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VOL. 3,
STROUDSB URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1842.
No. 32.
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least two insertions.
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To the renders of Intoxicating 'Li
quor, of the County o Monroe.
Fellow-Citizens: Being fully persuaded
that the sale of intoxicating liquors, as a drink,
is inconsistent with a due regard to the welfare
of our fellow men, in all respects; that it in
fringes as well that law which requires us to
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higher and nobler law of love, which should
bind the family of man in one great brotherhood
of, peace and good will; wc venture respectfully
to address to you the following petition.
To shew the propriety of the course we pro
pose to lake in this matter, allow us to state aj
few principles, wnicn we trusi wm commenu
themselves to your good sense. All the mem-'
hers of a community, as they jointly bear its
burdens for the support of Jaw and order, are
equally entitled to its protection. No one has
VLvr,oral right, and, were human laws what they
should be, no one would have a civil right, to
.proM-cute a business, tending to private emolu
ri!ti, at the expense of public good. When
vc a portion of society becomes convinced
thai any of their feljdw citizens are engaged in
a business, whose known and certain tendency
is in destroy the peace, the properly, and the
livt s of their fellow men, it is right and expe
rent that they should petition those men to de
list from thai business. That it is morally
right, no one will deny; and that it is a civil
riht, may be inferred from that declaration in
orr national constitution, of "the right of the
ne)le peaceably to assemble, and to petition
government for a redress of grievances;" and if
we may petition our superiors, then we may our
tqiials. That it is expedient, let any one who
doubts, examine our reasons. "We speak as
imiu wise men judge ye what we sat."
We pray you to desist from the sale of in
toxicating liquors because you are taking, in
ihc course of your business, that for which no
valuable consideration is returned. Is intoxii
ottnijj drink, we ask, an equivalent for the pro
duce, the labor or the money that is paid for it.
(jo to the family of the drunkard, and the ques
tion is answered.
2. Because ihe use of those drinks tends, as
nil observation teaches, to induce idle and va:
grant halits; thereby drawing off a portion of
society, from the useful and honorablo class of
producers and turning them over to ihe worth
less class of mere consumers; and ultimately
throwing them a burden on the thrifty and in
dustrious, in the shape of paupers, beggars and
criminal. That three-fourths of all the pau
peris u in our whole country i9 due to intoxica
ting drinks, directly or indirectly, is believed
to be ji hin ihc tritli, as fuels abundantly testi
fy; and ih.tt at le;is! in the tame proportion, wo
are tax d from the same cause, lor the prose
cution and mpport .of criminals, is equally
certain. This h rio random assertion. Ex
peiisve has been imurjed, and great pair.s have
born taken to collect facts on ihis subject, from
whwhsafi; deductions might he drawn.. See
Chijimaii4s Report on the. State of New York.
3. Because f4hc domestic tr.rctclicdjirss.
Fultin Iron! the jj.M! of Oin.-e.drjnk. J'Hiinilics
re the clyujesi 'yf ' cCviliztl,- amj-'jmciaijy, ol
Christian society. How important the relations
which grow out of tho family coristitution
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now important, men, mat tne duties arising
irom those relations, should be sacredly ob
served On this most vital subject, how full
and explicit is that Revelation which God has
given of his mind and will. Break up the fam
ily, and you break up society. Whatever tends,
therefore, to loosen the family bond, tends in
its degree to overthrdw society. This is a con
sideration for the conscientious legislator; while
he that has a heart to weep with thoso that
weep, will yield his sympathies to those who
sorrow in no commbn sort. Ransack the world
for wretchedness in its worst forms, and we
believe it would bo found, ordinarily, not at the
home of the drunkard, for home he cannot be
said to have but at the comfortless abode of
the victim of strong drink.
4. Those engaged in this traffic, expose
themselves and their families to imminent danger.
We ask your special attention to this reason.
It brings the subject home. Many who are en
gaged in the liquor business, have around them
interesting families, as we well know. For the
welfare of those families you feel, as you should,
a lively concern. They are to inherit or to
scatter your estates they are to bear up your
names, with honor or with imfamy, when your
heads are laid low in the dust. Now we ask
those of you who can extend your recollection
backward for twenty, thirty, or forty years, to
inquire and see what has been the history of
those liquor sellers and their families, that have
passed under vour observation for that space
of time. How many strong men have fallen by
the insiduous destroyer with which"they have
been in league; and how have the families of
those men, in whole or in part, reaped the sad
but natural consequences to which they were
exposed by parental folly! Wo need not men
tion names. Your memories will do that office.
