low!** »M» U»or»b!» • 1 • ■'■.!■ ■ T^'itias. ONE COP* ONE VEAB. IN ADVANCE. «l IPiNOT PAID WITHIN TUBES MONTH. » IP NOT PAID WITHIN aiX MbNTIIB. ‘ IP NOT PAID WITHIN NINE' MONTHS. 1,1 ip NOT PAID WITHIN TWELVE MONTHS.! 80( Noai»o««»»»M»"*»b»Mlow.a o»01»ll®"«'M Ml,Me tueipala. _ . BUT? OFfOSTMABTEBS. Pmtmujft* thosotowbom onwnfctdflhft themwWw. orto other*. siuSbi.ro. & p.io.of.ub.o.b. Oar oapar l« sow onpledM mail thro' o «hout tbaoormtr riaofpcVMO- .• .. : i———- I . tBMPEBAWCE address. :i Delivered before the Clearfield Washing*- \ nZn Society, ty T.k FWon, Mon i day evening Feb. 21sf., 1853. ' On motionit was resolved by tho Wash -1 inetonian Temperance Society, that Thos. I Fulton be requested to furnish this Society with a copy of his able and interesting ad dress for publication which motion was passed. G. REAMS, Jr., Secretary. Clearfield , Feb. 21,1853. Mu'. President— Ladies and Gentle men;—By the request of many of my Temperance friends, I appear before you to niaht. to address you on th is occasion. You doubtless all are aware that I. am not [tl much accustomed to speaking in public, HI seldom, if over, occupying the stand and hi never before the Temperance stand.— i| Hence it is, you must not expect of me an "I eloquent and interesting adoress, such as the occasion and the cause naturally re- gladly have listened to one more j ] capable by age, by experience and exalted literary attainments, of imparting to you that entertainment and instruction which you seek from the exercises of the even h j nt j. Still, not Withstanding,anding, I feel it my I duty under present circumstances, to con -1 tribute my mite to further and promote 1 that glorious cause, which I have ever cs i teemed so high, and perished so dear ,‘, tho cause of temperance throughout the i length and breadth of our highly favored '1 land The extent to which intemperance 5 has spread throughout our country, has 7 engrossed the minds andemployedtho 7- peas of our most eminent Patriots, states r-; .men and Philanthropists, to devise means ' and plans to arrest it in its onward career ' of destruction and ruin, withering andi ' blasting every thing before it as it rolls < flong like the"deadly blast from the upas v tree or the dread siroco. But all of their •s efforts, to a great extent have pioved vain. ? The first temperance societies that were ’ formed, done some good, it is true; but .-! they were short lived, andsoon wentdown, ' i vet in their very ruins and ashes sprung I ;, p Washingtonianism, Phoenix like It i burst forth upon us in a flood of light and | plorv. It wrought miracles m the way of ■-1 reforming hundreds and thousands of me . I briates, and restraining others from falling 4 into the fascinating and delusive paths of 4 intemperance. It has done truly a good ■ ■:? work. When it had passed i s meridian its noon-tide of glory and splendor-the ■ < order : of the sons of temperance was ush •:-v. ered in, to sustain and add permanency to - tho cause. Fora time it performed its al lotted work. Soon it cave visible symptoms of decline, then burst into light and being the last grand connecting link offemperance associations, : the Templars of Honor. It too was doom ed, and like its predecessors in "that good ’ and heavenly cause, to be crushed beneath the iron wheels of that monster, Intemper ' Ttomember of attending a temperance ' < meeting here, within these spacious walls, the meeting was addressed, by a worthy , minister of the Gospel. -It was ,n the ! 7 Mlmicst days of Washingtonianism. He 1 i said it was unnecessary fo r h >m to ma e \\ much of a speech. He had been m the ‘ ■ I ' habit of always attending and addressing , r temperance but now, since the r I peoffe had taken it in hand, since the 1 I masses were rolling on the temperance , 4 ball; he thought it prudent to stand back, t and take a position mi the rear; nnd J f®, ‘ f; t j, ere was any indication of a retrogad t 4 movement he, and the rest of bis brethren S 4in tho .ministry, would f ■/£ arid scorches to intercept it and wroode »t, ' ; n its retrogade movement, and thought '• * E•» how vhsro “ ;■3 rLnia might leave it. But it is an aston (i; fshiL ’fact;. that intemperance is rapidly • ■ and fearfully bathe increase among us. : * '" T ith all the ministers of the gospel, and ialf wishers of society, standing along as orches and breakmen on that 8”*“ m ined plane of public sentiment, ana 2£ opinion, still it heeds them not. It ,lfs bn, arid sweep? down tbat plane, hko, a avalanch, bearing evbry thing before it. _j nn will roll, until it is met