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Mr. Editor: —Please publish the following lines,
occasioned by the death of Mrs. Monk.
How peaceful is the closing scene,
When virtue yields its breath,
How sweetly beams the smile serene
Upon the cheek of death.
The Christian's hope no fear can blight,
No pain her peace destroy;
She views beyond the realms of light,
Os pure and boundless joys.
Oh ! who can gaze with heedless sigh,
On seen -b so fair as this;
Who but exclaim, “Thus may I die,
And be my end like her's! “
A FRIEND.
Crawfordville, March 14,1855.
LAMENTATION OF THE MOORS,
A VT E K THE BATTLE OF LUCE NV .
BY ELOISA.
Granada the beautiful! the land of the brave!
Thy glory haa faded, thine honor decayed;
The viv’ramble no more echoes back the glad voice,
Nor thy gallant young nobles in tourneys rejoice.
Alas! for Boaldil! our king is laid low ;
For the flo > er of chivalry bitter our woe;
All is lost, they are gone, our warrior band
Are cold on the plain of that renegade land.
Oh ! hush the soft lute, and the light castinet!
‘lhe dance of the zambre shall beauty forget;
Forlorn the alhambre, and withered the flowers
That once breathed perfume thro’ its desolate bowers.
In vain is the nightingale’s song in the grove,
We heed not thy music, sweet minstrel of love ;
The Christians have vanquished, the crescent is low,
Our king bound in chains of the renegade foe.
Farewell, beauteeus Granada! farewell to thy towers,
Thou city of groves, thou garden of flowers!
The doomed one has fallen, our bright sun hath set,
The pale cross now waves o’er each fair mirmret.
ADDRESS TO A AUG OF RUM.
Here, only by a cork controlled,
And slender walls of earthen mould;
In all the pomp of death's repose,
The seeds of many a bloody nose ;
The chattering tongue, the horrid oath,
The fist for fighting nothing loath;
The passion which no word can tame,
That bursts like sulphur into flame;
The nose carbuncled, glowing red,
The bloated eye, the broken head;
The tree that hears the deadly fruit,
Os murd- r, maiming and di-pute;
Assault that innocence assails,
The images of gloomy jad- :
The giddy thought on mischief bent;
The midnight hour in riot spent;
All these within this jug appear,
And Jack, the hangman, in the rear.
SUNSET ON THE ATLANTIC.
And such r.unsets as we had there! I had read
and heard much talk of the glorious beauty and splen
dor of these things, but n ver saw one til! I was out
on the bosom of the Atlantic, and watched the sun
as he glided down on his throne of golden clouds,
and spread a blaze of many hues, crimson, violet, and
green, upon the glassy plain beneath him. Now the
rolling and dark masses, fringed ith vermilion, and
laced with silver, hung as a gorgeous veil before
his face, or shot up radiations and fine threads of
transparent and com. cated vapor, through and
above the denser conglomerations; the w hole glorv
of the spectacle acquiring a deeper and a richer mag
nificence, while the dazzling brightness of the great
luminary dims as he slowly sinks behind, or pauses
on the lower edge of a cloud, through which his
splendor shoots a clear, pure-meliowed blaze. F.the
rial temples, sanes and gard. ns, suspended by an in
visible hand from the great arch, swing in harmoni
ous duty on his retiring light, the immediate attend
ants on his silently majestic course; wh le other less
near are gathering around h m, antheming his praise
s he moves beyond the limits of their sky; and the
outstretched remoteness on either hand stand awed,
as gazers deeply and devoutly worslii; ping. He
touches the edge of the watery horizon, pi uses wit,
a tta&l, Uetwicg bm court tvaMK*, then
feboteb to Cfmptrancf, literature. General Intelligence, anb t|c fatrst |lctos.
sinks at once before the enthralled aiul enraptured
aight; diffusing w ith that last look on the moita! day
■*uch a wonder of delight! an arc ied ocean shower
ing down joy on the hushed and adoring spirit.
How beautiful! howlimitlessly, how indescribably
>eautiful were all these things! The most dazzliiu
rlorioua effulgence, softene ’, melted into quiet, tran
qui', pure gentleness of splendor, which seemed ti
ireathe pity, love, gladness, affection, and bliss—
•liss! bliss! on all creatures, and on all things. 1
-vas a bath for the soul to refresh in, to sail in, t<
deep, to dream in ! How good I was while I gazei
here! My heart was all peace; my thoughts all and
- not a vice was then on earth's broad
urface, in its recesses, or on its mountain sides. II
lid not exist; corroding passions hail no being, n<
iame; and all the children of the earth were trails
formed into angels. How truly, deeply, do I than!
he God of Nature for such balmy and blessei
thoughts; such delicious anodynes as scenes like thi
nd a thousand others have thrown or. my parched
spirit.
