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BOMB MISSION DEPARTMENT.
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The Voice of Western Michigan.
Kalamazoo, Mich., Nov, 28, 1813.
To the Sec. of .1. It. 11. Miss. Sue.
At a meeting composed of ministers and
laymen, assembled at Kalamazoo, JNov.
Bth, 1813, to consider the ‘best means lor
extending and strengthening tlie churches
in this vicinity; Rev. William Taylor, of
Schoolcraft, was chosen chairman, and bro
ther .1. A. B. Slone Secretary. After pray
er, consultation and free interchange of
views and feelings, the following, among
other resolutions, were unanimously pass
ed:
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
meeting, the destitution of the means of
grace, and the feeble stale of the churches
in the western pan of this Slate are such,
that the cause of God would lie greatly
promoted by the labors of a pious and effi
cient evangelist in eac h county.
Resolved, That in the absence of the
means of snppoit among ourselves, we wi i
make an earnest appeal to the A. B. 11. M.
Society, for both men and means to sup
port them at least in part.
Resolved, That the Secretary be directed
to communicate these resolutions to the
Secretary of the 11. M. Society, and also to
the hoard of our own convention, entreat
ing them to intersede with the 11. M. S.,
that the wants of this region may he con
sidered.
nl to communicate suen statistics anu
ination, as may serve to make known to the
hoard of the 11. M. S., the religious con
dition, wants and claims ol this portion of
the Lord’s vineyard.
I'lie above will show the purport of this
communication. We have here a lertile
land—rather a sparse, but fast increasing
population—generally one considerable
village in each county, and oftentimes
more. The rest of the population are far
mers—ministers are few —churches small
and feeble. In some counties there is not
a single pieacher. Christians are poor,
generally—and among some there is not as
high a standard ot public effort as there
should be, and none but Christians think of
assisting in the support of the gospel.—
This region is all missionary ground.—
Your society has done something for our
assistance, hut most of the labor and ex
pense has been home by the ministers
themselves, who have come here, and
preached at their own cost. I have never
seen any class of men who I thought were
sacrificing so much for the gospel’s sake as
the ministers in this region.
In the Eastern States, they have churches
to lean upon. I’he missionary in a for
eign land looks to his society for support,
but many of the preachers here can look
only to God and themselves.
Some have preached for years without
compensation —one who was present at
this meeting has preached in this way some
six or eight vears, and built his own meet
ing house in addition, working with his
hands six days in the week to support his
family and carry on his plans ol benevo
lence.
In Kalamazoo co. we have five preach
ers—two of them being constantly employ
ed as teachers —but three or four more
could be most usefully employed. But in
Van Buren and Barry, two adjoining coun
ties, ldo not know that there is a single
Baptist minister employed. In, the north
ern counties, brother Jones, your missiona
ry, has field enough for several men.
We want evangelists. By this we do
not mean technically, revivalists, but one
who shall take his stand in a county and
preach in as many places as he shall find
practicable and profitable. Something could
be collected on the ground for his support,
but in some instances not very much, for a
while at least. Western Michigan might
have been Baptist ground, if as strong ef
forts had been made by our own as by
other denominations.
******** *
Give us one man, give us two, give us
ten. Wc want twenty, but would be thank
ful for a much less number. We must
look to the East mostly for men.
SUCCESS OF A MISSIONARY - IN OHIO
From the Rev. John O. Birdsall, Perrys
burg, Ohio, Nov, 27.
“As our Convention have resolved to re
lieve the Home Mission Society of the ex
pense of sustaining missionaries in this
State, my relation to that Society, as such,
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now ceases. I feel a degree of sadness in
taking leave of my esteemed bretluen,
composing the Executive Committee whose
confidence and patronage have continued
to me for six years in this place.
“When I entered upon my labors here,
there was but one church, just organized,
consisting of thirteen members. It was
the only Baptist Church in all the Maumee
Valley, extending one hundred miles in
length, and from fifty to one hundred in
breadth. During the period of my resi
dence here I have had the happiness to bap
tize one hundred and thirteen persons;
churches have been organized all around us,
and an- Association has been formed com
prising fourteen churches. Net we are
still ill alt the weakness eiT infancy. 057
valley is fertile as lbe ancient Vale or Sod
om ; oni commercial advantages, furnished
by the opening of the Wabash and Eri ca
nal, are unrivalled; but there is a great pau
city of evangelical laborers. Allow me,
dear brother, in taking leave of you, to
stretch out my band, like the Macedonian
in Paul’s vision, to my ministering breth
ren in the East, and say, ‘come over and
help us.’ Say not, dear brethren, ‘it is too
unhealthy;’ a residence here of six years
justifies me in speaking favorably of the
increasing health fulness of our valley.—
And if it were otherwise, it is not beyond
the limits of the Saviour’s commission. If
the pale horse, with his terilic rider, makes
his visits here, is it not enough for us all,
that we are not beyond the domain of Om
nipotence—th.it we are here within the
purview of that gracious promise, ‘ Lo, I
am with you always.’ ”
OREGON.
