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THE ORGAN OF T 1MPERANQU REFORM.
THE ORGAN
OF TH
TEMPERANCE REFORM.
CINCINNATI, FEB. 13, 1852.
rtiBLisHixa oomimc,
Gen. B. T CARY- J. 8. WHITWELL,
CALEB CLAEK.
Get. S. F. CARY, Editor,
J. S. WHITWELL, Corresponding Editor,
CALEB CLARK, Fiuma.
Terms.
City subscribers, delivered by the carrier,
and single-mail subscribers, $1.50; four
copies, $5; ten copies and upwards, each
$1. An y Division, or person.ssnding a club
of twenty, shall be entitled to an extra
copy. m
First and SeconNos.
We regret to announce to our readers that
the first and second Nos. of the Organ are en
tirely exhausted. We have a tew of the third
on hand.
Agents.
We continue to send the Organ, with bill
and Drosnectus. to those who are not subscribers.
In cvarv such instance, it is our earnest request
that they will at once raise a club and forward
U on.
- Where an individual succeeds in obtain
ing 15 or 20 subscribers, they can be sent to
different post oiiices, if desirable, at the club
rates. .
Old Subscribers.
Wo tr unif Wiiiueg to those subscri
bcrs whose lime is expiring. We desire that
.. nn who wan mi ihe Fountain list w ill
renew their subscription to the Organ as fast as
they expire.
Cr Additional names will be received at nny
time from Clubs.
Grit is our purpose to work the Organ into
every town in the State of Ohio. Rush the
war right straight into Africa, is our niolto.
Friends, shall it be done i
KT Wherever there is a club already ae,.t,
additioual names will be received at club rates
one dollar each.
Gen. Houston of Texas State Con
vention. The Editor has received letter from
Washington, from a member ol" Congress, that
Gen. H ust in will attend our Mass Meeting,
on the 2Gth, at Columbus. There ii no mis
tike in this matter the General will be there.
Will Editor throughout the State give not ire
of the fart !
8CT Mr. Powell, proprietor ol Powell's Foun-
dery, in this city, has succeeded in obtaining
.15 subscribers to Ihe Organ, and he snys he
will not stop short of 50. Most of these are
persons in Mr. Powell's employ. How many
more proprietors ol large Founderies and Man
ufactories will do likewise I
Police Report. !
The chief of Police, in the envoi New York, j
has made his semi-annual report, mid it con-!
tains a summary of the arrests made in hj
tfinrs it appears mat mo nuinoei ui uiih
were lHit,tilti. Ol this number, 18,703 were lor
assault and battery ; ",164 lor disorderly con
duct ; 2.(345 lor lighting in tne street ; -m.ooo
for intoxication; ana lor vagrancy.
( If the whole num'.er. M0,?'J5 ure traceable
directly to the lre u.-e of intoxicating drinks.
What an argument for the destruction of liquor.
Frankness Meanness.
There is no quality we admire more than
friiik.ie-s, even though it betrays a mean ami
illiberal -pint. We have received liom al
most even quarter the most cordial and warm
Inarleu supoorl of teuijieranie men and Divis
ion., to our enterprise. "Material aid
been extiuded to the Organ thin far
ha.
full I
ho
(qua
I to our exiiectationt. Tbeie are
ever, -oiue exceptions to this cordiality. V -
,. ,,,,,.,11, a, oi every "ood enterprise, we find ;
liose
who l.Ae lo " throw dirty water," be
cause that is tin ii
One spieimen.
a communication
Irnm which we in
t lenient.
Our publisher has rect ived
from Al'.rristowu Division,
,ke the lollowing extract ;
Bro. C'laik We received the Organ
the
first and second numbers of it, and the Division
instructed tl.e Ii.. S. to -ay t S. F. Can,
through y .u, to send us the organ, on the old
subscription, in lieu of the Fountain, and stop
when ' our money is out." Signed
liixlon, R. S." This contemplilil
1 Thomas j
slant at
the Editor ol the Fountain it worthy of this Used beyond the reach ol legal enactments,
public expo-ure, and hence we make it. The He certainly will not maintain that the Gen
Morristown Division knows well that S. F- eral A-sembly is limited in it, enactments lo
t.'arv is unuer no obligation to theiuj or any j (he mere evils growing out of the usr of liuuor.
body tl-e, lo supply the old subscribers of the i We think he will agree with us, that (he Gen
" Fountain" Willi the Organ, or any other ! eral Assembly has a perfect right to legislate
paper. He wa- simply the E'litor of l!iat j aoainst the evil, and tiial it is only prohibited
Journal, and through years ol" strugging, la- ( Ironi becoming in future, vt hat it has been in
hored graiJiitously to sustain it. And it is
proper if say, to winners and grumbleis.
that evfi ppivt failure of the Teinptrani e
pre-s iif f), the Editors
id
Publisher.
lone aeee only ones tnal liave been tie
Irauded out of their just dues. Arrangements
in every case have been made, at whatever
only ones that
sa Tin :e, to supply the sno-cription list, auu it
is mean, beyond expression, to ilenouuce tho-e
who have generously made sacrifices l save
o'.hers fruui petty losses.
