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s iii£ mm VOL. XVHI. jj j,j jt JVTTPER AWC r A-‘3 E R )S THE ih'lluli t>l lllC wt i I'ill [;(•! ilhi ( \\ll n K Til E t ! Siani Cunvcutlon of Georgia: j VMJBI..ISUEI) WEEKLY , S5 y 812>-S A BSSSA ST3.Y. j ,j r i'erms— Ons l>llar a year,in advance, j ‘■’liters must be Post paid, to receive at | |[| - 1 .rßrj/ATC-Uiai Almanack) for 1852. j| ill? fj? Ilf I I 11 s.ran-|-|-|-|-| >|M JUly -- -flllll j| fllolS * ’ i,!;,: w iVivh n iili2|i” ii i"'V . $ rA -j ii s!.ii:if:vranj A ’ U ” ‘S’ Q !“j-tT| I ajiso.itti 1.,! I :j? - *2 l'}SdSJS|S|9 nnlnNMe o Apr,, iiii7 •'! r M'i s,Bi^ g,jbh*£d.L rHyTjjt •v.; l u r n'e us) ’ t| J| si|*!il|i-jjia •> ‘ , Me .. -I 1, . 6 | 7 I 8 J ion p ? lifijis-ted la/.js'ii-S’ I” l‘ I 1 3.; 27 vs VI’O 31 I A A ;n m Lin Sd nf tmonminj 4 drnnkavd who is in \ f, the hftljii. of drinking ardent sj ints. Q X t When he is warm. I 11. Wlwn !! at work. g\ A ; WratwixoM. ( 12. Wln-n lie is idle. fs V <k When he is wet. I ..1 Before meal*. -\ / J. When lie is dry. ) U. Aticr meals. 5. W!ru lieisituil. I isl. W hen jiCKetsup. V -i . WhoD litisiivo'y- ( 11). Wlion he e>l. Kt /* 7. Wirn ha tfivels. / 17. On hnliidnys. v , 8. When he i.< at heme. ) IS. On l'ui.lin occasions. /. 1 ,V Ill'll lit is in c impnny l 111. On anv liny: or !> ’V i.c W hon In’ id slnnc.. _ / Ji.Jhi yU ‘■-id"”; _ X X Every friend to Temperance <3 iQ should take ilie Temperance Banner. V f A” If Temperance men will not support X NiW Temperance Press, who will ?’ £r.A </.XWx A \4’< 4N \M\XXX*f Dahlonega, Gn.,July 3d, 1852. Ladies :—Your very polite and flat tering note, approving the address I had the honor to dr liver before the Daugh ters of Temperance at their celebra tion this day, lias this moment been re ceived. Your request for a copy for pualiention is n hictariity complied with; on account of its many imperfections, end the impossibility (for want of lime,) •incorrect —I will, however, supply that portion not contained in the original manuscript, cause same to be copied, and presented in my abscense aitera /( w days. Be pleased to accept toy thanks for the charitable construction, you are pleased to attach to my humble effort; if it can do the good that I most devout-j ly wish it could, l shoulu he doubly] compensated for the sacrifice on my ] part, which 1 feel l make in submitting] it to the critic’s eye. With sentiments of highest respect i for you individually, and those you! represen', lain vour ob’t serv’t. A. W. BEDDING, j Mrs. S.Stephenson, Mrs. N. \V imi’ev, j and Mas. T. it. Singleton, Com. Fellow- Citizens —Ladies and Gentle, -; men lappear before you, the humble] advocate of Temperance, and in doing , so, i confess that 1 am little not a ernbar. cussed, notwithstanding 1 have appeared ; in this position frequently before. My chief embarrassment proceeds at this time, from my known want of ability to treat .his subject us its importance de mands, and tins particular occasion re quires. 1 shall not attempt to present any thing new upon this subject, as an attempt would scarcely be practicable in the ablest hands. Most of you know rny usual inode ofi treating this subject is more practical ihun theoretical. It will not be my ob ject to labor to show the evil conse quences of intemperance, nor to abuse the drinker, seller, or manufacturer of 1 this blue-ruin. I shall attempt to speak of this subject as l consider it now stands out before us—l shall assume that it is concluded on all hands, that the j use of alcoholic spirits is an evil, that j has done, is doing, and so long as used at all as a beverage, will spread ruin and evil to its votaries and all those connected with them. In the discussion of this subject, I shall first attempt to show what is the present condition of the cause of tem perance, and endeavor to offer some reasons showing that the true cause of j temperance was never more prosper-; ous—never in a condition more cheer ing a<vl encouraging than it is at the present moment. 2d. 1 shall attempt to answer the pertinent questions:—“What is the! true object of temperance associations and especially ofCadets of boys, “Cold: U ater Armies,” and why are they con stituted as they are? In answering these questions, l shall necessarily open tlie whole field of temperance, an en largement exactly suited to assist my limited ability to do this subject justice. b ust then, what is the present condi tvau 6c prospects of the glorious can -c of ‘Tiopeiance ? 