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THE ORGAN OF TE3I PERANCE REFORM
THE ORGAN
or THI.
TEMPERANCE REFORM.
CINCINNATI. MARH 12. 1852.
rUBUSHlNS OQIOinTM,
On, S.T. CART. J.AwTHTWEIX,
CALEB CLARE-
Gew. a F. CARY, Emtos,
J a WHITWELL, CoHmbtohdiiw Editor,
CALEB CLARK, Pristes.
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Notice
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earlier, in order that it may reach all our
subscribers previous to Sunday. Those
who have communications or remittances
will please forward one day earlier.
Thanks
To our Rev. and dear Brother Cuyler, G.
W. P. of New Jersey, for his excellent letter.
May we not promise ourselves and our read
ers, other such treats from his pen 1 Brother,
we will be glad to look m upon you on our
next Eastern tour. Through our mutual
friend, Gough, we feel acquainted with you
already.
From Columbus.
The following letter has been handed us
for the information it contairs. It is from a
reliable source :
Columbus, 0., March 4, '52.
Dear Sir: The resolutions to submit the
Maine Law to the people to vote on in
April next, were indefinitely postponed this
afternoon at half-past 4 o'clock. Now the
great struggle will be for the Maine Law
that or nothing. The tricks of the enemy
are defeated. Yours, Ac.
XT We call the attention of our readers
to the ariticle from the Circleville Herald,
in which the Editor of the Lancaster Eagle
is so beautifully shown up. This is the
same person who threatened to devour a
correspondent of the Western Fountain,
xometirue last summer, for giving a little of
untold history of Lancaster. We presume
his opposition to the Maine Law arises
purely from the love he has for the " critter."
lYTxaa Meetintr in Green-
The people of this county assemble on
the 19th, to express their views on the
Maine Law. We expect to be there.
SLrone Demonstration.
Out of 1200 legal voters in the city of
Zanesville, Muskingum county, over auu
hare signed petitions for the Maine Law.
This is evidently the banner city. Reason
why ? That place has been the most
thoroughly canvassed.
A Noble Man.
A blacksmith, in Erie county, Ohio, was
requested, by a wealthy Distiller, to put
him up a lightning rod on his distillery.
The honest eon of Vulcan instantly refused,
remarking to the whisky maker, "If it is
the Lord's will to send a streak of lightning
to brrn up your distillery, I am not the
man who would do arything to avert it."
This blacksmith is a member of the Ohio
Legislature.
Villiany.
Remonstrances have been sent to the
Legislature, numerously signed, against the
adoption of a law of prohibition. Sus
pecting that all was not right, the friends
at Columbus examined some or these pa
pers, and find that very many of the names
are entirely fictitious, and many others writ
ten by the same hand, and the same names
repeatedly signed. What may we not ex
pect as the next device of the enemy.
ILTWe have received a very flattering
notice from our friend and brother, Jonn Q,
Rownd.of Summertield, for which he has
our thaaks. As we have said before, we
hope so to conduct the Organ as to merit
the esteem, if not the patronage, of every
friend of the cause. The brother says
that the Organ will do more good than
all the Goughs, Carys and Williams' in
Christendom, for the reason that it will, go
to places, and among families and children,
where they cannot. We hope many of our
friends who yet remain in darkness and
ignorance, will observe this. The brother
informs us that we may expect a club very
soon. Send it along, we have room for a
few more names.
Wisconsin.
The friends of Temperance in this State
are making an effort to secure the passage
of the Maine Law, and wish our Organ to
assist them. T. L. Kennan, Esq., of that
State, promises to procure a number of
subscribers.
ICT The Maine Law has been defeated ;in
New Jersey.
Progress Of Publlo Sentiment.
Knox County, tn this State, has never been
remarkable for its devotion to tha cause of
Temperance, but wa oneof the hardest fields
in Ohio. Ia January laat Mr. Witherow
went up to Columbus as the honored Repre
sentative of the people to the Legislature.
At that time there was a perfect calm ; no
feeling, no excitement, and Bacchus held
almost undisputed swsy. There were a
few "faithful among the faithless found,"
but the fires burned dimly on the altars of
their hearts, dp to the 23d of February
do petition came op to the Capitol from old
Knox for the Maine Law. While others in
the House hsd their tables loaded with peti-1
tions, his was empty. He took occasion on
that day to commend the intelligence of his
constituents for not asking for the enact
ment of any such measure. On the day
followingify-oKr of his constituents, and
among them some of his most ardent politi
cal friends waited upon him at his room
with a " Maine,' petition, signed by four
thousand one hundred and ten of the people
of Knox. On the morning of theS&h.Mr.
