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The Little Boy's Souk*
Air — Gaily the Troubadour.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
List to my song;
Huzza! for Temperance
All the day long!
I'll taste not, handle not,
Touch not the wine,
For every little boy like me
The Temperance Pledge should sign.
I am a Temperance Boy,
Just four years old,
And 1 love Temperance
Better than gold.
I’ll taste not, handle not,
Touch not the wine,
For every little boy like me
The Temperance Pledge should sign.
Let every little boy
Remember my song,
For God loves little boys,
That never do wrong,
i’ll taste not, handle not,
Touch not the wine,
For every little boy like me,
The Temperance Pledge should sign.
American Girl’s Song.
Our hearts are with our native land
Our song is for her glory;
Her warriors’ wreath is in our hand,
Our lips breathe out her story,
Her lofty hills and valleys green,
Are shining bright before us—
And like a rainbow sign is seen
Her proud dag waving o’er us.
And there are smiles upon our lips
For those who meet the foeman—
For glory’s star knows no eclipse,
When smiled upon by woman.
For those who brave the mighty deep,
And scorn the threat of danger,
We’ve smiles to cheer, and tears to weep
For every ocean ranger.
Our hearts are with our native land,
Our song is for her freedom;
Our prayer is for the gallant band,
Who strike where honors lead them.
We love the taintless air wc breathe,
’Tis freedom’s endless bower;
We’ll twine for him an endless wreath
Who scorns a tyrant’s power.
They tell of France’s beauties rare,
Os Italy’s proud daughters;
Os Scotland’s lassies, England’s fair,
And nymphs of Shannon’s waters,
We need not boast their haughty charms,
Though lords around them hover;
Our glory lies in Freedom’s arms —
A Freeman for a Lover!
TEMPE!IUNvD£.
The Principle of Total Abstiueuce Fur
ther Vindicated.
In a former number of our paper,
we entered upon a defence of the
principle of total abstinence. In
that article, and many others, we
may have been deemed tedious and
prolix—if so, all we can say in ex
tenuation is, that it was unavoidable.
In editing this paper, it has been our
unceasing desire, and constant aim,
to furnish the friends of the temper
ance cause with the best arguments
that might suggest themselves for its
defence—to enable them to give a
reason for the "faith that is in them."
Os course they have the right to
adopt or reject our arguments, ac
cording as they may deem them sat
isfactory or otherwise. It is our
purpose to continue our defence of
the measures of Temperance Socie
ties, as founded on the principle of
entire abstinence, and in doing so,
we will endeavor to avoid that pro
lixity which we know to be unsuited
to the popular taste, but which is,
nevertheless,sometimes unavoidable.
Human imbecility, even in the
most conscientious and scrupulous, is
often greater than we are willing to
acknowledge. If the basest and
most profligate of men were judged
by the resolutions of their better mo
ments, we might indeed esteem the
world free from crime. The virtues
of the wisest and the most circum
spect need those aids of circumstance
those incentives of practical good
ness, which so much abound in asso
ciations for benevolent ends—and
those are wisest who gather around
them a circle of advisers and co
workers in executing their good in
tentions. Now, this is precisely
what the prudent and temperate man
does, when be unites himself to those
who are pursuing the only safe path
of total abstinence. He is sensible
in his own person, of the happy oper
ation nf Bitch wni’ori U». Jc.
•• A 4 VS IMGIiVU
to persevere by the sight of so many
linked in with him in the same cause
—and pride itself, when there is no
I better principle to sustain him, may
be the salutary agent of his stead
fastness, since so many interests be
sides his own would suffer by bis un
faithfulness or his fall. There is in
deed no magic in these associations,
which can wash the Ethiopian, or
charm away the spots of the leopard.
