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JOHN 11. SEALS, £
EDITOR & PROPRIETOR. \
NEW SERIES, VOL 11.
TEMPERANCE CRUSADER.
PUBLISHED
EVERY THURSDAY, EXCEPT TWO, IN THE YEAR,
BY JOHN H. SEALS.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.
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Each continuance, 60
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six lines, per year, 5 00
Announcing Candidates for Office, 3 00
STANDING ADVERTISEMENTS.
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charged accordingly.
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tract for advertising by the year, on reasonable terms.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sale of Land or Negroes, by Administrators,
Executors, and Guardians, per square,... 5 00
Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators,
Executors, and Guardians, per square, —3 25
Notice to Deotoi’3 and Creditors, 3 25
Notice for Leave to Sell, A 00
Citation for Letters of Administration, 2 75
Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n. 5 00
Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guardi
anship, 3 25
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS.
Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators,
Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be
held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the
hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the after
noon, at the Court House in the County in which the
property is situate. Notices of these sales must be
given in a public gazette forty days previous to the
day of sale.
Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be
(given at least ten days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must
foe published forty days.
Notice that application will he made to the Court
.of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must
foe published weekly for two months.
Citations for Letters of Administration must be
published thirty days —for Dismission from Admin
istration, monthly, six months —for Dismission from
forty days.
Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub
lished monthly for four months —for compelling titles
from Executors or Administrators, where a bond has
been given by the deceased, the full space of three
months.
will always he continued accord
ing to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise
ordered.
To My Mother.
The following lines written l v a convict in the
Ohio Penitentiary, are touchingly beautiful. We
have seen nothing of late that has so moved our
sympathy. The man who can write such poetry,
w ho has such thoughts, cannot be utterly depraved.
The curse of intemperance, with its attending
downward influence, has litre done its Work, and
a spirit noble and generous that might and should
be the pride and ornament of the social circle, is
now the degraded convict in the walls of a Peni
tentiary. How will that mother’s heart bleed it
she shall hear of her darling boy, the inmate of a
clrison in a foreign land:— Ohio Slate Journal.
I’ve wandered far from thee, mother,
Far from my happy home ;
I’ve left the land that gave me birth,
In other climes to roam ;
And time since then has roll’d its years
And marked them on my brow ;
Yet 1 have often thought of thee—
Fin thinking of thee now.
I’m thinking on the day, mother,
When at my tender side,
You watched the dawning ofmy youth,
And kissed me in your prid ;
Then brightly was my heart lit up
With hopes of future joy,
While your bright fancy honors wove
To deck your darling boy.
I’m thinking of the day, mother,
When, with anxious care,
You lifted up your heart to heaven—
Your hope, your trust was there ;
Fond memory bring your parting word,
While tears run down your cheek;
The long last loving look told more
Than ever words could speak.
I’m far away from thee, mother,
No friend is near me now’,
To soothe me with a tender word,
Or cool my burning brow;
The dearest ties affection wove,
Are all now’ torn from me;
They left me when the trouble came;
They did not love like thee.
d'm lonely and forsaken now,
Unpitied and unblest;
Yet still I would not have thee know,
How sorely I’m distress’d
1 know you would not chide, mother,
You would not give me blame;
But soothe me with your tender words,
And bid me hope again.
I would not have thee know, mother,
How brightest he pcs decay;
The tempter with his baleful cup
Has dashed them all away ;
And shame has left its venom sting
To rack with anguish w ild—
Yet still I would not have thee know
The sorrows of thy child.
Oh, I have wandered far, mother,
Since I deserted thee,
And left thy trusting heart to break,
Beyond the deep blue sea.
Oh 1 mother, still T love thee well,
And long to hear thee speak,
And feel again thy balmy breath
Upon my care-worn cheek.
