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YOL. XIX.
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Organ of the Son? of Temperance
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•jy the habit of drinking ardent spirits,
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K Every friend to Temperance
Cshould take the Temperance Banner:
2"lf Temperance men will not support
Sthe Temp ranee l’rcss, who will !”
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Fredictioaa cr I'd s3
Through the whole course of the
next year, whenever the moon wanes
the nights wiil be dark.
Oa several occasions during the
y*r, the sun wil! rise before certain
poople discover it, and set before they
kevo finished their day’s work.
It 13 quite likely that when no busi
ness is doing many will he heard to
complain of hard times; but it is equal
ly certain that all who hang themselves
will escape starvation.
If bustle* and hoops go out of fashion,
* church pew w ill hold more than three
ladias.
If dandies wear their beards, there
•will bo loss work for barbers; and lie
who wears moustaches w ill have some
thing to meezo at.
Whoever is in love will think his
mistress a perfect angel, and will only
find out the truth of his suspicion by
getting married.
There will be more books published
than will find readers, and more hills
than will find payers.
If the incumbent ofa fat office should
die, there will be. at least a dozen pairs
of feet ready to-step into one pair of
shoes.
If a young woman should happen to
blush, she will be apt to look red in tiie
face without the use of paint; if she
vireamsof a young man three nights in
succession, or have the toothache, it is
ten to one she will be a long time get
ting either of them out of her head.
Many people will drink more liquor
than will be necessary to keep them so
ber; and take more medicine than will
be requisite so the enjoyment of good
health.
Dinners and entertainments will be
given to those who have enough at
iiome; and the poor will receive much
advice gratia, legal and medical except
ed.
He who marries this vear, runs great
risk, especially if he does it in a h trry.
There will be a tremendous noise all
over the country when it thunders, and
a tremendous dust kicked up occasion
ally by the coach horses.
Many young ladies who hope for it,
but little expect it, will ho married, and
many who anticipate that glorious con
summation, will be compelled to wait
another year.
Politicians will make fools of others;
and women with pretty faces will make
fools of both.
There wiil be great cry and no wool
both at the shearing of pigs and the
close of Congress.
Finally, there exists but little doubt
that 1853 will be a most wonderful
year, far surpassiug in interest ail that
have preceeded it —if it don't rain.
4
Well Meaning. —There is only one
objection to people who “mean well,
and that is, they never find time to
carry out their meaning.
Praise, when judiciously bestowed,
tends to encourage every one in the
nf exeelievtoe.
[From the Crystal Fount. J
I CHUNNYNUtiGEE, Ala., Dec. 1, 1852.
I Bug. Warren: —l avail myself of
’ the earliest moment of complying with
j your request and my promise to write
out for publication in the Temperance
i Organ, the remarks 1 hud the honor to
; submit to the consideration of the State
i Temperane Convention, h* Id in Selma
!on tue 26th ult. Relying alone upon
j my memory, it will not be praeticaole lo
give the precise words used on the oc
casion, and should some degree ofarn
! plification be indulged in, by way ol
illustration, 1 hope your readers will
| pardon the liberty, as 1 have no phrase,
1 but always speak from the impulse of
j ’.he moment, as the spirit mov,s me.
i .Mr. President—
And Gentlemen of the Convention: —
I regard this us a proud day for our be
loved Slate, the presage of a brighter
dawn, and when 1 east my eyes over
this large assemblage ol self-sacrificing,
christian-hearted philanthropists, who]
have come from the sea-board to the
mountains, not for sordid gain or self
aggrandizement, but to aid in devising
ways and menus to rid the land of a 1
curse, a mildew, a blight, the monster
i vice of the age, Intemperance, my !
] heart expands with delight. Here arc
throe hundred sovereigns of the land,
delegated to this Convention, among
] whom we behold in besotted counlcn
| auce, no swollen or blood shot eye,
j hut in the pride of manhood, all re
fi ctiii” the image of their Creator; no
feature marred, no limb paralyzed by
the ravages of alcohol. Here are the
young men, the future promise and
glory of the land; the middle-aged and
the old men, some of’ whom, from hab
its of temperance, have nearly attained
the age allowed them by the Psalmist
here below. And what is better than
all, we have tiie clergy, the great and
good men, from three of the most pow
erful christain denominations of the
land, with their amour on, ready to
, head the cold water army and wage an
undying warfare against the monster,
intemperance, that pestilence that walks
over the land and destroys at noonday.
