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VERMONT TELEGRAPH.
No. 16 Vol. VIII..
er, that when they hare them they do not
know it, and so do not cherish, and yield
to them, and preserve them. We are sen
sible of nothing in the case, only the move
ment of our own minds. There is noth
ing elso that eon be felt ; W e are mere y
cnsible that our thoughts are intensely
employed on a certain subject Chris
tians are often unnecessarily misled and
distressed on this point, for fear they hare
-why should they not be distressed, when
thev think of their condition? They
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keep thinking abont them' all the time,
and why shouldn't they be distressed T V
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the time these things do not atlect you
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nrt the Spirit of Gcd. They feel intense- flnd ourself Is it possible, that I
ly, but they know what makes ; them feeL shoud ' a with God ioelete the
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to agonize in prayer for them? What
can it be butthi Spirit of God T There
are no deviU that would lead you so. If
your feelings are truly benevolent, you
are to consider it as the Holy Spirit lead
ing you to pray for things according to
tne win 01 uoa.
2. Try the spirits by the Bible. Peo
pie are sometimes led away by strange
wniasies ana crazy impulses. it you
compare them faithfully with the Bible,
you never neca ro lea astray, y ou can
always know whether your feelings are
produced by tho Spirit s influences, by
comparing your desires with the spirit
and temper of religion, as described in the
Bible. .The Bible commands you to try
the spirits. "Beloved, believe not every
spirit, but try the spirits, whether they be
of God.'
VII. How shall we get this influence
of the Spirit of God
. 1. It must be sought by fervent, believ-
lngprayCE. Uhnst says, Mll ye then,
being evil, know how to give good gifts
to. your children, how much more shall so entirely curtained with fruit as to resem
your, heavenly Father give the Holy ble a heap of apples resting upon columns.
Spirit to them that ask it 1" Does any one
say, a nave praycq ior ii, ami u uues uui i
W I . 1 r 'A 1 A J 4 1
come i ii is Decause you ao noi pray
aright rYe ask and receive not, because
ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it up-1
on your lusts. ' You ao not pray irom
right motives. A professor of religion,
and a principal member in a church, once
asked a minister what ho thought of his I
case i ne naa been praying week after
week for the Spirit, and had not found
any benefit. The minister asked him
what' his motive was in praying. He
said he wanted to be happy. He knew
those who had the Spirit were happy, and
he wanted to enjoy his mind as they did.
Why, the devil himself might pray so.
That is mere selfishness. The roan turn
ed away in anger. He saw that he had
never lenown what it was to pray. He
was convinced he was a hypocrite, and
that his prayers were all selfish, dictated
only by a desire for his own happiness.
David prayed that God would uphold
him by nis free Spirit, that he might teach
transgressors and turn sinners to God.
A Christian should pray for the Spirit,
that he maybe the more useful and glori
fy God more ; not that he himself may
bo more happy. This man saw clearly
where he had been in error, and he was
.Converted. Perhaps many here have
been just so. You ought to examine and
see if all your prayers are not selfish.
2. Use the means adapted to stir up
your minds on the subject, and to keep
.your attention fixed there. v If a man prays
for the Spirit, and then diverts his mind
to other objects; uses no other means, but
goes right away to worldly objects, he
tempts God, he swings loose from his ob
ject, and it would be a miracle if he should
ret what he nravs for. How is a sinner
to get conviction?. Why, by thinking of
his sins. ,That is the way tor a -Christian
to obtain deep feeling, by thinking on
trie subject. God Is not going to pour
these thine-s on vou. without any effort
ot your own. i ou must cherish the
slightest impressions. Take the Bible,
and go over the passages that show the
condition and prospects of the world.
Look at the world, look at vour children.
and yours neighbors,' and see their con
dition while they remain in sin, and per
severe in pTayer and effort till you obtain
the blessing of the Spirit of God to dwell
in you. Ihis was the way, doubtless.
that Dr. Watts came to hare the feelings
which he has described in the second
Hymn of the second Book, which you
would do well to read alter you go home.
3Hy thtmshtt on swful tuSfecU roll,
' Dimnatiou and the detdl
4, What honor teiza Um guilt muI
. Upon a dying bed f
. . - Lingering bout these mortal ahore,
She makes a long delay r
' Till, lika a flood, with rapid force
; Death a weepe the wretch away.
