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‘HHdiiy men cf raauy minds-” Mr. Editor : —The v niotis un i < m flicting opinions li< id li/ tln* frfat)ds ol tempo ranee, relative to the best modus operandi, for hastening to its cjusuiii, mation that” great eiiterprfo'', rem.n fas me of the copy I used to write when u school hoy, which I have placed at tin head of this article. Soir/’ure lor tnor nl suasion alone. ami repudiate ul ut tempts at legislation upon the subject; while others w ith equal zutl, contend lor tiie absolute necessity of l< gislative enactments, in order to stop the uecoly traffic in intoxicating liquors as a bev. orage. Some are in favor of the M *ine Liquoi Lmv; others, a law, leaving tt to the voters in each malilia district to say whether or uot they wish a “devil t rap,” in the fbrin of a doggery, located in their midst to manufacture drunk, ! arils, and bring distress and misery up. on their wives and children ; while oth ers think it lit.st to submit the matt< i for the Grand Juries of the Counties to recommend the grunting or not granting license as they, in their wisdom, may deem best for the good of the people. The t>>ns boast ol the superiority ol their order ova r all other temperance societies, and threaten the speedy ex termination of “old ulchy” any liow, ami the demolition of all his fortifica tions; while many reflecting and ar dent temperance men think their boast ing vain, and seriously object to all se cret organizations, no matter fir what purpose gotten up, ms inoougenial with, and dangerous in their nature and ten dency to our free republican insti tutions, and give the preference to the old republican total ajistinen e and Washingtonian associations. Besides, there are some who think the church is, not only the Lest, but the only tem perance society designed by her Great 1 Head to reclaim the sinner from the er ror of his ways, and object to her mem hers joining any other organization for that purpose. I low far these various views may he right or wrong, is not my present purpose to particularly invi sti gate, but simply to “show mine opin ion,” believing with Kliliu, one of the friends pf Job, tlmt “great men urn not always wi|e,” us this diversity ol senti ment proves. 1 am, sir, a total abstinence man and both a moral and legal suasionist, and am fully satisfied that moral suasion j alone, will in ver Gleet the great object ! in view; umi it is matter of surprise to j mo tlmt so muny good umi sensible men should he opposed to legislative in terference. The object ofull good gov ernments is to promote the peace, hap piness and prosperity of its citizens, and this cun be done only by fostering virtue and suppressing vice, and thus j promote the stability of the government. Experience and observation prove to a i demonstration, that practices injurious tp the morals of the people, and conse quently to tho public weal, must find I their corrective in sulutury law*, sup- 1 ported by enlightened public opinion. Hence our laws against profane swear ing, gambling, houses ol ill-tamo, and profaning tlio Sabbath day, ito., iVo. i think it best, and lor the honor of our State, that we Imvo a.statutory interdic tion of the iniquitous liquor traffio, ex cept for medicinal and mechanical pur posses ; but, if this cannot be had, I must prefer the grant to the people ol the districts, to say whether or u t they want a doggery amongst them, to any other plan 1 have seen suggested, or that occurs to my own mind at present. 1 am, however, in favor of any lawful, and prudent measure that may bode.! vised for preventing or diminishing the evils arising from our license retail system, that standing monument of our i country’s shame and injury. Our illustrious Washington declared, in his farewell uddres, that “the happi ness and prosperity of a tuition depends upon the mora/s of the people.” And what, 1 would ask, is more demorali zing than our grog-shop system ? li this maxim of the “lather of his coun try” be true, as it certainly is, being deduced from scripture, reason, com-1 mon souse and the history of nations, it! then becomes the imperitive duty of the , free citizens of this highly favored re- j public, t see to it, that our demorali zing doggery system be speedily abol-1 ished and prohibitory laws enacted to relieve us trom the dreadful curse oi intemperance, injustice, crime un i mis ery. None but a kuaveor a simpleton would say, in this enlightened day, ns has been said in by-gone years, that tho legislature have “no constitutional right” to tjieddle with the question. If she had the right to her