I left home, Mr. President, as you
ore aware, under circumstances some,
what appalling; the night was dark and
cold, the storm was raging, the wind
blew and the ruin came down in tor
rents. 1 was admonished, in the lan
guage of kindness and affection, of the
peril and danger to one upon whose
I frame the ravages of time had made
i such inroads, and whose life’s short
] journey must soon be over; but al
though that voice ever fulls upon the
ear like the voice of an angel, yet it
was unheeded. My heart was in this
great work that has brought us togeth
er, and my trust in that kind Provi
dence which has hitherto sustained me
and blest me in my basket and in my
store. I felt, sir, if fail I must, i should
fall in a glorious cause, and that 1
should require no other inscription up- !
on the monument that might cover my
sleeping, dust titan this—‘Here lies the j
mortal remains of a good Son of Tem
perance.’ Like one of old, sir, I feel j
that it is good for me to be here.
You have upon your table, sir, two;
i reports ; one from the majority of the
| committee denominated the Alabama
] bill, in contradistinction to the report of
i the minority which is emphatically the
! Maine Liquor Law. These proposi
] lions have been ably and eloquently
I discussed for nearly two days. The
j advocates of the minority report, urge
! with great zeal and power its claims to j
the corisideralion of the Convention, i
! and regard it as a panacea, a specific!
] for the evils of intemperance. They i
I tell us it is the only remedy capable of j
I arresting the ravages of the monster,;
and that no other system, save the (
‘Maine Liquor Law, can accomplish
i any good. 1 was pleased, Mr. Presi
dent, to hear the gentleman who has]
travelled lately in New England, dis.:
course so eloquently übout the Maine ;
Liquor Law and its happy influences:!
that it has effected great and glorious]
results none doubt, and i would to God, j
that every man, woman and child in i
Alabama, couid have heard the gentle-!
man , 1 opine they would have come to
the conclusion that after all, there is
nothing so bad in it. The gentleman |
failed, however, to tell us, that Neal
Dow at the head of the cold-water ar
my, was six years engaged in the con-;
’ fiict before the public mind was pre
pared for that radical measute, but]
! concludes that Alabama is ripe for •
: stringent legislation, and lie wants noth
ing short of’the Maine Law. Tiie Rev ;
] gentleman from Marion portrayed in
living colors, tiie horrors of intemper
ance, and 1 would to God every legisla
tor in the land, could liuve heard his
eloquent, his burning denunciation of
that vile law, that authorizes the sale of
poison and death, by which the demons
in human shape, revel in tears and]
blood. All, sir, had the rum sellers
been present to bear their doom, it]
j seems to me that they too would have
rr peuted, a J udas dt i, when he hr night
jback the thirty piece* of dai tom - ;
PENFIELD, GA. JANUARY 29, 1853.
I chief priests and elders, saying, ‘1 have]
sinned, in that I have betrayed innocent!
blood.’ ‘And the chief priests took the]
pieces of silver and said, it is not lawful ;
to put them into the treasury, because
it is the price of blood ; yes, sa 1 to tell, ]
1 a Christian people, in this enlightened ;
age, place in their treasury a revenue |
] derived from the most vile and ruinous i
! traffic, upon the face of the earth.— i
; This revenue, this silver, should be]
used like that of the traitor of old, to
purchase a potter’s field, a burying 1
: pluce for malefactors and drunkards.
] You ate aware, Mr. President, that 1
have been regarded as an enthusiast—•
!an ultra temperance man. I yield to
! none in zeal, but 1 have my doubts and
] fears; thorefnre, 1 prefer the Alabama
Bill, for the reason that 1 feel assured
we cannot carry the Maine Law now.