W. entertained the House by asking an
appropriate reference of the document).
The Committee of fifty-four, not only had
the honor of placing the memorials in the
hands of their public servant, but were
pleased to inform him that the people of Mt
Vernon had actually been executing the
Maine Law, in anticipation of its speedy
passage by the General Assembly. The
facts, as we gathered them, are as follows :
ENFORCEMENT OF "MAINE
LAW " IN MT. VERNON! !
A saloon called the "Montezuma," in
which liquor was the chief spirit, and pro
fanity, obscenity and gambling, were the
order of the day and night, had become
quite offensive to some young married and
unmarried females. Their husbands and
brothers were often lured into this " lurking
place " of the village, and sometimes de
tained to a late hour at night, and then sent
home half drunk to abuse their families.
Matters grew worse and worse, in spite
of all remonstrances with the keeper of
this vile den ; and the ladies had remon
strated and forborne, until they saw that
affairs were coming to a crisis ; that this re
sort must be broken up, or those they loved
must be ruined, a ruin in which they too,
must be involved. About the 18th of
February, four or five of the young ladies
resolved that they would bear the infliction
no longer. Armed with bludgeons, in open
day, they entered the " Hall of the Monte
zuma " and plainly told the landlord that
they had come to have the question settled,
and if he would not desist in his course,
they should, in the absence of the " Maine
Law," " be a law unto themselves." He
drew a chair upon them, asd ordered them
out of the house. Two young men who
were present, steeped in the drunkard's
drink, began to draw their coats to take
part in the evening exercise. One of the
heroines, raising her shelalah, asked imper
atively " whose side do you intend to take?"
The reply was, "yours of course." There
upon the landlord sought refuge in the cor
ner, and the ladies proceeded deliberately
irtid resolutely to the execution of their sen
tence. Every thing in the shape of a bottle,
tumbler and cask was devoted to destruc
tion. Tliey did up their work nobly and
went quietly to their homes. The offended
and outraged knight of the toddy-stick
sought redress from the authorities. After
home difficulty he procured a warrant to
arret the "rioteri." It was the general
understanding that they should not be pun
ished, the young men boldly proclaiming
that if the young ladies were imprisoned
the old jail must come down. Just at this
period some one swore out a warrant against
the persecuted " Montezuma " for keeping a
gambling house, and begetting wind of it,
departed to parts unknown, and the quiet
of Mt. Vernon was restored.
Of course, we cannot approve of mob
violence under any circumstances, but we
would be at a loss to determine the measure
of guilt incurred by those who " revelled in
the hall of the Montezuma."
Modern Discoveries.
t.- , . . .. j. i. ' crime, which nave lueir unifiu in ujc use
'VVe have long cntertamed Ihc opimon q ardent Th()
and frequently expressed xt publicly and I rxdimeely in the Statet, is
privately, that the discovery of a plan for j alone competent to the correction of these
ridding the State of the liquor traffic, com- j great evils, and all meaturet of ratramt or
mo.y called the "Maine .- is tJ,
greatest achievement in modern times. W e iawg for the restraint or punishment of
are glad to know that greater men than we I
coincide in that opinion. We have the tes-1
timony of the Hon. Horace Mann, a distin
guiched member of Congress, and one of
the greatest men in the nation on this sub
ject. In reply to a letter inviting him to
attend the great Boston Meeting, at which
the petitions were to lie presented to the
Legislature, he writes :
Wabuimotos HotsE or Representatives.)
January 15, 1852.
Rev. T. W. Htooinsou :
Dear Sir I exceedingly regret that it
will not be in my power to assist in pre
senting a petition for the great measure you
refer to. The Maine Temperance Law is
worthy to be ranked, as a great step in hu
man tmpiovement, with the discovery of
the Magnetic needle, the invention of print
ing, or any other of the great strides in the
progress of civilization. Nay, it is as much
above them as moral well being is above
material prosperity.
All I can do at the distance is to ex
press my hearty approval of your exertions.
and my araeni nopes oi your success.
