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TH SIGHT.
HY BARKY CORNWAII
ft, the summer nijrhl
Hath a smile of light,
tnd she sits on a sapphire throne,
Whilst the sweet winds load her
With the garlands of odor
From the hud if the ro=e oVrhlowti’
Rut the autumn night
Has a piercing sight,
Aqd a stop l>oth strong and fro.:.
And a voice of wonder
Like the wrath of thunder
When he shouts to the stormy so*
And the wintry night
Is all cold and white,
And she singeth a song of pain,
Till the wild Lee hmntneth,
And the warm spring rometh,
When she dies in a dream of rain
ft, the night! the night !
‘Ti ; a lovely sight,
Whatever the clime or time.
For sorrow then spareth,
And the lovernutpoureth
llis =ottl in a star bright rhyme, ,
It bringeth sleep
To the forest deep,
The fr.rest-hird to its nest;
To rare bright bouts,
And dreams of dowers,
And that balm to the weary, rest!
HOT WEATHER.
Satie, the poet, host describes the “feelings” of
this suffering country, when he says:
Fat men infatuate, face the stagnant air,
In rash essay to cool their inward glowing,
While with each stroke in dolorous despair,
They feel the lever growing !
The lean and lathy lind a fate a.-, hard,
For, all a-dry, they burn like any tinder
Beneath the solar blaze, till withered, charred,
And crisped away to cinder’
F.’en stoics, now are in the melting mood,
Vnd vestal cheeks are most unseemly florid:
The very zone that girts the frigid prude,
Is now intensely torrid !
The dogs lie lolling in the deepest shade;
The pig-are all a-wallow in the gutter ,
vnd not a household creature cal or maid—
But querulously mutters!
‘"Pis dreadful, dreadful hot!'’ exclaims each one
Into his sweating, weltering, roasting neighbor, •
Then mops hi- brows, and sigh 4 *, ache had done
A quite Herculean labor!
Vnd friends whw p* s each other in town,
Say no good morrows when they com*’ together,
But only mutter with a dismal frown.
“What horrid, horrid weather!
<£emtymutce
ALONE IHE GREET AS WELL as fill. SM ILL GROG
(.ERIE*.
■ Abolish the Family Liquoi-Bars.
men for yrhom t)n \fin< Lor ronn
foo late..
“Shut up the Uit grogzerics,” say many; “pre-,
vent the -air of bad rum; preserve the poor an.l ig
norant from intemperance, and we are with you, hut
the educate.! classes need no law; regard for their
own character is a sufficient protection to them.
Strange delusion 1 Inexplicable blindness to the
facts of history and the occurrences of every day .
Without referring to books* memory, unassisted, sup
plies us with a catalogue of well-known riatne j . the
bare mention of which refute-, the plea we have
quoted.
Alexander the Great, one of the brightest spirits
of antiquity, one of the three greatest generals of
the world, whose tutor was Aristotle, who slept with
the poems of Homer under his pillow, conquered
the world, and died of a drunken debauch in the
thirty-thire year of his age
she fall of the Roman Empire wasprecu^^gd|
Brbfftrb to (Tfinprranrf, literature, (General |ntelligenee, anb the Jfattsl llelus.
o ■— -*
bv tho drunkenm- of Us emperors; human na
; turo wav eternally dishonored by tho enormities
j committed by them in drunken fury.
01 t)ie ton sovereign.- who have reicned in Run
sia since the accession of I’etor the Great, all hut
four Here beastly drunkards. <)l the Empress
Elizabeth, it is h ritten, “she was completely hruti
tieil hy strong liquors: from day to day she was al
most alway s in a state of bacehir eestaev; she eouM
not hear to be dressed in the moriiititr, her wnmnn
loosely attached to her some robes, which a few cuts
iof the scissors disengaged in the evening.” And
! the passage gives an idea of the general condition of
j the Russian court for more than seventy years
The present king of Prussia, whom Neibuhr in
: strueted and praised, thanking (iod on his knees for
| giving Prussia so wise and noble a prince, is n noto
rious drunkard, the contempt of his subjects, the
scoff of Europe.