Prudence, Mr. President, is said to be
the better part of valor, and a half loaf
is better titan no bread ; let us therefore
! unite, and we can carry the proposition j
]of the majority; it is n well digested]
] system, drawn up with great care and
skill, and all good men of sound hearts
will support it. 1 regard it as a way
j house at which we may sojourn, till the
I dawning of a brighter day. Gentle
! men call it patch work, worse than I
nothing; they seem to have forgotten
that we have had some of this partial
legislation, the •patch-work, and it has
(induced the happiest results, and I ;
teel thankful for small favors and crave
of our wise rulers and legislators, a
continuation ofthern. We havegained
much already by the partial adoption
of the system proposed by the majority
committee. In my own county, it has
suppressed the liquor traffic to a great
extent, closed up the doggeries in three
or four villages, driven out the rumsel
lers, and now order and harmony pre
vail where, a short time since, baccha
nalian revelry and strife were the order
of day. Tuskegee, our county town,
’ was infested with these sinks of iniqui
i ty, which retarded all improvements,
i and were at war with every valuable
, enterprise. By the operation of “beat
; law,” these nuisances have been re
. moved, and Tuskegee now boasts of
i hr morality, her flourishing schools,
her five churches and her splendid fe
| male college—the pride and ornament
of the State. The Union Springs and
other villages have been similarly blest
by this law, which gentlemen style
patch-work. 1 repeat, Mr. President,
that 1 hope the Legislature will pass the
Alabama Bill, and tlie good citizens of
our State will do like ihe people of
Tuskegee and other villages have done
—patch-up, or sew up all the liquor 1
shops in our State. It is true, Mr.
President, that among our politicians
we have a few great and good men,
some few temperance men, who wish
us success, but they are afraid to give
us aid and comfort for the reason al
ready assigned, that we are in the mi
| nority and cannot confer political pow
j or. Look over this large and enlight
] eued body, and you find only one prom
| ineiit statesman or politician, the au
! thor of (he majority report. He, sir, is
j a Hue Son of Temperance; he glories
| in the conservative principles of that
j heaven-born order, lie has felt and
seen its benign influences—hence his
bold and zealous advocacy of the favor,
ite measure of the majority of the con- j
vention. And he has told us in hold
and eloquent language that the minori
ty report will meet with no favor from [
the Alabama Legislature; and who has!
a better right to know, than that gen-j
ilemun, who bus been in the political ■
! storm and turmoil, and bolding an of- ]
] fioe in your Captol, for the last ten ]
years. Mr. President, we are waging!
i a warfare agaiust a most formidable
I and inexorable tyrant—King Alcohol.
The friends and soldiers of the cold wa
] ter army should marshal their forces for
’ the battle—they must be united and
! move in solid column, or nothing can
be accomplished. 1 pray, then, that a
; spirit of conciliation and harmony may
I characterise our action here, and that
we may go into the fight an undivided
host, determined to wage an undying
: warl'ure against the pestilence that de
! stroys at noon-day. •
1 therefore beg leave to offer the Jol
[ lowing resolution: i
Resolved, That each member of this I
j convention pledge himself to aid and
■sustain in carrying out the measures]
: recommended arid adopted by the ma
jority of the convention.
For the Temperance Banner.
The Maine Law can be executed
As I was travliing on the stage coach ;
bet ween'.he terminus of the LaGrangc
branch of the rail road and Lagrange, ]
i had an interview with a distinguished j
clergyman of the congregational church ]
from Boston, on the subject of legisla
tion to suppress the liquor traffic. He
staled that lie was verj much surprised
on reselling Georgia, to notice in a
newspaper, a statement that intemper- j
auce hadgieatly increased in Portland
since the passage of toe Maine liquor]
law. lie stated that nothing could be
uuofe foreign from Uia truth ; all thu j
! way, he stated that they could g< t it,
j was by smuggling a jug full in a flower
! barrel, or in such way, and then from
I strickness of the police, they were often
] detected. He stated that pauperism
had decreased, and criminal proseott
j tions had become much less frequent.
! lie said he had attended a large meet
mg, a religious convocation, consisting
; of ministers nnd deacons, from all parts
|of the Stute of Maine, and particular
enquiry was made to ascertain if the
Maine law was effectual, and the mo- ■
counts thus furnished from all parts of
the State, showed most conclusively tnc
efficiency of the law. Bui one instance
of threatened violence was reported.—
Tito police went with the dealer through
several apartments until they came to a
partition which had a door opening into
art other room ; here he halted and re
fused to proceed any further, threaten
ing to shed blood if they proceeded any
] further. Here the officer laid his hand
] upon the dealer, claiming him as his
] prisoner; he begged manfully and
opened the door ; tiiere were deposited
several barrels of strong drink, which
was disposed of according to law. He
also stated that in his own Slate, Mas
sachusetts, the taw would be executed
without opposition throughout, except
in Boston, and that it would be execu
ted there, though it would meet with
fierce opposition, lie said a majority
’ of tiie people were in favor ofand would
ultimately sustain and execute it, if it
was separated from party politics.