Yours, very truly,
HORACE MANN
" The Life Boat"
We believe we have not noticed our wor
thy cotemporary, at Portsmouth, Ohio. It
is sn excellent Temperance paper, and
ought to be generally patronized.
We would say the same of the ' Temper
ance Bahne," a monthly, edited and pub
lished by that indefatigable and zealous
Brother, A. M. Addison, at Cleveland, Ohio.
Alexander's Feast.
This beautiful ode of Dryden, has for a
long time maintained its place at the )ead
of English lyrics. Its moral, hotrevar, ii
by no means so commendable a 9 its diction,
and inferior verses might have a less excep
tionable tendency. While it would be ridic
nlous for one who makes no pretentions to
the "dioine afflatus" a mere t Ur of
rhyme, even to drpr teats a comparison, with
the cktf-fmupm of the Brituh Lyrist-
somethingmight be presented less obnoxious
to the enlightened sentitrent of the dir.
Alexander, like an Alexander of a later
date, is supposed to have been not altogether
unapprised of the projected assasination of
his father Philip, called by the Athenian
orators, " the King ; " Clytus was the vic
tim of his drunkenness ; Farmenio of his
suspicious tyrrany. v
It is said that after a banquet of twenty
four hours duration, after having exhausted
the cup of Hercules, which contained six
bottles st a draught, and attempted the feat
a second time, he was seized with a phreniy
and a fever, which perplexed his physicians.
Seneca believed in the truth of this story,
and makes su itable reflections. When Per
diccas, to whom he had given his ring, en
quired wnen mey snail saennce jt n asji
god, he replied, " When you are happy,"
TnilEOIEL TO THE VKT.
Tha feast wai o'ar, tha morning tna
Bbooa oa tha towers of Babylon,
Throngh portal, and on corridor, -
Carved wall, and teteelelod floor ;
Dot not within that lofty room 1
Of royal itata, and death-lika gloom,
Whare waainf glare of lamps alone
Upon a scene of horror ihono.
Prostrate tba world's fiaat victor there
Lay racked with paia and fierce despair, i
Torn and in wild disorder thrown I
His royal robe, and Persiaa sone,
And half nnsbeathed bis Syrian blade ,
Pa.Mched from his (rasp, at disianoo laid,.
Told not an hoar, when Median slave
Mifht g oard the ruthless hand, that cava !
Old Clytus to bis bloody grave. .'
With looks, where deepest grief appears, i
With eyes soffnsed with generous tears,
The stoutest four of the phalanx stood
To watch their monarch's maniac mood.
Tha deep-drawn sigh and plaintive moan,
Forced from his lips by horning thirst ;
Anon he changed to piercing groan,
And fori h his frantic fury burst :
" Cannot a world's while treasure buy
" A coach of rest, whereon to die 1
" Go, lead the Ice cold Cydnns here,
" To cool each boiling veia ;
" And lay tha snows of Caneasaa
" Upoa my tortured Drain.
" Oh madness ! yet my reason spare
11 A moment more, for kingly eare.
" Perdiceas, take my signet rinr,
" With all tha joys that round it cling,
" Empire and state and flatterers' breath,
" Trouble remorse and early death.
" Metbooght did same one not inquire,
" Whan on'my altars raise the fire 1
" Did my successor ask ma, when 1
When ihoa art happy, wait till then :
M My immortality's begoa,
' I reign a god in Plegethon.
" Mark, bow these erested serpents bias I
" Flames in my breast, Fcrsepolis.
" What forms ara these, that undefined,
" Strike terror on my shrinking mind 1
look on those eyes, bow fierce they glow !
"Clytus! the King! Farmenio!"
Again returned the morning son,
On burnished shield, and Helmet shone ;
Summoned from many a distant eoast.
Glittering in arms, a countless host
In fifty different accenta speak,
And call upon the royal Greek.
Long shall their clamors read tha sky,
Ere Alexander's lips reply,
For, cold in death lay Philip's son,
Shrouded in state, in Babylon.
X.
" Sole Power to Regulate Commerce."