They have, however, in the hands
of Providence, been the humble in
struments in effecting a reformation,
as surprising as it is glorious. It is
| not the drunkard alone whom we
I hope to reach and reform, but it is
j to establish the footing of those who
\ begin to slide—to secure the princi-
I pies and fortify the minds of the
rising generation—to brace the cour
age of the inexperienced, and arm
for future combat the temperate, that
we now labor. And let it never be
forgotten, that he is no wise defend
er of innocence, who is content to see
her free from taint, but strives not to
make her free from danger. It is
from among the temperate of every
community, that the army of drunk
ards is to he levied, and the fatal con
scription is to take effect upon the
kind and dutiful sons and brothers,
who are now exempt from fear as
well as reproach.
Let us look, therefore, at the ad
ditional force of example in these as
sociations. The example of a single
individual is not inefficacious until it
is contravened and nullified by the
power of adverse practice. This,
however, is the lamentable fact, and
wheie one abstains, there are hund
reds who indulge. To give effect,
then, to the exemplary influence of
the temperate—those who have de
termined to avoid the “very appear
ance of evil,” must have a mutual
understanding, must join their forces,
must form one visible mass, and then
the temperance of thousands may
have weight, where that of one would
have been unavailing. Now, who
ever has tnken the pains to examine
the operations cf Temperance Soci
eties, has not failed to observe that
this is precisely the way in which the
sphere of their influence has been en
larged. A small association of indi
viduals have agreed to abandon all
use of ardent spirits—this has at
tracted notice, and given occasion to
inquiry. They have been ridiculed,
vituperated,and attacked, but have
still increased—for obloquy and op
position have but raised more con
spicuously the standard of their sim
ple hut benevolent principle. The
rule of their action, however misrep
resented, has commended itself to
some, as innocent, safe and desira
ble. He who came but to scorn, has
sat down to investigate, and risen to
applaud. He has observed the aged
the virtuous, the disinterested, and
the pious among their hand, and he
is brought into it himself, by the
force of example. This, indeed,
could not, perhaps, be the case, if
men of eminent standing were un
willing to unite in the enterprise, be
cause they feel no danger themselves.
Os all persons among us, those are
most needed to encourage and con
firm our efforts who are above suspi
cion of any personal danger as it
respects their good habits. One man
of high reputation and acknowledged
probity, may stand in the breach , and
ward off death from a multitude. This
has been most signally shown in the
person of the distinguished President
of our State Temperance Society.
For years, he stood almost single
handed and alone—or like the brave
Leonidas, with his three hundred
Lacedemonians, opposed himself to
the breach, hut unlike the invincible
Spartan, has survived the conflict,
with victory inscribed upon his glo
rious banner, and still lives to lead
on his now numerous army to re
newed and more decisive battles.
We would say,then,that in no possible
way can the example of one temper
ate man have so much influence as
by this public connexion. The light
of his consistent life isno longer con
cealed from the public view, but dif
fuses itself, and this is what we ask,
since the great influence of Temper
ance Societies is exemplary.
T>..4 • j•
.L»ut tuc ct/<tcs/» uj cjjutc lii mese as
sociations has tended to diffuse ac
curate and extensive information
throughout our country. It is the
simple statement of fads, which is the
great engine used in this work. It
is the unvarnished truth respecting
drunkards and their destiny, which
has been the instrumental cause of
this reformation. No man can open
his eyes, for the first time, upon the
| authentic statement relative to in
i temperance and its train of curses,
without astonishment. Its statistics
are indeed appalling. For centu
ries, men have known that there
were many drunkards, that a great
quantity of liquor was therefore used,
and that much misery, crime and
death ensued —yet, the impression
of these general truths was vague
and transitory. But when, upon
careful investigation, it was publish
ed to tlie woi Id, that so many mil
lions of gallons of ardent spirits were
every year consumed in the United
States, and so many millions of dol
lars expended on the article—that
we had in our land nine thousand
distilleries—that three-fourths of our
criminal prosecutions may be traced
to this source—that one-third, if not
one-half of the maniacs in our hospi
tals and lunatic asylums become such
by intemperance, and that thirty
thousand, human beings annually die
from this poison—when these alarm
ing facts, in all their horrible details,
were spread before the eyes of the
community, the effect was instantan
eous. Many a moderate drinker
forsook his daily allowance, and the
catalogue of our Temperance Socie
ties increased by thousands.