Well, Mr. Editor, the people ofGeor
gia are ready for legislation on the
subject, aud many of tnem are impa
tient at the tardiness of our editors and
other leading men to lake hold of the
subject. lam sorry, Mr. Editor, that I
am subjected to the humiliation of con
fessing that there are men in Georgia,
in my own native State, corrupt enough
to oppose all legislation on the subject,
solely for the sake of political promo
tion. But could these men know what
is the feeling of the people upon this
subject, they would be afraid to risk
their popularity on so uncertain a body.
Let eacli friend of the cause make a
personal effort to bring tiie subject be
fore the |7eople, present it in its true
light, for truth is mighty und will pre
vail.
You will hear from me occasionally.
W. D. ATKINSON.
Hamilton, Ga., Jun. 10th, 1853.
llaweinsvill*, Jan. 4th, 1853.
Dear Banner : —The noise und con
• fusion of Christmas, and the holidays
having past, and a culrrm ensued, per
haps un item or two may not be unac
ceptable. --
Then of course, alcohol had during
Christmas times, hi-s rejoicings and rev
fillings as has been his custom, —“time
whereof the memory of matt runneth
not to the contrary,”—and on thisocca.
sion lie exhibited himself in all his vari
ous forms, from ue best ■hullnnd to the
lowest down to red eye.’ Eggs, you
may be sure, were in great requisition,
and the stock is now entirely exhaust
ed. At this ldiave a friend who indulges
in heavy complaints, because, he suys
that he wilt have to postpone his mar
riage until the hens lay anew supply. ]
He says that he must have a wedding
and cake doings, an*’ these things can't ;
! be got up without*G'ggs. Poor fellow !!
lie’s in a pickle, anil 1 deeply syrripu
] tliize with him; but the thing can’t
! now be helped; he ought not to have
[taken a to get married
jso soon after (.Uostmas, and I reckon
! if lie ever inurnes again, he will profit
1 by experience.
W* had an occurrence here some
; few days since, that may have some
; beuring upon the liquor traffic. On u
cold frosty morning, an old veteran,
who Has seen much hard service in the
ranks of alcohol, being as he always
wus, when auout the eretur, considera
bly spiritualized . took a fancy that be i
couhj .iwnii the Oomulgee river, and
that it would be a good way to make u
half, aud prcffloscd to bet u half dollar ]
that ho could perform the feat with his
clotfies on. His bet was soon tukon,
and his last half dollar as soon in the ;
. of the stake-holder, and old Billy 1
mfciested himself of his coat and hat, urid
plunged into the water and swam with
I m a few paces of the opposite ehore,
when he lost hi§ lick, and sank to rise
no mom ; and the low mummerings of;
the stream as the current passes slowly j
down, now chime his funeral dirge.—
This is one of the almost duily deaths,
which are superinduced by dfunkeriess,
and yet men deal out the occurs and
! stuff, with the same calmness and com
placency at they were doing their coun
try a great service.
On the evening of the 31st December,
our town was favored with a lecture
upon the subject of temperance from
Air. iS. M. Hewlett ; a sense of justice
to Mr. 11. warns me not to attempt to
give an idea of his address. Kuflice it
to say, that for soundness of argument,
eloquence of language, and felicity of
expression, [ have never heard it
equalled. Mr. H. fully sustained the
high and erviabla reputation which he
so deservedly enjoys ms an orato* - , ably
vindicated our cause, nnd dealt heavy
and severe blows at our opponents, yet
no harsh expressions, or any thing cal
ciliated to give offence to any, escaped
his lips ; he made a most happy im
pression upon the audience, and I have
the strongest evidence that he accom
plished good by his visit.
Yours, &c.
EPHRAIM.