present li cense laws, she certainly has tho right to repeal them, when she discovers! their evil nature and tendency, and, its the conservilors of the rights and inter eaW of the people, it is her duty to do so, when it shall he known to ho the wish of a majority of the constituency. That individual, of legal age, who does! not perceive, in this enlightened day, the enormous evils growing nut of our license system, morally, physically, so cially and politically, must liavo a mind ! steeped iu the very drogs of ignorance; and he who perceives and will not lend a helping hand, by lawful and prudent means to remove or stay the evil, is certainly derilict of duty to bis Cod, his country, and his kind. But, Mr. Editor, the friends of-the good cause should be very careful not lo adopt hasty and injudicious meas ures that would probably excite tire tears or arouse the indignation of a free people, always, and very properly, so jealous ol their rights and safety.— Measures that may bo lawful mnv not 7m!*n okViiic sons or- tkmii:k.-.x<’* aku *tatk tioipkkanck < x\ k.vi hn_ I ho expeoi’ lit. The remedy for the i evils of intemperance, under which otn country groans, are in the hands of the sovereign people them-a Ives, and Will he applied at the ballot-box, whenever tin v are convinced that it ’s their best interest and duty it do so, by elec'ing representatives who will carry out their will, hv abolishing the traffic in the •'Hue ruin.” But, sir, lam not so san guine ns some, to believe timt the nia joiity of the people ofGeorgia are ready j to apply the gn atlv needed remedy at; present, and indeed I fear they will not I ba for years to come, unless more efli cient and acceptable instrumentalities i are i cd to enlighten the public mind, ; by mornl suasion , than are now in op-; oration. The subject is not kept before the public mind as constantly and viv i idly as it should be. The old repuhli-, lean total Abstinence and Washingtoni-j an soci, tic h are mostly defunct, in eon | !■:< quencc of tho newly invented order lof the “.Sons,” “Itecliabitcs,” &0.,! winch are vc ry obj ‘c:finable and un popular with the people, geu< rally.— i Secret soci l ties are looked upon byjhe ! mass of the people with jealousy and | j distrust, consequently they can ; comparatively, hut little good. Iteneau, our State h cturer, is ct inly i light iu his belied’ that other societies than the Sous, Cadets, Daughters, &c., should begotten up. in order success- Gully, to pi sacute the enterprise : but 1 j go further than lie does, in recommend ing the organizing total Abstinence und Washingtonian societies ; I advise the j “Sons, &e,, Ac., to deceive their se | cret organizations, which are so justly obnoxious to the people generally, and form themselves into a inoru republican j and acceptable associations. Theta’ can bo no reasonable objection raised I against those old organizations, for they i violate no republican, social, or moral principle. AI i, men, women and chil | dren, capable of understanding the sub ject, inn invited to come and seo and lieui’, and il they choose, join in the holy crusade against the “old prince,” without initialing fee ahd weekly con-! Iributioii.or costly, childish ornaments,! which very many poor persons, like j your currespodent “Buy Creek,” are : not able to spare from the comforts of’ their families. Neither have they vain J | and foolish titles fur their officers; nor ’ do they administer a vow or oath of se crecy, every thing is done openly be fore the world, consequently there is no | danger ul their meddling with other matters without detection. Not so with scorel societies. They have ever been considered ustfangerou.s institutions, and it history is to be relied upon, they have generally become corrupt and criminal, Irani the old Klusiuian und ! Bacchanalian mysteries ot the ancients, } the “free musonry of that day,” down i to tho “free masonry” of the present age, and our own days. And what guarant; e, I would ask, have we, that | the Sons, uye, and Daughters 100, who | bear such a striking family likeness to those ancient secret fraternities us to induce the suspicion that they are their illegitimate offsprings, will not, in time, become as corrupt uttd criminal as they ? Impunity from detection and punish ment often leads to the perpetration of criminal deeds, und secret societies act ing under solemn vows or oaths, i which are sinful in themselves, torkei p the secrets of the society and of each | other, certainly u(lords much greuter facilities for concocting “treason, strat agems und crimes,” than those republi can organizations