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. Then .swift and dreadful, ihe descends
' Down to the fiery coasts, f
Amongst abominable fiends.
Herself a frighted'ghost.
There roflea crowds of sinners liy
And darkneas makes their chains;.
. Tortured with keen despair they cry,
Vet wait for fiercer pains. ?
. Kota'l their anguish and their blood
Ecr their past guilt ateae, ,
Nor the compassion of a Cod '
Shall hearken .to their groans.
Amazing grace, that kept my breath,
Wot bid my touireawT.
TiH ! had letmed my Savior I death,
And wtll inturedbia love (
Look, as it were, through a telescope
that will bring it un near to you look in
to hell, and hear them groan : then turn
the glass upwards and look at heaven, and
see the saints there, in their white robes,
with their harps in their hands, and hear
them sing the song of redeeming love;
if Vi
a wicked man, and a stranger to God,
you will soon ave as much of the spirit
prayer as your Doay can sustain.
3. You must watch unto prayer. You
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grants the blessing when you ask him.-
u si Keep a iuuk. vui, cuju occ h vjruu
1W,U ,rtotm, miv. n,1 novor lnnl-
see if the prayer is granted. Be careful
also, not to gneve the Spirit of God. Con
vout sins. God will
neTer leadyou as one of his hidden ones,
you into his secrets., unless you
confess ana iorsaice your sins. iot b
.
alway:
confess and forsake too. Make redress
wherever you have commiued an injury
You cannot expect to get the spirit of
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prayer first, and then repent. You can't
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fight it through so. Professors of religion
"to e Pd unyielding, and justi
rv themselves, never will lorce Ood to
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dwell with them
Aim to obey perfectly the written
with sin. Aim at being entirely above
the worW; "Be ye perfect even as your
Ftaer, ".f 13 P.rfect . f UJ sin
at1a11', let rt 3four eef- The man
who doe8notaim at this, mean3to live in
sin. Such a man need not expect God's
blessing, for he is not sincere in desiring
to keep all his commandments.
VIII. For whom docs the Spirit inter
cede ?
Answer He maketh intercession for
the saints, for all saints, for any who are
saints.
MISCELLANEOUS.
AN EXUBERANT ORCHARD.
From the Providence Journal.
Towards the close of last summer we
visited several times the orchard of Mr
Thomas Greene, of Pawtuxet as one of
the most beautiful and gratifying exhibi-
tions of fructification we have ever beheld.
Most of the trees were so laden with apples
of the fairest quality as to require a prop
under each limb, and some of them wrere
The orchard stood upon about an acre of
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ground, ana cuniaineu uiiny-uve irees.
.cigni oi mese irees were smau, irom
which, we have since been informed by
Mr Greene, he gathered only from a bush-
el to a bushel and nail to a tree, t iQm
three of the other trees he fathered 27
bushels each, and from two ethers 30 bush-
els each. The whole: product of the or
chard was a little over 400 bushels, out of
which, after havieg dried 12 bushels, made
12 barrels of cider, and sold GO bushels of
fall apples. Mr Greene informs us he
has 220 bushels of winter apples in his
cellar. During the summer he also took
two tons of millet hay from the same acre
of land. But what is the most remarka
ble fact in the history of this orchard is,
as we are assured by Mr Greene and
some of his neighbors, that when the land
upon which this orchard stands came into
his possession, it was an unproductive,
drilling sand flat, upon which there was
no vegetation except such brushes as had
been planted upon it by his father to pre
vent the wind from blowing the sand about.
Outside of the orchard fence ihe land is
still a naked white sand. But this ster
ile waste has been brought to its present
state of almost unexampled fertility, solely
by the application of fash as a manure.
Mr Greene says he ploughs in about 45
barrels of fish per year, costing generally
from eight to nine dollars, and that if he
should omit this application of manure for
a few years, the soil, which is now of a
dark yellow color, would doubtless bleach
out again to the Quality of white sand, and
become as unproductive as ever. So much
will good husbandry do towards causing
the desert to blossom like the rose."
From the Christian Mirror.
APPLES AGAINST CIDER.