square b by Legislative action, unlilour statute LJptb changed;that legalize the vending, nSd Vlh in Ardent Spirits,.intern imohant.; NothingbUt a prohibitary law repeal of the license, system— vill ever prove a check, or bhnish intern prance from pur ;time honored Common iveahh. ; It is the Only reasonable and nat ural remedy : we can lpok to. It ts ® n ’ [y platform of temperance principles tnat | have over tbobght really wdrth contend ing ioifi ’ 1 i l 'hkvo everhod my doubts about tne efficiency of moral suasion reforming, arid i restraining the imabses to become temper afei'SO’longaa our laws’ferimm- as they nrfe So long as our corirts license men Js deduce arid corrupt the community, and Sidtb iriebriates by a legal fgmgrn life, Sso” long will : ourland bo filled with •Sterdsyfpauperism arid crime, moral ffilnWbe Contrbry notwithstanding opposed to Woral' sU“ion---the Itfleetfie® IjpnbUeon. A WEEKLV PAPER: DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICOLTORE. MORALITY. AND FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Volume 4i sion and rely upon it to a great extent, to carry into effect subh a law. It w through moral suasion that all the laws in our land are observed and executed. The laws and | moral suasion are tWin sisters. They are inseporably connected together; and where ever you find them torn asunder and act ing in a separate capacity, you find them weak and powerless, and wholy unable to accomplish any thing. Under our license system and present rules of etiquette which govern society in general, it is very hard for young men to escape becoming tiplers. The fascinating bowl mee's them at every lane, turn and corner through life. The consequence is, many of them indulge in it, and the sad and awful effects of the system is seen ev ery day around us. But just remove the I temptation and society is relieved of the j evil forever. Whilst the system exists those who remain temperance men, and wish to live as such, will be annoyed and vexed in every days intercourse with the | common business affairs through life, more There is a small portion of the commu> nitv—temperance men among them too— who, I am led to believe, aro under the de lusive and missguided impression that cv erv thing is done that can be done to ban ish intemperance from our land ; that the present basis upon which our temperance societies are organized, arc sufficient to arrest the eviljin its onward course-cov ers all the ground, and goes as far as we ,dare go in this land of freedom and equal itv \ more erroneous and fatal doctrine far the wellfare of society, was never be fare promulgated by mortal man. The .truth can no longer be disguised that, under the present ‘‘drinking usages of society,” hundreds and thousands of the most promising young men of this lle nublic, are daily and nightly taking the initiatory steps to become inebriates, and fill a drunkard’s grave. The woes and lamentations caused by intemperance are heard still louder, more and heart rending from all parts or the land. Who dare deny that moral suasion has not pro ved a failure; has not proved Unequal to remedy the evil under the existing laws 7 With moral suasion we have failed in all our attemps to stop the progress of intem perance. “We have failed in all socie ties, by all appeals, by all arguments, by •nil methods of influencing the public mind, bv all preaching and lbctunng, by all pa rental counsel, and by all the portraying or the wide spread evils of intemperance. In all these we have failed, and we ever will fail, so long as it is held up by the strong arm of the law—supported, legahz ed and authorized by the statutes of the ln The question naturally suggests itself: What source or means of protection will society fly to 7 None other but a law pro hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors, as a beverage , among us. It is the only rem edy, the only available means we c anlo °k to for safety and protection from the dread scourges of intemperance. All history proves the fact that vice and immorality can never be abolished among a people, except by the passage of laws forbidding them entirely, with severe pen alties for their violation, and not the enact ment of laws to regulate it. Where would we be to-night in the scale of civilized and intellectual beings, if all the laws that have been passed in our state to prohibit vice and licentiousness had been merely acts to regulate them 7 It would be very hard to conjecture indeed 1 The Idea of legislating, to regulatevico and immorality, and not . prohibit