.
Ex-senator Wilson has been prac-
tical temperance man for q score of
years, and his precept and example,
like the centripetal and centrifugal
forces, have been the team which has
Ehirled him on starry wheels along
the path of honor. He occupied the
seat once occupied by the great
Daniel Webster, but does not take
the unnatural stimulus which some
times made that "Wise man mad"
Wilson was a shoemaker, and he ex-
changed the bench for seat in the
Senate ofthe United States,an honor
difficult to obtain in the fastidious
State of Massachusetts, an honor
more difficult to hold term after
term, in times Of revolution and po-
litieal disorder, when parties are shat
tered by cannon balls, and constitu-
tions are written in fire with the point
of the bayonet. Had Ex-senator
Wilson won the unenviable reputa-
tion Of being a fast man, lover of
wine, or had he shown himself to the
public in q state of inebriety unable
to stand erect in Fanieul Hall for
instance, leaning upon the desk to
maintain the center of gravity and
with words that fell sprawling in
muddy obscuFity from lips redolent
with rum, rendering it necessary for
an interpreter to sculpture his
speech to symmetry for the public
ear and the publicp press. He would
have been pelted from his high Of
fee with the indignant ballots of his
constituents. Without the brain or
culture of Webster, who was a giant,
and whose colossal mind lit up a
face of kingly majesty, he has been
a more truthful representative Of the
old Bay State than was his illustri-
GUS predecessor. This work he has
done in the face of the most adverse
events and the most uncompromising
surroundings. The aristocraey of
the state opposed him; the illiterste
laughed at him; the vulgar were
jealous of him. In the front of snobs
and pretenders he fought his way in
to distinction, doing honor to the
seat of the great statesman, and the
great state he represented. His
speeches were sound, his votes had
conscience, and his labors were evi-
of untiring industry. He was
also a Chairman of the Congression-
al Temperance Society.
A few years since at a meeting in
Washington, Ex-senator Yates of
Illinois, who had been victim of
the drinking customs 80 common in
political life, arose and made most
eloquent speech against the tyranny
and cruelty ofthe drinking usages.
1t is said there is ring Of pure gold
in his words. He seems q strong man
who has broken his chains and es-
capped from the tyrant. It was said
there was not a dry eye in the vast
assembly that listened to his stirring
speech. He is considered a great
acquisition to the cause, and millions
of men and women in the west are
proud that their prayers were an