Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-08-24
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Extracts From M Address OF ueo. W.
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nne-tentls ut The states Of this land de-
cltring Tor license" Said /, at is Bat.
tie between right pnd wrong up to license
nnd prohibition. That IL nothing new
II wns begun in the G,rtrn Of Eden, the
devil being for licrnse, Go eat; : Gud ior
prohibition, Thou shnlt not Tltnnk Gud
il il better now than II was in Ellen, for
there, Adam ard Eve we're both for
license hut now the Adams are divided,
and the Eves are all on our side. [Greut
Arplause1 / am nstonlshed Mr.. Char
man, at Northern people saying, "You
can't" ! hear fifty of yoa saying Cant"
where hear one down South. We learn
ell better than that twenty odd years ago.
Langhter.] We don't say il any more.
Pardon me, You people OF the Nor,l, can't
do it with high license. That is another
Missouri Compromise. You can't do IT,.
Let me say to you gentleman, tonight,
you can't afford for any amount OF money
TO set up legalized temptations around tile
pathway of the youth OF this country.
Moral nature is a very tender plant, any
way. IL has about all il can do TO with
stand the natural temptations. Legalized
temptation is like taking tender plant
and sending il ont amid the winter storms.
Outside these walls Tonight are 100000
habitual drunkards tramping, tramping
tramping to the dead march to the drunk
ard's grave, partly as the result of the
legalized temptation of The drink traffic.
Let me say more as Southern man,
with experience bathed IN blood and tears,
beware how you pile up revenue IN an un-
righteous business. You warned us fifty
years ago. Let me warn you now. Let
me ask you, gentlemen, what was the re-
gal state OF this Union eighty years ago
Old Virginia, queen of the states, mother
OF presidents. She held the key to the
front door Of the American Republic.
She had the broadest Bea-board, the center
oil the seacoast, the beautiful Chesapeake
harbor she was rich in gold and granite
salt and silver, iron and coal and lumber
double the population of New York, the
biggest trade in the Union; before her lay
the broad ocean and behind her the rich
valley OF the West, and across the soil of
old Virginia should have gone trunk lines
of railroads bearing that wealth of the
ocean. Why did not they go2 Why did
not old Virginia keep her place when she
stood in the front You answer me, be-
cause OF African slavery. Yes; but hold
on. In the beginning old Virginia did
not want slaves. She appealed TO King
George to take them away, and he refused
Alter while, slaves began to be worth
$500, the price of a saloon in Ohio now
then they went up TO $500, the price of n
saloon in Minnesota; and then they went
up TO 81 900, the price of saloon IN Ne
braska and then the voice of conscience
was hushed. Old Virginia piled up re-
venge in her slaves, and then she stood by
them. She said ''They are here. We
didn't pnt them here, but they are here
now, and We had better make the best Of
it,"and there she stood till her fields were
desolated, her mines locked up, her indup-
try paralized railroads bore the wealth of
the world around her, her soil became n
grave yard OF her dead. No wonder Presi-
dent Eyler, OF that great distilling COM
pany OF Nebraska, said, in reply 10 the
question, "How do you like high license p,
1T is the hest thing we have had. Take
vote Tomorrow Of the liquor men on
high license, or low license, and we'll vote
unanimously ior high license" Every
saloon is worth a thousand dollars, and
that bushes conscience. Now, a thousand
dollar saloon in Nebraska; then thous-
add dollar negro in Virginia. The good
people mp North are now saying, at is
here"
But you tell me tonight that il piles up
revenue IN your treasury. Does il? You
told us fifty years ago that slavery was Il
curse, and would run us down South, and
We said, Ruin us? Look at onr waving
fields OF cotton, and cotton is king; Look
at our magnificent homes, our carriages |;
look at our women sitting back in the par
lors with negroes to wait on them, aud
yours up North out in the kitchen over
the cooking-sioves. Ruin us? Ruin us
some more" But we lived TO find our
fields fenceless, our spirit broken, our soil
washed with our hearts blood of our
cliliien and kindred. / warn you, men
of the North, beware how you mike n ga
lonn in the North of the same money
valne that we'made slave down in The
South. [Aprlause
Sometime ago, after a lecture along this
inc, n gentleman said to me: "Sir, that
wa" very earnest appeal yon made Tor
total abstinence. But now, I'i like to ask
yon question. Don't You think the Bible
approves the use OF wine somewhere p,
"Yrs, j think 1t does" "Well, / didn't
ilink you'd say so. Do not yon think the
Savior made it ?" Il know he did," "Yon
are not going to oppose what lie made, are
yon" mo, slr. not II yon'll make il like
he did, out of water" "You dont say
there are two kinds of wine?" said, 81
dOni believe The wine God blesses, ia the
kind he curses. don't believe my Savior
wonld he wine bibber." lie said, 81
link you aTe wrong" l said. ave won',
quarrel about it. But, thank God,
would rather search my Bible for permiss-
ion to give mp that over which my brother
might stumble into ruin, than to see how
far might 60 without sin."
1 say 10 drink intox xicnlina liquor as a
beverage in this enlightened age, with lIp
woes OF intemperante around us, is viola
tion Of every immutable principle laid
down in the Bible. First, it ls against the
law OF prudence, which says, "Of two poss-
ible paths you shall take the sfer one.'
Next, 1t is against the law Of humanity.
Next, ii is against the faw of human broth.