them, does' not belong to the present generation— does npt belong to the nineteenth centu ry Ills borrowed—borrowed from where, or whom 7 From jhe dark ages of the world, and ought to have been returned long ere this. The political men,. politi cians. and statesmen of the Qg e » talk and preach a great deal to us about the wrong and dangers of monopolies, rhey are constantly, warning the people ofevel 7£ a * tempt to legislate to build up j monopolies. Now, there is’mot to be , found on the stat ute books, a grander, or more magnificent monopoly than the license system—a sys tem that grante,certain privileges to a few ! and denies it to others. Is that in accor dance with the spirit of the age in wjnch we live? Does it harmonize with the p™- rinles of Progressive Democracy! Uir- Sy Thore « wide Republic, to-night, dare,say it does. Wbv not wipe it out 1 Why not eraso 1 ftom our statute books ? . Wo are told by seme, that, the passage of such a, law Sid infringe upon the natural rights end fiberties of man. To such we would an swer, that every law that stands recorded „non our statutes, is an act direct curtail- and; liberties of man ns > exists in a primative or savage state, Ev- Shcfand atep, th’at is.taken by legi la "S to extend the blessings of to P the savages who inhabit ourfawn^tern tones' and bring them within the pate oi civil; sJicjety, are just steps taken to deprive them, of their natur at rights and liberties, which they have in herited from Unjei imntemorial; ana yn apy. one pretend'to arguh that ® infinitely happier in ahjgbly cnhgh ,enea . - ~ \ I <• . '• ' 1 1 Clearfield, Pa., 4, 1853. and civilized state, than ho is as he exists in a savage state of society ? If all tho laws passed by our Legislature, to prohib it vice and crime, such as breaking the I Sabbath, stealing, counterfeiting, murder, and arson, were merely laws to prohibit the citizens from eommittiug them and in dulging in them, but left .that part for mor al suasion, and an appeal to the conscience, who entertains the idea for a moment, that we would not be to day a nation of Semi Barbarians. With all theso facts, staring us in tho face, we have no apolo- CV to offer to our country, or to posterity, for not demanding the repeal of the license system, and the passage of law against the sale and traffic of ardent spirits within the limits of our Common wealth. There is nothing more absurd in this enlightened ago; nothing more dark nor dismal for the sun of the nineteenth century to shino upon, than the license system, a law by which tho state raises 1 revenue by selling privileges to a certain class of its citizens to fol low a business from which men aro to be dissuaded by a mor al means—a business which produces more ■ pauperism, crime, and actual wretched . ness in our land, than all other evils com- bined. . , Is not this n perversion of legislation You may find countries, it is true, where these things are still done; but the pro cress of the world is towards that point which we arc contending for in all just le cislation, that the object of the law is not to regulate , but to remove evil; we hope the day is not far distant when the sons ol Pennsylvania will blush to own that ever such laws disgraced her statutes, and tar nished her fair fame. We are told by some that we must not pass such a law—that it would break up a number of men who have invested their capital in property for the purpose of man ufacturing liquor. This is an objection which is founded neither upon reason or justice. No man has a right to employ .his property so that in all probability the result of his business will be to destroy the peaco, prosperity and happiness of the community around him, enter the domes tic circle, and destroy the pleasure and comfort that had reigned there supreme for years, and make it the house of weep ing and lamentation.no more than he has n right to set up a public nuisance of any kind in your town, erect a' powder mill, a tannery, a slaughter house, or obstruct ‘"•your ancient lights and windows. But the amount of losses by the passage of that law, to individuals who have capi tal invested in distilleries throughout our land, would in reality amount to such a trifle that no one engaged in it would feel it—there are so many other things m this land of energy and enterprise for the capt talist to engage in, that it form 9 no pa o a plausible objection whatever to the pas-i sage of such a law. . . e A search for the history and origin of the license system would lead us back, far back, into the mystic past. Back, as I have already stated to the dark ages of the world, when idolitry, heathenism, vice and superstition reigned supreme. I heft, and many of the vices and crimes which hu man nature is prone to, was located and licensed among the ancient Greeks and Romans. It was regarded among them as proper principle of legislation They leg islated to prescribe limits and bounds to the crimes and vices practiced among their neonle, and not to remove those crimes.