Some readers of the Mirror may not
see the importance of discussing-the expe
diency of making and usin&r cider. Let
these be told that some farmers make 20
or 30 or 40 birrels of cider a year : and
tht some individuals are supposed to drink
alone five to ten barrels a vear ; and that
drunkenness to stupidity is often occasioned
by cider. Let them be told also that 7
quarts of cider contain the alcohol of one
auart of West India Rum. Let them be
told also tnai li is caicuiaiea mai me ciaer
made from apples will barely pay for the
labor of making it, without anything for
the fruit Let them be told too that from
a third to half a million of barrels of cider
are made and drunk in Mame yearly.
Let them be told this, and they may see
that the cider-question is one of great im
portance.
, I here set apples against cider. Since
cider has been going down in estimation,
apple have been going up. The state
ment is made that a bushel of apples is
worth more than a bushel of potatoes for
making pork and beef This is against
all my suppositions from my own eating
of apples and potatoes ; and yet " I do not
know how to deny the correctness of the
opinion of those persons who have made
hogs;weigh three or four hundred pounds
clear by apples alone, with very little
com. It is stated that a gentleman in
Kennebec County has made the experi
ment scientifically, and found that his hog
gained (he same in one week On sour ap-
I aiuucr mere i i- uuu i vuu aicuui
pies that it had gained another week on
sweet apples, and more than it had gained
a week on the same quantity of potatoes.
lnese statements plead powerfully for
apple trees, and will defend many from
he fatal axe. These beautiful domestic
trees may vet live : and mav adorn the
neighborhoods of our houses and the
sides of our roads, and spread wide their
leaty boughs; and nut forth their fair fra
grant blossoms, and hang out their bright,
ruddy fruit, and occasion no sour, foul and
alcoholic odor. Let our farmers try the
experiment, and tell us the result; and
they may say to city families, "We cannot
afford to make you cider from our apples.
l ney are worth too much to us to be con
verted into a liquor whose real value is
doubtful both to the maker and the con
sumer." The question has been made, when ci
der has been assailed, what shall we do
with our apples? WThat shall we do with
our fruit trees ? The answer is sugges
ted in this article: and the farmers of
Maine may yet find that their orchards
are the most productive parts of their
farms; not by making men drunk, but
by making hogs andjpattle fat.
God is blessing us by our temperance
inquiries and labors ; and when we give
up our sins, and fear we shall suffer great
loss, we find to our surprise that we make
great gain. May the blessing of Jehovah
rest abundantly on those who study and
labor, and are ready to suffer, that they
may promote the sacred cause of tepr.
apce, p.
POWER OF CONSCIENCE
Mr Joel Davis of Sussex a poor man
but a sincere christian, had been in the
habit of distilling and vending brandy be
fore the agitation of the temperance ques
tion in his neighborhood. When first
urged to attach himself to a Temperance
Society he refused to do so. At length he
attended a temperance meeting and heard
some temperance addresses, and was so
fully convicted of the error of his way,
that he arose in the coneree-ation and
said, 4 1 have objected to the Temperance
Society because I have an orchard and a
still, and by making and selling brandy, I
have been able to buy clothes for my chil
dren. I am a poor man. and have to work
hard, and if I give up my still, it will be
very difficult for me to clothe my little
ones. But I am convinced that I have
been wrong, (or words to this effect,) I
will join your Society, and beat up my
still and sell it for old copper.' He forth
with joined the Temperance Society.
Mark the result ! by the advice and per
suasion of his friends instead of destroying
his still he sold it for fifty dollars. As vol
untarily contributions fifty dollars more was
raised for him. Since then, his hogs have
had the benefit of one hall of his apples.
The other half has been converted into
vinegar, which he has sold for more mo
ney than he ever re?JI?:ed, during the same
time, from all his apples when converted
into orandy. He states that since he has
abandoned the sale and use of brandy, he
has been subjected to less inconvenience
and expense than before, and has enjoyed
much more peace of mind. He has lately
sold his little place at a fair price, and has
now no orchard, and consequently no need
of a still.
Verilv, every thing works together for
good to those who love and fear God.
Heating Rooms without wood or coal.