From Rev. Thos. S. Malcom, Louisville,
Ky., Dec. 7.
“ I am pleased with the proposition to
appoint another missionary lo Oregon,
provided S3OO can be raised or pledged be
fore the Ist of April. 1 will, cheerfully,
give five dollars towards the sum proposed.’
We give tlie above extract because we
had indulged the hope that some church or
individual would have responded, ere this,
to our suggestion, to transmit or pledge the
who! csuin. One missionary, a western
pioneer, will go: another is derirous ol ac
companying him. Both are well qualified.
Should not two lie aided to go together on
so distantand difficult a mission? The Sa
viour sent forth his disciples two and two.
Should we not imitate him ? We will, if
furbished with the means.
Benj. M. Hill, Cor. Sec.
ADDRESS TO THE CITIZENS 111’ UKUKtiIA.
The Committee appointed by the Ealonton
Convention, to Address the Citizens of
the Slate on the subject of Temperance,
submit the following:
It is a fact beyond dispute, that morali
ty is the very essence of civil liberty
under free institutions. The reason is
simply because, that under such institu
tion all power proceeds either directly or
indirectly from the people. If, therefore,
llie people are generally moral, they
will always exorcise the powers and priv
ileges which they enjoy with a disinter
estedness of patriotism only equal to the
unhesitating promptitude of their obe
dience to tlie laws.
On the contrary, it is equally a fact, as
fully verified by the history of tlie past,
ns it is striking to tlie common sense of
every reflecting mind, that a loose moral
ity, by a law us unvarying and invariable
as tlie law of gravitation, must result in
the decline arid final destruction of repub
lican institutions.
If these facts are admitted, what, let
us inquire, is the moral condition of our
country? It is to us a matter of gravest
import and deserving our most serious
consideration. From one end of the
country to the other, we have heard of
nothing so much for the past few years
as the mobs, the riots, the thefts, the mur
ders, and every thing, in a word, which
could indicate the general immorality and
corruption of our people. 1 lie press has
been so crowded with the shocking de
tails of crime, that we can hardly take up
a newspaper which does not contain an
account of some new outbreak against
law and good order, or some tale yet un
told of theft or bloodshed. Never was
there a period in the history of our gov
ernment, say our statesmen, so fraught
with corruption as is the present. Hence
proceeds the gloom which settles and
gathers thick and heavily over all their
speculations concerning the future.
In addition to these facts, are not the
disorders consequent upon the recent
monetary depression fresh in the recollec
tion of us all? Was there ever a plainer
demonstration than was then afforded, of
the inefficiency of mere parchment re
strictions when unsustained by the salu
tary restraints of a sound morality? Re
sistance to the peaceful administration of
justice, was in many places openly dis
cussed, and too often successfully carried
out. There was hence a general fueling
of insecurity, and a felt uneasiness arid
anxietv among all law-abiding men, as to
the course of those who seemed disposed
to set aside the supremacy of the laws.
Such is and has been the nforal condi
tion of our country. We presume not to
trace the causes which have combined to
produce such a state of things; yet it may
not be unimportant to notice among many
others, one or two facts which most cer-
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PEYFIELD, GA„ JANUARY 12, 1844.
tuinly exist, and which will operate as an
aggravation of the present evils in liice
to come.
According then to the best estimates
which have been made, our population
doubles itself every 23$ years. We hare
now a population of seventeen millions.
If the “ immorality of the country is
enough to excite the alarm of the patriot
now, what may we expect in the next 5 3$
years, when our population will be 34
millions? Whatin tlie next half centu y,
when we shall number 68 millions of n
habitants. The causes which operate to
demoralize our people now, besides bey.g
vastly multiplied in number, willed
much more puyver. The people w*iU nt*
collected in greater masses throughout
the country, and whatever is inflammato
ry of passion and prejudice will be the
.more easily enkindled and spread with
the greater rapidity.