Notwithstanding the question is Settled
as to the ability of every State to prohibit
the liquor traffic, there are some petty law
yers who insist that the Maine Law is a
violation of the Constitution of the United
States ; that " Congress has sole power to
regulate commerce," and that a State has
no right to interfere with the articles of
commerce. In the celebrated Massachusetts
case, the Supreme Court decided the whole
question. Judge Grier said, the whole
Court concurring :
"It is not necessary to array the appal-
1 ling statistics of misery, pauperism and
i : i. : i- 1 .. . i. . . I
crime, or the preservation of the public!
peace. ne?u uu raM re tnm VH'
nature, of primary importance, and lie at
the foundation of social existence. They
are for the protection of life and liberty, and
necessarily compel all laws on subjects of
secondary importance, which relate only to
property, convenience or luxury, to recede
when they come in contact or collision. Va
lue pnpuh euprema lex. The public safety
is tho supreme law. The exigencies of the
social compact require that such laws be
executed before and above all other. It is
for this reason that quarantine laws, which
protect public health, compel mere commer
cial regulation to submit to their control.
Thev constrain the liberty of the pasten-
gers ; they operate on the ship, which is the
instrument of commerce, and its officers and
crew the agents of navigation. They elite
the infected cargo and eaet it overboard. All
these things are done, not from any power
which the State assumes to regulate com
merce, or interfere with the regulations of
Congress, but became police lame for the pre
vention of crime, and protection of the public
welfare, must of necessity have full and free
operation, according to the exigency that re
quire their interference. If s loss of revettue
should accrue to the United States front a
diminished consumption of ardent spirits,
she will be the gainer a thousand fold in
the health, wealth and happiness of the
people."
Curiosities. Among the curiosities of
the times, is a child three years old, known
as the Infant Drummer, whose peformances
on the tenor drum astoaish ail who have
bad the pleasure of hearing him. He is
now in this city under the charge of Col.
J. H. Wood, formerly of the Walnut street
Museum, Cincinnati.
- " Millcreek, versus Temperance
. Ws hsve received a iono- communication,
under tha above caption, from eight highly
respectable citizens of Williams county,
which we would publish if ws had room in
our columns. Williams county is situated
in the very north-west corner of our State,
and we are advised that there are semi-barbarians
there who are opposed to all that is
good, and pure, and elevating, and holy.
The communication before us- is a detailed
account of an attempt to hold a temperance
meeting at the "red school house" in Mill
creek township. The peaceable assembly
was disturbed by a company of rowdies
and blackguards, who came reeking from
the grog-shop, and true to their corrupt,
vitiated natures, they sat with their hats
on, groaned, blasphemed, and hissed while
a clergyman was invoking the favor of God
upon the Temperance enterprise. The pre
sence of ladies did not deter these vile imps
from obscenity and blasphemy. Such a
acena as is described, was characteristic of
those who fear not God or regard man
those, in other words, who frequent the
" vestibules of the pit." .
So despicable are the wretches in that
vicinity, that religious societies have been
compelled to abandon public meetings.
The enactment and enforcement of a Main
Law is absolutely necessary as the first
step in their reformation. There is public
virtue and spirit enough in other parts of
Williams county, to go and do up this pre
paratory work if the law permitted it.
There is in West Unity, and other localities
in the county, a strong temperance senti
ment, and hundreds of names have been
sent up to Columbus, ssking for the law.
Temperance meetings are being held in
every part of the county, and the friends of
decency and good order are fully deter;
mined that these Algerines and outlaws
shall be reformed or driven from their in
famous dens. While there are such men in
Williams county as W. A. Hunter, the Rock
wells, Johnson, Noble, Ozier, Pike and A.
T. Wood, there is hope, aye, confidence, that
society will be purified, and the semi
savages about the "red school house"
civilized.
Hold on, friends, you are pioneers in a
good cause, and your labors will not be in
vain in the Lord.
Result of Intemperance.
Henry T. Russell, not many years ago
one of our well known, prosperous and
most respected citizens the kind husband
and happv parent, died day before yester
day, near Madison, Ia., in a a fit of delirium
tremens, amidst the most abject poverty.
But one human being was present at that
scene of death the wife. She only was left
to weep and mourn for the departed, and
his estrangement from the path of rectitude.
His children, cherished objects of his love
and pride, were gone one to the House of
Refuge, and two to the cold grave. What
a fearful warning to beware of the tempting
cup. Ctsetnnali Gazette.