who transact their business before all who choose to be present, without closed doors “well tyh il ’ to ‘keep oflVvisd ropers and cow. ans.” .Mr. Uenoau very correctly remarks, in his reporj, that “numbers constitute power;’ and if wo add to this “power,” tile power of an overllowing treasury] ol sQprtl consolidated societies, which may be, is some have been, wielded ■ tor evil, may we not be excused lor be- j ing a little j aloes that this combined power may bo abused to the injury or 1 subverting of our civil and religious liberties ? The march of power, we know, is always onward, and all such seert t, moneyed organizations, that hold their meetings m secret conclave, should ho discountenanced and watched \ with sleepless vigilenoe, by everv re publican Ireenjan. The organization j oi secret societies has been tho usual j plat) adopted to olivet the most diabofi-! cal purposes, by wicked tyid designing men, and lias ever been viewed by the wis'st and best men us dangerous to! morals and governments. A learned “iiu r i tlirnis, that all tho nations of; Europe have interdicted, or passed verv string’ nt laws to restrain them; and it is l known iimt several States of this Ameri can l mob, have deemed it necessary to prohibit the administering or talking all! i xtr.( judicial oaths; such us are advutris tered by that ancient fraternity, Claiming ! to be the “ handmaid of religion,” but] which has been proven by judicial in- i vestigations to be the hand maid of tile devil. \ oltaire, the French Atheist, farmed a secret society to put down the j Christian religion, and his secret w atch word wo* “crush Christ.” Ilr. Wish luptjone ol the professors at the Uni versity of lngolstadt, another learned infidel, formed uuolhersecret society for alike purpose; and 1 might mention some others if it were neccessary. It is considered ay some ol the mys tic brotherhood as at) unanswerable nr ga.m* t.t to show that their societies have I j dene good, and that therefore, they! must be a good institution ; but this is < ho proof at all of tiie goodness of the! j .'Order. It it proves any thing, it i proves too much. The secret institu- j ; liofi of the Jesuits’ is a religious order j among the Bo,nan Catholic.-, am ‘ lr( - is satisfactory evidence of their having done good ; hut would any irfa ibg’ : 't ■ uti l pious pro'< stunt Christian, or sound American statesman, say it was a goo. ! iiiGitutibn and should be encouraged , oiuJ jpinrd by us? I think not. And | 1 might add that free Masons & Knight Templars are allowed to have done i good, particularly to the members m their orders, far which purpose they j wore instituted , but it is well known that they have connived at and commit ted most (atrocious acts of wickedness, l contra rv to the laws of God, of the coun i try, and o! humanity. I am aware, sir, that you differ with me in relation to the secret temperance i | organizations, us do many others of | your fraternity, perhaps all, and may j loci some redundance to giving this ar ticle a place in your paper; but rely ing upon .your wonted independence and liberality as the editor of a free press, 1 s -ud it to you, hoping it may find a place in vour columns. II I have advanced any thing errunious, I should bo glad to be corrected, but if 1 am correct in my opinions, 1 trust its publicity will do gootL A sentiment editorially advanced byyju a few years ago, upon the stibjOf of wo ret societies, that “any instiiummtk,:l cannot hear the lest of scrulinizij/nnvcsligatm, ought to go down,” excited my admiration und re.sjiect, and Iniiink ougi*to bo steroty ped upon ll*e mind atm heart of eve ry free born American. INVESTIGATOR; The New Era. What less can be said of the month of 1 August in relation to two most impor | utni States in our nation and the world —two States of vast intelligence, wealth, agricultural and commercial enterprise —where tile people are their own Sov ereigns and do that which is far their own pleasure—where thousands and millions of dollars have annually been j expended for animal gratification, and fortunes have been accumulated in | furnishing tho means—but that it com mences a New Era, like some new cly j nasty of kings, or some great revolution of governments, where old things are done away and all things have become j new ? It is a mighty fact in the world’s history, view it in what light we will, and appreciate it as we may, that throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with Maine, The Traffic in Intoxicating Liq ors as a beverage i3 abolished by Law. Hear it, O ye nations ! Hear it, 0 yc ; dwellers on the contitent, and or. the isles of the sea! Hear it, ye inhabitants of the rocks and ye that “drink wine in bowls und unnoint yourselves with the chief ointments ;” ye that “go down to the sea in ships, and do business on the great waters,” high und low, rich and poor, bond and free ! Over every dis tillery, and hotel bar, and splendid sa- J loon ; in every place of business, and of j pleasure; i.i the most magnificent edi lice reared lor the accommodation of i tho traveller, and in tho lowest don ofi vice and infamy, where congregate the ; foulest masst s lor vile indulgences, it! is writett; The traffic is finished!