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TUe Impudence of Kteam.
Over the bittcWßaad over the brine,
Over the waters to Palestine!
Am I awake, or do I dream!
Over the Ocean to Syria by steam!
My aay is sooth, by this ritjht hand;
A steamer brave j£
Is on the wave,
Bound, positively for the Holy Land!
Godfrey oi'Bolognc, and thou,
Richard, lion-hearted King,
Candidly informs us, now,
Did you ever 1
No, you never
Could have fancied such a thing.
Never such vociferations
Entered your imaginations
As the ensuing
‘ Ease her, stop her!’
‘Any gentleman for Joppa!’
' ’Mascus, ’Mascns V ‘ Ticket, please, sir’
‘ Tyre or Sidon V 1 Stop her, case her!’
‘ Jerusalem,’lem, ’lem!’ 'Shur! Shur!’
4 Do you go to Egypt, sir V
‘ Is this the land of Pharaoh V
‘Now look alive there! Who’s for Cairo?’
' Back her!’ ‘ Stand clear I say, old file!’
* What gent or lady’s for the Nile,
‘Or Pyramids 1’ ‘Thebes! Thebes,sir! ‘Steady!’
‘Now. Where’s that party for Engedi V
Pilgrims holy, Red Cross Knights,
Had ye e’er the least idea, ’
Even in your wildest flights,
Os a steam trip to Judea 1
What next marvel Time-will show,
It is difficult to say,
1 Buss,’ perchance to Jericho ;
‘ Only sixpence all the way.
Cabs in Soltnye may ply;
’Tis a not unlikely tale,
And from Dan the tourist hie
Unto Bcersheba by rail.’— Punch.
Power of the Enemy.
That able and long tried advocate of
temperance, Rev. John Marsh, Editor of
the American Temperanco Union, holds
the following languago, concerning the
power of Intemperance. We commend
it to the attentive perusal of our readers.
“ His power now lies in the love of
stimulus and in fashion. The ordinary
temperature of the system which the
God of nature has fixed, and which is
most of all conducive to health, happi
ness, durability and efficiency, is not sat
isfactory. There must he some excite
ment, The heart must beat with strong
er pulsations. The mind must glow with
higher imaginings. The dull prose of
life must bo exchanged for poetry and
song. And even the great globe itself,
* must seem to roll round with double
What will effect this? The cup
of intoxication. And hence men love
it, seek after it, and, at any expense, will
have it. And here its power is as great
as it ever has been ; and great will it be
in all time to come, over the inexperien
ced. Man will not be taught by reason
that unnatural stimulus is not desirable,
He can learn it only from experience,
only from seeing his machinery warped,
bent, broken, destroyed by increased
fires. And our hope of depriving it of
its power, is only in preventing our
youth from an acquaintance with the in
toxicating cup. The slight personal in
dulgence creates tho pleasing delirium,
and binds soon in iron fetters.
But the stronger hold is fashion. This
is the great propeller; ruling society,
giving law to the monarch on his throne,
and the humblest peasant in his moun
tain cell. Vice of every hue has strug
gled hard for its possession. Man’s love
of stimulus has easily subjected it to the
support of tho cup; and the more it is
aided by wealth, the more potent it has
become. Tho rich give tho fashion, and
they give it in away the most gratifying
to tho natural appetite, and one which
savors most of freedom and independence.
And hence, those who are styled the
fashionable community, continue the
slaves and supporters of the intoxicating
cup. We go into the large and splend
saloon, filled with the sons and daugh
ters of dissipation; there is the intoxi
cating cup. We go to the fashionable
dining party—there is the intoxicating
cup. We go to the house of the wealthy
merchant, tho eminent lawyer, the dis
tinguished statesman, all subject to the
law ot fashion, and there is tho intoxicat
ing cup. Wo go home with the minister'
of the fashionable congregation, and
there too we find it. All know death is
there. All see its work, the wo and the
wounds, the babblings, the ruin for time
and eternity it occasions; and yet all
drink, because it is the fashion. This,
united with the plea of necessity and the
love of stimulus, once ruled the nation.
