The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1875-09-14
Written for The Spirit of Democracy.l
Sad II Results OF IntempeI ance.

ED. SPIRIT: The following recent re-
suits of Incorporate habits are submitted
in place of what will be made the fourth
instead of the third article of my series
A young man, whom his widowed
mother had educated and who she had
hoped would be her support and COM
fort in her declining days and years,
plunges wildly into the river, twas my
self an eye witness, from a watery
grave in which he is soon taken, but not
until life was entirely extinct. The
mother comes, and as she beholds the
lifeless form of her unfortunate son, ex.
claims in the most touching accents oi
anguish, 20, my poor boy! my poor
boyr' Only Few hundred yards away
was the saloon at which, for the sake oil
few dimes, was sold that poison which
crazed the brain of that young man, and
led to the sorrowful scene just describ
ed.
AT GAINESVILLE, two men, each with bis
wife and child, undertook to cross the
river in a canoe. But they were soon
carried over the dam, drowning both the
methers and children. The reader need
not be told that those men, who were sol.
emnly pledged to protect their families,
were intoxicated and that their drunken
ness caused this sad occurrence.
At Steuhenville, man who, by his
long continued Incorporate habits, had
reduced his family to beggary, almost
wearing his wife's life out by his cruelty,
became so terribly wretched and wicked
as to deliberately poison to death his lit
tie four years old son.
Do you ask how he did it1 II was
by forcibly pouring down the throat of
his child sufficient amount of whisky
to cause its death. This was doEe too, /
think,in the presence of its broken heart
ed mother, who was too sick and feeble
to prevent her little son from being so
cruelty murdered. Do you ask what has
been done with that criminalY Nothing
The obvious reason is, the instrument
in effecting that murder was
whisky.
During the Sabina Fair, Clinton Coun.
ty, closing the 2lst ult., two of its at
tendants were shot, and another on his
way home fell forward in his buggy in
such position as to allow one Of its
wheels to bruise his head at a dreadful
rate. and finally to break his neck.
At the jamestown Fair, Greene Coun-
ty, last week, most frightful scene oc-
Cured. A man, after an unsuccessful
attempt to murder his wife, seized his
little helpless and innocent child, and
amid the screams of murder by the
terrified mother and others, and before
the violent hand could be arrested, that
child lay weltering in its own life's blood d,
its throat cut from side to side.
Do you ask what caused that man to
commit sueh cruol daad ? One ward
answers the question -drunkenness-
And SO we might continue to add case
to case of such heart sickening crimes,
which are filing the land with sorrow
and mourning. Mothers weeping for
their murdered children. and in other in
stances children for their mothers, and
refusing to be comforted because they
are not"
Where is there heart SO unfeeling as
not to be moved to the deepest pity by
the sorrows and signs, the tears and
cries of such helpless and outraged wo
men and children God have mercy on
that person who is so lost to every noble
impulse as to be Indifferent to any and
all laudable efforts to destroy, entirely
destroy,the unmitigated curse Of women
and children.
And defeat and ruin, both in time and
eternity, will certainly betide, and ough,
to befall, that minister, either Of the Law
or gospel, and also :hat editor, secular
or religious, who in any way would hin
der the cause of sobrety and morality
from receiving the assistance to which
that cause is entitled. from both the Law
and the gospel, also from the pulpit anc
the press. More anon.
sH J.A. WALTERS.
Bethesda, Ohio.