— Wt was as far as they had advanced m knowledge and the science of g ov ' 3rn " l ® n , t In those days. And you will find in fob Sowing the history of the world down that as time rolled along the vinous vices of gambling, horse racing, lotter ies and brutal contests between man and man, were taken under the protection of the law, and regular licensesold to men to carry them on. So with intemperance, when it became a curse and an evil, iho Legislators of different countries seized the favorable opportunity of throwing around it the protecting shield of the law, and ex tending to it the licensp system, under the erroneous and misguided tmpression partially removing the evil. Yes, extend ed toit the system which we are living under and contending against to-day. Ibe liahtand knowledge, Mfhich it is for the present age to boast of as possessing has awakened man up, it has revealed to him the error,of such legislation. 1 Hence it is, wo have applied the princt pie of removing by legislation the various vices of gambling, horse racing, lotteries, duelling, &0., by passing prohibitory laws noainst them. But we have not applied it to all yet. There is one left, that comes under the same catalogue, the greatest evil of all; yet remains untouched. It stands by itself, a solitary, instance of that kind of legislation in our land. In ml oth er caw the grdiid progressive principle o. the age is adopted and acted upon. Some of our sister States have preceded us in this great and glorious principle, boon we will be left, like the evil itself alone and Solitary, by adhering'to the conserve live principle of a .healJun age. Soon there will not be found a resting place, a land mark, of single vistage far it; except Shiiß, from Maine to golden ahore. Now. how many men in the communi ty around you, would want to return to the old system' of licensing vice and immoral ity 1 Lot our present legislature attempt to' pass a general law opening lottery houses, authorizing gambling, horse racing, duelling, &c., under certain legal restric tions, to raise a revenue for the Stato. Would not the whole, entire population ol this groat Commonwealth, unite in raising one loud and indignant voice against such a monstrous proceeding, and hurl them by passing votes of censure, from their high seats and places of power 1 Not a single man of them could ever reach their high places of honor again, by the votes oftheir fellow-citizens; but they would go down to their graves in obscurity and everlast ing disgrace. And you must bear in mind, when the effort was making to remove those crimes by legislation, it met with a strong opposition for years. Just so with intemperance. But the axe is laid at the root of the tree; it must, and will be hewn down. The license system must be blott ed out, and numbered with the things that have been, it is doomed to melt and dwindle away before the intelligence, the light, the glory and splendor that is thrown around the rising generation, as a moun tain of snow before the scorching rays- ol a tropical sun. Let the law bo passed, let I the system be repealed, and in a few years a man would be considered insane to talk about restoring the license system. Yes, he would bo taken up and lodged in some insane Asylum, no doubt. As well might a man undertake to open a communica tion with the inhabitants of the moon, as to get’up a feeling to restore the license system, after it fchas been successfully abolished for years, and the people begin to reap the benefits brought forward as the fruits of its annihilation —when peaco and happiness would once more re-visit those families and hearths which had been ren dered miserable and desolate under the present license system. No it would be morally impossible. It is the duty of every good citizen to be actively engaged in getting signers to petitions and forward them on to the pres ent Legislature, praying for them to take immediate action for the repeal of the li cense system. If the Legislature refuse to listen to their petitioners, they will be assuming responsibilities, and evading a serious and meritorious