Why netd Morriatown Divi-ion trouble us
with such a communication, if it did not in
tend it as an insult. They were getting- their
paper regularly and would get it to the very
last number, and thai too as a gratuity. Let
it he remembered that this same Division whs
subscriber for only one copy of the Fountain.
We wish them and all others to understand,
that we appeal to no man's generosity or be
nevolence as niotivet to sustain the Organ.
We are not mendicants, nor have we engaged
in this enterprite to earn a livelihood. We
act from a tense of duty, anil we appeal to
the self-interests of men, as individuals, aud
as members of society, to give our pajier a
wide circulation.
If Mornstown Division will accept it, we
will furnish them a copy of the Organ for a
year at our own cjst. They need light, and it
would be a charity to give it.
An Item.
From Main to Vine street, on Court, a dis
tance of two squares, on the north aide,
there are tUvtn rum holes, all owned by
foreigners I They are all open on the
Sabbath.
Governors' Messages.
It it an indication of good to see the subject
of temperance vea referred to by the Execu
tives of States. It shows that they are feeling
the pressure of popular sentiment, and that
they mutt therefore tay something by way ol
faint praise, or decided approbation. Gover
nor Wood, of thit Stute, who wat sever sus
pected of being a strong temperance man, or
in any way favorable to the progress of the
cause to far, at least, at example it con-
cerued could not forbear, in hit late message
to th Legislature, to allude to the tubject
He tayt :
Th 15th section of the Constitution declares.
that oo license shall, hereaf'er, be granted for
the tale of intoxicating liquors. Tbit section,
submitted in a separate article, wat adopted by
a Urge majority. The traffic can no longer
be legalized by statute. The power to prevent
evils arising from the use of ardent spirits, so
far as it can be done by law, it, nevertheless,
conferred upon the General Assembly. What
provision should be made, it a matter for seri
ous consideration. Laws hitherto have not
produced the desired effect. They have by n
the origin of many prosecutions, but they have
not prevented the retailing ol intoxicating
ilrinks, though prohibiten unoer severe penal
ties. Drunkenness and immoralities arising
from the use of anient spirits may be punished
as crime, but it is doubtlul whether any legal
enactment will prevent their being sold, by
retail, while their iiuportatioa it permitted by
the laws ol ine unueu states, ana uieir mauu
factum bv our own.
Societies and individual philanthropists have
spared no creditable and worthy action, to stay
the evils of intemperance, for nianr years.
Their exertions have done more good, by a
moral force which they have given to public
opinion, in tocial intercourse, than all the laws
that have, at yet, been enacted. The subject
it submitted to your care.
If ever there was a fine Sfieciineii of non
committalitiu, an attempt to carry water on
one shoulder and whisky on the other, this is
that specimen. At the first reading, a temper
ance mail ia inclined to tay, " All right the
Governor is with us;" at the tame tune the
liquor-seller claims him as his champion. Th
Governor refers appropriately to the adoption
of the license clause, and says truly, The
traffic can no longer be legalized by statute.1
liut what do we und next I " 1 lie power
to prevent evils arising from tlie use of oref.
in (J pirits, to far as it can he done by law
is, nevertheless, conferred upon the General
Assembly." Doet the Governor mean to be
understood that the clause, " the Gene! As
sembly may, by law, provide against evilt re
sulting therefrom,' refers simply to those evils
resulting from the use of liquor t There cap
be no ether construction put upon the lan
guage, jet, with all due delerauce to ihe
eimninent legal knowledge of hit Honor, we
maintain that the clause means evilt resulting
from the traffic in, not tiie use if, intoxicating
liquors. The Governor ought to have been
more explicit. If he thinks the traffic beyond
the reach of legislation, ts liquor-tellers main
tain, why not say so I Why rely upjn inert
iuuendo and insinuation I
Again : he says " Drunkenness and immo
ralities arising from the use of ardent spirits
iiih be punished as crimes, but it is doubtful
whether any legal enactment will prevent their
being sold, hy retail,'' etc. His Honor is either
ignorant ol tlie popular sentiment on this sub-
jj(.c(i or , ,w ,(.
does not wish to fairly repre
sent that st-utimeiit. It is not proposed to pun
ish drunkenness and consequent iuiuioralilies
ascritms; but to prevent drunkenness an i
illinioriliitjM uv
blotting out grogshops, the
cause ol" these uisturbiiice. Our plan is pre
ventive, not vindictive. This is what the peo
ple are demanding everv where. 'J'ne prudent
man will lock his stable before the horse is
stolen, and a wise government will direct itt
efforts to save society from desolation, rather
than to repair the ruin after it has been
w rought.