But, ah ! there is a thought, mother,
Pervades my bleeding breast,
That thy freed spirit may have llow’n
Ter its eternal rest;
And while I wipe the tear away,-
There whispers in my ear
That speaks of heaven and thee,
And bids roe seek thee there.
COMMUNICATIONS.
For the Crusader.
An Argument.
The License system should he abolished. 1 si, It
is injurious to society. ‘2nd, It is unconstitu
tional, and 31, It involves inconsistency. If
not abolished,no punishment of any kind should
be visited upon the drunkard for his crimes.
In investigating these propositions, let us first
inquire what is the license system ? We find it is
a provision of the Legislature, in the form of law,
grant'ng to certain persons, on the one hand, the
privilege of demanding, and on the other, au
thorizing or perhaps compelling certain Judiciary
or municipal officers to grant to persons so de
manding, a permit or license to vend ardent spir
its at wholesale and retail.
This license system then is intended|iiot only
to protect, hut also to encourage that heartless in
dividual known as the RUM-SELLER, in a traf
fic, ruinous to litmself and others. It allows him
for a paltry pittauce of “blood money,' 1 which is
placed in the Treasury of the State, to deal out
to his fellow men, all kinds of intoxicating bev
erage without regard to quality or admixture. It
enables him to render his bar fascinating in an
eminent degree, so that lie mny more readily se
duce the unwary, and perhaps, even the reflecting,
until entangled they lay paralyzed in the meshes
of his net. While he entails misery and ruin up
on his fellow creatures, and secretly exults over
his success, he continues to pander to the morbid
and unnatural thirst, which his viands have pro
duced, until burglary, arson, suicide or murder
result. The State allows him, yea, signs a full li
cense, for him to poison the life-blood of his fel
lows—to undermine their health —waste their for
tu: sand destroy their peace. He and lie alone—
despoiler —fattens upon their wreck. The old
Greek addage, “drunkenness is a partial insanity,”
is wirified in the degrading condition of his vic
tims, who led on step by step, in the art of drink
ing, soon become habitual drunkards—yea they
become, monomaniacs upon that subject and look
upon the glass as their only solace. Indeed they
crave nothing more—they can be content with
nothing less, enveloped in the fumes of dissipa
tion they lose sight of home, family and friends.
They are dragged involuntarily by the car of
the destroyer. The ambition which animated—
the hopes which encouraged, and the affections
which they cherished—all, all are engulphed in
the vortex of pollution. The influence of the
charmer is upon tnem, and their sole desire is, for
drink, drink.
The terrors of the moral, civil or criminal law
cannot intimidate them. They will not scruple to
use any means, nor fear to incur any risk in ob
taining the pittance necessary to procure that
which, momentously appears the cravings of a
morbid appetite. Why ? because reason is de
throned, and the mania is upon them. Hence,
the records of Courts—the reports of Asylums
and the observations of the calculating, go to es
tablish the fact that more than four-fifths of the
murders and about one-fifih of the cases of insan
ity are traceable to intoxicating liquors as a direct
cause. And no one knows, now many crimes are
perpetrated through it indirectly.
Let us now inquire, how is it that men fully
aware of the injury they receive morally and phys
ically, pursue a habit, that they know, will either
embroil them in difficulties (by which they either
lose their lives or take those of otheis;) or be
forced to perpetrate some crime which, they oth
erwise would shudder to think of committino-?
I answer, the force of habit, under ordinary cir
cumstances, is almost, if not quite unconquerable.
The habit of chewing tobacco, grows impercepti
bly upon the novice. At first he can continue its
u-e or desist from it at pleasure, hut soon, how
soon alas ! does it become his master! Take any
number of tobacco chewers and you will find,
perhaps, upon inquiring that at some period of
their lives all tried to break off from the habit,
and were unsuccessful. Indeed, where one per
son succeeds in mastering it, ten fail. The con
dition of the drunkard is quite analogous, but he
has a harder master to subdue. The long use of
so powerful a stimulant as ardent spirits,—its in
roads upon his system, call loudly on him for its
continuance, delirivm in menu, weak stomache,
headache and swollen and aching limbs, cry out
against its disuse. To cease to drink liquor, with
the drunkard, is virtually to cease to live. There
are many indeed, addicted to this habit that would
give all they possess, if they had never become
its votaries. They feel its evil influencies, daily
deteriorating their nobler passions and affections
and adding strength and vigor to the baser sort.