— Stern, unrelenting law has laid fas band I upon it and sui 1 to those streams of poi son which have permeated every urterv | and vein, Be ye dried up. Once, and j that not long since, and we might have I said, Can it be ? The conception that! it ever would or could be, had scarce j found a place in the mind; and vet it! is. Henceforth, at least forono yeur, i uot a man in those two enlightened, rich and prospered States, can thus legally sell to his neighbor the accursed poison and make him drunken. Law Ims in j imposed to protect tho .weak, to guard ! the young, to reclaim tho lost, to restore : comfort lo unnumbered families, suf fering all the deprivation and cruelties of a drunkard’s home. §1,401,600 spent the last year in the 1500 grog, shops in Boston, and the §8,400,000 spent throughout the Bay Slate, and the ! hundreds of thousands spent in Rhode Island, is not, in tine coining year, to be tints basely squandered. Drunkards are not to be found morning and evening! in the streets, and jails and poor houses are not to be tilled with tho miserable victims of the intoxicating cup. Ue-| ports of Mayors and Police Otlicers, of Poor- masters, and Houses of Correction, of Insane Asylums, and private cliari-1 ; tics are lo bo there, ns they have been in Maine, of greutly diminished commit- j ments, of quiet streets, of happy homes, lof increased enterprise and thrift, oil peaceful Sabbaths, und an advance iu 1 tall that adorns and blesses man. Tru ly, a New Era ! It will not be viewed ; with indifference by us that are outsi ders. The telegraphic wires will be, held in requisition to tell us all. And And as we hear of the goo? or the ill of I the new notion, of the success or de- 1 feat of the system, we shall, in every State, be excited to the greatest activi ty to extend the same triumphs over the whole land, or he driven to seek for j something yet undiscovered, to make us frog. For the present, we rest—rest; in hope—rest in thankfulness—rest in | the full belief that, with persevering, manly, and Christian etlbrt, we shall ev ery u here prevail atul scon re a deliver ance of tho human family from the in- i oxicating scourge.— Jour. Amer. Temp In ion. Running after happiness is only chas ing the horizon. Pride is as loud a beggar ns want, and a gro.tl >*,.{ more saucy. The Bloomers- FROM Till: WILMINGTON (,N. C.) DAILY | JOURNAL. Wit a it’s the Bloomer? Empires rise, and fall, flourish and decay, and so do styles of dress. The “Bloomer,’’! however, has had a brief existence; the election canvass has come on and | cut short off—although it was reasons- j bly short before, and behind too, far that matter. We no longer rend about the. “Bloomer,” and amidst all the elec- j tioneering platforms that have been | gotuip there is no “Bloomer” platform, j Perhaps, though, the Bloomer shows j conspicuous enough on a dead level I without any plutform to stand uton. But it is gone and faded ! The last and only Bloomer has paraded our streets; the reign of tyranny and pro- i sciiption is again reinstated, and wo men and men both must submit to pet- j ticoat rule. So mote it be. It is only in Mormondom that this Turkish style could have any real permanence, for j the Mormons have the substance as; well as the shadow; they not only adopt j | Turkish costume, but also adhere to s ; the Turkish manners, and have several j j wives. Lucky or unlucky fallows,! ; iliose Mormons, as the case may be; ■Solomons in their way—the Solomons J of the Salt Lake. But the Bloomer was a real politica l affair as the world goes. It was not - troubled with too much modesty; it! stuck out and commended itself to the j attention of tiie public, it kicked up, aj bobbery, sure and thought itself famous; j it took noise for applause, as many others have dune. Whar’s the Bloom er now? Laid up in some several | trunks; hung upon various pegs; the I unthinkable-abouts turned into summer J pants lor some little brother; the skirts, j A:c. razed into dresses for the smaller Ry-; or