Why do not the Gazette editors give us
their views about an appropriate remedy
for these terrible evils ? Almost every num
ber of this, and other widely circulated and
popular journals in this city, contains simi
lar recitals. Two inquests have been held
the past week by our Coroner, over the dead
bodies of drunkards and riots and assaults,
without number, all the results of the liquor
traffic. We would like to know what tho
Gazette thinks of legislation, and whether
in the opinion of its able editor, "moral
euation " is the only remedy t
The warnings to " beware of the tempting
cup " have been oft repeated, and yet few
heed. Shall the tempting cup be removed ?
This is the question.
We only speak of the Gazette, because we
take the item from that paper. We would
be glad to see all our city papers take sides.
If they go in for the Maine Law, why not
speak out? The question is agitating the
public mind, and it seems to us that on
this, as on " Intervention," there ought to
be a decided expression in our journals.
More Testimony.
It would seem that enough facts have al
ready been adduced, to prove beyond a ques
tionj.hat if society would protect itself from
crime, it must begin the work by outlawing
and annihilating the liquor traffic. But the
evidences are daily multiplying. By the
Annual Report of the Western Penitentiary,
Pennsylvania, it appears that the number of
convictments this year exceeds those of the
one previous by fifty. The increase of in
temperance is ascribed as the cause.
The Report says :
" Eighty-nine of the one hundred and ten
received within the year, acknowledge that
They were intemperate. Their moral sense
was seercd, if not entirely destroyed, by the
habitual use of intoxicating drink. They
lost all regard for character and moral right
by the influence of drunkenness, and became
the felons they now are. It is deserving of
notice, too, that almost all of them associate
together as causes tending to effect their
ruin, disregard of parental authority, and ha
bitual desecration if the Sabbath. The diso
bedient child, and violator of the Sabbath,
soon becomes a drunkard, and then a de
graded convict. How large a proportion of
the crime which makes prison-houses neces
sary, and of the enormous expenses connec
ted with the administration of public jus
tice, may be traced to the drinking usages of
society!"
Minnesota
In this far-off territory, the people are
wide awake on the subject of the Maine
Law. We do hope that the Legislature of
that interesting region will take steps at its
present session to preserve the soil and at
mosphere from the polluting presence of
distilleries.. Now is the time for them to
prevent the inflictions under which the
States are now suffering. The press of
Minnesota is far more independent than
ours. In speaking of a proposed meeting at
the Capitol St. Pauls the St. Anthony Ex
press says :
" We hepe there will be a full attendance
of every friend of temperance, at the proces
sion at St. Paul next Monday, for the pis
sage of the Maine Liquor Law. We ought
to send down fifty teams. This great re
form is bound to go through."
B7 The following extract from the charge
of Judge Johnson, of Georgia, in sentencing
a criminal for murder, adds another item
to the overwhelming amount of testimony
against the liquor traffic How long shall
this "cess-poor be tolerated in our State?
Will not tha Legislature abate it as they
would any other nuisance 7 If a man cre
ated a "cess-pool" that generated disease
in his neighborhood, how long would it be
Iterated under the seuseless plea that it
was private property, and to abate it would
infringe upon his constitutional rights t No
man would stultify his common sense by
urging such a plea.
But it seems as if men's moral aense be
come so blunted by mingling in political
strife, that they cannot discern the plainest
distinctions between right and wrong. Ev
ery thing is measured by its capacity to in
crease and perpetuate their power.
Bat we publish the extract, and may it
be read by every statesman and jurist in
the country :
"Nor shall the place be forgotten in
which occurred this shedding of blood. It
was one of the thousand ante-chambers of
hell, which mar like plague spots the fair
face of our lovely State. You need not be
told that I mean a tippling shop the
meeting place of Satan's minions, and the
foul cess-pool, which, by spontaneous gen
eration, breeds and matures all that is loath
son s and disgusting in profanity and bab
bling and vulgarity, ana Sabbath-breaking
and bloodshed.
"I would not be the owner of the srro-
cery for the price of this globe converted
into precious ore. For the pitiful sura of a
dime he furnishes the poison, which made
the deceased a fool, and converted this
tremblinp; culprit into a demon. How pal
try the price of two human lives! Inis
traffic is tolerated by law, and, therefore,
the vender has committed an offence net
cognizable by earthly tribunals. But, in
the sight of Him who is unerring wisdom,
he who deliberately furnishes the intoxica
ting draught which inflames men to anger
and violence and bloodshed, is particeps
criminus in the moral turpitude of the deed.