They feel its mortal grip upon the heart-strings of
life—they see the unerring tokens of a certain
and perhaps, speedy dissolution in the bloated and
earbuntled countenance—burning insatiable thirst
—feverish brain, and failing appetite. Yes, in
view of all these evidences of injury, decay and
death, why is it that men cling so tenaciously to a
habit so fatal? Ask the various temperance so
cieties—the Sons of Temperance, and Knights of
-1 Tcho why, and they will respond ; “Few, very
I few ! can quit it, for thousands who were once of
I our brotherhood, like the sow, have gone again to
PENFIELD, GA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1857.
their wallowing in the mire of intoxication, and
they who are among us, are chiefly those who
never were drunkards, or if so, are self-reclaimed,”
It may be considered an axiomatic truth, that
where one person is found, who has abandoned
the habit of drinking liquors, you will find one
hundred who have vainly tried to do so. “Habit
surely is second nature.”
If the inebriates alone were injured by their
habits, (and even then they would be objects of
pity) the consequences would not be so momen
tous; but alas! society in all its stages and grades
is directly or remotely injured. His family, once
happy, no longer enjoy domestic peace and quiet.
Horae is rendered cheerless by the drunkard’s
presence. The drunkard’s views all—relatives,
friends and foes—with suspicion, and without
cause imagine himself insulted, or wronged
when no actual wrong has been committed.—
While intoxicated, his intercourse with oth
ers is marked by offensively profane and vul
gar language, Society bears the expenses of
his riots, his fights and his murders. The taxable
portion of communities are forced to pay an enor
mous tax to defray the expenses of his incarcera
tion, and the State those of his prosecution. Mark
the inconsistency of the State! It is eonceeded,
I believe, that no law is valid which conflicts with
the Constitution or which infringes upon any of
its provisions. If then, the Constitution guaran
ties to all persons the protection of person and
property, any law violative of this provision, is
necessarily a nullity. The license law is violative
of this, and should no longer stain the pages of
our Statutes, It is a fixed law of nature that
“every cause produces an effect.” If the law pro
hibited the sale of ardent spirits, drunkards would
not, could not be made. There are no natural
drunkards. All, who become such, are led to the
fatal point, by imperceptible gradations. An oc
casional social glass—a glass of cider, ale or wine
with an old friend who will take no excuse—a
glass at a wedding or other jubilee occasions—all,
all leading the unsuspecting victim to the altar of*
Bacchus to be self-sacrificed. If the State did not
license fashionable bars and low doggeries, to meet
the demands and suit the tastes of all—if our large
wholesale and retail dry goods merchants would
devote their small back rooms to a more laudable
purpose than to accommodate a privileged class
merely because the law allows them, a different
state of things would exist. Young men instead
of being made drunkards and vagabonds, would
be useful citizens, and pursue a lawful and honor
able calling. Domestic peace and happiness
would prevail and the means of their continu
ance would not be abated. The integrity of so
ciety would not be so frequently disrupted, and
men otherwise, gentle, kind, affectionate and
friendly, would not be robbed of reason, and lost
to a sense of right, and become the perpetrators
of glaring crimes. Dethrone his reason, and you
may see the inebriate wandering about uncon
scious of his own acts —not distinguishing friend
from foe. The constant use of liquors to a great
extent for a few days consecutively will craze any
man. If then the argument be true and logical,
and we opine it is, we conclude, that as long as
the license system prevails, the State —the whole
people (are they not the law-makers?) are drunk
ard makers, and are partireps criminis in every
misdemeanor—from simple larceny to brutal
murder—that the drunkard as such commits.—
Therefore, I repeat it: “So long as the license sys
tem prevails,” with its baneful and demoralizing
influences, so long will Justice, view us—the
whole people—as accomplices with the drunkard
in every crime which lie perpetrates. Consistency
demands of us one of two things to extricate our
selves from the dilemma. Either, we must rise
in masses and repeal the license law, or we must
revise our criminal law, and insert this condition.