■4 The collection of large numbers of per
sons together, has always been found to
favor the growth and development of cur
worst passions. The same man is al'.o
gether a different creature under the lif
ferent circumstances of solitude and so
ciety. In the one case, lie is more apt to
yield to the suggestions of his reason and
the disinterested goodness of his he*it.
Iri the other, lie is the creature of an un
thinking, unreasoning impulse: And thus
it is, that in the calmness of solitary re
flection, we are often surprised, when
we recur to our association with a crov.d,
and recall the indiscreetness of our re
marks, or the heedless impetuosity of our
actions. Under these various circum
stances, men are not unlike the electric
fluid, which, in its general diffusion over
the earth, gives calm and repose and sun
sliino to the world, but concentrated it
seems to loose the law of its being, ard to
follow no other law but that of death and
destruction to every thing within the
sphere of its influence.
The increased and increasing facilities
of communication by means of the steam
cur, are bringing the most distant parti of
tlie country into the same neighborhood.
The vices of the large cities will thus
spread through tlie country, and the mor
als of the people must certainly deteriorate.
ht then appears, that we are grossly
immoral now, with a certain prospect,
from causes now in operation of becoming
worse ir. time to come. Are these fact.-,
or are they not ? If they are, it must b
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people we have a ioe . against us,
more to be feared for its numbers, more
insatiable in its hostility and more insidi
ous in its attacks, than the whole army
against which we battled for our indepen
dence. Against the latter, though a
gainst the most powerful odds, wo have
fought victoriously. Who can say that
we shall be equally victorious over the
more formidable enemy, which is now si
lently, yet not tlie less certainly, sopping
the foundations of American liberty?—
The noble oak which has been torn, and
wrung, and riven by the lightnings of
heaven, lias sometimes flourished on,
green and unwitliered in its glory, as il
in defiance of the thunders of tlie tem
pest; yet, after all, it lias fallen beneath
the attack of an unseen enemy at its
heart. God grant that such may not be
tlie type of our destiny; but victorious
in arms, that we may also be able to con
trol and to conquer our passions.
Are you not prepared, then, fellow-citi
zens, to aid in the moral reformation of
your country? Are you not prepared to
wage a war of extermination with the
moral corruption of our people. Let us
then attack the enemy in the very citadel
of its strength. Let us rase that to its
foundation, and the victory is ours. That
citadel is Intemperance, Hence issue the
legions of evils, which under different
names are constantly sallying forth upon
society, leaving nought but famine and
universal desolation to mark the track of
their invasion.
We cannot present a more condensed
view, or a more graphic description of
tlie evils of intemperance than one which
has been given by a writer in the State of
Ohio. We gladly substitute it in the
place of any thing from ourselves, and
ask for it a careful arid thoughtful perusal.
“And yet its march of ruin is onward still./
it reaches abroad to others, invades the family
and social circle, and spreads wo and sorrow all
around; it cuts down youth in its vigor, man
hood in its strength, and age in its weakness;
it breaks the father’s heart, bereaves the doting
mother, extinguishes natural affection, erases
conjugal love, blots out filial attachment,
blights parental hope, and brings down mourn
ing age With Borrow to the grave. It produces
weakness, not strength; sickness, not health;
death, not life. It makes wives widows; chil
dren orphans; fathers fiends, and all of them
paupers and beggars. It hails fevers, feeds
rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemic,
imparts pestilence, and embraces consumption.
It covers tlie land witli idleness, poverty, dis
ease and crime; it fills our jails, supplies our
alms-houses, and demands our asylttmns; it en
genders controversiss, fosters quarrels, and
cherishes riots; it contemns law, spurns order,
and loves molts; it crowds your penitentiaries,
and furnishes victims for your scaffolds; it is
the life-blood of the gambler, the aliment of
tlie counterfeiter, the prop of the highwayman,
and the support of the midnight incendiary; it
countenances the liar, respects the thief, and
esteems the blasphemer; it violates obligations,
reverences fraud, and honors infamy; it de
fames benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue and
slanders innocence; it incites the father to
butcher his offspring, helps the husband to
massacre his wife, und aids the child to grind
his parricidal axe; it burns up man, consumes
woman, detests life, curses God, and despises
Heaven; it suborns witnesses, nurses perjury,
defiles Use jury box, and stains tlie judicial er
mine; it disqualifies voters, corrupts elections,
pollutes our institutions, und endangers our
government; it degrades the citizen, debases
the legislator, dishonors the statesman, and dis
arms the patriot; it brings shame, not honor;
terror, not safety; despair, not hope; misery,
not happiness. Arid now, as with the malevo
lence of a fiend, it calmly surveys its frightful
desolations, ami insatiate with havoc, it poisons
felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, blights con
fidence, slays reputation, and wipes out nation
al honor, then curses the world and laughs at
-its rum. It is stated, too, upon tlie highest and
most unquestionable authority, that not less
than u half a million of drunkards have existed
at any one time in the United States for rtie
last 20 years. That one million and a half
have died since the acknowledgment of our
independence; that at least a quarter of a mil
lion in the same time have been put to death
by murder arid manslaughter from drunkenness;
another quarter of a million have beet: execu
ted for murder arid sentenced to public prisons;
making in all, the appalling number of two
millions since we have been a free people.”