The tale king of the Sandwich Islands, upon whom
a corps of missionaries exhausted their eloquence
am! skill, was a drunken caricalure of the kingly
! office to the lasi
Tho city of Washington, where the flit, of the
j nation is supposed to congregate, is-the mostdrunk
|on town in the Union. Champagne is one of the
{ great powers of the country, a thing relied upon to
! corrupt the very men who are sent to Washington I
i under the impression that they arc our wisest and j
■ our best.
Hannegan, a .Senator of the United States, was
!an abandoned drunkard, and w hen sent abroad as
plenipotentiary, disgraced the country hy the most
continuous and outrageous drunken debauchery . 1
Some of the most important ennetnients ever
passed by A'ongress— enactments involving the yvet
i fare of future empires, have been passed while the
floor of the House was strewed w ith honorable and
• intoxicated members.
The Tea-room of this city, established for the con-!
. venience, not of (he city’s vagabonds, but of the j
city’s “fathers” and head men, was, for many a dis- j
i graceful years, a scone of drunkenness.
It was when maddened by drink, that l)r. Gra
ham committed murder.
Hartley Coleridge, a man abounding in amiable j
qualities, who inherited much of his father’s genius,!
with all his father’- infirmity of purpose; could
never master hi propensity to drink. He was a*
scholar, a gentleman, a poet- and a drunkard.
Edgar Poe—but why speak of him * The story
of his miserable end i- more familiar to the people
even than the melancholy refrain of the “Raven.”
Charles Lamb, tho gentle Charles, the kind, the
’ fender, the beloved, could sacrifice so much for his
ister full could not help being eani. J ;,nme nml
.put to bed in insensible drunkenness.
Douglas Jerrold is a devotee of gin. For many
i years, it is said, he has been impairing hi ‘ fine pow
ers hy habitual exeess in drink.
! Byron, Burns, dteele, Hone, and a host of other;
names, eminent or illustrious, might he added to the ‘
t
list of distinguished drunkards, /turns, wearecon
i ficlent, had not died in the prime of life, a defeated,!
heart-broken man, his destiny all unaccomplished,
if he had not been addicted to convivial drinking.
And who knows for how much of Byron's reckless
verse, the world should curse the gin-bottle?
In our colleges, is not the secret demijohn one of j
the perpetual anxieties of the presiding professor!
’ and parent? At out fashionable parties, is champagne |
i —one of the vilest of drinks—moderately consumed?
Do not our grand banquets generally degenerate into
, occasions of disgusting excess? Are the sons of
leading citizens Hie most temperate of our youth?
Is it poor women who buy brandy drops by Hie
pound?
Talk no more of shutting up only the hut grog
geries All groggeries are low, and all grog is per
nicious, whether ipped by gentlemen, sucked bv
’ ladies, or swilled by the “dregs of the people.”
A fl RE FOR IMI'NkE.WENv
I’he New V ork Spirit ol the Times has been fur- i
wished, liy a Wa-hington correspondent, with a copy
of n letter, received by a member of Oongres- from
an ex-editor out West, who thu- humorously unr- 1
rate- the manner in which he. became cured of
drunkenness.
“Until this winter, l could take a bowl or two of
whisky-punch and go to bed, hot that resource ha
gone from me now IVrhap- if I toll you how f lost
it, you will think I-am trying to humbug von; but,
sir. I will seriously tell you a -ober truth, and I rnn
didlv believe that 1 can cure any man of drunken
ness who has enough ol vitality left in him to -up-
port life without tie- aid of “steam.” Last fall I
was coming up from —, with a five gallon keg of
whisky m a skiff I>n the way I met some river ac
quaintances who were dry. Having no means ol
lapping ihe keg nt hand, we. took tin head out and
sat down on the bank to talk, drink, and fish awhile
I had the good luck to catch a thumping big catfish,
which I threw in my skiff, and shortly after -farted
for home My cat, not liking his new quarter?,’
kept “thrashing about.” and plashing the dirty wa
ter in the bottom of the skits upon me Becoming
impatient, I caught him by the gill- and “soused”
him into the keg of whiky. He made it foam a
moment, but soon became quiet, and I took him out.