“Except where such offense had been committed by
any one in a State of Intoxication! 1
JUSTICE.
For the Crusader.
Number V.
The votes complained of in the preceeding num
bers were given with a knowdedge, that if the
candidates voted for should be elected they would
do what they could to protect and continue the
liquor shop business with all its works ot intem
perance, sin and misery. ,
Now my brothers, do you believe that when
Christ shall come to judge the world, and shall
send doggery-keepers, drunkards, gamblers and
wicked vagabonds to perdition for their evil works?
that he wi 1 say to you —to you who have voted
for such candidates —-(refusing to vote for any but
such,) as you expected, if elected, to favor and con-,
tinue the liquor-shop business, which you know
makes more drunkards, gamblers, vagabonds, <fec.,
than all other causes in the country. Do you be
lieve that He will say to you, after you have
done this, “Conte ye’ blessed of my Father, you
have been’ faithful over a few things, I will make
you ruler over many things?” Mat. 25 : 21, &c.
Do you believe that without repentance He will
d<? this thing ? Can you so believe ? Have you
no fear that injured women and children, who
have been made to suffer in consequence of the
business you promote and protect, will appear in
Judgement and complain of your preserving
the liquor-shops with their evils, by which they
were made wretched and miserable, and that when
you were entreated to withdraw yoursupport from
them you disregarded every entreaty? Have you
no fear of this? Be not deceived, the Bible is
against you. We will bring a few .passages be
fore you. In relation to Jehoshaphat it is said :
“And Jehu, the son of Ilanaui, the seer went
out to meet him and said to king Jehoshaphat,
shouldst thou help the ungodly and love them that
hate the Lord ? Therefore, is wrath upon thee
from before the Lord..” 11. Chron. Iff: 2.
Jehoshaphat was one of the good kings of Ju
dah but had been helping Ahab, one of the bad
kings of Israel, in one of his wars and was return
ing home when Jehu met him and said, “shouldst
thou help the ungodiy,” ifce. “Therefore,” said he,
“is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.”—
“Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with
thee which frameth mischief by a law ?” Psalm
94 : 20. The meaning of this is the same that it
would be if its parts were thus arranged : “Shall
the throne of iniquity which frameth mischief by
a law have fellowship with thee ?” Or its meaning
is, that the powers that “frame mischief by law,”
have no fellowship for God nor has He any for
them. This throne or law-making power with us
is in the voters who chose their law-makers.—
Again, “Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees, and that write grieviousness which they
have presented.” Isaiah 10: 1.
By our quotation from the Psalms, David in
the form of the interogative style, teaches in sub
stance, that there can be no fellowship between
God and the throne or power which frameth mis
chief by a law. Or in other woids, the power
which passes laws that cause or encourage “mis
chief.’’ The quotation from Isaiah teaches in
substance the same thing, denouncing a “woe”
against such as “decree unrighteous decrees,” that
js, pass such laws as operate to or cause unright
eousness. And the “writing of grievousness which
they have prescribed” is equal to saying “woe”
unto them that write laws which they have “pre
scribed” or determined to enforce which work
grievous w rongs, producing distress and suffering.