question-one too, .that they will find extremely difficult to I go homo and answer satisfactorily to their i constituents. We are told that the people do not de mand the passage of such a law. That is a disputed subject. It is not absolutely certain what would be the effect of a pop ular vote on that subject to-morrow, if the question was submitted to the. people. Besides it is the doctrine in this country, that the people can be prevailed upon to demand the passage ol any good, just and reasonable law. We have met hundreds of men within the last yosr, who will vote for a prohibitory low, who are not profess ed temperance men—who never signed a temperance pledge, and who never will; but who would at the same time \>o glad to see tho evil removed from our iand. it is the opinion of all men who have been paying'any attention tq it, that scores ot ( intemperate men would vote for such a law. It is roy impression, that it the subject,Whs up boforo the people to vote for,, that hundreds and thousands ol inebriates would avail themselves of the opportunity of sucha law—men who see the evil of their course and their danger men who seriously desire to reform and become sober citizens, but who have not the strength and qerve ti break asunder tho chains of habit that binds them as slaves, nor resist tho temptation thatylaily and hourly meets them in following their reg ular avocations through life; but who would Teel that the brighter days of their early years would re-visit them again, nnd all the glowing, fancied, and imaginary schemes of youth be fully realized, if the temptation would be removed forever fron} Yes, there are hundreds and thousands of such men, to-night—if it was up before the people to vole, who would rise and leave their restless couches, and cast their votes for a prohibitory law, even if they were sure it would be the last grand act they would be capable of performing this side of eternity. A few words to the young men of this Republic:—With many of you, that point that seemed so distant at the. start, is at length reached; and the quiet walks, the many little scenes and incidents of your youthful days, with all the hallowed asso ciations that cluster around them, are now to give place to other relations, to other duties, and toother scenes in life. Sooner or later, many of ypu will be called upon to bid farewell to your parental homes, with armor bright and burnished and rea dy for the conflict, you must enter that wild tumultuou* arena where you must save yourselves by earnest, manly action, kept up to the last or perish. It ia all im portant then, that you should hold on to the temperance faith; stand by y° ur f®®* oerance principles which, perhaps has been part of your early education, which was | bestowed upon you by a lcind Father, a Number 10. fond and affectionate mother, or by belov ed add endeared sisters. If you would not be recreant to the trust which your pa rents, alter long years of anxiety and watching over you,have committed to you. If you would not bo traitors to your tjod and country, let the pure temperance prin ciples instilled into your youthful minds, have a cherished home in your hearts; and never, no never, while the pulse or life beats through your veins, permit your selves to bo dragged down from that ce lestial height by the fascinating snares ot hmTvourhnnds will soon be committed the care and administration of our Re lican institutions; whilst the men who wield the destinies of the Republic atpres ent, will go the way of-all earth. Then upon you will depend whether this beautt ful fabric of American freedom sha l stand the witness and the pledge of mans Db.li- I tv for self-government, or sink amidst the sneers of Despots, and the tears of Patri ots, a melancholy monument of human you are the notions of the earth to look for the science of self-government; to you, for that moral that is to curb the licentious passions, aDd mould into order their lawless minds. There is one impor tant fact, ever bear in mind, that you live not for yourselves. You live for your God, your country, and your race, and he who ignoblv forgets either, or selfishly cuts asunder the tie that binds him to his fellows, is described by the poet in theso burning words of eloquence. ••Living. Shall forfait all renown— And doubly dying, shall go down To lhai vilo dust from whence ho aprung. Unwept, unhonored, and unsung." Schools, Academies and Colleges may be founded nniong us ; but unless virtue and a pure morality is mingled with the teachings of science, our Republic with all i the