The Governor avows himself in favor of
moral suusion, and speaks approvingly of the
i fl'jrts of philanthropists, ill these years of toil
He thinks mure has been done in this way than
by legislation. In this he is riht; for the
i-b- ...,,sc lu irfu,., isu.c,
than prohibit, and tlie olhYert sworn to enforce
the laws have been, and are, generally, the
sworn friends of the liquor tratlic. The intel
ligent Governor might have alluded most hap.
pdy lo the law of Maine, which has in a ve ry
short space of time relieved the State almost
entirely of " drunkenness aud immoralities
arising from the sue of intoxicating drinks."
Notwithstanding the language of the message
may be construed to suit everybody, yet we
have too much respect lor the intelligence ol
Governor Wood, to entertain a suspicion that
he thinks the Constitution places the traffic
all Units past, the body-guar.l of this inhuman
trade.
Governor Hunt, of New York, calls the at.
tuition of the Legislature uf that Stale to this
subject, but ia very careful nut to recommend
any remedy for the evil, or even to suggest
that a remedy may be appl'ed. He lavs :
An extraordinary number of capital offenses
und a considerable increase in other crimet
have made the last a memorable year ill the
judicial annals of the State. This melancholy
laci must De attributed in a large degree to the
prevalence of intemperance in our eitiet and
larger towns a growing evil which has become
tne most proline source ol wretcheuness, pau
perism, and crime.
During the year, seventeen persons were
found guilty of murder, and three of arson in
the first degree ; and several more are in prison
awaiting tr.al. Of the number thu convicted,
six have been executed ; the sentences of live
have been commuted to imprisonment for life,
and nine await the time lo be fixed for their
execution. M
When shall we have Executives who will
speak out upon this as they do upon other
questions? Both these distinguished men are
prompt to utter their convictions upon the
great questions of national policy, and talk
eloquently of intervention in the affairs of
Europe, and pour out their hearts' full tympa
nies for poor, down-trodden Hungary; and
yet, when vital questions are presented in rela
tion to home matters, they touch them lightly,
and leave their views to doubtful inference
Governors Hunt and Wood know well that
every drunkard't family in their respective
Statet it a bleeding Hungary that thousands
of wives and children are in wretched exile,
and cry to God and Country for deliverance
rooi their cruel oppressors, the distiller and
,unies-
i rMP
are in
ie, the
orphan, tha poor, tha criminal, are crowded;
and yet the guardians and protectors of so
ciety are overlooking all this, and distributing
their sympathies, and passing their resolutions,
and making their speeches, about foreign griev
ance. Ws do not Complain of th latter-i-wt)
with there wat ten fold more sympathy for th
oppressed of other lands; but we mutt b per
mitted to doubt it genuineness when to littl
it said or felt for the oppressed , and down-trod,
den, and uncared-for, around our ow fire
tide. The poor inebriate it the abject tlav
of th liquor-teller; and if h would escape
from hit chaint, like th " Vilford bard," he
mutt plead for admistioa to th jail at an asy
lum, a place of refuge. The jail of Baltimore
sit to that splendid writer what the United
States is to the glorious Kossuth a place of
security from his persecutors. Thousand of
noble men are now more oppressed by the
liquor Haynaut of Ohio and NewYoit, and
are pursued with at deadly aim, at ever the
Bemt end Kostulhs of Hungary were. Hun
dreds of thousands of women and clujdre'n in
these Statet,re doomed to more dre r A '
Oat than am th mothers and chttdt.' u "
patriots of Hungary. The liquor-stllert -feutft
the k'yt of these gloomy dungeons. W must
seize 'hem, and throw open the prison house.
Destroy the liquor in Ohio and th work it
done. Thousands wfTl emerge into the light
an I bleaeduets of day, who have long been
surrounded with the gloom of despair.
Governors! Legislators! Judges! Magit
trales! when will you engage in
Hi work of !
your country 't deliverance ?
Fathers and Mothers,
Sign the petitions for the Muine Law. First
because your children arc exposed to temp
tainu. and mav becomo drunkards.
Second Because, if already in the road to
death there is no hope of sulvalion for them j
while limiors run down our streets like a river. I
Third-Be.usse the moralsense and kindly
leeling of your children are daily blunted by
familiarity with scenes of dissipation and vice,
The Doisonous exhalations from the 1,500 grog
shops in Cincinnati are absolute death to the
kindler influences of the Sabbath school and
the house of prayer.