This “framing mischief by law” and “decreeing
unrighteous decrees” or laws that produce “grieve
ousness” or painful suffering is in the sight of
Heaven a provoking abomination! Our retail liq
uor laws are of this sort and the very worst of the
sort. They are established means of “mischief’
and misery. “Woe unto them that decree un
righteous decrees” or laws that produce “grieve
ousness,” <fcc. Shall God have “fellowship with
the throne of iniquity” or the power that “fram
eth mischief by a law ?” Shall we have this?—
Never!
Lot it not be forgotten that “the throne of ini
quity” or the power that “frameth mischief,” by a
law or “decrees, unrighteous decrees,” or laws, is in
our government, in the hands of the people, spe
cially responsibly and emphatically is it in the
hands and control of the voters, for they can and
often do direct their representatives in the making
and the not making—and the repealing and the not
repeaaling of laws; and there is, perhaps no case,
in which this power of control has been so much
and so often exercised by the voters, as it has in
relation to the laws establishing and continuing
the liquor-shops. Men seem to act as though
they thought that there were so many concerned
in this evil that the Almighty would not know
who to punish. Concerned in it, are those who
pass the law. They who, in the legislature de
fend and preserve it from repeal. Those who
erect their shops and retail in them. They who
drink at them ; and they who vote for men ex
pected to preserve and continue this business, re
fusing to vote for any others. But God will know
how to find and punish all who are in any way
concerned in this work of sin and woe.
“And Jehu, the son of Ilanani, the seer went
out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat
shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them
which hate the Lord ? therefore is wrath upon
thee from before the Lord.” Here they who
help or act with the enemies of God are regarded
as loving them. This is very reasonable; for a
man might as well love those who hate God as to
help them preserve their strong holds of sin and
wickedness.
This “help of the ungodly and love of them
which hate the Lord,” whilst Christ and his reli
gion are professed are not without examples in the
Bible. In the II book of the Kings 17 : 33 it is
said: “They feared the Lord,” (that is professed
to hear him,) “and served their own gods,” <fec.
In Ezekiel 33: 31 it is said: “And they come un
to thee as the people cometh, and they set before
thee as my people and they hear thy words but
they will not do them : for with their mouth they
show much love, but their heart goeth after their
covetousness”—that is, after the things they covet.
In Hosea 8 : 2,3. “Israel shall cry unto me, My
God we know thee. Israel hath castoff the thing
‘that is good : the enemy shall pursue him,”
Our last quotations represent the people spoken
of as coming to the Lord, “as the people cometh;”
that is, they go into matters of leligion a* far as
the people have made if po;.ninr. “And they
hear thy words but they will i>. t do them.” ‘ With
their mouths they show much love, but their heart
went after their covetousness.” “They feared the
Lord,” (as they pretended,) “but served their own
gods,” Ac., ifec.
When we reflect upon the vast amount of sin
and misery causeii by the retail liquor-shops, with
out doing any the least good; and when we have
seen good men laboring to ob'ain from the power
that is competent, a r< peal of the law that licenses
them, and have seen these men met and opposed
in their efforts to do good— not only by all the
bad men in the country but by a union and com
bination with numerous profi s-ors of Christianity
and some professed temperanc men—a 1 working
shoulder to shoulder as so many brothers in fel
lowship, love and union, thereby defer ng a meas
ure designed to remove an evil which they thei
selves acknowledge to be a great one. When we
say we have seen all this, we cou’d not avoid feel
ing deeply the afflictions of sorrow! How shan
we “he'p the ungodly, and love them which
hate tire Lord and still be the servants of the
Lord ?”
If we have done wrong in this tiling let us try
and do so no more. It is our privilege to repent,
and it is our duty to avail ourselves of its benefits.
This privilege ot repenting of wrongs and obtain
ing forgiveness is the morning star, the noonday
sun of Christianity. Then let us rll retrospect our
past conduct and amend what we find to be w rong,
and live in our duty for the time to come.
L. R.
For the Crusader.
A Twilight Dream.
BY MISS C. W. BARBER.