5. have recently heard.. with pain and regret, some of my breth ren expressing fears for the success of the cause—manifesting impatience and Idispondeney ; 1 say I regret this, be [cause I think there is no cause for dis-; ! pondency, but on the contra, v, abund | ant cause for rejoicing. In order that | you may realize these hopes, let u j compare things as they are with ‘hingsj jas they were, touching this subject. — j Let us take live years, then two. or tty- i en one year past, and compare the con- i dition of the cause of tempo:once then, with its present condition. ! cop speak experimentally tor three years in the village of Uahlonega, and the ohserva- j lions 1 make, places ns present c nidi- i lion far, far beyond what it was three j ! years ago. IJut for your encourage-1 ’ merit, and for the purpose of arousing] ] vour present lethargy and lukewarm- [ ness, lot me cite you to the historv of [the times, and many of you who keep j j pace with the times, will bear evidence to what I shall say. But a few short! years ago, and how many E liters were t . then in Georgia who were willing to advertise, even the time and place ! where a temperance lecture would be l delivered. Now you can scarcely pick ]up a news-paper, but in many of its ’ columns, is found the most ludicrous I anecdotes of the drunkard and his do -1 ings, and in many of which, is found j editorials written upon this subject with a degree of force and point almost iire- Isistibie. Mow long lias it been since; | Editors & men of office & high places, ! were found dumb upon this subject for fear of the fierce indignation of me cue mies of this cause. Run your minds back to the time when a few philanthropists set on toot temperance associations, like the few fishermen, the desciples of our Saviour, ■ few, feeble and unknown. For let it be understood that this cause is of Amor, i iean invention, and i am glad that it is; it is here that it should first have had its origin, for of l!1 tiie Na tions and Kingdoms of earth, the Amer ican Nation is the most drunken.— Watch its progress all along down the present time, it met and overcome opo.sition at every point, and contested every inch of ground. Who now are the advocates of temperance i Presi dents, statesmen, judgts, lawyers, doc ! tors, legislators, governors, Washing, loniaus, Sons of Temperance, Rechu bites, Cadets, the best men o! ali the churches, ami last, but not leas:, the ! Daughters of Temperance, have come to the rescue. Be not discouraged my brethren and sisters, in this cause ; it is true that the Sons have become care less and indilfcienl, and the cause ap pears to flag in their hands, but think jnot, my fiiends, that this cause can be ; perfected alone in your hands; its i founders no doubt saw that it must he j introduced into the higher circles of | society, and is it not rapidly insinuating j itself into the highest grades of society? j Did )ou not see that (itiling the sitiing ]of the Tennessee Legislature during! last year, that a celebration came oil", ‘on whio l occasion the Legislature was adjourned, and in that procession was ! found a majority of thui Legislature, j with most of its chief officers. True ] we have been cold and indifferent as .Sons, for a time, but it is pleasing to ! remark that our friends keep their ] pledge inviolate, with but few excep- I lions. Our great fault is, that we do not itltink, talk, and act enough upon this : topic. Cheer up my brethren, and hope,! for the good work is going on bravely, i and it is going where, and as it should. But 1 pass on to answer the next en-1 iquiry. What then is the object of Tom- j ; perunce Associations, mid why thus or-! ! (janized ? I answer, to arrest drunken- : ness and all of its accompanying and j j consequent iniquities. It is concluded j that it was one of those privileges and rights, as the drunkard is want to call it, (to di ink when and us much as lie i pleases,) that in the formation of our fundamental laws, was considered to be j purely conventional, or in other words, was left to each individual to regulate, for himself just as it was, that