There is nothing even in this day of in
ventions with which we have been more
pleased, than a neat little affair recently
invented, and now on sale in this city, for
heating rooms without the aid of wood or
coal. The apparatus to which we refer.
consists of a lamp, a boiler, and a radiator
or stove. They are so constructed as to
produce any required degree of heat,
merely by burning the steam of rum, whis
key or any other ardent spirit. The steam
is generated in the boiler by the heat of
the lamp, and is forced through blow pipes
into the radiator or stove, where it heats a
current of air which is made to pass
through it. The boiler, with the pipe at
tached to it by the act of sclt-acting blow
pipe, the power of which is one of the
greatesl known to art, is in this apparatus
to act upon the atmosphere in such man
ner as to produce great heat at a trifling
expense. The article is small, neat and
portable, and indeed a very pretty orna
ment, not unfit for a centre table. It oc
cupies not more than a square foot, and
weighs about twlenty pounds. A compa
ny has been formed for the manufacture
of these articles. We witnessed one of
them a few days aero. The quantity of
heat sent forth was astonishing. They
are accompanied with no danger. We
shall speak again of this neat, useful and
economical invention. JV. Y. Times.
Amalgamation. Slave holders and
their apologists say that abolitionists want
to amalgamate the blacks with the whites.
But we are prepared to prove by facts,
that slaveholders teach by their practice
this doctrine. A young man who was
travelling at the south not long since, hap
pened to meet a company of about twenty
young men at a hotel ; and as the liquor
which they drank began to operate, one
and another began to tell of the debau
cheries they had committed, and they all
finally acknowledged that they were in
the habit of committing fornication and
adultery with the female slaves. And we
want no better evidence of the fact, than
what we have seen in the streets of Charles
ton, S. C. We allnde to the various col
ors of the colored population.
It is understood that these young men
are all slaveholders or the sons of slave
holders. Illuminator.
A Short Dialogue. When do you in
tend Mr B., to leave off" selling intoxicat
ing liquoT ?' said a bystander to a land
lord. ' When respectable men leave off
buying,' was the laconic reply.
CONGRESSIONAL.
From the National Intelligencer.
IN SENATE Tuesday, De. 29th.
Public Lands, Sales Distribution.
Mr Clay rose, and addressed the chair.
Although (said he) I find myself borne
down by the severest affliction with which
Providence has ever been pleased to visit
me, I have thought that my private griefs
ought not longer to prevent me from at
tempting, ill as I feel qualified, to discharge
my public duties. And I now rise, in
pursuance of the notice which has been
given, to ask leave to introduce a bill
to appropriate, for a limited time, the pro
ceeds of the sales of the public lands of the
United S.tates, and for granting land to cer
tain States.
I feel it incumbent on me to make a
brief explanation of the highly important
measure which I have now the honor to
propose. The bill which I desire to in-
troduce, provides for the distribution of
the proceeds of the public lands in the
years 1833, 34, 35, 36, and 37, among the
twenty-four states Qf the Union, and con
forms substantially to that which passed
in 1&33. It is therefore of a temporary
character ; but if it shall be found to have
a salutary operation it will be in the pow
er of a future Congress to give it an indefi
nite continuance; and, if otherwise, it will
expire by its own terms. In the event of
War unfortunately breaking out with any
foreign power, the bill is to cease, and the
fund which it distributes is to be applied to
the prosecution of the war. The bill di
rects that ten per cent, of the nett proceeds
of the public lands, sold within the limits
of the seven new states, shall be first set
apart for them, in addition to the. five per
cent, reserved by their several compacts
with the United States ; and that the resi
due of the proceeds, whether from sales
made in the states and territories, shall be
divided among the twenty-four states, in
proportion to their respective federal pop
ulation. In this respect the bill conforms
to that which was introduced in 1832.
For one, I should have been willing to
have allowed the new states 12 1-2 instead
of 10 per cent.; but as that was objected
to by the President, in his veto-message,
and has been opposed in other quarters, 1
thought k best to restrict the allowance to
the more moderate sum. The bill also
contains large and liberal grants of land to
several of the new states, to place them
upon an equality with others to which the
bounty of Congress has been heretofore
extended, and provides that when other
new states shall be admitted into the
Union, they shall receive their share of
the common fund.
The nett amount of the sales of the pub
lic lands in the year 1833 was the sum of
$3,967,682 55, in the year 1834 was
$4,857,600 69, and in the year 1835, ac
cording to actual receipts in the three first
quarters, and an estimate of the fourth, is
12,222,121 15 making an aggregate
for the three years of $21,047,404 39.
