Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-09-16
THE FALL CAMPAIGN OPENS
TRICNPHANTLT
Enthusiastic Meeting a. Hancock Hall.
Report of the temperance League.

heport oil the TIE importance League.
The Fall campaign opened by meeting o.
the League at Hancock Hall,o Thursday even
ing sept. 9th. at which President Mcdonald
presided. The meeting was opened by prayer
10y Rev. Mr.. Garretson. The large audience
by their deep interest and intense enthusiasm
gave unmisiakable evidence that the temper.
ance cause i still dear TO them-sure NANTES.
tations that their zeal is nothing which 'fashe,
and expires in blazing In the hundreds A..
sembled here tonight we read a calm and de-
liberate determination 10 sustain this cause I'M
III the Rum fiend shall be banished from our
CITY. Ii is evident that public sentiment IN
Ellsworth towards the Temperance Cause may
he represented in the following quotation:
Humanity with all it, fears.
With all the hopes of future years.
!, hanging breaihless on thy fate!
our hearts, our hopes are all with thee.
Our hearts. our hopes our prayers. our tears.
Our ialth triumphant DER our fears.
Are all with thee are all with thee
The President congratulated the League on
the large number present, and on the deep and
abiding interest manifested. lie spoke OF the
different views entertained by different persons
10 promote Temperance. He was in favor Of
using any and all proper means TO suppress the
traffic. Heespecially favored the prohibiiory
law
Or. Reynolds, President OF the Bangor Re-
form Club, was then introduced
Seventeen months ago three faies were be-
fore him inside Of five years. Death by the
hands Of God, death from his own hands. or
the worse fate OF living miserable and hope
less drunkard. From these he had been spared.
From the last ''he had been rescued bv no
common deliverer, from the grasp Of no COM
mon foe" and to God he gave all the praise.
lie commenced his downward career by drink
ing cider Cider is what Brother Langley
very properly calls ''the Devils Kind lirg
wood" Five drinks Of old cider contain A.
much alcohol As one drink OF rum. Some
claim that it is nutritious; but whoever drinks
II FOR lis nutriiiye qualities. obtain about rs
much benefit a the man who boiled the shad-
ow Of a chicken. and then drank the broth.
People always drink ale for the alcohol it c on
tains. Take out that and nobody would drink
IT. The Doctor treated the subject Of .'Bitiers"
IN mastery manner. lie told how much al
cohol each Of the different kinds contains, rang
ing all the way from 80 down to- per cent.
Vinegar bitiers which contains the per centage
oil alcohol last named, can be made for four
cents quart. In the grest work Of TEMPER
ance reform. while Others might properly and
successfully use prohibition, his weapon il
moral suasion. This had saved hundreds in
Bangor; but he was never going 10 talk tenn
perance and vote rum. The difference be tween
respectable rum shop snd low GROCERY is
that one commences the business and the Other
ends it. The aristocrat who drinks genteelly
| and moderately sets an example far worse
| than that Of the low drunkard. He said he is
thoroughly. consecrated 10 this good work for
The balance ofthe year. This is the anniyersa-
~ Of the organization of the Bangor Reform
Club; and what year it has been. how pro-
life in good works.
DIR. REYNOLDS speech was an earnest. manly
and incontrovertble plea for Temperance That
God may prosper him in the noble work Of
saving men from the slavery and degradation OF
Rum, must be the earnest prayer Of e, cry low
er OF his fellow man.
Bro. Garretson next eloquently exhorted the
audience 10 aid this great work by contributing
Iiberaliy for IT. support and at the close of his
remarks contribution was taken up.
The next speaker was VIM. A. Langley, 4
member Of the Bangor Reform Club. He said
he felt happy and enthusiastic. He believed in
excitement, in this work. Excitement NAV
be made an efficient instrument in reforming
men, Every man should identify himself with
this noble cause
He had suffered as very few man have. For
thirty Years he was led slave by Intemper-
ance during all which time he struggled 10 free
himself. God upholds him now If he for
sock hin. his fail would be certain. Let a re-
formed man cut loose from his old associates.
and ask God to help him, and he is safe.
Once he lost an eye, and he prayed God to take
the other also. if thereby he might be saved
from Intemperance. Once he Law sick nigh
unto death, and he prayed that he might die
rather than live a miserable drunkard He
was now striving TO be Christian; but he
| didn't believe in long-faced christians. He be.
ileved that Christ and the holy angels lau ghed
to see such men as he striving TO lead a new
life.
Rum, he said.must be wiped out 1t sends a
don't kill me, I'll kill you" He declared himself
not only prohibitionist, but an dbOlitionest.
He believed in dboiishing Rum, even if it took
gunpowder to do ii. He cared not what means
were used 10 exterminate this monster. II
every town and city had such temper ance ell
ement in II as Ellsworth has, there wouldn't be
drop Of liquor in the country in six months.
he said one Georgia minstrel gave this CO.
nundrum TO another: "What is dustr' The
other replied: at is mud with the Juice
squeezed out" The happiest mortal in the
world, he thought, is the reformed man with
the whisky all squeezed out of him.
There is that in this mans experience, since
his reformation, which claims our admiral
Ever toiling, but never fainting-ever strug-
Cling, but never faltering, with firm trust in
Divine Providence-he is building from the
wreck of the inebriate manhood uneontami-
mated and unalloyed. Still suffering for past
offenses, he is enjoying the rich reward of pres
ent well-doing.
As some tall cliff. that lifts its awful form.
o"eiis from the vale, and midway leaves the
storm.
though round its breast the rolling clouds are
spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on it head.y
The two Ellsworth bands were present and
added much to the interest of the occasion nv
their fine music.
During the meeting 81 persons signed the
pledge.
The meeting adjourned to Monday evening
Sept. Goth. SECRETARY.
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