Look at the setting sun a thousand, ay, a millioi
times, and you will never weary of its grandeur—yon
will feel no diminution of its power over the senses.
It never relaxes its enfolding of the soul, if you onci
■ive your soul to the gaze. It was now for the first
‘imein my life I was made fully sensible of its won
Irous power on the spirit; hut there are other place
md circumstances, wherein the glory far excels anv
thing which I ever saw at sea. I feel that I hav<
failed in my painting in the above attempt; it would
be folly to do more than merely to cast a glance it
•eference to a clear, frosty sunset, when the thei
uoneter is below zero, and we, meantime, are dash
ng along in a cari ile on the ice, the whole length o
Lake St. Peter’s in Canada. That is a thing whicl
nay he gazed upon, but it is not to he talked of, noi
s o be painted—a scene which the soul can never r> -
leliver forth. He looks an ocean-bed of snow inti
‘he blended hues of an iris, then sinks to rest be
neath it.
AUCTIONEERING IN CALIFORNIA.
The reporter of the San Fnnciaco News, furnishes
that paper with the following reports of a spec cl
nade by a California autioneer:
“ Ladies and gentlemen, T now have the honor o’
nutting up a tine pocket handkerchief; a yard wid.,
a yard long, and almost a yard thick ; half cotton,
and t’other half cotton, too; beautifully printed w ith
the stars and stripes on one side, and the stripes and
-tars on t’ other; it will wipe dust from the eyes sc
completely as to be death to demagogues, and rnaki
politics as bail a business as printing papers; its
great length, breadth, and thickness, together with
: ts dark color, w ill enable it to hide dirt—and never
need washing; going at one dollar?—seventy-fivi
cents?—fifty cents!—twenty-five cent.-?—one bit? —
nobody wants it?—oh! thank you, sir?
Next, gentlemen, for the ladies won’t be permitted
to bid on this article, is a real, simor pure, tempered,
high'v polished, keen edged, Sheffield razor; bran
-pankin new ; never opened before to sunlight, moon
light, starlight, daylight, or gaslight; sharp cnougl
to shave a lawyer, or cut a disagreeable, or poor re
lation; handle of buckhorn, with all the rivets bu
the two at tho ends of pure gold, who will give two
dollars? one dollar? half a dollar? Why ye long
bearded, dirty-faced reprobates, with not room enough
on your phizzes for a Chinese woman to kiss, I’m
offering you a bargain at half & dollar! —razor and
strap—of recent patent; two rubs upon it will sharp
en the city attorney ; all for four bits! and a }iee<
of soap—sweeter than roses; lathers better than :■
schoolmaster; and strong enough to wash out al
the stains from a California politician’s conscience;
al! for four bits!—why you have only to put thi
razor, strop and soap, under your pillow, at night, to
wake up in the morning clean shaved, won’t any bod \
give two bits, then, for the lot? I knew I would
sell ‘em.
Next, ladies and gentlemen, I offer three pair o’
socks, hose, stockings, or half hot*, just as you’r<
mind to call them. Knit by a machine made on pur
pose out of cotton wool; the man who buys thes
will be enabled to walk till he gets tired; and, pro
vided his boots are high enough, needn't have am
corns; the legs are as long as bills a ainst the corpo
ration, and as thick as the heads of the members of
•he Legislature, who wants ‘em at one half dollar?—
quarter dollar ?—thankee, madam, dollar?
Next, I off r you a pair of boots, made especially j
for San Francisco, with heels long enough to raise a j
man up to the Hoadley grad ■, nd nails to be en- j
►:un and against being carried over by a land slide, l< g
wide enomh to carry two revolvers and a bowi
knife, and the uppers of the very best horse lenthc.
A man in these boots can move about as easy as tin j
State Capitol; who says twenty dol'ar.-? All th.
t x payets ouzht to buy a pair, to kick the L -gisla- !
ture with—and they will be found of assistance in
kick : ng the bucket, especially if somebody should
kick at being kicked—ten dollars for legs, uppers and
soles, white souls, and miserable souls at that, are i
bringing twenty thousand dollars in Sacra rm nto! ten i
dollars! —ten dollars!—gone at ten dollars!
