New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-28
rEuPER4ycE ~ the SOUTH
ADDRESSES or THE SUBJECT At THE NATIONAL
CAMP NETTING.

ADDREssEs OK THE SUBJECT AT THE NATIONAL
CAMP NETTING.
OCEAN GROVE, July 27.-At the National
Temperance Camp Meeting yesterday Tie BT
C. II. Mead, who has travelled estenss@T
through the Southern states rs Missionary o.
The National Temperance Society ldins~i
the people ON the "Froedman and Temperance
lie said that eight ont ~ ten white men n The sohh
are m favor of temperance This sentiment crude and
uncducatcd bat D. there and The general scuneu'
against the dram shop II II said that the coorei people
are di,n5nc.t and immoral They increasing RAPIDLY
and il ,nccesslry 10 scatter The seeds ~ ln0eein
among these people that they may be INTEL gcat ana
temperate. lie called ot cabin iust on the eve @'
county election for local option. ilc said Uncle Ts'
going 20 vote IN this county" "You l. - slid ihe Oh
man. WHO'S soin' to ran ~
We are going 10 vote on u question:"
" Is that 40 !" ,aid tAe old man.
"Ics Wc.trc going % Voie on the temperance fiesu'
aud we want your vote.
Won, can have H." said the Old man, and going mo
IN, c,on he took from behind the clio x a wrll-won
copy Of Ils IOph's TcD eraUcc Banner aud ut't whd
hal been given to bis srnIcbldb " tho district ,cao@
teacher.
Tine National Temperance Society last year scattered
$4,000 worth OF literature throughout tne soalsS
etats4 Five dollars would reach TWO thousand peops
During his tour he spoke TO 100000 co'ored peop'@
They are anxious 10 receive tie Literature ana 'i'
calling for it faster than the means cons
IN 40 furnish H. The white people received
hin, gladly The Old times going by AMI the go
times are coming on These people are lihltd,e.
pick ny vice; they viii pick up virtue ana cn'6''A
Mr. Mead SAID that he gathered long list OF names -
IA, owupis of which he intended 10 wiite tl's D..
day on looking this list ne found thr 1s u nm,
Xeionce Thom9s He did not know whelhsr .h I'M Rs
brlsugrd to a man OF woman, gfl OF Doi,,s,rsri
wrote Ia Perseverance Thomas. rive NecA rts,sas II
I've received n letter signed Perseverance Ibom' "a,
read: 'sc so. Your letter Is" ninety yn wears and
bera to the post Once every day or Tcn write
never. got Letter 5iore: Wy ui 10 send has
JrcSs NJ letters 10 these people II these p.Vfr NM,
/ ever raised up the people OF the 'O'
10 Ne Rev J. C. Price president Of Zion Wesley n, /,
salisbury. \. C., was then lntroduceo, i; II was he
large pure5loOjod negro lie said u we. IN, pesrss
gospel phase OF temperance that c1pu'Nes -, .rssd
/ Ihry are not found ia the opera hOuses 11sv sns
amusement They are intensely rrnglS.'
vita fervOr and often compose - 'hsl 90 TIA afefnoOa
meeting for theJoung girs " - Ielt ,,,os oi Name
! ]. r. Finch, Of Nebraska, aud Mrs. PaEtihs'0"'
| delivered addresses. - .ttsnded -
! A good audience, in spite Of the ram %aonyersap
meeting OF the em lerauce society ana teo Vsx D.
OF the ocean Grove Association to-day ~, "a Iegs
| Nail of New York Ciy, delivered serso Ever
Prohibition the great watchwOrd Of the akos, vhc1
age he said has some great DIES polish % ma ure
il il called 10 contend AMI just 80 tar a. se hrsan
~ M of tsis question will inlare toe op-
u.lity of the church. The question OF leJty OF ne
! nectcd to-day with the success ana pt11pg themselves
am ch of God When the Israelites alhcd 10 OI
with dOlary they encountered wars ~ asrs In tel
great men and women must be clean sns say eonifs
practice and lives Some cry caution sIolairy y
n by high license. God did not destroy P sess 10
ceusng IT, lie bade the rsaetes 60 w ~, had no
land OF the Cansanites. and when tses W ~ re s1c
cess Ours Is the duiy God will take cars hs st.s -
We want legal prohibition by tho country INA usorLy
the city. The people are being .e,iou which -
OF our cause. We arc tho eve OF an Of W.
| show a great adyancement IN the NOR" 'S
| people on tins Question