If, therefore, the evils which have been
enumerated in the foregoing extract, do
naturally result from intemperance, is it
surprising that we hear and read so much
of the immorality and corruption of our
people, when it is considered, too, that
intemperance, the great cause of causes,
numbers so many among its votaries?—
Ought not, then, every patriot to engage
in the effort which is now making to re
move intemperance, this dreadful ene
my of our peace, our happiness, and our
liberties, from the land. Are we worthy
of the noble heritage of our rights and
our liberties, if we make no effort to pre
serve them? Yet after all, it is to be leaf
ed that there are hundreds amongst us ,
who—because we have not yet been de- ‘
stroyed by our vices—-either cannot or
will not see any danger, unless they see
the red coat of the British soldier or hear
the booming of a British gun. They do
not seem to consider that we can suffer
harm except from the artillery, the infan
try and the cavalry of some foreign foe.
To such persons we would say, if you
will give the ‘go-by’ to tlie teachings of
reason, go and consult the history of the
Republics which are now no more. You
will find, if we mistake not, that in every
instance, the insidious, the ever-active,
the destructive enemy of their own vices
im. Vv'-'-'Nlayeij them, long before they sumr
yielded submission to any foreign power.
That already conquered by their own ex
cesses, an invading army had nothing to
do but take possession of their territory.
It is at once our glory and our danger,
that all power emanates from the people.
Our glory, because we arc the authors
and preservers of our own rights. We
do not take them as a boon from any man
or set of men. And in tlie exercise of
virtue directed by an enlightened view of
our best interests, wc shall perpetuate a
free government to the latest generation.
Our danger, because the people may be
come corrupted. They may cease lo ex
ercise their powers in accordance with
the dictates ofa virtuous and enlightened
patriotism; until yielding only to the im
pulsive madness of passion and the pre
judices of ignorance, every measure that
is corrupt, may find its sanction in law—
every man who is ambitious may estab
lish iiis honor by elevation. The legisla
tion of the country necessarily partaking
of the capricious passions which direct it,
the rights of the people may become un
stable and fluctuating; until passing from
one stage to another, civil war may final
ly ensue, and the people at last find them
selves writhing under the yoke of the
Unost galling despotism.
A Among the evils of intemperance, we
have barely noticed its tendency to cor
rupt the purity of elections. We will
here add, that in this respect it is a most
dangerous engine in the hands of the
demagogue. By the power which it
gives him, the government is practically
subverted; for the (towers of the peo
ple are transferred from them to those
who have a mind to impose upon them.
The government no longer becomes the
government of the many, but the gov
ernment of the lew. The demagogue
may thus, through the agency ot intem
perance, carry whatever lie pleases. II
he has any seffish object to attain, be it
merely his own elevation, or, what is
worse, to filch by legislative spoliation,
the hard earnings of bis more honest and
industrious neighbors, he may successful
ly employ this engine in its attainment. —
Who has not seen hundreds of our fel
low-citizens the veriest slaves ol those
who would treat at elections; thus igno
bly parting with their rights of suffrage,
the most glorious right of American free
man. Whatever may have been our past
offences upon this subject, whether they
have been to treat or be treated, let us not
perpetuate an evil which may be such a
powerful instrument in tlto hands of bad
rnen. Let us look with suspicion upon
men who, wanting the courage to com
mand our suffrages by their merits, would
insidiously steal them by liquor. Let us
watch all candidates, particularly on out
days of election. If they offer to treat us
then we are bound to suspect them, how
ever plausible the pretexts of their kind
ness. And so suspecting them, wc are
bound to feel the deep, the stinging in-
sult, which is implied in the attempt to
control the dearest right of an American
freeman by the bottle. From nothing let
us turn so indignantly away. Nothing
should so stir up the resentment of every
man who rejoices iri his freedom. NVhat
ever becomes corrupted, let us preserve
the purity of the ballot-box. Whatever
sacrifices we make, let us never sacrifice
that right which makes us free, and which
independently maintained will keep us so.