turned to some less honorable use. All gone, and a dead failure ! j Dearly beloved hearers, there is a lesson in tho fate of the Bloomer. Be ware ol its fate. Beware of exalting tilings too high, or of thinking too high ly ot yourself. Innovations must come gradually. Men and women, though not peculiarly the slaves of custom, are not apt to jump into direct opposition to established customs, or to suppose that every manor woman who opposes such must necessarily be benefactors of their race. Change is not always improve ment; factionaries, whether politics, religion, or costume, are not necessari ly patiiots, saints or such like. There aie a great many big professions being made nowadays. It is not often that sincerity deals in such. Beware ! If we have broken in upon the seri ousness of political discussions far a few moments we hope to be excused. Perhaps even out of this folly some les sons might be learned—some bints ta ken. At any rate, we have a right to indulge ourselves with some relaxation, and therefore have made, and now re peat the inquiry, Whar’s the Bloomerl Society, like shaded silk, must be viewed m all situations, or its colors will deceive you. Virtue concealed within our breast Is inactivity at best. /Aft: ?L V". • -- S’ SONSOT TEMPERANCE. Pledge of the Sons of Tempe rance.—l, without reserve, solemnly pledge my honor as a man that 1 will neither make, buy, sell nor use, as a beverage, any Spirituous or Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider. Officers of the Grand Division, G. 1.. M’Cleskey, G. VV. P. Monroe. J. S. PincKAKD, G. W. A. Forsyth. W. S. Williford, G. Scribe, Macon. E. O. Guanniss, G. Treasurer, „ J. E. Evans, G. Chaplain, „ 1). E. Blount, G. Conductor, Clinton. J. D. llavis, G. Sen. Houston, Cos. CADETS OF TEMPERANCE, PLEDGE. No member shall make, buy, sell or use as a beverage,any spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider. Office*-* of the Grand Section. J. W. Benson, G. P. Macon. 15. Burton, G. A. P. Pondtown. L. C. Simson, G. S. &. T. Atlanta. Rev. J. S. Wilson, G. C. Decatur. S. M. 11. Byrd, G. G. Oxford. k\. P Kino, G. \V. Thomaston. ~* ! ■ “ 1. O. of Ueehiihites. Olficers of Georgia Dist. Tent, No. 28, loca- ■ ted at Washington, Wilkes G0.,G&.: Washington, liey. G. G. Norman, D. P. C. R. Washington, John R. Smith, I>. C. R. Atlanta, C. R. Hanleiter, U. D.R. Washington, A. M. Sneed, 1) R. S. E. F. Carrington, D. F. S. St. John Moore, D. Tres. Atlanta, R. tl. Lynn, L>, Lerite. iteelmbite’s Pledge. I hereby declare, that I will abstain from all intoxicating liquors, and will not give, nor offer them to others, except in religious ordinances, or when prescribed, in gooit faith, by a medi cal practitioner ; 1 will not engage in the traf fic ot them, and in all suitable ways will dis countenance the use, sale and manufacture ol them ; ami to the utmost of my power, I will : endeavor to spread the principles of abstinence ■ from all intoxicating liquors. THEE PJE FIELD. AUG. 14. 1859. CK7” NOTICE- —Subscribers recei ving their papers with a straight black mark, arc thereby notified that they are in arrears. One mark indicates one dollar due; two, that two, &c. Please remit the amount at once by mail, with out waiting for other opportunity. New Subscribers. Wc are indebted to Mr. J. M. Rowland, for a list of Seven new Subscribers to the Banner, at Waynesboro, Burke County. Old Burke is rising. On Monday we received another list of five new Subscribers to tho Banner, from “Anna Frances,” ji young lady of Houston county—making a total of eighteen names added to our list by her, within a few weeks past. Will not other ladies, and gentlemen too, in other counties, follow the praisevv. riliy example of Anna Frances? Come, friends, go to work for the Banner, and by the beginning of another year, a kind Providence sparing us, the Banner shall put on anew dress, and our noble cause shall receive an impulse that will be felt far and wide. New Cotton. The first bale of the present crop of Cot ton was received in New Orleans, on the 2ndinst. Last year, the first bale was re ceived on the 25th of July—night days ear lier. Negro Clotks. The Stock of Negro Cloths, advertised by Messrs Snowden & Shear, of Augusta, is unusually large, and in great variety. Purchasers, remember them, in visiting Au gusta. ‘•lnvestigator.” We have felt no hesitation whatever, in giving publicity to the well written cotntnu nication of “Investigator,” to be found in I another column. On reading the first por tion of his article, we were delighted, and J anticipated a rich treat in defence of legisla- I lion to