priceless blessings, which cluster around its free and happy institutions will reel and rock like a ship upon the ocean in the midst of some tromendousetorm. , I Even our politicians are anaourmrag To us dailv and nightlyfffs one of the common maxims of the ago, that a pure morality is the only basis that our Republican institu tions can rest upon, with any degree ol 80 Our great and gigantic country, with her eternal mountains, and smiling valleys, may remain; but let intemperance in umph-let the morals of the people be come corrupted and degraded, and you ' m ust bid farewell to our American institu tions. We as a nation, ought to learn and I profit from the history of former Repub lies Where are the Republics of ancient Greece and Rome, the land where gigan-J tic intellects sprung up, illuminated and enlightened the world ; the land where the arts and sciences once flourished m perfec tion; the land where poetry and eloquence achieved some of their most splendid vic tories? Ask history,and she will-point you to her mouldering ruins, now fast ming- j Ung with the* dust—and she will tell you, that the great secret and cause of their ut ter ruin, and final downfall, are to be tra ced in the vices, follies and vanities of in temperance, which their people at last gave themselves up to. Hundreds and thousands of reasons might bo given why the license system Bhould bo repealed. Argument upon ar gument might be produced, volumeter volume might be written against the ays tern, hence I will only call your attention to one fact that has corpe under my obser vation within the last ten days. I have collected some statistics, which have been gathered from retailers themselves, there fore no one will doubt their correctness.— It shows what liquor is sold in one single township in county in one year. One Retailer sold 40 barrels 1852 to Jari. -’20,1853. ' Another Retailer sold 32 barrels from May 1852, to Jan. 20, 1853. Another sold 10 barrels from July 52, to Jon. 20,1853. Another sold 20 barrels from June SZ, to Jon. 20,1853. Another sold 14 barrels from March 52, to Jan 20, 1858. I Now, I have been told that this would I fall short of the actual omount, by at least thirty barrels, from the fact that many gentlemen in that township procure their own liquor by the barrel from below, nnd also retail' out more or less to accommo date their neighbors, those gentlemen are not included in the above list. Now to calculate the rest of the year at that rate would make 201 barrels of liquor sold In a single township in this county, number ing about 100 voters, with a P°P ulatl °" a little over 400 inhabitants 1 Now these barrels were nearly all b “ rr ®' B (^l but we will put them all down at 32 gal lons, and calculate them atth ® l [, 6 ® l ‘“ B prices, which we fiad amounts to| h «Srt ling sum of 80,432 spent annually in one township for liquor-equal to two barrels to every voter, or 10 gallons to every man woman and child in the township. Perhaps you mav look upon this as an isolated case. We* have every reason to believe that there are hundreds and. thou, sands'of communities in this Common wealth, equally as bad/ if not worse. ini"', j} l »*3j l0 *• “I! ""do™ a SS&.' '.1 55 Rpapsfft ii!'s” i ‘“‘ ! SK~.aB jKrs""^l do ttßOAthii §6o|l o® ,? j® Soot So Br«»J Eternal aunahlne aetllsa on hi) head." The Spirit op Forgiveness.— There is something touchingly beaulifuHo wo s, when rightly put together. The X an impression which is seldom or never effaced. We have read agaip and again until it is as familiar as friend, the following splendid ihougbt and every time we see it tis fresh and beautiful. The author we know not, but he deserves to be immortalized: «How beaul'lully /alia Irom human lip* Tha< word, forgiv®! . . porgivenena! ’it" lh» aUnbuteof Gcd- . The »und which opena the Heaven. Renewa again to earth toil Men a faded blooa. And fling- Hupe’a halcyon halo o'er the veste d ifr Thrice happy ne who»e heart ha« been wichooled In the meek letrona of humility, : ’ ' That he con givo il utterance. ■ It impale ceteiliol grandeur to the anut. , And make- man an angel. Oirßecse E. Price, a resident of Cin cinnati, who is possessed of considerable of this world’s goods', line made a proposi tion to the Legislature of Ohio, for a dis solution of his partnership with the State. He considers the notions of the common’ wealth antagonistic to those entertained by himself, and does not desire fellowship with .it. He proposes hi pay his portion of the State debt, which be estimated at $5OO, and be absolved from all allegiance.