It was a three-fold cord not easily broken.
Tho first strand has been cut, the third
binds only the few, but who can tell its
strength there ? Three hundred thou
sand wretched inebriates it is now de
stroying, Every day, almost every hour,
graves are opening to receive the drunk
ards corpse. Death on the pale horse
is doing his work frightfully among us.
Neither the tears, nor sighs, nor groans
of suffering friends, can stay his ravages.
Had some cruel Nero the power of in
temperance among us, the nation would
not bear it a single moment. And yet
we submit to this. It stalks over our
fairest fields, and smites to the earth our
brightest sons.
Remember, moderate drinker, you are
upholding this terrible power. Remem
ber, vender of intoxicating drinks, how
small soever be your gains and how or
derly soever be your house, you are one
of the props on which it leans. Remem
ber, father, patriot, Christian, you are
for it if you are not against it. Remem
ber, temperanco men, this is the great
power you are pledged to subdue. Re
member, it is fortified by fashion,by pride,
by interest,by prejudice,by all the strength
of the power of tho air, the spirit that
works in the children of disobedience.
The devil knows where his strength lies,
and he will deceive the nations to the
last moment, by his cup of death. But
you can conquer him. You can break
his iron hand. You have broken loose
yourselves and you have carried with you !
ten thousand captives. Relax your en-'
ergies, and he will rise again and throw ■
his chains over you and your children.
We beg, we entreat you not to be de
ceived ; not to flatter yourselves that he
has received the death wound; —not to
believe that nothing more is to be done,
and that the cause of temperance will
take care of itself. Why friends of tem
perance, it would be a great exploit, if
bearing down with your whole undivided
strength for ten years on the terrible evil,
you should at the end of that period ex
tirpate it from earth. Will you, will you
do it? Do it you must, or it will destroy
you and your children aftor you, to a
thousand generations.
Father Matliew In Ireland.
Dublin, Sewt. 17, 1844.
Dr. Burke: I havo just received a let
ter from the good Father Mathew, in
which ho states that on account of the
death of a beloved brother, he shall not
be able to fulfil his engagements for a
month to come ; he gives me a warm in
vitation to visit him at Cork—which is
about one hundred and fifty miles from
Dnblin—which of course I shall most
gladly accept. Had it not been for the
unfortunate occurrence ailuded to above,
I should have seen the great apostle in
Dublin this week, ns he was engaged to
deliver an address here on the 20th.
The brother alluded to was a distiller,
but was totally ruined in tho business on
account of the prevalence of total absti- ‘
nonce; and though two or three brothers
have been ruined hy the same cause, yet,
so great has been their love and admira
tion of their heroic brother, that the J
family compact has not been in the least
disturbed. God bless that noble soul,'
who in spite of the time-honored customs
of ages, has so boldly stepped forth, sin
gle-handed as it were, to rescue his be
loved country from the thraldom which
has bound her so many, many years.
In my next I shall give you a better
account of the good man than I can now.