A few evenings ago I picked up a number of
the “Temperance Crusader,” my eye fell upon the
following sentence:
“We have no more Father Mathews or Joseph
Grishams. It is with us to say, whether or not,
the Cause which they entrusted to our hands shall
wither and die. Shall it perish ? Answer this
question ?”
As I mused over the query I dreamed that a
thousand phantom forms came gliding about my
chair. F'irst, there arose a band of pale, half
starved, miserable women. Some of them had
babes in their arms. I saw at a glance who they
were. They were the wives of drunkards. Each
paused a moment and raised her tearful eyes to
wards Heaven; then there broke simultaneously
from their pale, quivering lips. Mr. Editor, an an
swer to your question. Their exclamation was,
“forbid it Almighty God! The temperance cause
must not perish. We are wives, but Alcohol has
made us worse oft* than widows. No, the good
old ship must never be given up.”
While I was wondering at this strange array,
they glided away one by one into the dusky twi
light, and in their places arose a host of children.
They were in rags—in wretchedness—in poverty
—in disgrace and ignorance. They came from
noisome cellars—from miserable garrets —from
filthy courts and out houses—from asyiums for
orphans—from guard-houses and prisons. I knew
them instantly. They were the offspring of ine
briates. But, Mr. Editor, the language of every
eye, lip, tone and gesture was, “ never give the old
ship up ” Look at us and take courage. Your
warfare is a holy one. If our mothers have pro
nounced themselves to be more miserable than
widows, we, the children, are worse than orphans.
The heritage of youth should be joy and gladness,
hut alas! you see Old King Alcohol lias robbed
US of our rights—starved us —beat us—mangled
us. The cause of temperance is emphatically our
cause. Who will plead for suffering childhood?
The injunction of a risen Redeemer was, “feed my
lambs.” Dare you neglect us—dare you forget
our wants—dare you Priest and Levite like “pass
by on the other side?”
I was looking upon these little wretches, and
musing upon the earnestness of their tones, when
I heard the clanking of chains, and turning I saw
that the penitentiaries had for a time given up
their inmates. Ranks of stalwart men were
marching into my apartment through the open
door—a mark like Cain’s was set upon almost
every brow. Some of them wore ma.iacles upon
their hands. Many of them carried daggers, red i
and smoking with the warm life blood of then
murdered neighbors, friends, and even of their
wives and children. Horrid oaths came from their
lips. Lust, hatred and rapine glared from their
fiery eyes; all that is godlike in humanity had
perished from their persons.
While I looked upon this frightful spectacle I
trembled, hut their leader approached me and
said, “do not scorn us too deeply —we are misera
ble and unfortunate men. We have been bitten
by that poisonous reptile, “the worm of the still.”
Its fangs are more to be dreaded than those of the
rattlesnake. They infuse a poison into the system
which dethrones reason, and mortals become mad
men who murder alike, friends and foes, scarce
knowing what they do. Pity us, and crush if
possible this monster from the earth. If you do
not strive for this you have no assurance that your
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< OO
) JOHN H. SEALS
V PROPRIETOR.
VOL. XUII.-NUMBEK 2G.
father, your brother or your child may not be
among its next victims. The cause of temperance,
strange as it may seem, is our cause. Do not
give the old ship up until the last plank goes down-
Had it not been for Alcohol, the wretches you
behold, would have been happy, honorable and
upright men. Intemperance is an enemy who
lias wronged us out of every birth-right; namely,
health, strength, honor, wealth, virtue and man
hood. Avenge us of our adversary.”
Just then, Mr. Editor, the supper bell rang. I
started up, rubbed my eyes, and looked for my
phantom visitors. Not one was to be seen. —
Those wretched women, at the first tingle of the
bell had fled back to their cellars and wash-tubs—
the children were again at their street beggary,
and the brawny armed prisoners had slunk away
to their cells. Yet as I wended my way to the ta
ble I could not help wondering if I had not had
“a dream which was not. all a dream,” and, also, if
your query had not been partially answered.