Next, is something that you ought to have, gen -i
tlemen, a lot of good gallowses—sometimes called 1
s spenders. I know that some of you will after nj
while be furnished at the Mute's expense, but you !
can't tell which one, so buy where they’re cheap ; j
all that deserve hanging are not supplied ith a gal- j
low s, if so there would be nobody to make laws, con-1
detun criminals, or hang culprit*, until anew elec
tion; made of pure gum elastic—stretch like a judge’s
conscience, and la*t as long as a California office
ho'dvr will steal; buckles of pure iton, and warrant
ed to hold so tight that no man's wife can r.b him
of th* brevet** j ara, in abort, w atremg, m at
PENNED, Sill 111111. 11111 l 1124, IK
perfect, as effectual, and as bonifule, as the ordinanci
against Chinese shops of Dujiont street —gone at 25
Cents.”
PECULIARITIES OK CELEBRATED AUTHORS.
Racine composed his verses while walking about,
‘•eeiting them in a loud voice. One day, when thus
vorking at his play of Mithriilr.tes, in the Tuileries
i lardens, a crowd of workmen gathered around him,
attracted by his gesture/; they took him to be a
nadnian about to throw himself into the basin. Oi
his return home from such walks, he would writ’
down scene by scene, at first in prose, and when hi
had thus written it out, he would exclaim, “My trag
edy i done !” considering the dressing of the acts iq
hi verse as a very small affair. Magliabecchia, tin
‘earned librarian to the Duke of Tuscany, on tin
•ontrnrv, never stirred abroad, but lived amidst hooks
■md upon books. They were hiR hod, board, am
washing. He passed cipht-and-forty years in tlivii
aiiiist, only twidb in the whole course of his life ven
turing beyond the wal’s of Florence ; once to go twi
leagues off, and the other time three and a hah
‘eagueß bv order of the Grand Duke. He was at
extremely frugal man, living upon eggs, bread ami
eater, in great moderation. Luther, when study
nsr, always had his dog lying at his feet; ad g h
had brought from Wathurg, and of which he lea
ve ry fond. An ivory crucifix stood on the table be
fore him, and the walls of his study were stuck round
with carricatures of the pope. He worked at his
desk for days t gethor without going out; but when
fatigued, and tho ideas began to stagnate in hi.v brain,
he would take his tiute or his guitar with him inti
•he porch, and there execute some musical fantosv.
(for he wasa skillful musician,) when the ideas would
How upon him as fresh as flowers a summer's rain.
Music was his invariable solace at such times. In
deed, Luther did not hesitate to say that, after the
ology, music was the first of arts. “Music,” said he,
“is the art of the prophets; it is the only art which,
ike then ngy, can calm the agitation of the soul, am
nit the Devil to flight.” Next to music, if not la •
fore it, Luther loved children and flowers. The grea’
j ’.marled man had a heart as tender as a w oman’s.
I f'alvin studied in his bed. Every morning, at tiv
! or six o’clock, he had hooks, manuscripts, and pa
pens carried to him there, and he w orki il on for hour
together. If he had occasion to go out, on his ri turn
he undressed, and went to bed again to continue hit
| studies. In his later years he dictated his writings
to secretaries. He rarely corrected anything. Tie
sentences issued cotnpli te from his mouth. If he fell
his facility of composition leaving him, he forthwith
quitted his bed, gave tip writing and composing, ami
went about his out-door duties for days, weeks, and
months together. But as soon as he felt the inspir: -
• ion fall upon him again, he \vi nt back to his Inti,
md his secretary si tto work forthwith. Rousseau
wrote his works early in the morning ; Le Sage ai
midday ; Byron at midnigh’. Hanloiijn rose at fout
ui the morning, ami wrote till late at night. Aria
‘otic was a tremendous worker ; lie took little sleep,
and was constantly retrenching it. He had a con
trivance by which he awoke early, and to awake was
iith him to commence work. Demostl cues passed
three months in a cavern by the sea-side, in laboring
•o overcome the defects of his voice. There he read,
studied, and declaimed. Rabelais composed his life
of Gargantua at Bel I ay, in tins company of Reman
cardinals, and under the eyes of the bishop of Paris.