This aggregate is what the bill proposes
to distribute and pay to the twenty-four
states on the 1st of May, 1836, upon the
principles which I have stated. The dif
ference between the estimate made by the
Secretary of the Treasury and that which
I have offered of the product of the last
quarter of this year, arises from my hav
ing taken, as the probable sum, one third
of the total amount of the first three quar
ters, and he some other conjectural sum.
Deducting from the $21,047,404 39 the
fifteen per cent, to which the seven new
states, according tothe bill, will be first
entitled, amounting to $2,6i2,250 18,
there will remain for distribution among
the twenty-four states of the Union, the
sum of $18,435,054 21. Of this sum the
proportion of Kentucky will be $960,947
41 of Virginia, the sum of $1,581,669
39 of North Carolina, $988,632 42
and of Pennsylvania, $2,083,233 32.
The proportion of Indiana, including the
fifteen per cent., will be $855,588 23 of
Ohio, $1,677,110 84 and of Mississippi,
$958,945 42. And the proportions of all
the twenty-four states are indicated in a
table which I hold in my hand, prepared
at my instance in the office of the Secreta
ry of the Senate, and to which any senator
may have access. The grounds on
which the extra allowance is made to the
new states are, first, their complaint that
all lands sold by the federal government
are five years exempted from state taxa
tion ; secondly, that it is to be applied in
such manner as will augment the value
of the unsold public lands within them ;
and, lastly, their recent settlement.
REDUCTION OF THE REVENUE.
Mr. Calhoun offered the
lution :
following reso-
Resolved, That the Report of the Secre
tary of the Treasury of the 15th inst., rela
tive to the duties that may be repealed, be re
ferred to the Committee on Manufactures,
with instructions to report a bill providing
for the reduction or repeal of all duties, which
in their opinion may be reduced or repealed,
consistently with a due regard to the manu
facturing interests;
Mr. Calhoun, on offering this resolution,
adverted to the immense surplus which was
daily accruing in the public treasury, to
which we must look for an immense increase
of power in the hands of the Executive Gov
ernment, and the overspreading of the coun
try with corruption and subserviency. This
was not a proper occasion to discuss the ac
tual condition of the treasury ; but Lf it were,
it would not be difficult to snow that the ac
tual surplus in the treasury was now from
21 to 22 millions, and that in the coming
year it would be scarcely short of 30 mill
ions. With this immense revenue at the
disposal of the President, in banks under his
control? and subject to be withdrawn at his
discretion, it would be in vain, all our efforts
would be impotent, to oppose the executive
will. On this point therefore, the battle would
have to be fought between power and liber
ty. All other measures which could be de
vised, would fall short of wrrrectinff the dan
ger to be apprehended from the march of
i pow er, uui u au tnose who were opposed
to the usurpations of the government could
be brought zealously to unite in arresting the
funds arising out of the revenue, as far as
they could, in their passage to the public
treasury, and would snatch from the grasp of
the executive the funds which have already
accumulated in his hands, there would be
still ground for the hope that the comse of
power would be stayed.
Every dollar, said Mr. C, we can prevent
from coming into the treasury, or every dol
lar thrown back into the hands of the people,
will tend to strengthen the cause of liberty,
and unnerve the arm of power. He hoped
that the Committee on Manufactures would
take up the report with an earnest desire to
repeal and reduce all those duties that can be
reduced or repealed without injury to the
manufacturing interest. In doing this they
will feel that they are not only aiding in the
cause of reform as far as it can be assisted by
these means, but that they are also contribu
ting to the prosperity of that particular inter
est of which they are the special guardians,
since every reduction of duty, and every tax
removed, while it cheapens the cost of pro
duction at home, and thus benefits our own
manufacturer, will open the prospect of se
curing the foreign market. As there will be
the two interests thus concurring to favor re
duction, he hoped the Committee on Manu
factures would consider the subject and re
port, at as early a period as possible, all the
reductions which can be made without inju
ry to the manufacturing interest.