he should ! be religious, or irreligious, be of this church, or of that church, or of no, church, as he might for himself select. ’ I remark, that if a man drinking Vo ex cess, exerted no evil influence upon others—if his drunkenness entailed no; curse, no evil, no poverty, no shame,; no distress, no want upon others with; whom he is associated ; then this thing would be tolerable —it could be borne.; But to the point: it being one of those j conventional rights, not regulated by laws ofthe State, it can only 0e regula ted and restrained by conventional laws whicli are enforced and executed by j public opinion. We maintain in politics! that “we are capable of self-govern ment,” and it is often added, of wise self-government. This doctrine, I be © lieve fully, Now the founders of Temperance Associations incvitaoly believed that’ this doctrine was true when applied even to conventional laws or usages, j ’l'd bo capable, w-- must be wise; toi b-’ ui.-e v. e must bt taught ; wo arc, PENFIELD, GA. JULY 24, 1852. neither capable, or wise; to release I ourselves at once from the shackles that t hind our appetites to the intoxica j ting bowl, we must think, and we j < must resolve—we must pledge, j I and redeem our pledge. To think of | i the evils of intemperance, and to re- I solve and pledge ourselves to abandon 11 the use of the accursed thing, may he ; I truly said, to be “the beginning of tor's- X uom.” Therefore, we have met together to day, to teach, and he taught, to resolve, ; ami to do the utmost, all that we can to; persuade men to be sober, to cease to 1 use spirituous liquors as a beverage.— i i I need not toll you that you ought to do j this, or that you can doit, you know you should, and you declare you can, i but the question is, will you do it. I have thus briefly intimated the oh- j jeots of Temperance Associations, and] ; the reason w by this inode of action was I introduced. The remedy from the evil ! must bo voluntary, and must be part I and parcel of our social intercourse, of jour social system. But 1 pass on to the 1 next proposition. ! Why are Cadets of boys—cold water j army associations?—they are rarely j | drunkards while boys,—why is there ) | so much pains taking to keep up these j j associations ? The answer to these 1 questions are plain, simple and forcible, j We wisli to teach them lessons ol /rv's- ’ ■ dom upon this subject, in the evil days! ! to come, when they shall say, there is] ‘no pleasure in them. We wish to teach I them how drunkards are manufactured, ! and reared up for the slaughter house—- j we wish to teach them, by constantly calling their attention to it, the evils of j drink, the tendency of drink, the certain j consequences of drinking,—we wish to! tench them to contemn drunkenness, to j detest it, “to dash it down.” We want j them to say in truth, when men, what you ] nor 1 cannot say, that, “1 never knew | its taste or felt it effects.” We want ‘ to raise up a sober generation to take J our places when we shall go home and j “give an account of our steward ship.” Cadets of Temperance, these are some, and only some, of the glorious consequences that await you if you shall keep yunr pledge inviolable. May you do it, —may each one of you live to see yourselves of lawful age, and say in truth, my pledge I have kept sa cred, whatever else of evil 1 have done, j and then may you five in happiness to i a green old age, teaching and being | taught the great good that has been done j j the world, and yourselves in particular, ! | by your early association in the Blue-1 j ridge Section. 1 find I must pass on to the last prop-i ’ osition, or I shall be too tedious if 1 shall i Isay what 1 fain would upon this propo ] sition. Why have Daughters of Tem perance associations been organized ? ‘ Do the ladies drink to excess, that they 1 ! too must make pledges to prevent exces ■ sive drinking ? 