If intemperance produces so much evil,
temperance on the other hand will pro
duce a corresponding amount of good.—
lemperance is the mother of industry.
Industry is itself the parent of a host of
virtues. Temperance strengthens the
bonds of society; it loves order and res
pects the laws; it promotes education; it
cherishes the social feelings, and thus al
leviates the burdens and the sorrows of
li*’e by the charm which it diffuses over
all its various relations* It keeps men
alive to tli£ V rights, and confers the abil
ity to maintain them. It weakens the
motives to do wrong and strengthens the
motives to do right. It makes men good
citizens, good husbands, and good lathers.
It helps tlie poor man to wealth and se
cures the possessions of the rich. It re
gards obligation and speeds us forward in
the discharge of duty. In a word, it
preserves the due subordination of the
passions and the supremacy of reason;
evolving all that is good and which will
make us happy, suppressing all that is
bad and which will make us unhappy.
It is our duty, then, fellow citizens, to
promote the cause of Temperance. We
owe it to ourselves, to our families, und to
society. We owe il,above every thing,
to the government under which we live,
and which can only be sustained l>v the
virtue arid morality of its citizens,
k Up to the time of the origin of the
Temperance reform, America had been
called a nation of drunkards by some of
the States ot Europe. Ihe charge could
not then be denied, for the drinking class
of our citizens constituted no small part
of our whole population. Since that
time, the cause of Temperance has pro
gressed with a rapidity far beyond the
culculution of its warmest friends. Hun
dreds arid thousands and millions have en
listed under its banners. America, once
taunted with the drunkenness of her pop
ulation, has been the first to set about the
correction of the evil; and Europe, ani
mated by a noble emulation of her suc
cess, now acknowledges by her reformed
millions, the worthy example of once
drunken America. How should the
thought swell the bosom of every Amer
ican patriot, when he reflects, that if we
were first to be called a nation of drunk
ards, we were also first to set the example
of sobriety. There is something about
this which we may fairly trace to the good
old blood of the revolution. It savors
much of the spirit of those great men,
who, convinced of their errors, always
deemed it nobler to retrieve them, than
persist obstinately in their defence.
To America belongs the honor of giv
ing the example of a lree people and free
institutions to the world. Her example
was felt in the honest but ill lilted attempt
of France, to establish similar institutions
upon the ruins of her fallen throne. Il
spread thence throughout the nations ol
Europe. And although none of them
have as yet adopted her form of Govern
ment, yet, the spirit of liberty is still in
creasing among their people to such an
extent, us to leave very little doubt that
there is a gradual and an irresistible ten
dency of all the governments of Europe
to the equal rights and privileges of out
own glorious republic. But it America
had stopt here, if she hud been content
with tlie achievements ol her illustrious
founders, her work, though confessedly
great, had been but half done; Greece and
Rome had flourished and with the decline
of virtue they had fallen. France, infuri
ated under a sense of the most galling op
pression, had thrown olf the chains ol feu
dal vassalage, and upon the ruins of her
ancient institutions had founded a Gov
ernment which was to confer equal rights
upon all; yet, unprepared for tlie transi
tion, and maddened with the enjoyment
ofa liberty which before had existed only
in the dreams of her Foetry or in the wild
abstractions of her Philosophy, her pas
sions had risen into the storm, under the
violence of which, her liberties had been
prostrated. Such too had been the fate
of our South American neighbors.
The conclusion, therefore, ot the friends
of the institutions of Europe, Lad been
that such too must und will be tlie fate of
Republican America. But thanks to the
enlightened patriotism of those who could
see in immortality and vice, the deadliest
enemies to our institutions, our country
has been aroused to a sense of its danger,
and not content with the mere possession
of free institutions, we are now showing
to the world that we know how to (ire
serve them.
In our Temperance Societies we have
the guaranty of an enlighled and a virtu
ous population for generations to come.
Thus shall our liberties bo preserved; for,
with such a population, our laws will lie
planned in wisdom, administered with
impartiality, and carried most faithfully
into execution. •
May we not. contemplate with proud
satisfaction, the contrast between Atueri-
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NUMBER 2.
ca and all of the Republics of the past.