A blueiah, greasy looking skum bad risen; but I
poured that off, and could distinguish “no particular
bad taste about the critter.” During th<- afternoon
and evening. I drank pretty freely; and from about
ten o'clock til! daylight, my wife had the sickest
man to take care of you ever aw ince that time
both the taste and smell of spirits, in any and all
forms, are exceeding nauseating to me
reran mm. mmni, incur it. m
to catch you a cattish and keep hitn alive for you ;
till yon can provide hitn a hath. If a cattish cannot
he had, the Mechanics’ Own Rook savs t; at an eel
will answer the ame purpose. Ido not know but
1 shall try to make a little fortune out of this mailer
when spring comes, and the fishing “gel good;” 1
therefore, do all the good vou can with it, bul don’t !
make too many doctors. I feel that you will regard
this thing as an exceedingly ridiculous ‘‘Ash story,” ,
hut I believe it to he a momentous discovery, and
cnleuluted to work a greater amount of good for the
country than the aggregate labors of all the states,
men in Washington during the entire winter.”
principle or the Maine lam.
Ur. ('heever, in the Independent, says: “'Tho J
greatest glory of this law is the very characteristic
of self-denial and and self-restraint, voluntary, spoil
ta neons, for the sake of others. It is self-denying
love, passing into the sacredness and permanence
of statute; imbuing first the community, and thence
the legislation hy which the community eeuros it
self in iis own self-denying resolution. It is Paul's
principle triumphant, for the first time iu any legis
lation under heaven; triumphant now, because such
legislation is that of Christian people governing
themselves from conscience towards God, and not
that of a despotic government, laying its yoke, upou
the people at its own caprice. It is a phenomenon
that may well arrest the attention of the world. It
is such a demonstration of the immeasurable power
of Christian legislation for the good of the people,
and such an application of that power, such a mani
fest awakening of the people to a sense of the just
object for which government is instituted, and laws
ought to he enacted, such a taking of the power of
legislation hy the people into their own bunds, and
such a demonstration of the safety of letting the
people do their own legislation, not for war, con
quest, revenue, party, dominion, political or territo
rial aggrandizement, or the privileges of orders, or
hierarchies, or monopolies, hut in behalf of the poor
and the needy, and for their protection from the
luxuries, the covetous, and the rich, that the report
of it will do not a little to shsiko. the thrones of
tyranny, and will tie a blow tx> governmental selfish
ness, almost the world over.”
THE DRUNKARD'S IIYINC CHILI).
‘‘Kate sat near a scanty pallet, on which was ex
tended (lie suffering little Robin, her bright, beauti
ful hoy, reduced to skin and hone. His large mys
terious eyes were turned upwards, watching the
Hitting of the leaves and fragments of sunshine, tliat
peeped through the thick foliage of the inulticaulis.
An infant.aboul a month old--meagre, weary of its ex
istence and petulant with pain and lassitude, lay on
her bosom, and she in vain trying to charm it to
repose.
“Mamma,” said Robin, reaching out his waxen
hand, “take me to your bosom.”
“Yes, love, as soon as Maria is still I”
“Mamma, if God had not sent us that little cross
baby, you could love and nurse me, as you did when
I was sick in Cincinnati. My throat is hot, mamma.
I wish I had a drink in a tumbler, glass tumbler,
mamma, and I could look through it.”
“Dear, you shall have a tumbler,” cried Kate, tier
lips quivering with emotion and a wild tire in her eyes.
“Yes, mamma, one cold drink in a tumbler and
your little Robin will tiy up, /<, there where that
little bird sits.
Will pupa come to-night and get us bread? No,
mamma, if he comes hi vv ill lie drunk; nobody ever
gets drunk in heaven, mamma?
•‘No, no, my son, my angel.”
“No one says cross words, mamma, darling?”
“No; bless yonr sweet tongue.’
* And there is cold water there, and silver cups?”
“Oh! yes, uiy child, a fountain of living water,”
“And it never gets dark there?” ‘
“Never! never!” and the tears fell in streams
down Kate’s pale cheek.
“And nobody gets sick there and dies?’
“No my love.”
“If they were to, God would let the angels bring
them water, I know tic would- -from ihe big foun
tain - oh, mamma, don't cry do people in heaven’ ’
“Oh, sweet one, < iod wipes away all tears,” re
plied the weeping mother.