1 will not deny to you ! that I have intended to appropriate most |of the time I shall occupy before you, ; upon tin's branch of the subject—the | occasion as 1 think, demands it—this is j an occasion the most extraordinarv that it has been my good lot to be a partiei : pant of. This is the first celebration of I the Daughters of Temperance I ever! | witnessed. T'his is a movement long 1 to be remembered in Lumpkin county,! & the village of Dahlonega, and 1 trust’ and believe will be productive of great! good. I allude not so much to’this! ] public assemblage of the friends of tern-! j peranee, as i do to the fact, that the] j monster who has hitherto too success-! fully combatted all the influences of the j Sons arid Washingtonians, has now to ! face the ladies—just perhaps, as he had ‘ i fancied liiniself as well nigh possessing the field, and put thrice forerunners of I the glad-tidings of peace and release : : from the tyranny of drunkenness—just! at a time when lie thought to renew his; banquets of drunkenness and revelry.— just at a time when the infatuated dram drinker began to promise himself that j the time would soon, soon come, when he might walk into tho confectionary in j open day-light at the frontdoor, and ; take his drink without the fear of meet-1 ing a Son of Temperance watching | round to report him, to talk to him, and 1 beg him to abandon a practice so fraught v\ ith evil, just at a time when the young j gentleman thought that good old prac j lice of getting “half tight” before lie; ; visited bis sweat-heart, would be again tolerated, so that what he had swallowed 1 might appear in his head to brighten; his ideas, and give him what he is! ] pleased to term, courage. Just at a time when the old gentleman flattered 1 i himself that he should soon be permit-j ted, by the lukewarmness of the Sons! and Washingtonians, to again return to bis wanted habits of taking the* social: glass, and sitting out upon bis side-j board, and asking his friends, with his accustomed politeness, to drink with J him. Just at a time when some very good mothers and members of the j church, had fancied to themselves that i they should soon hear no more about its ‘-being a little” harm to lake a dram of a foggy morning, or iis being a cliris. tian’s duty to advocate temperance and be temperate. Ah, many members of the church there are, whoso only nb-j jeetion to temperance is their own love ; of the “critter,” although they would j fain make you believe that it was the insult offered to them, bv intimating that a church member would drink too] much. Oh no, they would have you think that it was lowering the dignity of the church and underrating the pre- j lections of its members to ask them to j abandon the use of it, and to take or sign a temperance pledge. Now is it) not monstrous that all these fine hopes i and glowing expectations of fun, frolic, and unrestrained dram-drinking, after] having fought so hard for the last !"ii or . twenty years, and just as victory seemed ready to declare in favor of their whis key banner, that old dame temperance ] ; should bring up her reserve of ten mil lions of ladies in these United States,, so unexpectedly to renew the attack. On, ladies on, and at the enemies of your p~uce, your honor, and your hap piness. It is drunkenness that has marred your peace, destroyed your, hopes and happiness, beggared your children, sent them into the world with j out education, kept them and raised . ] them in low, and not unfrequently, vi | eiated society. If they will not cease I the pernicious practice, punish them as ! they richly deserve. If he yield, treat I him gently and kindly, but halm him { and collar him, put on the tri colors, | and make him fall into your ranks, and help von to s'ay the last drunkard from the soil of your noble State—from the United States; yes, nunt him down to the very ends of the earth, and re -5 deem him or repudiate him. j But you want to know why ladies I form themselves into temperance asso ! ciations ? Why need they pledge | against the use of intoxicating liquors as ! a beverage ?