Fourth A father's counsels and a mother'
prayers, and wholesome parental restraints are,
if not wholly lost or powerless, seriously coun
teracted by the profanity, obscenity, and law
lessness coined in the Hotel and Colfee-house.
As the healthiest is affected by inhaling the
nollutcd air of a charnel bouse, so tlie holiest
is robbed of his heavenly niindedneet by die
foul contagion of the grog-shop,
a 6 r'
Fifth-The man of God in the pulpit on the
Sabbath does not preach with the same freedom j
against sin, because some of his principal i
parishioners are owners of sinks of pollution,
l'he ears of his audience are not so quick to
hear, and thtuV hearts are not so susceptible Of
impression account of their daily familiarity
with this bane of society.
As the locusia and frogs of Egypt found their
way into the private apartments, and every
where, even into the kneading troughs, so this
curse of curses insinuates itself into every ale
nue of life, and even into the holy of holies.
TL. ..I nf nriuala AttVniinn IS inVflded SS
" "x-ss-' r .
well as the public sanctuary. The religious
press, as well as the secular is infected. Ihe
religious journal must not denounce the spten-
did saloon the vast rum palace because some
t i aro otrw-k nuinora in
of its principal patrons are stock-ownere :
such establishments.
We say then to Parents, your children cannot j
have the full benefit of a religious training
anywhere until the Maine Law is adopted and ;
'. , ... , , j :ejj ; 1
enforced. We may be considered infidel in ,
sentiment, when we say that the church of j
Christ, as well as the social circle, and the j
st,t npe.1. the nurifvinn. healthful, saving I
influncesof the Maine Law, or some outer ,
(
law, which shall declare liquor a nuisanoe, aim
abate it. To whatever charge we may render
ourselves obnoxious, we affirm it as our honest
conviction.
"Can't T.piHalatA Gvil Ollt Clf the
World" -
i,.inu,on.tnlu v.rv wisely about the
impossibility of ridding the world of vice by
legislation, and ergo, no law should be passed
against liqour selling. Rely, say they, wholly
. . 1j. m
on "moral suasion," and ultimately you may
hope for a regenerated earth. We acknowledge
.i n .i : l I,, k.im.n crnv-
...v... ,
1 inai an ine eAuerimeni uiouc &
I . . r ..e.j inn.
mat an tne experiment inaue uj uu,,.. 6-.
u,mpi.i.vBmeitv from the deoredauon
" ' .. ... ..
of outlaws, have failed to accomplish fully tne
eilU UUl UeilV UIO rBauiimvuv
conclusion. The legislation of four thousand
. i k ,i.,r,Ul hv
years to save society from being M "
counterfeit money, by punishing the counter -
fi, l, . amoved the evil. Every Peni-
i - J l. ....,,.), anoaa nt the
tetiiiurv in the land gives evidence that law,
' . , . , , fi,hfullvexe -
however wi ly conceived, and faithfully exe
cuud, does not eradicate crime. V HI we,
ilmr..f,.r eoncliidn that law is of no value.
and resort only to persuasion f God' moral
government is a government ot law. t,very
one of these laws have been ten thousand times
violated by those who ought to yudd impliait
obedience. But does the Almighty, theretore,
repeal his laws No, If every creature in
the wide universe continues an unpardoned
and obstinate rebel, the statute will remain,
" The soid that sinneth, it shall die.'
An Act Declaring Liqour Unconsti
tutional.
This is no longer a mooted question. It ha
been settled by the highest tribunal in the coun
try. In the great Massachusetts cose, wluch
was argued by the most learned lawyers in the
country, pro and con, this point was fully
elaborated. On the decision of the case, Chief
Justice Taney, of the Unitod Stales' Supreme
Court, said : " If any State deem the retail
and internal traffic in ardent spirit injurious
to its citizens, I see nothing in the Constitution
to prevent it from regulatieg and restraining
the traffic, or from prohibiting it altogether.'"
Mbduia, Feb. 7, 18g2.
Bro. Cart : In the first No. of the Organ, you
give me much more credit than I am entitled to
in tlie way of procurin g subscribers. The " 39
names " were procured at a meeting of our
Quarterly Council, and done by tha officer of
that body in open session. Had I supposed my
note would have been published, (which 1 did
not) I thould, of course, have stated this fast.
Pleats make thit correction, and oblige, i
Yourt fraternally,
F. D. Kimbalu
liquor-tellers of the laud. IodiviJu
tic, social happiness, are all laid was,
rty, health, Ufa, reputation, character
secure. The atytuini for the in
The Organ and its xospeots.