Bro. Bra ally,—Sir :—Never having
written a composition for public scru
tiny, it is with considerable reluctance
that 1 make the attempt. But when 1
look abroad over the lund, and view the
disastrous effects of that potent and all
powerful enomy of the human family-,
when I see men otherwise well informed,
active and energetic—well capacitated
to fill high nnd responsible stations in
life ; —when I hear the groans of fathers
und mothers—see the distressing, weep
ing lamentations of tender mothers—
view the wretched condition of their
offsprings, ami till produced by that
constitution destroying, soul contamina
ting, life eradicating, heaven depopula
ting, hell filling up agent alcohol.—
I low can I, you or any other person sit
tamely down nnd not raise his voice to
warn his follow-man of his danger?—
With tlit'se remarks, I now betake me
to my task. And, oh! reader, should
the warnings couched in this epistle,
meet your eye, take heed therefrom und
shun the intoxicating bowl as you
would the deadly serpent, for it is the
true boliou upas of life, an etnissory of
the devil, used by him to ensnare the
ignorant, the illiterate, the innocent and
the unthinking. Think not that be
cause your parents may have used it
occasionally without becoming drunk
ards, that you too may, with impunity,
do likewise, without suffering from
some of its evil and mischievous effects
it is a mistuke. Look before and be
hind you, on the right und the left;
nay, suppose yourself the centre of a
ciicle, as vast us creation ; then em
ploy agents in every city, town, ham
let and vtlluge throughout earth’s broad
domain; instruct them to seek infor
mation from the most reliuble sources ;
from physicians, from coroners, police,
courts or from uny other source, and
inform you of its effects, what do you
think would be the result t 1 honestly
believe that if all the testimony which
could bo gleaned from reliable sources,
throughout the world of the mischiev
ous effects of alcohol, could be embod
ied in one sheet, that sheet would be
large enough to canopy creution. But
why ransack creation for evidence l
Take your own county, or even the
militia district in which you live, und
view its ruinous effects for ten years
past, and you will huve evidence amply
sufficient; nay, many of you will find
it in your own family circle.
Who can estimate the worth of icn
mortal souls ? Holy Writ informs us
that drunknjds, adulterers, whoremon
gers and murders shall not enter into
the kingdom of heaven ; and wliut bet
ter calculated to blunt all the finer sen
sibilities, to arouse sensuality,- to pro.
: voke anger, excite jealousies, create
scims uud divisions, strifes and animosi
ties; bickerings and w rang lings, mur
ders, and all that black catalogue of
I crime, which so foully stains the unnals
lof onroounlry, than alcohol? Nothing.
If the devil, ihut arch enemy of souls,
with all the fertility of genius, wus to
torture his mind or rock his
bruin, or call int i aid his satunic majes
ties, best auxiliaries, (viz :) pride, false
hood, deception, concupiscence, uud
profanity of every description, to aid
him in devising u plan to destroy the
souls and bodies of man and women,
than alcohol, he could not. For ulco
hoi in itseltj possesses- all those proper
ties in a degree eminemlysufficietit to
accomplish his purpose. Then, read
er, before you pass the rubicon, before
you puss the flowing bowl, or permit
the cup of fiery indignation red hot from
the copperheaded fount, or poplar log to
pass your lips und bo crigulphed in
your Htomuch, that sacred repository of
lieullh und happiness. Beware, I en
treat, I implore, muy as one that wishes
you well hi this life arid that which is
lo come, 1 command you in the name
of the God of heaven, not to let that
foul, contaminating liquid pass your
lips as a beverage. Know ye not, thut
God is love, purity, holiness and per
fection, and nothing unclean, sensual,
or contaminating, cun enter peacefully
the abodes of sanctified bliss. 1 in you,
you in me, and I in my fathe/, suid the
Saviour of sinners while upon earth ;
hence, 1 infer, thut to be a Christian
Christ must abide in vour lieai t, you in
him and he in God the father. Thus
the chain reaches from heaven to earth;
now do you suppose that as pure uri-i
spotless a being as the Lord Jesus is
represented to be, can dwell contentedly
in the breast of u man who is daily
breathing the fumes of aicoiiol red lio
from the poplar log ? believe it not,
wirie is u mocker, and strong drink rag
iug.