La Fontaine wrote his fables chit-fly under the shade
of a tree, and sometimes by the side of Racine and
Boileatt. Pascal wrote most of his Thoughts on lit
tle scraps of paper, at his by-moments Fcnelon
wroto his Telemachus in the Palace of Versaill s, at
the court of the Grand Monarque, when discharging
tho duties of tu'or to the Dauphin. That a book so
thoroughly democratic should have issued from suck
a source, ami be written by a priest, may seem aur
rising. De Quincy first promulgated his notion ol
universal freedom of person and trade, and of throw
ing all taxes on tho land—the germ, perhapi, of tin
French Revolution—in the lioudoir of Madame di
Pompadour! Btibon knelt down before composing
his great work, and prayed for light from heaven.
Pope never could compose well without first declaim
ing for some time at the top of his voiee, and thus
rousing h ! s nervous system to its fullest activity.—
The life of Leibnitz was one of reading-, writing anil
meditation. That was the secret of Ida prodigious
knowledge. After an attack of gout, he confined
himself to a diet of bread and mi k. Often he slept
inacliai', and rarely went to bed till after midnight.
•Siiniciimea he was months w ithout quitting his seat,
where lie slept by night and wrote by day. He bud
an ulcer in bis tight leg, whii-h prevented his walk
ing about, even bad he wished to do so. —Eliza Co<>k\
Journal.
INDIAN ELOQUENCE.
\ friend sends us the fallowing, cut f. am a Mon
treal paper, published some two jean* since. It i,-
au extract from an p|>< a.l hy the Indiana of Rice
Lake to the white brethren, to stay the plague ot in
temperance w hieh is so fast depopulating tin ir trilies.
(’here hi e passag sin it w hose eloquence, it seems
to us, is w orthy of the palmiest day* of Indian oia
tory ; and the terrible significance of the ppeal will
l>e fel', when it is rememb red that the destroyer of
their trib a has been writ upon its rnissi nos death
by the white man :
“ The five villages, Alnwi. k, Ricelake, Mudiake,
Schoogog, and Credit, are ail that is left of the Mis
sissagan ttihe of Indians. Save us, our w hite broth
ers, save us!
“Long ago you came to us and asked ua for a
place to build jour wigwam ; we gave y u a country ;
say, v>: sit not worth giving ? We now ask you tor
deliverance from an otteuy we ourselves cannot over*
come; like everything else of tho white man, it is too
strong for us. AN e love our home , and we do flgl t
this invader of their purity anil well being; but out
ranks are getting thinner and weaker; our deadly
i'oe is marching onward, wasting, destroying, crush
ing—a victor to the VVeat!
“My white brothers, could the souls of the dead
Chippewa.-t and .Mohaw ks, killed by fire-water, conn
rom the Land of Shade, and camp by the door ol
bo whisky trader, front the city of Rock, to tin
icad-watert of the Big Lake, town and village wouli
•e crowded by the pale outcasts. Red no more,
scorched pale by the blue flame! AVarrii-rs no non
I he toti ms of their fathers lost; hopeless. The trad
•Ia canoe cannot be seen upon the waters, nor th
trail ol an eagle in the clouds: so dies the poo
Intnkeu Indian! His canoe shoots down the stream,
struck by the poison the white man brought, his
sniiit tins into a daik cloud!—he iG gone! AN’hi
‘■arc- ? In a few winters so will our race pass away ’
‘scattered, weak, dumb, hopeless who cores?
“(ive us back our woods and the deer! Give •
back our bark wigwams and our fath r’s virtue?
“Save us, our white brothers, save us? A dying
tace implores you 1 Put out the blue flame that is
consuming us! Ye can 1”
WHISKY PATRIOTISM.
X CONSTITUTION At, KXrOUNDKK.
Dedicated to those teho hare declared the Jfeto Li
quor Late unconstitutional.
The following colloquy took place not many day.-
ifter the passage of the Ittd'ann Liquor Law, between
m old f'gy landlord and traveller. As the hack
stopped before the old f. How’s log mansion to water,
he sailed out to learn of the passenger, l ; w hat his per
ury prevented him from knowing otherwise—he war
too stingy to take a newspaper.
“Say, mister, do you larn at ytliing ‘bout what tin
LegilaturV bin doin’ if late?”
Traveler—“ Well, yes, I see they have passed a
strong Temperance Law , and—”
Landlord—“lt’s unconstitirional!’’