Mr. Davis said he was not quite prepared
to vote at once for the proposition of the gen
tleman from South Carolina. It had come
upon him suddenly, and he was not prepar
ed to underhand the exact extent of the prop
osition, as he had not in his mind the pre
cise propositions of the Secretary of the
Treasury on this subject. Therefore, he was
rather unwilling to vote for an instruction to
the committee, for it would be seen that this
was not in the shape of an inquiry .but a per
emptory instruction, touching an interest of
the first magnitude, and a measure ot a very
important character, which was adopted a
few years since. He hoped the Senate would
not be called on to vote an instruction of this
importance before they had had time to ex
amine its character. He had only risen to
express the hone that the Senator from South
Carolina would not press his resolution at
this moment.
Mr. Calhoun replied, that there could be
no difficulty on this subject. The Commit
tee on Manufactures would have to examine
and ascertain what duties might be reduced
or repealed. The Secretary of the Treasu
ry had recommended some, and given a list
of others, and it was for the committee to in
vestigate the subject. He would not wish
to touch a single article that could injure
the manufacturer.
Mr. Davis suggested that he might prob
ably concur in all the views of the Senator
from South Carolina, if he had time to look
into the report ; but, at present, he would on
ly ask that the resolution be permitted to lie
on the table until to-morrow.
Mr. Calhocn assented to the request, and
the resolution was laid on the table.
THE TELEGRAPH,
JANUARY 14
TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
From the New-York Observer.
Yocng Men's Total Abstinence Socie
ty. The first annual meeting of the Young
Men's Total Abstinence Society of the city
of New-York was held in Chatham-street
chapel, on Wednesday evening. The meet
ing was addressed by tne Rev. Albert Barnes,
of Philadelphia, the Rev. Dr. Beaman, of
Troy? and the Rev. C. G. Finney, of this
city, in a manner calculated to leave a deep
impression of the importance of maintaining
the principles of a voluntary total absti
nence from all uae, as a beverage.of every
species of intoxicating liqnor. in regard
to abstinence from the use of wine at the sa
crament, and all other ultraism, the remarks
which were made were entirely satisfactory.
We are happy to learn that 180 new names
were subscribed to the pledge of the Society
at this meeting, and that their whole number
is now about 400. We hope to be able,
next week, to give a sketch of some of the
speeches. At present, we have room only
for the following letter from the Hon. Mr.
Frelinghuysen, which was read to the meet
ing. Newark, Nov. 23, 1835.
Mr. Hiram Barney :
Dear Sir, I duly received your invi
tation to the meeting of your Total Absti
nence Society, on the last Wednesday eve
ning in December. While I must decline
your kind request by reason of the many en
gagements that will occupy me, I tender my
cordial best wishes for your success. I do
firmly believe that to the young men of our
country it would be a blessed deliverance
from danger, to have them all renounce the
use of intoxicating stimulants. There is
surely no moral or christian obligation upon
any to drink wine or malt liquors, and when
we have reached such an alarming crisis,
when intemperance seems to return upon us
with aggravated power, the occasion de
mands some sacrifice, and that we should de
ny ourselves, even in things that are lawful,
if we may thereby, by the blessing of God,
arrest this burning tide.
Yours, very respectfully,
Theo. Freunghuysen.
Temperance Societies are now being form
ed in ail parts of the Country, on the ground
of total abstinence from all intoxicating
drinks. These are the true measures. No
thing less will secure the original object of
Temperance Societies. It is vain for the
wine-drinker to reprove the whiskey-drinker;
indeed, he cannot reprove him. He
may talk to him, but his words are power-
less: tney carry no reproot, they do no
good, they are accompanied with no evi
dence that they proceed from right motives.
If a man may persist in drinking wine be
cause he loves it, why might he not have
continued to drink rum for the same reason 1
And Why is a man's appetite for cider any
more justification for its use as a drink, than
for the use of alcohol in a more condensed
state ?
It is now beyond controversy that wine
and cider contain proportions of alcohol,
And will a temperance man justify himself
in the moderate use of alcohol because it is
but a little that hp takes, and that in a dilu-
ted state ; and because he loves it and thblu
it does him good ? Which one of these pre
texts is not in the mouth of those who oc.
sionally take a glass of weak brandy sling J
The alcohol in the latter is diluted is made
palatable by other ingredients, and probably
exists in no greater proportion than in the
former. Now if there is no difference be
tween getting drunk on cider and getting
drunk on weak brandy sling, what is the dif
ference between a moderate use of the for
mer, and a moderate use of the latter 1
If it is sinful and ruinous to get drunk on
alcohol under one name, it is sinful and ru
inous to get drunk on alcohol under another
name. As it is the moderate use of rum that
leads to the immoderate use of it, so in re
gard to wine, cider, and all other intoxica
ting drinks. Drunkenness is sin and ruin.