“And the angel- bis-, them oil I spore hut tell
me, mamma, will tn come there?
“Who my son?”
“You know, mamma pappa!
THE PROBLEM SOLVER IA MAI.IE.
Gov. Morrill writing to F. Delavau -ay : The
great problem, can rum filing and intemperance
flowing therefrom, be controlled by prohibitive leg
islation, and suitable penal enact merits* 1 i- solved by
the result in this State. The Law , now in the hands
of its friends, is doing the work in a most -ati‘•fac
tory manner. Prosecutions have, not multiplied
since our most stringent law took effort, on the first,
day of May, but on the contrary, there ha~ been a
very great falling off in that respect Obstinate
violators of the law, while only a penalty of dollars
awaited them, continued the traffic; but opening the
House of/.'orrection for their discipline (where they
1 have f>eeti w ont to send the poor inebriate; with very
’ few exceptions, they quietly and wholly abandon the
business.
Such is the grand re-ult in Maine. Me art com
paratively free from tbfi selling of aivtent spirits as a
‘beverage. Drunkenness, and consequent casualties
and crimes, arc disappearing, and (lie hearts of those
■ who have labored to bring about this great Refer
i ation, are encouraged and made ef<t
■, - - ifiaa, wjd tun only soourhw j/f^y
ADDRESS
TO THE PEOPLE (if OHIROM 0\ I’ROHIttITION.
‘tf i ?t‘Hf•: Hn\ nu: Wen oppnintiul l\ the!
1 omperanuv fonvonlioh ,i > mhlnl :n Mnrtclhi, to
| address you in support of the action of that body,
l ” n d also in liehalf ot the I'ruhihitiou cause, and Pro
hibition Candidates generally, we undertake th<* task !
with a sense ol responsibility such a hc have rarely I
j ever felt on any former occasion Our observation
is, that it is very difficult fur i be popular mind to em
brace or appreciate the words ot sola r reason, when
ever it happens to bo transported, as it now is, with
delirium of political excitement Yet, we must be
lieve that the masses of Georgia desir< to know tho
• truth. However much \\< may suspect the motive ,
! ol a few party leaders, yet we believe tho great body
of the people to he patriotic. The most of them re
cognize the force of a Christian obligation upon them
to do whatever the good of the Slate demands.
Entertaining these views of your honesty and pa- ,
tnotism, fellow-citizens, we feel encouraged to hope |
that you will examine our positions, ami judge of]
them in the light ol the arguments herein set forth,
and not conclude tliat we are in error, w ithout afford*
ing us an opportunity to prove that we are not. Is
it possible that we may tie right in the grounds we
have taken? It you say not, you claim infallibility;
and this appertains to no finite mind. We nuty be
right—you admit it Therefore a matter of so much
importance as this is conceded to he, is surely worth
| while inquiring into. It is so full of joy or sorrow,
ot w eal or woe, of life or death, of heaven or hell, j
that it it is not cot lain whether ynv or </•< tie right in I
this issue, you dare not pass it by lightly. You dure ;
not (flit** at it, nor leave it to mere chance, either to’
develope the truth or to determine the lute ot this
precious interest. We charge you, that vou set it
not down as one of the indifferent ivtn-s of polities
merely—not simply a rallying point tin a party -a
thing of so little importance that an error committed
now may lie corrected hereafter, without leaving any I
trace of mischief behind ft. Brume of this delusion. 1
Should you take the wrong path now, fa- it for ever
so small a distance, the wreck’ of many immortal
hopes must lie strewn in void track hopes that may
never be recovered.
With these solemn convictions weighing upon out
minds, we participated in (h* councils and acqui
e.seed in the action of the late Marietta I’(invention.
The proceedings ot that body Inn been greatly de
plored and highly censured m some quarters.
