The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1876-04-14

drunkard is the saddest, most shock
ing sight this world affords.
We take the following extract
from the speech of Hon. J. II.
Seelye, delivered on the occasion OF
the I'D anniversary ofthe Congress
ional Temperance Society:
"To realize the full magnitude OF
the evil is to many men so difficult,
and to some men apparently so i'm
possible, that nothing is more COM
mon than to hear advocates Of tenn
perance called INSCRIPTIONS and
charged with exaggeration in their
statements. do not know but such
a charge may be sometimes just, but
| do know that it is great deal
easier to brighten the colors and tdi-
minish the proportions of the picture
than it is to paint it in all its terri
Bile darkness and tremendous extent
II is a great deal easier, and | be
Ecve vastly more frequent among
men, in discussing the evils OF in
temperance, to fall below the reality
than to reach it, much more than to
pass beyond it. 1t may be possible
perhaps it has been done; but it
is not easy to exaggerate here.
When you take such words as
some of the English judges, noted
for the clearness of their views and
the cal precision OF their statements
have spoken Of the relation of intern
peranco to crime when you hear
Justice Co,cridge say, There is
scarcely a crime comes before me
that is not caused directly or indi-
rectly by strong drink; and Justice
Quincy, Every crime has its origin
more or less in drunkenness and
Justice Patterson, If it were not for
this drinking, you the jury and |
would have nothing to do aud Jus
tce Anderson, Drunkenness is TIE
most fertile source of crime, and if it
could be removed the assizes of the
country would be rendered mere
utilities and Justice Wightman, Il
find in the calendar that comes be-
fore me that the one unfaiing source,
directly or indirectly, of most OF the
crimes that are committed is intern
perauce'-when we add to these
words of the English judges the tess
timony of those familiar with crimi>
nal records here when we find :he
city clerk of Boston declaring that Of
the offenders transported in the Hen
~ Morrison to the Deer Island re-
formatories and other penal city in
situations, eighty per cent. are vic
TINS Of strong drink when we find |
the Massachusetts, State Board of
Charities, in their official report,
1866, declaring that intemperance is
the chiet occasion of crime, and
that probably more than eighty per
cent Of the criminals in this State
come within the Incorporate class
when we find distinguished judge |
aad district attorney in Suffolk coun !
ty--Hon George L. Sanger--for |
many years familiar with the crimi-
nal courts Of the commonwealth, de
claring that there are very few
cases Of crime into which the use of
Intoxicating liquors does not more or
less enter when we push our en-
qujgies with a similar result all over
this country and over the civilized
globe and when we find also that
intemperance is the fruitful source Of
pauperism as well as of crime. and !
that The cost Of pauperism and crime
to his commonwealth alone is more
than four millions Of dollars per year
when we find that disease is so cer>
taia an attendant upon intemperance
that no liie-insurance company will
grant a policy to an individual adj
dieted to it, and that, according to
the carefully prepared tables Of life
insurance, the average length Of life
Of the Incorporate is twenty years
less than that Of other men; when
we add to this fearful picture but
glimpse of the want and wr.ched,
ness of home and family, the degen
Grafton Of children, the dangers to
iocisiy, the peril to every interest of
he lite that now is, and the woe
hreatenei in the world to come-I (
ay, if it be possible to paint this
icture in too fearful colors, if i. be
ossible to give this tremendous
sality too terrible representation, |
elieve we have got to wait for the
transcending that Of