For the Crusader.
“The Shades. 3 ’
BY FEMME.
How many plans will man invent, to lead the
youth of our country astray? For instance, a
few Sabbaths ago, while going to church, I was
struck with the above title, as a sign over the
door in the business part of our city. What is
that says I—O, it is a grog-shop, was the reply of
my friend. A grog-shop! A trap, thought I, for
our sons! See, the innocent young man, yea,
even the little boy who can just begin to read,
passing by, they read “The Shades,” what can that
be ? it is anew business, I will go in and see if
window shades are not kept there. Tlius they
are decoyed into the very pit of poison, yes, into
“the shades” of disgrace; “the shades” of misery;
“the shades” of crime; “the shades” of woe; and
“the shades” of death. For what is the rum-sell
er but a poison vender, using every stratagem
within his power to get his fellow creatures to par
take, and what is the grog-shop, but the mouth of
the pit into which many have sunk, and are still
sinking, from which they shall never rise; but
will wail and lament their doom for ever and ever.
Yes indeed, it is not only the shadow of a prema
ture death, natural, but of death eternal. Will
not the temperance men arouse! awake! and put
on the whole armor of perseverance , not being
afraid, of that word prohibition. Do come to the
rescue of our boys, the hope of the country. Stop
all those “shades” of iniquity, that we may no
more fear to let our children walk the streets to
and from business, without being ushered into one
of those places of ruin, to soul and body. llovv
can we hold our peace, fold our arms, speak of
improvements and live at ease, when the youth of
our “Columbia, happy land” are exposed to the
burning liquid of “the shades.” If there was a
large pit of burning fluid, just at the edge of a
city, and one road went through it, think ye not,
if a partv of young people were to start out that
way, (ignorant of the danger) that there would
be many a cry made to stop, stop ! Think ye not,
that the way would be stopped, the pit so encir
cled as to prevent any from falling therein. Now
are there not thousands of pits, more destructive,
all over our country, with roads that lead through
all of them ? Moderate drinking, is the main
road, besides many little by-paths. Why not
cry aloud and spare not for there is no time to
waste. Encircle the law around the sinks of de
struction until there shall not be a vestige of one
that can be entered, not even by “The Shades”
dealer himself. May the Lord speed the time.
Atlanta, June 12tb, 1857.
Most Touching Incident.
The Northern Home for Friendless Children is
an Institution that deserves the liberal support of
all our citizens. It is continully doing good, and
the ladies who labor for it should be generously
sustained. A correspondent sends us an incident
that we are sure must touch the heart of every
reader He says:— [Phil. Bulletin.
I met one of the lady Directors of “Northern
Home for Friendless Children” yesterday, and in
advocating the claims of the Institution upon the
regard and liberality of our citizens, she modestly
stated “that the week previous they had a very
interesting and touching case brought to their no
tice.” It ran thus:
“A middle aged female, neatly attired, and
whose husband deceased about two years since,
j < ne to the “Home” and inquired “whether per
n ssion could be had for introducing to ihe care
..e management her three children, (all she had)
little girls, aged 10 to 5 years?’ The. matron
respouded ‘that the application was a liberal one!’
To which the applicant rejoined, T know it; but
I am about to die, and I Lave no friends on earth,
(except two or three as bumble as myself in cir
cumstances,) and what to do, I know not. Upon
examination she stated the cause of her anguish,
(an incurable tumor,) and then produced the tes
timony of two surgeons, establishing the fact, and
the certainty of immediate dissolution. The Board
investigated the matter and found it correct. But
to the issue.
“Three days since the mother brought her three
children to the “Home,” and after giving them
into the care of a “matron” and in the presence of
the Directors, she bade a final adieu to the fath
erless Ones, soon to be motherless also. The scene
was described as heart-rending, as the lone mother
went out from the hall to return to her silent home
and die.”