Trnv.— “I reckon not. It is said the best Lawyers
ui the State pronounce it constitutional in every par
ticular. ’’
Land, (excited,)—“l’ll bo bound fur it! They
needn’t tell me its constitutional 1 It's a clear insin
uation on our rights! I fit and bed ill the last war
to maintain our liberties, and now I s’pose the fellers
’ Oitld say what we shall eat and drink. The peoph
won’t stand it.”
Trav.—“Have you read the law ?”
Land.—“No, nor I wouldn’t. But I know wcl
enough its unconstitutional. They’ve made laws
I fore to Stop folks from drinkin, and it’s a'l a cleai
insinuation on our rights. It’.- a free country.’’
Trav.—“But the object you know is to stop intern
ueratice, which has become an evil in our State.”
Land.—“l s'pose they’ll next want to stop us from
raisin’ corn and sleepin’ with our wives. I drink a
.Irani whenever I please, and its none of their busi
ness. I fit and bled for my country in 1812, and I’ll
shoulder my rifle and go down to Ingenopolis and
shoot’em down like dogs afore I’I! stand it! They
can’t crowd mo into this temperance business. Look
at the quart and gallon law! There’s more licker
drunk and devilment done hy this cussed temper
ance w hoorah than they’ll mend in fifty years. No,
gentlemen, its unconstitutional, and there’ll be anoth
er revoluliotiery war, afore ten years, and I’ll see
’em “
The driver cracked his whip and tho hack rolled
away, leaving the gray-headed landlord in the mid
dle of his w hiskey | emotion.
APPEAL TO THE CONSCIENCE OF THE RETAILER OF
ARDENT SPIRITS.
Have you not good and sufficient reason f*r be
lieving that the common practice of vending ardent
sprits hy the small quantity has greatly increased the
sin of drunkenness ?
How can you conscientiously adopt, or continue a
!tractico which is productive of so much evil?
How can you consci ntiously sell aman rum, when
you have reason to believe he has taken rnote th n
he ought ?
How can you furnish one with rum, or other in
toxicating spirits, wiien yo i know t'at it will c ri
vet t him into a madman, and send him home to abuse
and injure bin family?
How can you sell a man ardent spirits, when you
clearly perceive that he is wasting his property, and
l reducing n vv rthy fatt.ily to want?
How can you take a poor man’s sixpence or shil
| ing every day, as he gets it, when you have reason
i o believe his children on without a morsel of bread,
| or w holly dependent on charity ?
How can you conscientiously furnish a man with*
! jug of rum on Saturday en ning, when you have suf
ticient reason to believe that he will spend the Sab
bath in drunkenness, or riot, aid fierhaps call his
neighbors in to increase the excess of wickedness?
How can you conscientiously assist the int niper
•itc man to thin particular meas of self-mind r, n>< rc
lv he- ause he desire* it, w hen you would not for your
right hand se I him arsenic or laudanum for the same
purpose ?
Above all, how can you conscientiously encourage
or even permit inconsiderate young men and lioys to
hang anout your store and drink, when you must
know that t..is is the high toad to intemperance, and
that they arc beginning to form a habit w hich will
most probably end in their temporal and eternal j
ruin?
Uit “doing to others as you would that they
should do to you,” to w itness the exist, nee of any of
the evils to which the preceding questions allude, and
not use your influence to prevent or remove them ?
When you see the intemperate perishing on your I
rlftu band and on your left, dots tbs vt'.vuo que* ‘ i
VIII. m-NUKt 12.1,
tion never occur, what influence have I hud in form
ing their character, and bringing upon them this
ruin?
I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.
AN APPEAL TO THE IRISH.