Is it not high time, that these sinks of vice
Maine Law to the people, to vote on in
and crime should 1 e held rigidly accoun
table to the laws of the land, and placed
under the ban of an enlightened and vir
tuous public opinion t "
A Coroner's Jury.
A few weeks since, the dead body of an
Irishmen was found in the Ohio canal, at
Columbus. In the absence of the Coroner,
a Justice of the Peace was called upon to
discharge his duties. A Jury was sum
moned and sworn, and the usual efforts
made to ascertain the cause of the death.
The body had evidently been in the water
two or three weeks. Nothing was found
upon the person except thirty-eight cents.
After the duties of Jurors were properly
discharged, they took the dead man's thirty
eight cents and went to a grog-shop and
drank it out, with the polite landlord, who
was thankful for small faoors. We have no
comments to make on this transaction. We
give the facta as we received them from
citizens of Columbus.
Rhode Island.
The friends of the Liquer Traffic find
" aid and comfort " in the reported failure
of the Maine Law in Rhode Island, but let
them not glory too much over their pseudo
victory ; for, although by the juggling of
politicians the Bill failed to becoire a law,
it passed both branches of the Legislature
by a strong vote, and was defeated by the
Senate insisting on submitting it to the
people before taking effect; and the House
refusing to agree to that provision.
A measure of so great importance to the
welfare of the State cannot be deferred
much longer by such political shuffling,
and when the Law is enacted there will be
no lack of "public sentiment" to enforce it.
Tha "Coshocton Republican,"
One of the few papers in Ohio that dare
show its hand on the " Maine " Question.
The Editor makes some excellent remarks
in view of losing subscribers by taking his
posibnn. He invites the enemies of the
measurs to use his columns, and closes thus :
Of course, we shall not make the Repub
lican exclusively an organ of the Temper
ance Reform. This is but an item in our
catalogue. Whatever we do say upon the
subject, however, will be said respectfully
and kindly plainly and fearlessly, and
this though we may lose subscribers per
consequence.
Another.
The Eaton Register is out distinctly for
the Maine Law. The last number says :
" But we are ready for this question, come
when and how it may. The reign of Rum
and its accompanying horrors is over. A
day or two, or a year or two, can make but
little difference. The present Legislature
must act in accordance with the require
ments of an enlightened philanthropy, or the
next one shall. The ruinous, degrading,
abominable traffic must terminate, and if
the present Legislature does not meet the
demands of the age, no man must be elected
to the next who is not pledged to the Maine
Law."
Great Demonstration.
The Clark county meeting at Springfield,
on Tuesday, was a grand affair. The peo
ple were there. The City Hall was crowd
ed, and a deep and intense interest mani
fested. All were in favor of the Maine
Law, and nothing else. The course of
their Representative in the Legislature in
proposing a false issue to the people is se
verely censured. Our opinion is, that Mr.
Shellabarger was honest and true in sub
mitting the resolutions (published last week)
but their unjust and unfair tenor would
seem to indicate that he was on the side of
the rummies.
We addressed the people of Clark in the
afternoon and evening to immense crowds.
The resolutions of tbt State Convention
were unanimously reaffirmed.
The Blaine Law ia Slassachosetta.
Tha Maine Law has passed the Senate
of the State of Massachusetts, bnt does not
become a law until adopted by the people.
Drunkenness la Cincinnati.
Ws do not know whether this vice is on the
increase or not, but it has fell to our lot to
witness more of it In the last few dsys than
for weeks before. On Friday of las t week
wesaw a decently clad man and woman,
apparently husband and wife, so beaslty
drunk that they could scarcely keep the side
walk. The woman was really good look
ing, and we' pitied her.' To add to the
scene, about twenty boys were gathered .
around them, and every now and then would
give her dress a twitch, much to her displea
sure. We presume they succeeded in gain
ing access to the watch-house. Such scenes
as this makes the heart grow sick.
On Sabbath afternoon we saw lady
leading her drunken husband home ; and it
was about as much aa she could do. She
looked the very picture of despair, and we
thought the adoption of the Maine Law
would be of service to her if no one else.
Ohio Cadet"
This is the title of a neat little sheet pub
lished by our worthy friend, H. 8. Elliott,
at Germantown, Ohio. The Cadet is m
sealous advocate of the Temperance cause,
and especially devoted to the interests of
the Cadets and Daughters of Temperance.
