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'j|f Liy^Reo IN otYawa, 5li4«-^ ^W' XT.A.Z1.' iaQ4« PrULIHHBI) HY THK BYTOWN DIVISION, HUNS OF TEMPERANCK, AT TBI "MNN"»l' OFFICE, OTTAWA. (.0 : la«v.*te:l INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. The Committee to whom was referred the matter of publishing the Hon. M. Cameron's Speech, have the satisfaction of know, ing that already it has had a wide circulation through the me- dium of tlrree ofouvCity papers—the « Citizen", the " Unioti," and the "Banner." But considering the importance and excel- lence of the argiiment presented by the Hon. Speaker, it has been deemed proper to give it a wider circulation and a more permanent form. Two thousand copies are printed by order of the Bytown Di- vision of the Sons of Temperance, and the Committee express the oaniest hope that our Citizens and residents in the vicinity of Ottawa, will seriously ponder the Temperance question, and now consider whether it is not imperatively necessary, with a view to the happiness and prosperity of the people and the «af*^ty of our children, that they should abstain from all intoj^icating drinks. <<' / Z^ ^^ SPEECH OF THE HON. M, CAMEEOIT. -0:0- ing )W> ne- n )» 3el. has ore Di- ess ^of ow to )iir On Jtonday evening, the 8ih inst,, one of the largest and moat enthusiastic meelinjre ever aasenibled in Ottawa was held in the commodioii3 lecture room of the Wesleyan Church, Metcalfe street. Every available spot was occupied. Large numbers had to stand, and many went away unable to cain aamission. Announcements havinir been made from different pulpits, on the precedinc day that the Hon. Malcolm Cameuom would address the meeting, the attention of our ci- tizens, v,'as awakened, and the result was a pretty full representation of the intelllifence and respectability of the city. Soon after 7 o'clock, A. Wohkmaj», Esq., was called to the chair. The Rev. W. Scott read the beautiful and appropriate narrative ot the Good Samaritan from the 10th of Luke, and afterwards engaged in prayer. A few words from the Chairman introduced the Ilev. T. Wardhoi'e, who expressed his glad. V "csa at the position he was then called to occupy. Ho was cheered by the presence of old friends, and delighted with reminiscences ot old times. This meeting, he was persuad- /o.'.- Jv x'^r^x*'*",''."^^'* ^''*» l^eicfit. We have (sa d Mr W.)on this platform the man who had perhaps spoken more than any other man in Canada on the Bub ect of Temperance.and we have the man who had perhapS written moTe on thcsultject than any other man, an™ we havealBo, present with us, perhaps- tlie oldest teetotaler in Canada (cil. liuVritV) Jho tliough now past 70 years old, had never tasted spirituous liquors We hare especial- ly come together to hear Mr. Cameron, and he(Mr.W.) would not detain the meeting. Ho would, however, address a words to the ladies, so many of whom he was glad to see present. Tliey were often alluded to and H|)(>ken to lightly. There were often treated lightly : but, for his part, now in speakinff to them and of theni, he felt the deep seriousness olUK.ii- portion in reference 10 this treat subject of Temperance. No doubt, they ex- rrted a powerful inHueace on society, and if tlioy would be decided, firm and uncompro- mising, on this question they would be able to inHuence the decisions of many ofthooth- (TRPx. There was too much deference to ovil habit and palliation of vice. Men were ooked up to as lords of creation, who conld hardly do wrong, instead of a steady resist- ance of the tipDllnir urftctinc" of" ««-.!«*., ua toctoiulcr or no husband" would materially altect the minds of many, and they would be cd to ubunilon a vice ratlu-r than forfeit the ne.id,?lHl. ftnd fellowship of the fair 8e.x. lie ('*lr.W.) expressed iho hope that other and regular meetings to bj? held would bo coiiate. nnnced and regularly attended by the Udieg. and that th6 cause of temperance would re-- vive and prosper. A select choir then sung a very excellent and appropriate anthem, atcompanied by the melodeon. Hon. M. CxMsnos was then introduced by the Ch&ivrjafli', and, on rising, was received with prolonged applause. He then said : Mr. CbAirman, Jiadies and Gentlemen : I have i)een referred to by a previous ispeaker as • sincere and devoted friend of the tem- jvirance cause, and it has even been augsested that, although one swallow does not make a summer, yet that my coming among you at this tim« will most likely be followed by many others who will be as the forerunners of more, preparatory to the establishment of the Seat of Government in this city, which, I believe, will soon be an nccjomplished fact. You must not, however, guppij^ee that "birds of a feather fiock together," ili such a sense as that tkose who follow me and may | hereafter dwell among you as well as myself, will all be of my mind in reference to the drinking usages of society. I regret to say, what I know, that many persons in the public offices or departments of the country are far from what they ought to be in this respect. In consequence of intemperance many had lost their offices, but even yet there were many who were rtot setting a good example, and it was. therefore, a mutter of vast importance that the young men of Ottawa should, by as- Sociatiou with the temperance socieiies.be in a position to resist the temptations to which they would be exposed in future, and perhaps be the means' of inducing many to follow their good example. Being in Ottawa, with a view to securing a residence, I have been requested to remain a day or two and deli\-er an address on temperance. I readily yielded, not wit/iout an impression that it might be to my interest to do so. I expect to become ft resident here, and I thought I could not better introduce myself to you than in this way. I am thus enabled to avow my prin- ciples, associate myself with the right kind of companionc, and once more protest against the folly, the blindness, the absurdity, and the sin of the present customs of society, as well as once more to protest against the ^f^**^) 'goorant and unholy legislation of the ^n= WIS tncqiieBliou of iniuxicaiing drinks. 