Jupp >B4 the Stat# of Connie* I-*
l 1
one vast prairie or wilderness of sage, -
I with families occasionally interspersed
I throughout, and suppose some malicious
] fiend was to apply the torch of drstruc-)
| ‘ion from center lo oircuinference in the
] dead hours of night. What, oh reader,
1 do you think would he the feelings of
j the unhappy inhabitant* on awaking to
. find the whole prairie one vast sheet or
| uvulanch of fire? Would they sit
quietly down nnd succumb to the cotu
flagration, or would they not moke un
ellort to rsoape ? Judge ye. The
world is the wilderness, the human
family the *edge, alcohol the fire, and
grog-sellers the fiends or emissaries of
the devil, who have been, mul are still
applying the torch, and thousands and
millions of thousands, have been scorch
ed and withered by their pernicious in.
fluence. Is there no remedy ? Is there
no balm in gilead ? Are the fountains
of justice dried up ? Are our legisla
tures asleep f or liuve they too, beers
so badly scorched by this simoon as to
become insensible to love, justice und
mercy. And where, oh! where are the
ministers of the gospel of pouea / Ims
the deadly venomed poison been instilled
into their views, *o as to produce apa
thy uud indifference ? I hope not 1 —
I lien come ye heralds of the cross, of
every name and order throughout the
Slates, join in with the good aud p ulan
thropic ol your country, to suppress a
vile, nefarious nnd unholy traffic.—*’
Yes on ministers of the gospel, 1 cull to
speuk intones of thunder against this
diabolical truffle ; to deal faithfully and
rigidly with drunken offenders, und join
in witli legislators, judges of courts,-
and halls o! justice, and all put their
shoulders lo the wheel, und it will mrfc
be long era it mount the hill difficulty. -
Yours respectfully,
NOAH MKCCO,
Got his head in the Basket-
There is hardly u more laughable
sight than that of a horse with his head
in the basket. Absorbed in oats, the
common routine of life may go on and
its all unnoticed. What in his moment
of leisure might have started our steed
ship from Ins equilibrium, or at least
caused him to turn his head, now pas
ses under his very feet, and disturbs
him not. Look whare he may, he sees
nothing but oats—oa’s are all his rev
eries; his speculation tends lo oats; and
lie crounches ou entirely satisfied wi:W
himself and the world at large.
A few reflections night be drawn
from this sight—as, for instance, when
a man is perfectly satisfied that he has
inude just enough money to keep him.
self oornfortable and benefit only him
selfund tiis through life, he has got his
bend in a basket.
When a college youth thinks that h
lias acquired jus: about sufficient
knowledge and it would be impossible
lo teach him anything farther, he ha
got his head in a basket.
Wlien u young lady imagines that
slie has nothing more to do in life than
to catch a husband’, settle down an l be’
ut ease, she has got her head in a bast. - t.
When a Christian sums up his relig
ion in going to just so inuny meetings,
und saying so many prayers, confident
thut ho is good enough, lie lias got fits
head in a busket.
When a minster learns that all his
parishioners, to the uumber of a thou
sand, expect him to call - upon them joist
once u week, lie will find his head in
basket, und u pretty tight one.
When a father whips his child for
breaking a cup, and allows him to
break a commandment without reproof,
lie bus got bis head in a basket.
Emully, dear readers, as there is not
one perfect person in all the world, and
we euoh ride our favorite hubby, let us
come to the conclusion that until we
have sowed the oata of folly, we have
all got our heads in the basket. —Olivt
Brunch.
Mr. Ggoros Bancroft in a lecture
before the N. Y. Historical -Society Re
ported in the Times, paid the fblUwing
merited tribute to tliegreulDr. Frank
lin- :
“Not the half of his merits iiav<>’
boerj (old.—lie was the true father of
the American Union. It was he who
went forth to lay the foundation of that
great design ut Albany pand in New
York he lifted up his voice. Here
mong us he appeared us the apostle of
the Union. It wus Franklin who sug
gested the Congress of 1774, and but
for Ins wisdom, ami the conli fence that
wisdom inspired, it is a matter of doubt
whether that Congress would have taken
effect. It was Franklin who suggested
the bond of the Union which binds these
States from Florida to Maine. Frank
lin was the greatest diplomatist of the
eighteenth century. He never spoke a
word too soon ; ho never spoke a word
too late, lie never spoke a worJ too’
much ; lie never failed lo speak the
right wor.i at the right season.
Foe ms and young women should
alwsys end happily. The forme*
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