W hav th pleasure again of atknosrleilg
ins-receioti from hott of warm and true
hearted friends. To know that th Organ is
prospering, will b as cheering newt to many
of oar readers as it it encouraging to th Com.
mitt. But whil w acknowledge its pros
perity, no brother should relax lu his efforts to
increase th circulation of th paper. Where
th paper it read and circulated, thr w
will find str ing friends of the caus j aud if
its circulation should reach 5,000 or b.Ouu
(and we intend it shall), w expect to make
the paper just that much th better; for it is
not th object or expectalio of theCommittee
to realii any profit whatever by its receipts.
From every village and town in the State,
wher a temperance man is to be found, we
expect lo receive subscriptions to th Organ.
Th caus of temperance demai.dt from each
and every friend, hit exertions in behalf of
the paper ! Let at hear from you, friends !
From Bra. I. Schmucher, of Newaik, we
are in receipt of 10, for a club, sent tome
weeks since. Brother S. hat a good locality
in which to procure names, and we expect
frequently to acknowledge the receipt of an X.
lie alto releases his subscription to the Foun
tain list. Thank von, brother.
Brother Jason McVay is informed that until
rth ree-ips of his letter we did not know
whether he wished the teu extra copies or not.
Un request shall be complied with. He tayt
that be wishes it distinctly understood that
the club in hit town give up all claim to the
Fountain ! and withes ut God speed in our
enterprise. In a subsequent letter the orotner
I sends two new uamet and a.
nut two new names anu i
Brother Josiah Cross, of Mt. Carmel, tends
ut an addition of lour unmet and $4 making
lu all fur him twenty -two ! He oidert ut lo
erase the entire Fountain list, tome 18 or 20 I
t they do not desire to encumoer tne organ.
Brother Lrots, we lhanK you ana your c -laborers,
for tint liberality on your part. We
will comply with your reque-t.
brother J. C Brandt, i t Hauierspurt Divis
ion .o. 5G7, informs us that they ure raiting
an individual club, in addition to the 10 copies
ordered by the Division some weeks tinee.
lie also informs us that the Division unani
mously adopted toe following resolution:
liciolvrily 1 hat tint Division relinquish its
claim on Bro. Win. Mm hell, lor subscription
j 10 "TvZierly Division.No.
i 27, sends u$10, for ten copiet ol tlie Org n
j nine copies f. r public (or gratuitous) disiiibu-
iou room- This is the right way fjr divisions
to increase their membership. It it casting
bread upou the waters, whii h returns two-tola
before many days. 'Ihe brother informs us
that the cause is rather low with them at this
time. But they will not Buffer it to be so long.
They have take nthe proper course to revive an
interest in the cause. Do your dutv, your
whole duly, brethren, and tlie cause will not
flag.
from Oxford, Ohio, Bro. Peter Sutton sends
us a club of fifteen names and $15, and says
that such as were subscribers to the Fountain
release their claim.
Brother Jus. G. Blunt, of New Madis m, O.,
apnrlfl llsl ttm nnmaa uml .4' III with them his
b , lv. , . ,, , enternrize in which
we are engaged may receive ample support
ffom the i friends of temperance throughout the
State. 1 Ittnk vou. brother.
From Pomeroy, Ohio, iiro. J. W. Ross tends
ut12lorten copies of the Organ und 20U
tracts.
Brother E. R. Jewett, ol Sandusky City,
sends us an addition of some names and 9 1
Bro. J . K. Jackson, of Napoleon, Ohio, sends j
Bro. J. Strong, Jr., of Elyria, sends us ten
names and 10. Tne brother snys, ' Wo ask I
lor the Maine Law or none at at all." That i I
what we are aiming for.
iiro. John L. Muart, ol fjaporte, la., sends
!,: ,. , ,1,. ,,; j
Bro Uoolm)Ci (a naImJ not a, a
8Ujled; (, lne Ilmll)) 0f Fredericktown, O.,
sends us an addition of eight names and 10.
Brother D. gives us an account of the progress
ol temperance in his vicinity. Bro. D. says
he hadne of King Mcollula niinion8 fin
j- tor wnicn ie jmj (, r0undly berated by
tne anie. He says that this opposition and
the threats of the liquor sellers only make him
more zealous in the good cause, and the
importance of outlawing the poisonous stulf.
jn d ermil,lltion and Uixl
uefen j te rjKu j
Bro. K. McNeely, R. S., of Rio Frio Division,
No, 364, St. Clairsviile, Bends us 5 lor five
IT11I1IHH 111 LI1K 1 ri'UII.
t. N,irwil,k Ohio. Tiro. I.. Redirw sends
U9 nve names and 6, and promises to send us
more hy ana by. fteno nera on, uroncr, nut
suck to your aeierminsuon.