suppress the liquor traffic. And j we arc truly gratified that our correspon dent agrees in the- main with us upon this I question; but confess our disappointment in | the turn given to his article, in so uncotn | promising an attack upon the “Order of the | Sons.” YVq had hoped, that at this late day, I the scruples our anti-secret society friends | enfertained, so far at least as the Sons were concerned, had vanished; and that the friends and foes of the Order would be left in future to operate in the cause of temperance, by such instrumentalities and organizations as might be suited to their | different tastes. But our respected corres | pondent is still hostile to the Order of the | Sons, and thinks it ought to be at once abandoned. To this’ opinion he is perfectly entitled, and our design by no means is to condemn him, or combat his views. We differ with him, but do it in love. And we j repeat the sentiment, so admired by him, that “Any institution that cannot bear the test of scrutinizing investigation, ought to go down;” and pledge ourselves.that when ever Tie, or any other individual shews us that the Order of the S. ofT. cannot abide such a test, wo will at once and forever abandon it. It is well knowui to the readers of the Banner, and to all others with whom we have held conversation upon the subject, that our influence and best exertions have been brought into requisition from the first, to sustain out door Societies, and to pre vent the disbanding of the total abstinence associations in the Elate. We shall rejoice I to see them again revived, and new ones es ! tablished at every practicable point. We ] will go as far as ‘-Investigator” himself, in ] reviving, establishing and maintaining these ! associations; and believe the Sons general- I ly will co-operate heartily in the measure. With these views, hastily thrown togeth j er, we invite “Investigator” to the work of removing “that standing monument of our country’s shame and injury?” Our columns are opefi to him. We be lieve the last State Convention attacked the “ wolj in the den,” and to this point all the energies of the friends of temperance is needed. Carry out the principles declared by the Convention, and our State is free, our people redeemed, and the necessity of Orders and Societies, and temperance pa pers will be done away. Georgia. — We learn from the Ban ner, that tho Grand Division of Georgia assembled at McMinnville, on the 15th inst. Avery imposing procession, composed of both sexes—the ladies all dressed in white—marched in proces sion to the Court House, where an elo quent address was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Poindexter, to a large and delight ed audience. It was announced that at night Bros. D. D. Nelson and Winn, would address the people on Temper ance. Georgia, only a few years since, was noted for intemperance and dissipation. ; Now, through the genial influence of , temperance organizations, she lias re- I deemed her name; and will, ere long, we hope, take her stand among those States that have successfully adopted the “Maine Law.” \\ e ciip tho above piece of news from the “Crystal Fount,” of the 30th ult. published away yonder, in Tuscaloosa. Ala. Well, we are right glad, npon the whole, to hear so favorable account ol‘the temperance cause in Georgia. But it is the first news we haw had of such a meeting.—Eo. Temp. Banner. Then is no principle ot ournaturil honorable than that of disinterested j practical benevolence. It springs fr ‘finest sympathies and addresses fa,. „ | delicate sensibilities of the human h onr . enlarges the compass of moral p ere ‘ . 1 I and heightens the power of the morals lo '’’ As s'risibility is the avenue to the ; faculty, that sense is increased by a virt" 0^1 and generous exercise of tho feelings- Tlf’ |by the perfect union which exists bet -’ them in nature, the understanding an j taste, as well as the perception ofvirtuo , h j ‘ice, is improved and chastened by same means. * le By a natural impulse we bestow tho ho age of our approbation H pon benevolent * acts. We contemplate with pleasing e4 J tions tho labors of art and the efforts r genius exerted in the cause of humanity And whilst the Christian philanthropist bas his benevolence in tho deep foundations If obligation and duty, motives exist in th admiration and respect which it commands and attracts—in that secret and untold but self-satisfying gratification which deeds of virtuous charity impart to the soul, that not even the purely selfish may wholly disro gard. I film principle of natural benevolence were universal, if the emotions of kindness ’which swell the heart from sympathy, Were • large enough to meet the varied demands of want and misery, it might well reject the mo tivo of obligation and duty, and claim for itself the honor ot spontaneous action. But although individuals have always been * found alive to every generous impulse, who borne onward by the sweet illusions ofhope’ have not paused to Calculate the cost, ortho probability of success, but single handed havu fearlessly struggled in the noble work of checking the triumphs of vice, and allaying j the miseries of man, in a world of abound mg evil; vet it must nevertheless be con- Tessc-d, that from the powerful operation of counteracting motives, these happy illustra j lions of the noble principle we are consid ering, have been exhibited only at intervals relieving occasionally tho moral darkness’ which envelopes it, only to make that dark ness the more gloomy by its habitual ab sence. The operation of opposing causes has presented difficulties too great form, dividual effort to oppose, when philanthro py lli,s employed in the great work of redeeming fallen and degraded humanity by abolishing some vicious and destructive habit which had entwined itselfaround the affections, and with magic power charmed and delighted the victim whilst wreathing the folds to destroy. In such a work union and combination are required; union of” counsel, union of action. Nothing short of united influence can successfully encounter the force ol the public sentiment, or over come and subdue the tyranny of habit. In an enterprise no less grand and mag nificent than this, have those associations formed and established for the advancement of the Temperance cause embarked. To rescue degraded man from the grasp of a most brutal vice—to restore and save tho lost—to reclaim the v/anderining—to extir pate a practice at once demoralizing to hu man nature, and destructive to human life, this, surely, is an object and an aim which commends itself to every charity of the hu man heart. Intemperance! What tongue can tell its ravages ! What pencil can de pict and portray its desolation ! What walk <>f life, what sphere of society has escaped its withering contagion! llow utter, how complete, the ruin it entails—how absolute,, how hopeless its overthrow! It robs the body ot its health and vigor—the under standing of its powers—the moral faculty of its perception—the soul of its piety. Not satisfied with this total destruction of its immediate victim, it expands its deleterious inliUences, and robs families of their peace ‘ and society of its virtue. It throws the gloom of the grave over the loveliest forms ot creation. It consigns to worse than ceaseless widowhood the wife and mother,, and to penury, distress and want, her more than fatherless children. A few reflections based upon these con siderations, will furnish a slight analysis of the effects of ardent spirits upon the animal system—upon the faculties of the mind and the affections and feelings of the heart | from which, we may more accurately con i ceive of the great crime of intemperance. And Ist: Ii robs the body of its health. Franklin was the first distinguished in dividual in this country who raised a warn ing voice against the fatal effects of ardent spirits—his penetrating mind soon discov ered the tendeney to its general use and the alarming consequences to result from it—inthe'spirit of that philanthropy and pa triotism which characterised him, he did not hesitate to denounce it. Indeed, in its hav oc of human health, the heart must sicken at the recital of that long and complicated catalogue of diseases superinduced, in the concurrent judgement of medical men, by the poisonous effects of Alcohol. Let it suffice to observe, that the entire physical man is subjected to, and prostrated by, its injurious influence. Not a blood vessel however minute—not a fibre of the muscu lar system—not a thread of nerve in the whole bodily organization, the whole ani mal machine, escapes its corrosion. It is sues in the foetid breath from the lungs.— It is even detected in the food prepared by nature for helpless infancy. Whose observation does not furnish the testimony to its destructive effects? Who has not witnessed the pitiable, but revolt ing spectacle of the wretched and miserablo inebriate under the immediate excitement of this unnatural stimulus? What a picture has that spectacle presented of deformed nnd abused humanity; the face swollen ami distorted—the cheeks crimsoned— the cor ners of the month drawn down nnd contrac ted—the lip drooping—the eye blood-shot and glassy. What an object of aversion