Now we ask you one question. Can you re
member one family, long engaged in the sale of
intoxicating liquor, that has wholly escaped all
the attendant evils with which a righteous God
has linked it. By what rule then can you
promise that you and yours shall furnish a case
of singular exemption from a common result.
We are aware of that strong principle of human
nature, to make exceptions in our own favor.
But we bid you beware. All before you have
presumed in like manner. What has come
upon them, tci7 come upon you. Like causes
produce like effects. Now look upon those
dear children whom God has
given
you,
and
ask yourselves whether, in contempt of tho
teaching of all history, you will go on in your
present course, with the desperate hope that
you and yours shall escape the penalty of a gen
eral law. Look at that prattling boy, as he is
ihe witness of the revelry the pollution, and
the blasphemy of the bar-room;--look at that
young man, just about to enter on the stage of
action for himself, whom you, perhaps; have
stationed to deal out lhat vile and adulterated
cup of death to your deluded customers, and
ask yourselves whether they shall share the sad
doom of the drunkard. No. Your feelings re
olt at the ihought. You would rather follow
them to an early grave. Will youthen expose
them any longer. Again we say beware lest
you lay up for yourselves matter for pungent,
but bootless reflection and self-accusatiori.
Finally You should abandon this business,
because God condemns it. We state this rea
son last, because it is most important, and be
cause we want you to bear it in mind. You
may esteerri it a small matter to strive with
your fellow man, and to set yourselves in oppo
sition to their principles, however clear and un;
answerable; but "woo to him that slrivcth with
his Maker." Without attempting to present
the whoie Biblical argument on this point, we
will content ourselves by adducing one solitary
passage from the book of God. "Wo unto him
that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy
holtle to him, and makest him drunken also"
Hab. 2. 15. Is not this declaration perfectly
plain and simple. If it means any thing at all,
whai can it mean but just what ii literally im
ports. Can any ingenuity or glossing pervert
it from Its direct and obvious sense. Then
any passage of the Bible may bo treated in
like manner, and what becomes of our infallible
rule of faith and life. We are thrown out at
sea, without rudder or compass. But wo en
tertain no such dishonorable opinion of the
Word of God. Its principles to guide our faith
and to govern our actions, are broad, plain and
simple. "The wayfaring men, though fools
shall not err therein." Now we will not ask
if you admit the supremo authority of ibo Bi
ble; for if we are addressing any who deny
that, we have no hope of producing conviction
on their minds. But we take for granted lhat
you admii tho Bible for what it claims to bo
Then we ask you to weigh well thai fearful de
nunciation, which we javc cited.
We might nam many other cogent reasons
as the ground of our petition; because the sale
,'ty l'"'ln't ' wholesaio or retail, is wrong
and .ends to evil from whatever point you may
".lew it. Of this, we arc as firmly persuaded
as of our own existence. Therefore we speak.
Tho few reasons assigned for tho course we
take arq sufficient, unless something can be set
over against them as countervailing reasons.
And wc ask kindly but earnestly are there anv
such reasons. If there are, you are bound to
produce them, u you would make even a show
of justice for your cause. If there is any thing
in or aoout your trainc 10 relieve it ol Us char
acter of unmitigated deformity, in self-defence,
produce ii but we are persuaded there is not
Public houses for the sale of ixtoxicating drinks
are as unnecessary Jor the 'public good , as hou
ses for gambling would be. We speak advis
edly. We know that law sanctions them, and
so has law sanctioned the slave trade, the lot
tery system, and many other abominations; but
that never rriadc those things right or good.
Fellow citizens We address you as reason
ble men, and we reason with you. We address
you also as men possessed of consciences; and
we tell you, if you would consult your happi
ness as moral beings, you must do no violence
to your moral nature. Listen to the voice of
conscience, though it be still and small. If you
slight her gentle warnings, take care, lest,
armed with terror, she awake at length, as
awake she will, and you shall learn your folly
when it is too late. We pray you therefore
as you regard ihe peace and order of society,
as you regard public prosperity, and the perpe-
iuuy oi our iree institutions, endangered by a
corrupt constituency as you would reverence
the authority, and as ydu would regard the hon
or of that God, whose laws and institutions are
trampled under foot, and whose sacred name is
blasphemed, in consequence of intemperance
more than Irom any other vice as you would
see society rid of one of its sorest curses, from
one of its most prolific sources of poverty, crime,
and wretchedness we pray you as fathers,
as brothers, and as sons; we pray you as phi
lanthropists, as patriots, and as Christians, to
close up those fountains of misery, to abandon
at once and forever that business which does
no good, but which does immense injury to the
bodies and souls of men; injury which, not con
fined to this world, goes on with its dire influ
ence, down the iract of interminable ages; in
jury, which if not repaired in this life, by refor
mation and repentance, as alas it seldom is, is
irreparable and final ! May you be guided by
that wisdom which is from above. Take coun
sel, not from passion, but from sober reflection,
and act accordingly.