Brother Chambers liaird, of Ripley, Ohio,
sends tin names and $10. The brother is in-
formed that the papers will be sent as re-
Brother John R. Squier, of Aslilond, Ohio,
gt.ndlor 8 epecitiien number of Uie Organ,!
wlucft we send witn measure, nout Its to near
! d tecouM from ;he brolner.
; l'h brother say there is a good deal of
feeling on the , temperance question in bis
vicinity, and that the People universally go
, f j M i , Ven those, snys the
j LZr, who a re in the habit of visiting the
,Un. ..f im.oot v " and the Hotel keenera have
. ... . r :
Ruriied the ueutiona to that ellect! A irood
. , .-. .
I signed the petitions to that ellect!
i sum and we wouiu mat irom eve
every port ol
lame news to
; our b,.uved s,ate we ia(l t),B 8ame mwB t0 1
. I ll
OC"U VUl icoucid.
. Bro. John dCarmony agent for Und Di-
- vision, fso. 4'J8, Allen's P. O., O., sends us
four,een names and 114. He says that eight of
, L Fountain subscribers release their claims.
i Krnl Columbus. Ohio, we have to ncknow-
I ledge the receipt of $15 irom Good Samaiitan
i iJivision. They also release us Irom filling
out the Fountain list. This is our first "drop"
from the Capital, but we do not expect it to be
1 the last! We have our worthy brothers, A.
j Aewart, and , V'na' Vh.
"material aid," as Kossuth would say, from
each before many more issues.
This is a tolerable good list for a beginning,
j u,., we u0De tie 8ae 0f tne cause and the
I pnper( t0 present a still larger one next week,
j jt t,e friends be up and doing '.
D"It hat been proposed in the city eonncilt
of Philadelphia to ask the Legislature of Penn
sylvania to past a law requiring the fire insurance
companies chartered by the State, tad also for
eign agencies, to pay over all income over tix
per cent, to a linking fund, lor the benefit of
the fire department,
O Madame Thillon hat creatad a great sen
sation in Boston, and on Monday the premium!
on ticket! reached $310. Tickets to the circle
$7 aud $10.
H7 Capt. Levy, charged with holding impro
per correspondence with Meiico, commanded
the TJ. S, ttoreihip America, in the Mexican
war.
XT Daring the patt year 41 008 imigrantt
landed in Canada, and of thit number upwards
' ot 20,000 were Irish.
XT David M'Conaughy, D. D., the venera
ble President of th Wtthington College, at
Washington, Pt., died on Thursday of last week
in th 74th year of hit age.
NafttiNO Childrih. The Boiton Poit inp.
poses ther arc already 25.000 yoang Kotsntht,
1 0,000 Jenny Lindt, and 5000 Catharine Uayet
in America.
Bro. Clark i Will you have the kindness to
republish the following story, which I ssw in
your paper a week or two since, a I wish to
make s comment or two upon it :
" I would steal myself," said Cuff", " if I wat
not afraid ob de dibble."
"I dar tav vou is riitht." was the ren!?. " and
suppose vou ain't watched putty close, 1 link
you steal anyhow, debble or no debble."
The above struck me, at first, in a most ridic
ulous por.it of view ; but upon consideration,
with the exception of Cuff's candor, I ooulif
find nothing extraordinary in bis confession,
To be sure, the object of Cuff' awe would be
considered an equivocal ally to moral principle ;
but notwithstanding, we maintain that both hi
theology and his ethics are correct, fashionable,
and receive the most respectable countenauce.
. 'While lookinc for proof of my assertion,
among the variou classes of society, let ut
begin wiih the clerical profession the highest
in dignity, in talent, in influence.
The example are exceptions, and if there
were exceptions in Cowper's time, there may
also be in ours. The preacher, who, with es
senced hair and perfumed cauibi ic ; with hands
artistically while, adorned with gold rings, who
mounted the " pulpit with a skip," is now ex
tinct. We never meet an individual of the spe
eioa. We do not know what their views might
have been with respect to Cuff deity. It is
to be presumed that they took no cognizance
of so vulgar a pert onsga. The smdes or frowns
of the fairer portion ol the audience supplied
the deficiency.
In a religious periodical, of a date ten years
back, we find notices of two discourses deliv
ered in a large community, to fashionable audi
ences, by a popular divine, on the cliristiun duty
of encouraging luewriet. When it is under
stood,,!hat the means to line some of the promi
nent pews in the broad aisle witb scarlet velvet
were supplied by fermentation, we shall be
at no loss to discover to what sanction this
preacher paid the most respect. The times are
changed, and we are changed too ; breweries
must look el.sewliere than to the pulpits lor sup
port. But do we not occasionally see something like
the following I A minister is preaching to his
own congregation, a discourse prepared lot
another occasion and another audience. Ho is
touching on the confines of some popular sins,
of some great and prevailing error. He casts
a glance of intuitive perception on the drooping
heads of some of the magnates in the broad
aisle, turns two or three leaves at once, and,
like the pilot who has discoveied breakers on a
lee-shore, tacks ship, leaves the point of prac
tical improvement tor which he hud been head
ing, broad on (ho weather-bow, and stands out
into the fathomless sea of speculative theology.
