The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-02
The Temperance Crusade. Ancestry Of
the Praying Women. 80.

The Rev. John Hussey contributes
an interesting article to the Ladepe,,.
dent OH the extraordinary movement
against intemperance, now in pro.
gress in portions af Ohio and Indiana
In which he shows that the piOus wO
men who are conduct ng thissingulal
campaign are descended from praying
''stOck." We make the following
extract:
Southern Ohio was perhaps the last
place where one would have supposed
that such movement could begin.-
The people of the section where this
work took form belong less than any
other people of our country north oI
the Ohio river, except those of some
parts of southern Indiana, to the
New England type. Between the
SciOtO and Miami rivers lies the "Vlr.
ginia Military Reservation" granted
by the General Government to the
State of Virginia, I'm place of claims
which the latter state relinquished to
the Northwestern Territory. This
large territory was settled originally
by Virginians who had Revolution
ary claims. The land was owned in
very large tracts, and has been more
or less subdivided. The old Vir-
ginia families having always been
very influential, especially In the
counties of Highland, Fayette, and
Ross. Early in this century man
came to southern Ohio from other
southern States. The Friends or
Quakers came from Virginia and
western North Carolina in such
numbers as to exhaust some of their
settlements in these States, and pur-
chased of the old Virginians i'm Ohio
smaller bodies of land, forming a line
of settlements from Lawrence county
through Jackson, Ross, Highland,
Clinton, to Warren. The great body
of Quakers are now i'm the three lat
ter counties. These plain Christians
have been an important element in
the prayer movement, but were not
much concerned in its first origin,
as few of them are found either In
HillsbOrOugh or Washington, the two
places where success was first achiev-
ed. Somehow there is a law of nature
which "Old families" are prone to
violate. Family pride is not apt to
be an active element in the busy in
dustries Of life. Too much leisure
invites dissipation, and many of the
sciOns of our excellent old families
have gone under before the destroy
ing evil of intemperance. Hardly a
prominent family i'm HillsbOrOugh
but has felt the keen shafts of this
adversary. In some, all the
members have died Intemperate,
or in danger Of doing so. If it were
not improper, could connect with
the names of most of the women who
are prominent in carrying on the
movement in two of the largest places
in which this work has been highly
successful, some one dear as life cut
down in youth or manhood with
some of whose names the country at
large is not unfamiliar; of all pro-
Observation-Disclosures, lawyers, and not
emitting shining example of the
clerical prOfessiOn-some in public
life, others renowned in war. The
religious element is an important one,
and has given soul to the whole
movement. The churches of all the
principal denominations are many of
them large, and have for two gene
rati0ns welded a powerful influence.
The three principal religious bodies
are Presbyterians, MethOdists and
QuakerS.