DANIEL STROUD,
MICHAEL BROWN,
J. W. BURNETT, ESQ.
DR. SAMUEL STOKES,
WILLIAM VAN BUSKIRK,
JOSEPH V.WILSON,
LEONARD LABAR,
STROUD BURSON,
DR. WILLIAM P. VAIL,
JACOB MILLER,
THOMAS J. ALBRIGHT,
Committee.
PROFITABLE PATRONS.
Many persons appear to have the
idea that an Editor should be &"gen-
eral alms-giver that his time, ser
vices and money should be freely
and gratuitously rendered to every
marl and body of men, who may
wish to operate upon the public
mind. We have been amused with
an instance of this fact, which we
find recorded in a country paper.
Al a meeting last week in Barnsta
ble, the town voted that the report
of the School Committee, which was
read to the meeting; "be printed in
the Barnstable, Patriot and Far
mouth Register, provided that those
papers will publish it for nothing."
Now we put it to any liberal min
ded man if the town of Barnstable
might not with quite as much pro
priety and fairness have passed, a
resolution to this effect:
"Resolved, That wc will on Sat
urday next, dine on venison at the
house of Major Tompkins at the
Bull's Head, provided, he will
charge us nothing for our dinners!"
Why is not the one proposition
quite as preposterous and unjustifi
able as the other
People should be disabused of
these erroneous impressions in re
gard to the gratuitous employment
of types. Compositors must be
paid as well as cooks paper ma
kers as well as butchers editors
and publishers as well as grocers
and vintners. And yet, from the
evactions often coolly made of edi
tors, one would suppose that they
were beings of so philanthropic and
self-sacrificing a character that they
were quite willing to toil and spin
for the benefit of every body except
themselves.
Mr. Slick invents a new washing
machine, and wholly regardless of
our time and convenience brings it
lumbering into our editorial senctum
and insists upon our devoting an
hour or two to hearing his explana
tion of the "principle" on which it
works, and of (S the reason why" it
must in a few years revolutionize
the world, abolish slavery, festore
the currency, and bring about the
millenium. We listen to Mr. Slick
with "sad civility," and give longing
glances at the door. At last our
visiter comes to the point.
"f you will give my washing
machine a little puff! Mr. Editor,
you will be advancing the cause of
science. 7
When, after he has swindled us
out of an hour of precious time, we
inform Mr. Slick that we cannot
advertise his invention without be
ing paid for it at the published rates,
he pretends to look astonished, says
we are not the man he took us for,
and walks off with his washing ma
chine under his arm.
Scarcely have we resumed our
pen when the Secretary of the soci
ety "for the Diffusion of TJuseful
Knowledge and the Promotion of
Every Thint," walks in, and de
sires us to call attention to the
grand meeting which is to be held
atumbug hi all the next evening.
"You should leave your adver
tisement in the publication office,
Mr. Secretary."
"Oh, bless vou, sir, I do not
mean to advertise. It is a public
object you know and you must find
your reward, sir, in the satisfaction
of having done a charitable action
forward our object with posterity"
"Stop, Mr., Snooks. Our time
is precious. We have all possible
regard for that very respectable
body, posterity, but as posterity,
would not raise a finger to help us,
we must be absolved, for the present
from diverting our means from im
mediate and move pressing claims.77
"Verv singular remark, sir
thought that an editor"
"Fes, sir, you thought that an
editor, by his vocation, was one
whom you and every other bore
were privileged to bait with impor
tunities, to fleece of time, and to im
pose upon by gratuitous advertise
ments. Mr. Snooks, it will not do.