—there is scarcely a lady ! in ten thousand ever known to drink to | excess. | Since you will know the object and | intention of the association designated ; Daughters of Temperance, I must enter into detail with you, fur it is my object to give all the inter nation in my power, upon this interesting subject. Wo set out by laying down the principle, that the regulation of a man’s faith and re ligion, nis diet, quantity and quality, the cut of his coat, the use of alcoholic drinks, and a thousand other matters, are purely conventional, and under our system of economy or laws, are left to ] die taste, judgment, and inclination of ] each individual ; in short, that the slat ute laws of the State does not, and 1 j will add, ought not, to attempt to regu ] late. I need not tell you. what you all know, that the ladies form nearly one j half of the members that compose socie- I ty ; nor need I tell you. what you fully ! know., that the ladies are the greatest ] sufferers from excesses of all kinds, commit;ed against them, in the improp er use of intoxicating drinks. I need not tel! you that our social system is regu lated by conventional laws, made and enforced by the parlies to the compact, and. that the ladies have equul rights with man in making and executing these laws, which are either to allow or disallow, the violation of ( very in ] f-action ofthese rules of society. 1 if the woman is the great sufferer, by i tlie intemperance of man—if drunken ! ness is to be regulated by the laws al ] ready referred to —if woman has equal ! rights and privileges ‘.o be protected ] and benefitted by these laws; and if intemperance is a common evil to soci ! ety, and can only be rectified by con ventional arrangements, purely volun tary —tell me sir, with all your wonted j dignity, has she not only the right, but is not her privilege and most sacred du ! ty, to join the crusade against the mon ■ ster intemperance, and eject him or his .votary from the pales of civil and social .society? Tell me not sir, v. i;h your I sickly philosophy, “that its well enough ] for men to pledge against it, who have : not nerve enough to take asocial glass, and not make a beast of himself,” but fir ladies who never drink to excess, to be making such a parade about a man’.-. 1 taking a drink now and then with a ; friend, is ridiculous, untimely and out of place— -that little boys who do not, you say, understand the subject, they too are huirned up with red collars arid all sorts of trappings. Now sir, these are about the substances of the senti ments you wish to give currency to, al though many of you deny it. when pub-; licly, or soberly interogated upon the l subject, and yet you claim to be gener ous and magnanimous to a fault, when you are about “haif tight.” Now sir, let us see how vou show in truth, your magnanimity and equity to the rest of society. You claim your privileges, protec tion and advantages from s iciety, hut you wish to regulate it, and refuse to be regulated by it. You are the prime authors of swearing, gambling, and all sorts of debauchery, of want at home, which is a fruitful source of larceny, of penury, of’ e i ini. ; you sacrifice your children, and offer them at the sluiiie of this mighty moloch, waste your lime, your in limy, mr health and injelb ut; ami yd when associations ol this sort; are formed to put down this rnightv ! tide of ruin bv voluntary agreement, ] Ali ! you are so shocked to see the la- j ! dies pledging against intemperance, j and the hoys pledging against the do stroyer, you can scarcely contain your indignation ; you swear and rant, and say, it my wife or daughter was to join ; one of these associations of Daughters lot Temperance, 1 would leave Imr, or | drive her from mv roof, and if one of my sons joins these Cadets, I will whip i it out of him. This sir, is your boasted ; philanthropliy, this is your system of ] social order, but I tell you sir, the time is coming, mid lias com.', when you shall yield to the will of the majority that constitute this social system in sc ]uh ty, and that too without the aid of statuary laws; we invoke no such aid, l and want none of it; what we cannot : cflect by moral suasion and the laws of | society, we will not have. But 1 have j been drawn off farther from my design than ! intended. It was my design af i ter recounting the privileges and equal I rights of woman, to show to you that it becomes her indispensible duty to . lend her aid, her influence, and her personal intervention with the Sons and Cadets, and thereby swell the mighty i current of opposition to strong drink, and scout it from social society and the ] ranks of men. We have, as temper | ance societies Wushiu lonian Societies, ISons of Temperance, Reohabites, Ca dets, and last but not least, as Daugli ters of i emperarice, used all of our es ! forts to get you to abstain from the use i jof this bane of