The Portland daily press., 1883-05-02
w. G. t. U.
"For COD. and Home, and Natire Land"

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National Union, II has ever been our aim 10
avoid all narrowness or restriction in the work.
The whole country has been the object OF our
interest and endeavor, recognizing no north, no
south, no east no west, we have labored only
for native land ,as including and embracing all.
Ours has been u union In the broadcast sense OK
that term: laying aside all sectional prejudice,
overstepping all dividing lines We have striven
the north with the south, the east with the
west, for the salvation of the whole nation
from the terrible curse of incompetence.
The superintendent Of southern work has
during the last few weeks been visiting some
of the Southern States. The following ex-
tracts from a letter Just received will show
what is being done:
BY invitation, went last week TO Port Roy
al City; that is the name OF the place, but why
they call 1t "oity" Is 3 problem II is one only
by brevet, and reminds me of that great city
spoken OF In the Bible, where "the Inhabitants
were few and the houses not yet built" Port
Royal City Is not quite so bad as that; for
there are houses, and inhabitants too, but such
dwartng OF imagination as l experienced
upon reaching the great city" was lndicrous
in the extreme.
In the temperance work among the whites,
! was assisted by two gentlemen, one had been
Ia the United States navy, the other had given
leg Ia the Southern cause. "The Blue and
the Gray both now enlisted under the banner
Of the Prince Of Peace. / formed Unions
among both the whites and oolored, and hope
they may drive out the Saloons and make
Fort Royal the Eden nature intended she
should be,
went from Port Royal to Allendale, one Of
the pret.iest towne in the State, but one Of the
most whiskey cursed. The saloon keepers
managed matters with high hand, and deaths
caused from Drinking were frequent. We took
tho place for temperance, and hundreds signed
the pledge. l talked three times day. Mer.
chants left their business and attended every
service. Men who had not been inside OF a
church Tor fifteen years, came TO hear me, and
signed the pledge Some old topeys have stop
ped at the very graves mouth; and young men
who had just stepped into the .perilons floods,
have signed off for ever.
/ carried tho motto of our Union with me,
and the recruits all enlisted to fight tor 'God
and Home, and Native land,
On the second evening spoke fer the color
ed people, aud We had to refuse admission 10
many whites. They decorated their church.
aud such inspiring songs have not heard in
years. While the signers lwere putting their
names to the pledge, the choir and audience
sang,
The storm is heavy, aud the winds ara loud,
Oh take mo In the Life Boat
The thunders rolling and bursting in the cloud
oh, take me In the Lite Boat.
Take me in the Life Boat, take me In the Life Boat
Take me IN the Life Boat II perish, If you don't
Can You wonder every one In the crowded
church Joined? And then the pastor rose and
said to the choir, Nov we are all on board,
come down and join Us, they came In body
and signed.
They thanked me, and expressed the great
est qualification at being addressed by one Of
their own ladies, who was obliged 10 feel more
interest In them than strangers possibly could
Which is the truth, / told them that when our
fathers, husbands and brothers were away In
the war, they helped us take care OF our homes
aud had come to ask them to help us again,
From all over the house came the response.
"We will do it," When tidings came OF loved
ones Slam in battle, their grief was loud and
long. / reminded them OF it, and told them OF
the slain In our households now, and how they
could stop 1t. They promised by standing,
never again TO vote for license, and as they are
in the majority, liquor is doomed In Allendale,
and the liquor dealers know 1t. They 'sh ad
prevented men from lecturing on temperance
IN their town, but lady, and one of their own
ladies, too that was a factor they had not
taken into the account, 80 they looked on in
amazement at the crowds going to temperance
meeting, and peeped at me as passed from
behind their doors. leave for New Orleans
and other places south and west in an hour.
There's union Of lakes, union OF lands.
Union that none can sever
Here's union Of hearts, union OF hands,
God bless both unions forever.
NOTES.
DR.. Norman Kerr, recently stated in Exeter
Hall, that OF "a 900 900 cases of disease every
year in the United Kingdom, large proper
ton arose from indulgence in intoxicants.
Some seventy diseases are described as arising
directly from alcohol. The estimated annual
mortality, caused directly, and Indirectly by
drinking, was given at 10000.
In days past have seen some drunkenness
and the effects thereof. have seen the dead
bands; have seen the best men in America
90 down 10 disgraceful graves, have seen for
tunes wrecked, prospects blighfeds and have
perused a great many pages OF statistics.
There are crimes on the calendar not resulting
from rum, but were rum eliminated, the cata-
logue would be so reduced as TO make il hardly
worth the compiling. Directly or indirectly.
rum is chargeable with good ninety per cent.
OF the woes that affict our conntry.-Nasby,
in the Toledo (0.l Blade.
The first temperance meeting ever held on
this continent took place Just twenfy-eigift
years alter the landing OF the Pilgrims, at a
small trading post near Quebec. The orator of
the day WAS an Indian chief, recently convert
ed, whose plea, that all his tribe should take
The total abstinence pledge, met hearty re-
Spouse from the swarthy red men who had al
ready learned the direfnl effects OF fire water.
Signal.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who. in his
character Of wit and poet, has said great
sioDaily, once made remark like this.-sPeo-
pie think the doctor can do almost anything IL
he is only sent for In time; and that is true,
but In time often means two hundred years
previous, and people seldom s0nd so early as
that" Bat that is exactly what we propose 10
do IN this temperance work, which so sadly
needs acknowledgement,
At banquet given by the Social Temper
anoe Unioh 10 Boston the Rev. Edward Hale
spoke on the Improvement OF Temperance in
the World" He said the cause of temperance
is not going back, whatever may be said to tho
contrary. A letter was read from England
proving by statistics that the English drink
ago.
Mr.. Williams Of Cambridge, the next
speaker, stated as an evidence OF improve
ment that ffty-six years ago more ardent liq-
orr was drank in Cambridge than now. In
Harvard College, with thirteen hund red
there Is less drinking now than with five hum
died thirty-seven years ago.-Boston Journal