Whether this regret and tin’s condemnation be the
offspring of enlightened pntrioiLuii or of party predi
lections, is not for us to determine. Os one. thing;!
we are sure The action of that < Wive.nlion was ta
ken in the fear ol God, and in full view sat’ a futug,*
retribution. Having; taken a minute au'v.cy of all
the points in the field, the Convention did nut see
how they could, innocently, act otheiw'loe than as
they did. Are wt asked why we <lid not vole 5Jr
Overfly out of the field? AVe answer: That Conee/i
lion claimed no jurisdiction in the premises, not be j
ing the one which first made the nomination. Why, j
then, ilid they adopt him as their candidate? For
several reasons: They had no candidate, and they]
desired to have otic. Air Overby was already on j
the field, and ns worthy u man as any to he found
on the field or off of it; and though he hail been
nominated bv the jirafi ihifioii party, iu Convention,
on February last, yet tin- Marietta Convention were
willing to, ay they did, shoulder the platform of that
Atlanta Convention, and they could perceive no man
ly reason why they should reject a candidate who!
could so faithfully represent their views and their in
terests. Therefore, they cordially opened their arms
to him, without once‘enquiring what direction the
itjinilH would take in the event <M’ .success. Though
they claimed no right to eominmd the candidate of
another party to retire, yet they did claim the right
to adopt that candidate if they chose; they did claim ,
the right, to say to prohibit onist . arc pleased with j
your candidate., we w ill take him Ui tw our own; we |
will vote for him in October.
It may be proper to add, llmi Mr. ••HcrbyV friends
did not bring hi name before the < ‘oviveiatioii. His
name wn- sprung upon tin meeting I#} fftturse who ]
had resolved, if po--ible, to riiaki the t .uosixj/ron or |
der him to abandon the field The issue hud to fret
met, and four-fifths of the body voted lor Mr. Over- j
by to n until, on the field lift I lie end Of'tbe race.
Mr Overby bad been nominated several months,
before any other candidate us - brought out After;
awhile, two other candidal* -, t.ov. -Johnson and j
Judge Andrews, were nomirnuod by their respective
parties; and although no overture*, from an author
i/.cd source, were made to the prohibition party wifi*
a view to Imrmoni/.i conflicting interests, yet the
prohibitionists were met out of door-, with the in
quiry, “Why does not Mr. Overby come down? 1
You have put out your candidate at the wrong time.
Too much excitement for prohibition now. You j
may ns well give it over. It i- doomed to be ** fail
ure.”
To all this class of questions we have been in the |
habit of making the. following reply “When wet
took tin; first step in this movement, our political |
sky was clear, and there were in Georgia no import- j
ant issues to agitate the minds of our people. It;
was believed that nearly all ol the old party issues;
had ripened into maturity and fallen into decay, to i
be no more remembered. I nder this auspicious 1
state of things, it was confidently hoped that the j
voters of Georgia would have an opportunity of|
voting upon this question, untrammelled by other,
exciting issues. Unfortunately, however, it has 1
j turned out otherwise. Not ferfitift windowa crystal, and every door a pearl; if the roof
Ik s rose wreath in the great meadow ‘and* of ’ were AtiuM" l 'imrwjr tHI
101 low you. The aerpentw
VOL XXI.--MMBER
mined to linve it so. Therefore we repel the in;
ation. We did not brine this precious intere :t ■ For
the held in the infdst of a storm. Our neigh! Due
our brothers, who knur that it was in the field, very
who professed to feel anxious about its fate, nets and
tlieless, conjured up this tempest which now rrl or *-
around it so fiercely. And what is more strtfdK've
j than all, they tell us that they knew the storm its
were raising would ruin both us and the cause arent
advocate, and yet they would persist Not trr, upon
our frunff*, have placed this interest in peril, only
temperance, if prohibition perish in this storm, yet
l.ord be judge between us ami you vie
AVe protest that there was no necessity formak n
conflict between prohibition and certain other
litieal interests, in connection with the
election. Nor have we heard one scnsihlo argunn
to prove that such necessity did exist. From all t
lights before us, wo arc thoroughly convinced tl l *'°
the masses of Georgia greatly desired that the fi( ,cn
should lie left open without tho nomination o|* K °
third candidate, in order that the people might v<: ’
left free to cast their vote lor Overby and prohir 1 ’
lion. And now, if prohibition he defeated, whe ,0
lies tin’ onus of responsibility? Let those answ Vl
who force a third candidate upon the people; and I l ’*
those who failed to represent the k-nntrn irit/ux
the. people remeinbei it - there w ill hi’ a day of fen 40
ful retribution n ‘
AVe repeat, there was no necessity for a third eai W)
delate. AVe will venture to say there was no patr°
’ otic object to lie accomplished in the nomination r®
| Judge Andrews, which could not lie. accomplish!?