human happiness ; you! ! resisted well nigh successfully, the first, 1 and second organizations, but the; j friends of humanity struggled, and! | brought into existence the Sons, Rech- i ! abites and Cidets; they have obtained j {a footing in public opinion that has ] shaken the very foundations of your j strong-holds, and have ditched and; ‘dried up ten thousand fountains of this j | iniquity ! Ate could tliero baa more ! propitious time for the fair Daughters of J Temperance to come to the rescue ? ! Hail Daughters of Temperance, come | now, with your smiles of approbation to ; the sober, and your withering frowns to the drunkard—let the drunkard feel that power which is mighty in modesty, irresisible in virtue, eternal in, love, and beautiful in temperance. Daughters of Temperance, a few i general remarks to you, as to bow you are to wield this mighty power, in your hand—l mean female influence when tally’ supported by virtuous men. It is like any other powerful agent, if mis directed will recoil upon you or upon the causa you espouse, but properly directed, will be powerful to the pulling down of the strong bolds of the enemies’ . citadel; you will take yopr steps cau tiously and in regular order. I nave seen u time when the rules that govern society might, with so much certainty of success, take higher’ ground. You have tolerated the ad- I mission into your parlors, and as es I coils, the bottle and the demijohn long ] enough. It is high time you bad put a ! stop to their farniliarties ; do this gent ry, but firmly. Inyourbiisinesstrans ! actions, pass them by ; trade with, and I employ other people, if they are in ! want of the necessaries of life, give to] j them, but let no occasion pass when you j ! can remind them of the fact, that you ] fully understand the cause of their ■mendicancy. If they will persist, and ; die in their last ditch, then bury them I and send a Cadet to take their place.- 1 You will ever remember that they are] human beings, and are entitled to your ■ aid, properly directed, and whenever] ] you feel arty misgivings for the string- j : enoy of such rules by you instituted, remember that it is operating upon tie j few, who arc useless to society, for the ; benefit of the many; and remember nl- i so, that these few men who will not be puisnad and to cease the use oft he intox icating howl, though one rose from the ! ‘dead, that these very men, could but: see, or bear of one slight stain upon ! ’ vour fair characters, which was but a title of lhe deep dye that blackens their’ own moral character, induced by crimes ; in drunkenness, tbut lia or they would raise the mighty cry of expulsion, mid drive you from society, and condemn you to everlasting banishment from the ] social circle. You will find that they never forgive one misguided step in you, but will pursue you to the death, i would now, had I ability, fain present to you,a summary of w hat 1 have rather intended to sav, than what I have said. That intemperance is the direct or indirect cause of nearly all the moral : evil extant in our happy land, but for its p- rriiciou.-- consequences, the conven tional laws which should regul. t- - xj.e ty, might be, nay would he, so far per footed as to make our happy nation a paradise on earth,and ;ui earnest of heaven. That this evil can only he reached by voluntary pledges, n solves and associjiio.ii. Iu t all men in this en 1 ightei.ed day, u *-* ri -.sou lias not Ilia n 1 1 rowtiiai in tiie odCcujualiut) bowl, admit that the evil of intemperance is intolerable, and should no longer bo; 1 permitted, by the charity and kindness | of human society, to scatter death, mis ery and woe, up and down the earth. That Statesmen, Philosophers, I’resi* j dents, Judges, Legislators, the diarch ies, the Sons, the Cadets, ilechahites, I and Daughters of Temperance, have i all come, and. are coming to the rescue;, : and yet many of our race resist the ] combined influences of persuasion, of example, of entreaty, and shamefully ‘j shelter themselves behind the most re ] diculous subterfuges, i And now, when all these influences, \ (gentle and persuasive as they have j been,)- so soon us Ute Sons begin to talk about “ditching,” anci the Daughters, Cadets and liechabites, begin to draw the strings of the social compact a litllo tighter, and begin to make you feel their effects upon purse, and personally eject you from privileges you have so long enjoyed,—when the ladies tell you that they will no longer tolerate associations, with you, but will leave you to associate ard enjoy yourselves amongst congeni al spirits,—when the Sons and Cadets say to their wives and daughters, mo : liters and sisters, up at them, we will support, uphold and maintain you.