James Haiighton, Esq., an eminent philanthropist
f Dublin, has issued an address to his countrymen,
lirough the columns of the Drogheda Argus, com
■lending to their attention the subject of temperance
lenerally, and especially the Maine Liquor Law. AN e
iope his advice w iil he heeded hy those for whom it
s designed, on both sides of the w ater. Tin re are
mine nublo Irishmen enlisted in the temperance re
form, in their own country and in ours, hut aa a
general truth we fear it u ay be said with a sad cm
ihasis, that the temperance education of the Irish
‘inn been sadly neglected. For too generally, they
indulge in w hi-key and other fiery stimulants, to the
impovfishing of their (amities and the dethronement
if r asun ; and not a few of our drinking shops of the
lowest grade—the veriest dens of debauchery and
crime—a'o kept by the countrymen of James Haiigh
ton and Father Matthew. If wo arc not mistaken,
the s'atisties of the liquor trade in our tow ns and
cities, wou'd show ut hast four Irish whisky venders
to one Native American, engaged in tliis wretched
business. AA’e cannot believe that this is the fruit of
a more intense sulfislmi ss or a deeper natural I'eprav
ty in the liishmun than is to be found in the Native
American: but it rather results from a want of i-du
ation in the first principles of the ti niperance refor
mation. Moral suasion has not yet accomplished for
< I'i-* people all that may be reasonably hoped from it;
and w hile we insist that their grog shops, with oth
r.w, should be closed by the ationg legal arm, be
cause demanded as a measure ol safety to the com
nunity, we still think that a great woik may be ac
complished aiming them hy means of the pledge and
other approv. and inslrunientalit es, which will induce
i hem to yield a ready obedience to the law, as one
nvolving the well-being of society, their own inclu
ded.
But we close, with single paragraph from Mr.
lUughton’s Address, which, though writtm more
especially for the Irish of Ireland, w e coni’ end to
h;r sell-exile sons who dwell among tig. Says Mr.
H.:
“ Let our determination he, the total overthrow of
our drinking customs; let tin pronounce hehusim ss
of making and selling poisons w hich ruin the health,
the w ealth, and the morals, of society, a nuisance not
to be regulated, but tob v uprooted by our egislature.
The business of government is, to protect life and
property; strong drinks destroy both; they turn
men into demons, and women into loa'hsonni beings,
and children —the pern lof creation—are cast by them
before swine, to be rent and turn astindi r.
“Irishmen, be not iudiflerent to the success of this
glorious reformation.”
THE IIVDMNA PROHIBITORY LAW.
Our friends in Indiana have triuiuplif and at last, and
most gloriously, in the matter of securing the pas
sage of a prohibitory liquor bill. The citizens every
where seem running over with joy Imrause of the en
actment which was last week made a law hy the sig
nature of Got. AN'right. Rejoice, friends ; but labor
every where when the time comes—June 12th—to
sec the provisions of the law carried out Mark this,
friends; when temperance triuni| hs, morality and
religion are encouraged, and the woik of the Lord is
promoted. This we consider the greatest ri a-on,
why all men, who love God and arc trying to he pi
ous, should labor untiringly in promoting tho cause
of Temperance in their communities and throughout
the world.— Christian Advocate.
I W The Rev. T)r. Wayland sys: “Can it be
right for me to derive my living from that whi< h is
debasing the minds, ruining the souls, destroying for
ever the hsppim ss of the domestic circle, fi ling the
land with women and children i t a condition far
more deplorable than that of widows and orphans;
which is the cause of nine-tents of til the crimes
which are porp. trated in society, and brings upon it
nine-tentbs of all the pauperism which exists; which
accomplishes nil these at oin *, and does it without
ceasing f Do you say you are not responsible for the
acts ol your neighbors? Is this clearly so ? IS NOT
hi; who navigates a slave ship a PI
RATE?”
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mr The Rev. Dr. Edwards says: “ Can that traf
tie be justified hy an cnl : ghtcn< and and virtuous people
which holds out the chief temptation to intemperance
and strews the land with beggars, with widows, and
crimes, w hich hicuks tip the foundation of social hap*
pineas, consigns millions prematurely to their graves,
and tills the wor’d with wailings, hum ntations, and
woe? I answer, NO! Policy, Religion, Morality,
Patriotism, condemn it.”
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ld&” “La me!” said Mrs. Partington, “here I’ve
been suffering the bigamies of death for three mortal
we*kg. Fiist I was seized with a bleeding pbrenol
ogy in the left atmosphere of the brain, which was
succeeded hy a -toppnge of the left ventilator of the
heart. This gave me an information in the Borax,
and now I'm sick w’th the chloroform morbus.—
I here is no hies ing like that ol health, particularly
w hen you are sick ! ”
tar. he follow ing is the list of States that have
eiiaettd laws entirely prohibiting the sale of intoxi
cating drinks for a beverage: Maine, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, Con
necticut, and Indiana.
HTIf a proud man makes me keep my distance,
the c valor i in. that ha >h * o
5 JAMES T. BI.AIX, V.
| PRINTER.