without it If the party had rallied upon the (,’or
grcssiotml election, they could thereby have made *
test of their strength as fully as now, and more s<r
because they have now made a wanton eontlicl witF
’ prohibitionists, who already had their candidate lie
t fore Hie people more than six months before hand
j This conflict will necessarily prevent a (Atll etghibi
i lion of the strength of both parties in the Gofer
nor’s election There would have been no such cm
; barruHsmmit had they restricted their efforts to the
j (Vingrcssional ticket. And now we appeal to all
prohibitionists who may have attached theinselve
, to the Native American party -we say to them, by
! right of precedence we claim the Governor’s dec
I tion, as our appropriate medium for showing the
strength of the prohibition ctutse in Georgia. VYi
claim vour vote upou this ground, especially, as a
matter of right. We claim it, also, on the score of
liberality AVe bog you so remember, that although
the Native American party should fail to elect their
j Governor, yet they need suffer no embarrassing de- .
feat They may Inti in their Governor, and yet elect
every Uongrosstnnn, and thereby demonstrate that
they are the dominant party in Georgia. It seem:
to us tliat the “Natives” want every thing—there i
no spirit of compromise. It is painful to know it,
and it will he hard toforgef.it.
AVe propose to show our strength on Mr. Overby,
if they will permit us to do it They ‘■ay we cannot do
! this, and therefore we are indiscreet in making the
- ?i/tempt. ‘Ye say to them you cannot rally your
] strength on Judge Andrews, although ho is worthy,
j atid Hwre&rr it is indiscreet in you to make the
: effort.
Moreover, w jiropo'-o to turn the 2,200 foreign
grogshop lieepwv y? Georgia out of office, and ask
them to help ti, TJi*>yfeply, “We have no time for
that now we are trying to turn foreigmn out of
office.” And when we call upon the Democratic
| party for aid, they excuse themselves upon the
ground, that they have work enough to do in keep
ing these foreigners in office. Against all this we
plead as an offset, that we are trying to redeem
ti thousand drunkards from a drunkard’s grave and
a drunkard’s hell Native Americans! Democrats!
patriotic wen of all parties, and ehristians of all
teets, will you help us? In the fear of God decide
which is the best cause, and coin', to it “terrible as
an army with banners.”
But there are still other reasons why the Marietta
Convention resolved to auatain Mr. Overby. They
regarded him a/t the representative of the only great
interest now before the people of Georgia. Other
interests there are which are nbnuluMy of conaidera*
1 hie value, but which fom/zaratu'elydwindlolntoutter
\ insignificance; so much so, that all the political
(jvils, merely, now complained of in Georgia, might
be thrown in for good measure, in estimating the
iniurilxffs Os the retail liquor traffic. The min
which it gffects in a single day could not be repaired
by every ids' 11 "'* ‘ very dollar on the lace, of the
earth within b!' compass of an ordinary lifetime
H4>id"es, other fstatical evils so much talked ulsjut,
arc prosper,till —they do not exist in Georgia now
1 to auv great extent —hut the mischiefs of the liquor
traffic anc a present reality. Now—aUmyt now—
’ the mischief is going on The “boiling, bubbling
cauldron” always smokes upon its furnace—the
tear- of blood are always flowing into it—ruined
hearts are alway s seething there in hopeless agony—
there is no respite—no elipsu in this work of ruin,
; raid no alleviation of the miseries it produces,
j Therefore, they dared not assume the responsibility
|of refusing their support to tb< siau who, like a
noble hero, proposed to throw himseli into the list,
ready to be sacrificed, if need be, upon tlie altar ol
! humanity. How could thav act otherwise as peirioM
j as ehristians? Because aome who admired the
j nobleness of the prohibition candidate, and acknowl
j edged the justice of his cause, preferred to deaetf
both, loving, as they do, the galling chain of party
vasalare. did it, therefore, become our dntv.* **-
. every oenrn or cedar, every
s < < . ...
S JAMES T. BLJ^
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