In the mean tune I will give you an ac
count of the meeting which I attended
last night. There were about six hun
dred people present. Father Spratt in
the chair. As soon as that worthy man
entered the Hall, the band struck up the
air, “Seethe conquering hero comes,”
which is a compliment always paid to
that gentleman when he enters a tern
perance meeting. The meeting was not
opened with prayer as with us, but by
music of the band. I was intended to
be the third speaker, last night, but be
fore the second speaker had concluded,
in walked two American gentlemen from
Boston; one of them was Mr. Wright,
well known as a lecturer upon Peace, the
other was Mr. Ticknor, the well known
Book Publisher. Here was a meeting
of the (Cold) Waters for you—one
brought Yankee Rocking Chairs—ano
ther Yankee Books—and another Yan
kee Speeches on Peaoe, and all brought
Washingtonianism byway of ballast, |
and it has kept us steady all the way so j
far: the presence of my two country
men warmed me up, and when I took my j
turn upon the platform, I got into such a
good humored, lively strain, that the au
dience would not let me sit down, to
make room for Messrs. Wright and
Ticknor, who intended to have spoken,
but kept me upon my legs till 10 o’clock,
when I stopt short, and concluded with
a temperance song. After I took my
seat, the band struck up Yankee Doodle, j
and the audience gave three cheers,j
when the pledge was administered to i
about forty persons, more than half being \
females, and the meeting was dismissed. j
I really felt very much flattered by the j
warm reception I met with, not so much
on my own account, as for that of my
country ; for the bare announcement of
the name ot an American will bring
down the greatest applause from an Irish
audience. Say what you will of the
Irish, though the Americans may have
very little affection for them, yet they,
the Irish, sincerely love and esteem the
Americans; by the way, you must not
take my account of temperance in Dub
lin, as a fair state of the cause in Ire
land. I am told that in many places in
the interior, a dram shop is unknown—
the distilleries are closed up or pulled
down—and in fact, that alcohol is com
pletely trodden under foot; it is only in
the larger towns that the grim king dares
to set his face against the cause, and if
j Father Mathew lives ten years longer,
the old tyrant will be kicked out of Ire
land as unceremoniously as the snakes
and toads were by St. Patrick, some
| thousand years ago, or more.
There is one thing however, that I fear
will have a had effect, by and bye, and
that is, the fashion which is being adopt
ed by many of the leading repealers, of
taking the pledge to abstain from all in
toxicating drinks, until the repeal of the j
union is eflected ; if the people fall into
this snare, I much fear there will be a
dreadful revulsion when the union is re
pealed. There is nothing like the pledge
for life ; whoever subscribes to it, com
pclls a repeal of the union between him
self—and poverty, disgrace, and misery.
I am called here, the Yankee teetotal
ler, I wear temperance buttons on my
coat and waistcoat, and I talk temper
ance wherever I go. just to keep my hand
in; tell my friends lam temperance
from head to foot, all but the little toe
on my left foot, that keeps corned all the
time, there is nothing tec-foe-ial about
it; it does nothing but ail, ail, ail, all
the time; though I assure you there is
no sham pain about it. Although I
should like to cut ils acquaintance, yet I
dare not, lest it should bring me to my
bier —though I am a republican, yet my
traitorous toe is always for aching (a king)
—though I have often pealed it, nothing
but a final repeal of the union, will make
me what I want to he, a thorough teeto
taller from top to toe, but such as I am,
I subscribe myself yours, Arc.
Jo ax F. Coles.
The l’owcr of Kindness.
No man hath measured it, for it is
boundless; no man hath seen its death,
for it is eternal. In all ages of the world,
in every clime, among every kind, it
hath shone out, a bright and beautiful
star, a beaming glory !
Look at the case of Saul and David.
Hitter and blasting jealousy filled the
heart of Saul, and he “sought to take
the young man’s life.” With hellish
haste, he hunted him, even to the dens
and caves of the earth. Hut David con
qtiercd his enemy, even the proud spirit j
of haughty Saul, he humbled. And I
how ? Not with sword and spear, not
with harsh words and coarse contumely,
for these did never touch the heart with
gentle influence. No; but with a wea
pon, simple as the shepherd’s sling, yet
sure as the arrow of death. ’Twas
kindness! This killed rankling hatred,
and left Saul to live. And when it had
done its work, Saul said to David, “Thou
art more righteous than I, for thou hast
rewarded ine good, whereas I have re
warded thee evil.” Was not here a vic
tory, more glorious, more godlike, than
a Wellington ever knew ?
See Joseph in the hands of his wicked
brethren. For a few pieces of paltry
silver, they sold him into Egypt. Prov
idence, in kindness, broke the bands
which held him in slavery, and made
him a ruler there. Famine spread over
the land her dark mantle, and the cruel
brethren of Joseph hungered. They
went to Egypt for corn. And how act
ed Joseph? More than once he filled
their sacks, and returned them their mo
ney, and then he made himself known.