As the interest of every individual
in this subject is necessarily rendered
deeper by association with others, so
every conscientious man is led to use
all suitable means for disseminating
correct opinions on it. Addresses,
tracts, periodical journals and news
papers, are now directed against the
desolating scourge with the happiest
consequences. But for the agency
of temperance associations, these
loud and stirring appeals would nev
er have been heard—without this in
formation, the great reform would
never have advanced.— S. C. Temp.
Advocate.
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OF THE
American Phrenological Journal.
To reform and perfect man— to bring out by
culture the original beauties and capabilities of
his nature, are objects the most exalted that can
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The accompanying number of this periodical,
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following important departments will be added.
Ist. That ofPhvsiology. Though, forseveral
years, the Journal has contained or less 1
physiological fact and information, yet its space
has been too much occupied otherwise to give '
that full attention to the exposition and enforcing
of the laws of animal life, including the value of 1
health and the means of regaining and preserv- 1
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remembered, that life and health depend thereon, 1
and on them depend all our pleasures, whether
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tality—the different states ot body as inducing
their corresponding states of mind— have been 1
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vices, our mental and moral progression, depend i
more upon what, how, and when, we eat, drink 1
sleep, labor, bathe, &c.—upon our physical hab- I
its and physiological condition—than most people i
suppose. The plain fact is, few people know I
how to eat! or sleep! or breathe! or live! If i
they did, sickness would be unknown, and sin I
comparatively banished from our world. Those
physiological conditions, therefore which affect i
mind and morals, will be freely discussed in this
volume.
2nd. That of Animal Magnetism, or the vital
principle. So indissolubly is this science con- •
nected with both Phrenology and Physiology,
that neither should ever be pursued without Uie •
other. At least, every student of the latter sci- i
ences who prosecotes his investigations unouided t
by the light of this new star of human science, I
but gropes his way in comparitive darkness, i
Surprisingly beautitul and philosophical, as well i
as rich in lessons of health and happiness, are the
(1 icprtvnri oc ovnlwoil ko attnluinm -—a
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phrenological and physiological investigations.
And surely, as a remedial agent, this application
exceeds, and will eventually supersede all others.
Aware of no work or periodical which covers this
most interesting, most important field of human
inquiry, the Editor intends to occupy it, at least
partially, in Ibis volume.
3rd. A department devoted to woman. To
improve her, is to benefit our race, whilst her de
generacy deteriorates it. Female education—
. nearly every thing appertaining to her—is now
effecting her ruin as fast as the rapid flight of
time will allow. Long enough has her vanity
been inflated with the gaudy, the artificial, and
the fashionable. Too long already, have her ex
quisite sensibilities been perverted, and the beau
ties and graces of her nature been converted ei
ther into play-things mere toys for man to s|>ort
with—or else prostituted at the shrine of the
worst of human passions. Infinitely more per
fect, more prolific, than any thing ever yet beheld
by mortals, are the natural charms and beauties
of the female character. But, they have yet to be
brought out. To do this effectually, her nature
and capabilities must be known. These, her
Phrenology and Fhysiology will reveal; in doing
which they will also disclose her true sphere, and
her consequent duties. • To this eventful subject
—and none can be more prolific of good to man—
will a portion of this volume be dedicated. Nor
will mothers, in their distinctive relations as
mothers, be neglected.
Those at all acquainted with the Editor’s style
of writing or lecturing, will readily comprehend
his manner of treating these and other subjects
that come appropriately within the wide range
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coming corrupted and ail over-grown with the
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