Moderate drinking is the road to drunken
ness. The sin of a moderate use of alcoholic
drinks of any kind, consists, then, in throw
ing ourselves into temptation, and in lend
ing our example and influence to habits and
practices that make drunkards.
Before leaving this subject, we have a sug
gestion to make in relation to the name of thr
Society reported of in the foregoing anicle.
It is styled a Total Abstinence Society.
This is very sweeping language. From
what are they pledged to abstain ? From in
toxicating drinks merely. Nothing is said
about tea, coffee, confectionary, or tobacco.
Now we maintain that a society pledged to
total abstinence from tea and coffee, yet al
lowing the use of alcohol, might with equal
propriety style itself a Total Abstinence So
ciety, as one abstaining from the latter and
indulging in the former. So long as the
members of this society are allowed to in
dulge, ad libitum, in the use of any and ever-
other hurtful thing except intoxicating
drinks and there 13 no evidence that it is
now otherwise they have no right to raise
the banner of "total abstinence." They
assume a name of which they are unworthy.
Reformed Temperance Society, is a title
high enough for any association that will al
low its members to overcharge themselves
with surfeiting, to stupefaction, at pleasure,
in the use of tea, coffee, confectionary, and
tobacco, which last is not only pernicious,
but filthy and disgusting. Let " Total Ab
stinence" be reserved for a society that shall
have higher and purer objects that shall be
pledged to abstain from eating and drinking
whatever is manifestly and confessedly de
structive of health and happiness.
Becompense to no man evil for evil. It
j thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst
give nrm artwc ; jor in so doing thou shait
heap coals ofjire on his head. Be not
overcome of evil, but overcome evil with
good. Paul.
Nothing is plainer from the New-Testament,
than that it is a Christian duty to
render good for evil. An opportunity is nor
presented us for discharging such a duty, and
we cheerfully embrace it.
To year3 ago, while in the employ of thf
Anti-Slavery Society, as agent, being on the
line between this State and New-York, we
were invited by a clergyman, then residing
in Washington County, (N. Y.) to attend
the celebration of the anniversaries of Wash
ington County Benevolent Institutions, held
that year at WThite Creek. Cordially accept
ing the invitation, on our way to the meet
ing, in company with this clergyman, at his
suggestion we called with him on Dr. Proud
fit of Salem, and were by him introduced
to the Doctor as an agent of the Anti-Slavery
Society. Moreover, he stated to the Doc
tor that, as he had had a considerable hand
with the Doctor and others in getting up a
Colonization Society in that county; and as
he now feared that that Society was not
accomplishing his designs, he would now
propose to the Doctor and then to the meet
ing, to forego his privilege of speaking on
the occasion, and requested for us a few mo
ments hearing at some convenient time du
ring the session.
The Doctor started back. He and our
brother Baldwin, with others, had been at
immense labor for a long time to get them up
a Colonization Society, he and other ckr
gymen had found two " Africans," had
been at the vast inconvenience of keeping
them at his house all one day had got them
off to Troy, and they had now gone to Li
beria. The plan of this Society was mag
nificent, its benevolence without bounds
its claims to the patronage of the people per
fectly obvious and appreciable : Therefore,
it would not do to have another scheme pre
sented that would tend to lessen the confi
dence of the people in this. He should op
pose our being heard, unless we would with
al advocate the claims of Colonization. We
went to the meeting and were decidedly re
fused any opportunity to speak. In the Colo
nization meeting, their speakers, one in par
ticular, villified and most wickedly slander
ed Abolitionists, but not a word of defence
was allowed.
These are they whose Committee, through
their Secretary, now ask us to give notice of
the time and place of their Colonizaticu
meeting.
These remarks have been made, not be
cause it is agreeable to dwell on such igno
ble treatment, but to let our traducers know
Now Agent of the Nw-Yor Younj Men'
I Colonization Society