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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.
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A literal leductlpn wlllbe Dado to Merobanta aa
whoadaartbs by theyea,. and ii rend by
Oar oapar eltaalatat In array (
nearly aTßtylarnUy In the connty-a»d ttaanTote
convenient and cheap mianiTor tha bndMjanw* “ JL d
Honnir—the merchant. mechanic ,and all othere-do afreji.
tha kuowlodya ol their laoatlon and Irarlßat« We tboal«
ilka to Iniexl *'ACard" fotayery Meeheßlo.Merchant.ano
Books, lol»» and Blanks,
OP EVERY DESCRIPTION. FHINTEDIINTHHVHM
BEST STYLE, AND ON THE SHORTEST
NOTICE. AT THE OFFICE OF THE
••CLEARFIELD REPUBLICAN."
we are to judge from the number of intox
icated people you would meet with m that
township with other places, you would say
it was by no means an isolated case.
Npw for argument sake, we will admit
that the rest of the State, in proportion m
its population, does not consume over ball
as much as said township, which I think
no one will deny, by calculation we find
that tho amount in ono year would reach
the astonishing eum of eighteen millions
four hundred and twenty six thousand one
hundred and sixty-four dollars. A nun
large enough to pay ofT our forty rnilhon
dollars of State debt in two and one-fourth
years—a debt'which is a reproach and a
'stigma to the citizens of this Common
wealth at home and abroad—a debt so
great that many of our citizens at one time
despaired of ever paying, and looked to
repudiation as the only means to relieve
ourselves from it. Yes, the money ex
pended in liquor, in ten years time, would
build a rail road through every county in
the Stnte, would build school houses enough
and pay for the schooling of every orph- ,
an in.the land, would pay for the
of on Asylum for the deaf, dumbyPu
and insane in every county within the
boundaries of our Commonwealth, andstdl
there would bo surplus enough left to build
churches sufficient for each and every cit
izen in our wide domain to worship in.
Is not this n strong reason why tho aw
should be passed and the system repealed.
In travelling through Pennsylvania, in
scaling horilofty and romantic mountains,
in passing through her verdant vales, and
over fruitful valleys: in viewing her beau
tiful landscapes and picturesque scenery
that is constantly presented to the eye i
gliding along her great, and giganticJ?
roadsflam more and more 'mpressedwitl
her greatness and grandeur, and feel proud
and happy to ciaimher asjmy
but regret from mv inmost soul that he
curse B nnd blight of intempenmoe reste
on so highly a favored land. ,We Bhould
blush with shame to own that suchisthc
case. The sun, as it rolls on and courses
its way of glory and splendor through the
heavens, never shone upon such a people
as wo are—never shone upon n country
where the blessings of a kind Providence
are strewn around in such wild profusion.
Succeeding generations will lookback up
on us, and regard us as unworthy and un
greatful inheritors of speh glorious bless
ing and privileges, if we continue to cher
ish and encourage intemperance in ou
land. May heaven grant, that the day w
not far distant, whefi the license system
will be disowned and blotted out. Yes, tel
the system be abolished forever.
We stand as it were, on the vergo of an
eventful period. It is the opinion of our
learned statesmen and Rev. Divines, tha
we are in all probability approaching a new
epoch in the annals of our race It is a
well established fact that fourth coming
events oft times cast their shadows before
them No serious mind at present can
contemplate the signs of the times and not
be satisfied that Providence is working ou
some of His grandest problems, and that
the unwritten history of the world is preg
nant with events as interesting and thrill
ing as any that have ever been recorded
bv the pen of the historian. Yes, we are
doubly admonished by every transpiring
event around us, that theday Is near and
the how.draws nigh, when we should me
■<tfb*and cast those heathen notions, those
heathen customs, and those heathen insti
tutions of a dark and benighted age tothi
moles and the bats. Then, with a ppeal .
of the license system and a profiibitar)
law, our country and its glorious institu
tions will flourish and prosper m perpetual
bloom. Then she will have nothing to
fear from convulsions within nor dangers
without. No, Bhe will stand secure and
.fiim, solid and for ages to come.
-lAe eomo cliff that rear* iM awful form.
Swell)from the vale.ead midway Cleavea lb. atom.,
Though round ill baao tho rolling cloud* are ai>r«»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.