" A diHerent course," it is said, "might impair
his usefulness." How far the excuse will stand
him in stcud elsewhere, and on a future occa
sion, is a matter for his own investigation.
"The foundation of all human learning,"
said an original commentator, "is the three
R's, rending, riting, and rithineiic." And I
maintain that at tho present day, the three
great influences brought tu bear on human con-
duct, urc ihe three P's, the pulpit, tho press,
anj par,yi represented by three oilier P's-the !
I have dono with the pulpit. So boundless is
jig influence for good, that any slight detrac
tion, like a drop from the ocean, leaves no void.
Your craft, Brother Clark, would properly
come next under discussion, but I shall spare
myself the trouble, for three sufficient reasons :
In the lirst place, you keep so close a look-out
for tho failings of each oilier, that the contin
gency suggested by Cull's friend can never be
realized. In the next plucc, you have done
so vast an amount of good, and so vast an
nmou"t of evil, that I am unwilling to under
take to make an estimate of the balance.
Thirdly and lastly. As an entire class, your
amount of moral reputation is small, and even
a slight detraction would make a serious inroad
on your capital.
You may think the last reason ought to oper-
: atei favor 0f the politicians who havo no
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their benefit I nra laboring. They may rant,
spout and argue ; or if they choose, they may
j fighti and iko ti,e Kilkenny cats, bring their
, arguments to a posterior conclusion.
1 must not, however, pass over the third
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j "' mOTaI"y ' exhibited in all its glory,
j Party is the great object of reverence. Party
decides what is right and what is wrong. As
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gory it is included. But when you find a poh-
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tician soliciting voles on bolh sides, and armro-
i printing his language accordingly; using one
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"other; t Iking temperance with temper-
ance men, and making a league with the liquor
; appealing to tha. everlasting reservoir
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ol "P10"' lhe ""Uulion. Should .such a
candidate succeed in obtaining an office of
I pecuniary responsibility do not let your name,
Brother Clark, be found on his bail bond. There
is no knowing what he might do " debble, or
no debble."
To conclude too many of us, instead of
looking to a mgiier sanction, are too prone lo
stand in dread of the world's opinion ; and our
virtue, like Cull's, may not be secure without
a pretty strict surveillance.
JOSH. BOWERS.
Franklin, O. Jan'y 21, 1852.
Bito. Clark : There is " a good time com
ing." Last night, and night before, Dr. El
liott, in his usual, forcible, witty, caustic,
every-body-interesting, and every-body-hilling
style, lectured to crowded houses in this place.
Franklin has not witnessed so large and atten
tive audiences on the subject of Temperance
for years. But the glorious sequel to this lutor
est, is that on last evening, one hundred women
signed the subjoined petition, and nearly as
many men ; every one praying the tame end.
More, all the women, and most of the men in
our township will sign it. God grant that all
die State may go and do likewise. Then shall
we have a land from whose faith and practice,
wealth and w isdom, health and holiness shall
abundantly abound throughout our noble State.
Buckeyes shall cease to be buckeyed. None
shall be bitten by that which " bitelh like an
adder, and stingeth like a serpent ; " none shall
be unwise, because " whoso is deceived thereby
is not wise." And none shall receive that too
which it pronounced agninst him (the gro
seller, and whoso countenanceth him) that
pusheth the bottle to his neighbor's mouth.
Here is the petition :
" To the Honorable Legislature of the Stalt
of Ohioi
"Feeling the necessity of a law that will ut
terly suppose and destroy the selling, a a bev-
erage, a poison that diseases and destroy man
physically, intellectually and morally, that rob
him of hit property, hi charterer, and hi hap
piness; urge him to the perpetration of every
specie ol sin and crime, and make unhappy
and miserable, all with whom he is associated.