I hey perished from theexcesses of a loose
morality. Such cannot be her fate if we
succeed, as we confidently believe we will,
in the efforts which we are now making
lor our moral improvement. But if such
reflections may inspire ns with
we not feel prouder when we reflect that
we are fast shutting the mouths of our
transatlantic enemies when they poitit to
“drunken America,” and argue from her
excesses that her days will soon be num
bered arid that she too, will perisb os
have the Republics which have gone be
fore her.
M hut an impulse shall we give the.
cause of freedom throughout the civilized
world. Wow triumphantly shall the friends
ol libei ty appeal to -ear example i.n all
time lo come. It was a great work to
plant our Institutions. It is no less a
work to preserve them. The former was
the work of our lather—the latter is ours.
Let us see to it that we have equal sue.-
ecss. Posterity shall then award us equal
honor.
W e therefore invite you, Fellow citi
zens to enlist with us in the great work of
moral improvement which is now* going,
on. Let us advance the Temperance Re
form. A broad held is here opened for
your patriotism and your philanthropy.
Y ou are ealled on to make no sacrifice of
principle either in religion or politics.—
Our cause stands by itself. It will suc
ceed upon its own merits. The evils
which it is designed to remove need only
to be brought before the attention of the
people to insure its most distinguished
success. It therefore needs no alliance
with any tiling else. We claim it as our
own peculiar privilege that we unite all
parlies and all churches in the common
cause of removing the ills of Intemper
ance. M e neither ask you to make any
sacrifice ofheatlh, of’ reputation, or honor,
or indeed any sacrifice or privation which
would be even as dust in the balance com
pared with the real service which you
may render your country.
We only ask you not to drink ardent
spirits. That is easily enough done. You
make no sacrifice iri that which will not
benefit you, whilst at the same time you
are doing great service to your country.
You are neither called on to set your
selves up in tlie opposition of distance and
I coldness and reserve to old friends be
cause they drink. On the contrary, in ac
cordance with the dictates of humanity
and our own glorious principles, we would
expect your friendship to catch a warmer
glow from the pity excited by the infirm
ities of your friends and your anxiety to
reform them.
We regard the drunkard with pity, not
with scorn. We have no other than feel
ings of the kindest sympathy for him.—
Instead of lowering him in his own or the
public estimation, we would rather go to
him, and in tlie spirit of the greatest be
nevolence and terms of the greatest per
suasion urge him to the abandonment ofa
set ofhabits which must result in his de
gradation.
We believe too, that persuasive means
are most effectual in reclaiming the ine
briate. We deem id! others unnecessary,
and therefore we use no others.
No possible objection can be opposed
to onr cause or the means which are used
in iis advancement. It proposes to re
move a great evil. How ? Simply by
persuading men to abandon ir. However
determined a man may lie in his opposi
tion to the temperance reform, he cannot
be honest with himself if he objects either
to the cause or the means hv which it ia
advanced. Will a man hate you when
you give him tlie best of reasons to be
lieve that you love him ? It cannot be.
Ca'led on, therefore, to make no sacri
fice whatever—to do nothing which can
create bad feelings between yon and your
neighbors, yet still enabled to co-operate
in one of the greatest revolutions since the
days of Luther—a revolution rich with
blessings and happinc s to our common
country and to mankind, we urge you,
fellow citizens, to lay hold without delay
upon your privilege and your duty.
The success of our cause is now past
all dispute. Nobody can siiv aught against
it. Every body can say something for ir.
The young men throughout the whole
country are coming up to its aid. Go in
to any of our villages and it will be found
that with very lew exceptions, nine tenths
of the young men are on the side of tem
perance. The bottle is no longer used to
stimulate their mirth in the meetings of
their clubs. Go where you will and you
will scarcely find a tavern where spirits
are kept. Their manufacture and impor
tation are annually diminishing. Ihe
voice of the whole country is getting to
be against their use ns a beverage, Tho
day, we believe, is not very far distant
when they will cense to be used in that
way. What a glorious day for our be
loved country ! When harmony and peace
and love shall rule the domestic circle,-**
When the tears of early disappointment
and care shall cease to bedim the oheek at
the too confiding* wife, and the silence of
midnight shall no more be broken with
her groans, When Intemperance shall
no more consurriethe bread of helplessand
unprotected orphanage. When the ou
tage of the poor man vo longer the squalid
abode of (titling and want, shall assume
the neatness find the comfort ol thrifty no-