Here is a communication three col
umns long from the President of the
Society "for the relief of indigent
females," which he tells us he "will
allow" us to publish, inestimable
favor! Wonderful generosity! And
here is a letter from Mr. Pallett,
requesting us to puff his new picture
from Mr, Starr calling attention
to his benefit from, Heaven save
the mark! from Mr. C7reen, indig
nant because we did not notice his
mammoth potato and now, sir,here
are vou with a plea for the Useful
Knowledge society. Why should
you apply to us, sir, for charity any
more than to a Broadway merchent?"
"Vou amaze me, Mr. Editor"
"That was our intention, sir.
Good morning."
These rough hints, such as they
are, we respectfully dedicate to all
the Messrs.'JSlicks and Snooks', who
maybe in the vicinity ot "these dig
gins" not forgetting the select men
of Barnstable.
Scarcity of Air. Mr. Burton, in his
lecture on education the other evening,
speaking of the stived up" apartments in
which some young ideas are taught "how
to'shoot"' in this country, said lhat many
people were so economical in regard to
air, that one might suppose the article was
imported ten thousand miles, and that
Ihere was a high tariff on it beside?!
Boston Transcript.
BONAPARTE'S OPINION OF,
CHRIST.
A foreign Journal lately published n
conversation related by Count de Mon
tholon, the faithful friend of the Emperor
Napoleon. Without being responsible for
the truth of this conversation as reported,
I will copy it literally; and, it may really
have been uttered by the Emperor. U
deserves to be read with attention.
" J know men," said Napoleon, "and I
tell you that Jesus is not a man ! The
religion of Christ is a mystery which sub
sists by its own force, and proceeds from
a mind which is not a human mind; We
find in it a marked individuality, which
originated a train of words and actions un
known before. Jesus borrowed nothing
from our knowledge. He exhibited in
himself, o nerfect example of hi? nrecentSi
Jesus is not a philosopher, for his proofs
are miracles ; and from the first, his disci
ples adored him. lnfact, learning and
philosophy are of no use for salvation
and Jesus came into the world, to reveal
the mysteries of Heaven j and the laws of
the Spirit.
" Alexander, Cajsar, Charlemagne, and
myself, founded empires ; but, on what
foundations did we rest the creations of
our genius ? Upon force. Jesus Chritt
alone founded his empire upon ere; and,
to this hout- millions of men would die for
him.
" It was not a day, or a battle, that
achieved the triumph of the Christian re
ligion in the world. No ; it was a long
war, a contest for three centuries, begun
by the Apostles, then continued by the
flood of Christian generations. In this
war, if all the Kings and potentates of the
earth, were on one side, on the other 1 see
no army but a mysterious force, some men
scattered here and there in all parts of the
world, and who have no other raiding
point than a common faith in the myste
ries of the cross.
" I die before my time, and my body
will be given back to the earth, to become
food for the worms. Such is the fate of
him that has been called the great Napo
leon. What an abyss between my deep
misery and the eternal kingdom of Christ,
which is proclaimed, loved, and adored,
and which is extending over the whole
earth ? Call you this dying ? Is it not
living rather ? The death of Christ is the
death of God !"
Napoleon stopped at the last words
but General Bertrand making no reply,
the limperor added : " If you do not per-
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ceive inaijesus unsi is uuu, i uiu muiig
to appoint you General !"
If this lancuane was really uttered by
Napoleon, it forms a fine chapter in de
fence of Christianity for which we are in
debted to the greatest warrior of modern
times norn. res.
Genuine or feigned, the above are grand
views and worthy of a great mind.
TATTLING.
It is very common for persons to tell
every thing they hear, whether they have
any grounds for what they hear or not.
To the injury of an individual something
may be said and spread abroad when
there is not the least shadow of truth in
the story. It is against this species of tat
tling which we should particularly guard
ourselves. The wise man knew how
prone the world was to this sin when he
said" He lhat keepeth his mouth keep
eth his life." Truly that man who is
careful of what he says especially when
he knows it is in his power to injure the
character of a person, or thwart any of his
purposes, acts up to the proverb and gains,
the esteem and friendship of his fellows.
Although by not being sufficiently on your
guard, you may excite a degree of inter
est at the expense of the character of a
neighbor, depend upon it, it is only for a
moment. You but heap coals ot fire upoa
your own heads. None will trust you
with their secrets, and you will be point
ed at as one deserving of their censure
Bewere how you use your tongue; it is a
good rule which somebody has given la
us; to think twice before we speak once.
Act up to this, and no one will complain
of you in this respect, and you will gam
the confidence of mankind, which is more
to be desired than all Ihe secrets ofo ccm.
mumtv. Portland Tribimty
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