We, the women of Franklin township, Warren
county, Ohio, do earnestly pray your honorable
body to protect us from the immeasurable and
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us are exposed, from the traffic in itnoxicating
hqnorM a a beverage, by passing a law similar
to that adopted by the State cf Alaine." -
What a righteous praytr ! Can ihere be a
body of legislator on eardi, that will not liattn
to it, coming, a it doe
" From th tender nethsrt
Who dsailtsd thtra to rati,
And ftutn tbt wives who am
. " Their bablt at thati braut,
. . And front tha holy maids at
Wbota lov they bops lo share,
To tav then from the tsrtat
Of Mittry and desptir
Though they might refuse their constituency
a prayer on which depended their every inter
est, yet they must give woman that protection
which can alone make her home happy, or her
life endurable. She ha willingly submitted to
disfranchisement, and placed her all in the
hand of the ruder sex ; and now when she
comes forth with her earnest cry and prayer for
protection against the most deadening and
damning of all evil, can they, dor they turn
a deaf ear I No. Man cannot be o brutish
as to refuse kindness to her who is all kind net
relief to her who never left the distressed un
relieved, and justice to her who ia never unjust.
Her prayer will be heard by men ; if not, surely
by a God who enswerelh the prayer of the
righteous, and who will bring confution on the
wretches who can rofuse to protect her whom
He has placed under their protection. Your,
For th Orjsa of Tomportno Reform.)
Temperance and the Maine Law in
Newark. -Nkwari,
0., Fob. 7, 1852.
Fkienu Curk : A meeting of more than four
hundred citizen of this place, held on the 3d
inst., at the Methodist Church, gave a unani-
expression, by a rising vote, in favor of the pas
sage of the Maine law in regard to the tale of
intoxicating liqours.
The meeting was previously addressed by C.
II. Kebler, Esq., J. T. Wilson, Esq., C. II.
Biackman, Esq., Rev. W. Wylie, C. H. Follett,
Esq., and Rev. Mr. Spaler.
Rev. A. Duncan, Grand Chaplain, ha also
been preaching a series of Temperance ser
mons, and bringing the truth before the com
munity, on the subject of the liquor traffic, in
our village, in a manner to startle those who
have heretofore closed their eyes to its enor
mities. Our papers have published the Maine
law, and the address of the Committee of the
Grand Division in favor of it.
We are also circulating the petitions in every
part of our county ; also, the "Address" in the
Ibrm of an extra. S.
The following letter from a brother in
Indiana to a friend in this city, about our
puper, has been handed us for publication.
We insert it with pleasure, and hope to hear
a good accouut ere long from our sister
State.
Majhsow, Feb. 6, 1852.
Dear Friend: I was much gratified to re
ceive your letter of Jan. 31st, and also the
specimen number of " The Organ of Tem
perance Reform."
You are right in supposing I am a ' Tem
perance man." A few weeks ago we organ
ized a society, called the " Union Tempe
rance Society of Madison." We meet every
week in different churches, and we hare
excellent speaking. The clergy attend the
meetings. Eveev Protestunt clergyman in
this city is a " Temperance man." What
other city can say go ? We hare organized
a " Temperance Glee club," of which I am
a member. We sing Temperance songs and
glees at tha meetings, which help to keep
up the interest. The right spirit is up, and
may God oause the feeling to spread until
intemperance is banished from the land, and
is only heard of among the " tlie thinyt thai
teere."
At our next meeting, I propose taking the
paper you sent and procure subscribers, and
hope to get a large number. A friend took
it to a Division of the Sons of Temperance
on Tuesday evening, with a view of getting
subscribers. I JiaVe not heard what success
he met with.
I will thank you to request the publisher
of " The Organ of Temperance Reform " to '
send mo tho paper regularly, commencing
with the first number ; and when I procure
more subscribers, I will send the money for
all subscribed.
I should like some copies of the " Maine
Liquor Law." I think that its distribution
would do good.
We hare eighty-five licensed grog shops in
this city of 10,000 inhabitants ; and it is
high time some action was had to stop them
in their nefarious practices.
1 am right glad that Pearl street has all
come out and taken the new paper j I trust
many will be induced to reform.
Let me hear from you again.
Yours, respectfully, R. I.
(Commaaicattd.
Meetins at Asbury Chapel.
An adjourned meeting of those (n favor of
petitioning our Legislature for the passage of
the Maine Law, wa held on Tuesday evening,
February 10th, at Asbury Chapel.
v Notwithstanding tlie haavy rain, a large
number were fn attendance, and after being ad
dressed bv the Rev. Mr. Simnsnn. Hon p
Cory, and Samuel Lewis, Esq., on motion of
Mr. Parker, a committee of three was appointed
to adopt measure for th circulation of rhe pa
tition, and a fund raised to defray the expenses
of the same. Messrs. Parker, Simpson, and
Whetstone were appointed. '
'i'l. l. . r C i: :t j , i . ,
termination, to go to work vigorously in
'he good cause. The friend of the measure,
who feel willing to contribute toward the ob
ject of these meetings, can do so by leaving
their contributions with either of the Com
mittee. Loula Napoleon
Wat shot at again by some of his own coun
trymen. This is the second time.