- | Still you refuse to conform to these reasonable demands, which would ben efit you, most of all the injured parties. It is true the drunkard dies hard, but die you must, in the last slough of intemperanoc, or yield to the mighty in lluenees now being put into operation ! to arrest the mighty torrent of mischief. Tho conclusion of the whole matter i is, that every mother and daughter; 1 should, without the least hesitancy, | unite themselves to tho Daughters of j Temperance, that every boy should ! join the Cadets, and pledge himself 1 against tho taste and smell of this moral j and social poison ; that every father 1 and brother, that every man who is. ! willing to contribute to the good of so i ciety, and thereby compensate it for its i benefits received by him, should this | day, ceaso to use it, and commence from ‘j this hour to wield his power for its sup ! press ion. It is not enough, fellow-man, | that you should simply abstain from its use yourself, urid let others do us they I like, to fold your arms, feeling sslf-se. j ourity from its attacks, but you cannot. I fail to see that if its evil tendencies are to be uprooted Uy voluntary associa j lions, unless you aid iti its emancipation, j you are not justly entitled for a single i day to the benefits of tho moral, social compact. May each of us, from this day for,, ward, bs more diligent, more zealous, | for tills good cause, whether we be Soons, Washingtonians, Rechabites, Ca dets, or Daughters, or sincero friends of the cause—may we double our dili gence, and with that divine aid, which is vouched safe to us, if we shall be faithful and diligent, never cease our efforts, or look back, until our cause is everywhere triumphant, and man is. redeemed, Mr. Brantly : Wo desiro, through ■ the Banner, to give the friends some ! information in relation toour cause in j the neighborhood of Antioch Division, | No. 48, in Elbert county. This Divis ion is located 10 or 12 miles West ol Elberton in a section where tho habit jof drinking had long prevailed, taught ;by lallmr to son ; so that for a long ‘time tho opposition was groat and tho j j),••ogress of tho Sons slow, but they I have held on, and have fought their way to a high and proud elevation; j strange to say, the strongest opposition, j and the last to yield, and which is not I yet silenced, is from the members of ! the church, and not only is their oppo !aitiuii to liie Sons, as they at one time ; pretended on the ground that it was a i secret society, &c., but the real truth, is, they are opposed to temperance soci eties because they have for their object ,the suppression of the use of ardent ‘spirits us a beverage. Thanks to tho i discussions of tho day, the public mind, has been ei.lightened, and the publics i virtue has been aroused, and good men in the church and out of it, are band ing together, to do that which those an ties refuse to do.—to rid tho country of the greatest foe to human haopiness ; 111 n * . and ere long those opposers of the tem peranco cause, will find themselves left i alone, with the mortifying rt flection ] that they have riot only failed to holp. in this great moral reformation, but 1 itiey have stood in the way and opposed its progress. Our cause in this section Ims been greatly revived lately, mainly through the aid of Rev. George Bright ; we have initiated 17 during the last quar ter, and established a total abstinence society of members, composed of the surrounding cournmuuity. We had struggled against many difieultiesj some iiad given back, und we were barely holding our own at the beginning of tins year, wheu Rev. Mr. Bright came on this circuit, who, seeing ou boipomlmg condition, came promptly forward to our help, and like an old veteran soldier, he took his position in the front rank, inspired new courage in the members, called m fresh help, and NO. TO.