“I am Joseph, your brother, whom ye
sold into Egypt!” Here was kindness,
forgiveness. And it crushed to death
the spirit of jealousy that had once
made him a slave. lie had conquered.
Come farther down in the world’s his
tory, and tell me what word of all those
spoken by the “ meek and lowly Jesus,”
the “Prince of Peace,” the “Saviour of'
the world,” was best calculated to soften
and subdue the hard hearts ofhis persecu
tors ? Are we not pointed to the cross on !
Calvary? Are we not asked to listen to the j
soft, sweet tones of that voice, “Father, j
forgive them ?” O, here was kindnes !
Look over our extended country at the
present day. What has changed those
miserable hovels of other days, where
misery and wretchedness had dwelt, into
the neat and beautiful abodes of plenty
and peace? What has kindled anew
the flame of love and affection in hearts
long estranged and freezing with cold
ness ? What has made happy the homes
of thousands of wives, and tens of thou
sands of children ? What, in short,
has been the great propellant of the late
temperance reformation, which has car
ried joy and gladness all over the land ?
What, but kindness ?
Reader, have you an enemy whom
you would make a friend, a neighbor who
needs repentance, a fallen brother whom
you would restore to sobriety aud virtue ?
Forget not the power of kindness. —
Christian Soldier.
I State Temperance Convention.
This body assembled at the Carolina
| Hall on yesterday, at 10 o’clock, a res
pectable number of Delegates being in
j attendance.
The Hon. Jxo. B. O’Neall, on ta
■ king the Chair as President, delivered a
| short address, in which he set forth the
; present condition of the trmperance
j cause in those parts of the State through
i which he had recently passed, and stated
j that although from various causes, the
Reformation had not progressed much
during the past year, yet the friends of
Temperance had every' tiling to hope
from united and well directed action du
ring the present year. He impressed
upon the Convention, the importance of
union and harmony, and entreated them
not to ialter in their course, but to per
severe in well doing, and that success,
certain success, would be their reward.
Several Committees were appointed to
prepare business for the Convention, af
ter which it adjourned to meet to-dav, at
half-past 9 o’clopk, A. M.—-S’. C. Tern.
Adv. Nov. 29.
The Temperance Movement.
Ihe rise and fall of a vast number of
Temperance societies of different charac
ters throughout the country, at various
times, is quoted by some as proof of the
trifling character of the Temperance
cause. Agents come about, it is said, j
and make a great noise and press the '
subject of lernperance as of the utmost :
importance, 'the wise and the good, ev
er ready to do what is duty, fall' in with
their suggestions and unite in a Temper
ance society. Great things are now to
be done. But in one or two years all :
has died away and the society is no more. ■
Proof that there is nothing solid and sub
stantial in the cause ! VV'here, it is ask
ed, are all the old Temperance societies ■
of the State of New York, which once |
reported more than 400,000 members ? j
Where are all the Washingtonian socie
ties which sprang up in a night ? Dend
or breathing their last! Is not this evi-J
dence of a retrograde feeling in the Tem- !
perauce community? We say, No.---
Amid all these declines and changes and •
deaths, the Temperance cause has moved
onward. Each new organization has j
given it a new impulse for the time, and :
when it has accomplished its work, it has
given way to something more acceptable j
to the community and perhaps more \
efficient. We have never looked upon
lernperance societies as permanent bo-1
dies like Christian churches. They meet [
| the public demand at the moment, and j
|do good in their day; when, through
inefficiency ot officers or removal nl
members, or change of principle, or in- j
tcrnal disaffection, they come to an end.
and, Phoenix like, new ones rise in their!
stead. But the great cause moves on :
sometimes through one instrumentality
and sometimes another. Father Mathew
does his great work without societies, j
though many exist in Ireland. He is his |
own society; and when he has passed!
away, something else will come up to !
sustain the cause. —Jour. Temp. Union. ,
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