We most earnestly recommend the Cadet
to the boys, girls, and all others, who would : '
like to be greeted with this pleasant little .
monthly visitor. Let the Temperance boys
in Ohio go to work and raise a thousand
subscribers, and send on for the Cadet dur
ing the next month.
It is issued monthly at 25 cents per year.
in advance. Address H. S. Elliott A Co..
Germantown, Ohio.
James M. Clsrk, Agent, Cincinnati.
Hard Times! Habd Times II is the err
of the coffee-house keepers in this city.
i ne ract is, that since the establishment of
the license system in this city, grogeries
hsve increased in every vicinity, until al
most every other opponent of the (rood cause
keeps a drinking-house. The business has
consequently become very unprofitable, and
it is no uncommon thin? to see these irentrv
standing at the doors of their doggeries
ith sad countenances, anxiously looking
for customers, and drawling out "hard
times!" Hard times it is, indeed, and wo
sympathise with them so far as to hope
that the passaire and enforcement in our
State of the great Maine Law may soon de
stroy all competition.
For tba Organ of tha Temperance Reform.)
Temperance at the East.
T sexto if, New Jersey, March 1, 1832.
Mr Diab Editoe : Your admirable "Or
gan " has just been handed to me, as I sit,
weary and half-sick, iu my study this eve
ning, and it has " done me good 1 ke a med
icine." A lite temperance paper is a great
treat, and I cannot but think that you are
making your sheet a worthy compeer of our
"Organ," and of Bro. Goodrich's irresis
table" Cataract."
We on the sea-board, like you dwellers in
the Great Valley, are in the midst of the
battle. It grows hotter every honr.
This is not a mere revolt it is a revolu
tion ; and, as I once heard an old sailor say,
at the commencement of a gale in the British
Channel, " I reckon it will blow harder be
fore it blows less." On Friday evening last,
the Alcoholics in New York city held their
demonstration in Tripler Hall. It was quite
largely attended ; the liquor sellers were
out in some force, and the speeches were of
a disgustingly ribald and shallow character.
What a contrast to our soul-stirring Tem
perance Banquet, held in the same superb
Hall a few evenings before I That was a
noble gathering the veracious "Herald "
to the contrary notwithstanding. General
Houston spoke well. Horace Mann ap
plied the thong admirably to the " brandy
legged " statesmen at Washington. Cbapin
and Beecher were both as keen as a briar.
Neal Dow, the great, good, modest little
man so small of stature, and yet so large
of heart so humble, and yet so resolute,
covered himself with glory. His speech
was simple and straight-forward, and he
seemed absolutely disconcerted with the
storm of applause that greeted him.- A
meeker soul I never met.
Last week I had the honor, and the luxury
of a visit from him. He came over to see
the spot where Washington took the Hes
sians, and to help us capture an enemy
worse than Rahl and his red-coats. In the
evening he addressed the Legislature and
the citizens in our new Temperance Hall,
building which cost us $10,500 and which
stands on the identical spot where the Hes
sians surrendered after the battle. The state
ments made by Mr, Dow were clear and Irre
sistable. Be gives the eloquence of facts.
The little man, with his cute little Yankee
face, brimfull of shrewdness and resolution,
stands up and in plain Englisn tells us why
they made the " Law'and hovs they made
it and why they didn't mean that it shall be
unmade. It was glorious.
The legislators listened with all their
ears, and no man pretended to gainsay
him. The bill is now before our House
of Assembly, but with no hope of it pas
sage this winter. It must be our text for
the next campaign. In New York, there is
a possibility of getting the Law this year,
and in the old Bay State a strong proba
bility. To-night I am engaged to speak ia the
Chinese Museum, Philadelphia, for the good
cause, but am too unwell to go down. When
you come to the East again, look in uperi
me. If you will spend a Sabbath with me,
I will show you the loveliest church ia
the " Jersies," and one which smells of Tem
perance in every stone. I should be happy to
greet one of the Temperance teaaers irom
the State of Gregory, Mathiot, Olds, and
mi nnrt-8Dee3 Iff ymrr lualuna
enterprise, IKtnain, yours In the good
wanaro, ,. is. u. wiua.
u.w.r. or new jersey. ..
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