The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-03-31
OKOLONA, MISSISSIPPI. THURSDAY MARCH 81 1881 g


from re Carisi'an Advocate.
Do Howard Crosby has made goo
itile excitemeui Coz Boston hy bis
Monday lecture. "a Calm View Of
uo Temperance Question Tho 90
TAI abstinence apostles have 50 long
enioyed the monopoly OF anathemau-
zing an temperance Len who declin-
od 10 join their church and swear
allegiance 90 their standards, that
they we're at first dazsd by al address
which indicted tlein as 0bstruoiing
temperance reioIm, ond giving prac-
Seal aid and comfort 90 the liquor
nieiest A week saiiiced - rally
their forces, however, and on the
following Monday, an hour and a
half before tAe regular MONDAY lee
iurr, they crowded fremont Temple
to hear from a Rev Mr.. Mailalieu a
prayer for ''lhat Rip Van Wirkie Of
the Temperance cause --ceriaiLiY The
most extraordinary prayer ever Of
F tered TO q Boston audience-and
from Wendell Phillips q Phiilipic
gainst Chancellor Crosby, cOnceiv-
q aud executed ID the best vein Of
na orator who ia as distinguished for
bis singular ioaocuraoy Of statement
and loosoness oflOgie as for bis
of1liant diclion and elegant eloou-
iion He admirably gxemplihed The
popular method OF demolishing an
aulag0nlst This consists in making
4 dummy OF straw, hanging loosely
gbout him a garment made up Of
shr0ds and patches Of sentences from
the opponents address, put ia quo
lau %, marks, and then beating him
% pieces tefora an admiring audi
fnce, who are always sure to applaud
such bloodless gladiatorial show.
That Wendell Phillips, retained to
demolsh the Chancellor should be-
gin by trayestying him was TO have
bsen expected that religious news
papers should represent him as ar
guing moderate drinking 10 be a
chrishon duty is objectionable.
Dr. CrOsby's position can be easily
stated 10 a paragraph lie distinctly
declared that he did not oppose for
the individual total abstinence from
an that intoxicates but he condemn.
ed the total abstinence crusade-"the
forcing total abstinence upon The
community as the duty Qf all; ibe
putting under ,he ban every one who
| does not follow that standard; The
insisting Of total abstinence as the
oaly safety against drunkenness
This total abstinence crusade be
condemned in vigorous Indictment
as both expedienl and moral he
declared il to beineKpedlsnt because
/ III win not aud can not secure the
appreciation Of drinking men; it
refuses the eo-operation Of all in a
Temperance movement who decline
to lopl the total abstinence shibbo-
leth it violently wrests the meaning
OF ,he worl temperance, and perverts
and belilues it from its true meaning
OF self control to the manned and
mutilated function o. total abstinence
from one pant cular kind of beverage ;
il twists and distorts Scripture, and
forces into it a meaning Tepugnant
both to tue best scholarship and to
tho common sense Of the unlettered
reader; It substitutes Cor the devel-
ment Of manhood able to judge Tor
ITSELF and to govern itself, q system
ofexlernal checks and artificial rules /
it proceeds by policy OF hall dcz-
ing and Intimidation, endeav0ring 70
make unanimity by shutting up the
mouths on the other side Bot it is
more than expedient, it is Immoral.
| Il has obstructed true, healthy, per-
manent reform; has promoted the
growth of drunkenness has demor-
allied the community by its fanatic.
ism and its lack OF discrimination
Il regulates the diet Of the well by
the needs OF the sick, aud forges for
the Viuuous and the temperate the
bonds which arc needed cniy for the
vicious and the sef-indulgent; il
falsely assumes that moderate drink.
iug leads to drunkenness--a dogma
! contfadieted by the experience Of
millions upon millions Of the race
who have been accustomed to drink
wing and yet never knew drunken
/ ness it Ignores oil Determinations
rs between fermented and distilled
liquors, liquors pure and liquor.
adullerated, it represents all alcoho
as poison, whereas science shows
that etheFe is an essential difference
between the ehects Of laEge and small
quantities of alcohol, difference q
kind and not Of degree" It depends
for moral reform, on pledges not OF
permanent change Of character on .
contract, not on the moral sense; OF
resolutions signed under momentar,
excitement, not on principle, It do
bauches the conscience hy leading I,
a Wholesale making aud breaking q
I promises; and, finally, it includes il
/ It's condemnation of wine drinkers
as sinners, Jesus Christ and hi
apostles. who customafily and habit
rally used fermented wines ia an az
when drinking was universal an'
drunkenness not uncommon, and at
lcmpls to eyade so doing hy wrest
ing the Scriptures with learned ii
{ norance which is fairly splendid viii
boldness Over against the total ab
ainenoa system thus indicated b
DR. Howard Crosby sals ihe sysier
\ he would have temperance me-
{ adopt discriminating system Whic
would practically recognize the dil
ference between excess and modera
ton, and between injurious and harm
less drink. an honest system, whic
would deal fairly With history, sci
once and Scripture; e manly systel
which would have nc caut and q
ioolorv Of orders Or ribbons, degrad
inc 3 matter Of high principle 70 th
hocus poems 81 s child'a play 9 syl
tenn which would exclude distille
Nouors from common use as Q betei
ace. both by public opinion and b
law. and aould regulate The use (
tlnous and malt liquors, which woul
shut out from society lhe drinkn
uaaaes ehieh lead to excess. and fe
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