1 am, as many of you know,or rather I should say I was a Perth boy, one of the old district ot Johnstown, of which Nepean once formed a part, and you had then to go to Hrockvilla to transact business of a judicial character, rimes have changed since then, but events -jjfi i*Uj",l t)f the past are witbin the recollection of , many of us. The settlements were chiefly of U.E. loyalists, who, for a noble principle/— a loyal sentiment— left their homes and estates, nnd preierred an abode in the wilderness of Canada. Emigrants and old soldiers, after the close of the war of 1812, added to the number. They have often been depreciated and under- rated, but they w(||i nevertheless a superior class of settlers. It is true that many of them were aided by the Government in their re- moval to this country ; but it was not on ac- count of their pauperism, but for other ftna political reasons. Together they formed as lietrogeneous a conjclomeratioa of human intellect, energy, ambition and passion, aa ever was thrown together. The ability and energy of the people have been exhibited again and again in the numbers of their de- scendants who have filled and now fiiv hon- curable places in Parliament, at the ba». on the bench,and in the pulpits of Canada. Suth was the influence and character of the popu- lation, of which L uave spoken, that for tome time they furnished one-fourth of the whole representation in the Parliament of Western .Canada. They will bo remembered as the Jones', Morrisses', Sherwoods' Mallochs' Wilsons', Richards' Lees', Scots', McKays' Bella*, Taylors', Ross', Powells', Johnstons' ' Grabams', Johnsons', Camerons', &c., &c., Ac. But when you think of whtu they have accomplished, arid you enquire further what ihey are still doing, you will find atouce the couneiipn their names have with my sub- ject. I do not refer here to all those whom I have enumerated, nor do I wish to be under- stood as specifying any in particular; but I think it pertinent to ask : hate the young men of that period— the descendwflts of wor- thy fathers— have they taken root, lived up to their advantages and reaponsibilities, imd helped, as they ought to have done, to elevate the country, and establish the true principles of virtue, morality -aod religion. Have they improved upon, or even maintain- ed the character of their fathcis ? Notwith- standing that one or more names of each family have been distinguished for many excellencies, is it not .1 melancholy fact that other branches of these families, that gave large promises of tajent, who had the great- ejt amount of energy, and ought to day to fill the places of their fathers or brothers, «t tlie Bar, on the Bench, in the Senate, nnd the Pulpit, now fill, alas t not unwept, indeed, r but dishonored graves 1 From what cause, if not that their fathers, and society in (jent-ral, erred on the tendency of stimiilrtriiig drinks to create an appetite for more— were ignorant of the nature and eflPects^of alcohol onlthe human sysicni, or destructive to their own bodies. Thcv knew how, for they wore instrucled in the busi.iess of improving and preserving stock : theii cattle were Pared lor — sljocp and o.xen properly fed : M'hnt was injurioiw in such cases was withheld , but for themselves, they were ignorant or mis- directed in what they should eat or drink, and, yi[elding to bad example, the brightest stars were darkened, or fell to the earth ruined— lost for ever. If we recollect \yhat we knew of the history of forty years— if we estimate the amount of per- sonal suffering, the shattered constitu- tions, the palsied and trembling hands, the bloated and besotted face, the nervous and wild delirium, the consequent suicides and murders,, associated with these histories— if we think of the broken hearted mothers who have wept, and are weeping more tears than would swim their bodies — if we contemplate the blighted ^opes of the brightest bwdes, that had lefi their happy homes to roouru thro' sleepless nights the carousing husbauds iwho had given themselves to tlio restaurant and the tap room, or that still more awful — more dreadful— more frightfully shocking case where even the virtuous and beautiful woman herself giving way in deapair to the vicious habits of fathers, brothers or hus- bands—if, 1 say, we were to contemplate these sad events, would we not be appalled ? la it exaggeration to say, that histories in Perth, in Brockville and Ottawa, must arise to every mind, that no temperance speaker can paint in stronger colors than the facts— that in truth not even imagination can render darker T Pacts there are which forljid the exercise of hope, considering the fearful course of the victims, to the very hour of dissolution. We have lived down the period when our efforts to promote temperance were suspo^tesi of a tendency to inhdelityA Tbe^areat n|||i«^ jority of clergymen cooperf|||Wl»|fc»«! and i are leaders in the good VOvf^eSical men en tertnin more sober ^M^ l"« q^f ^t.oa, , although even yet therA*M^fho3«>. Hvho pre- scribe alcohol to cure disease, perhaps thu "«>y piescfiplion they give, which they are.>, willing to take themselves-; .'fhiS best authors and writers for the press arV-'tiving a v6.ry. ; dffferent tone to literature. yiMn the West- minster Rcvku) has frankly %cWnowlcdgedits former errors, and has rettactftd what it formerly published on the -itilH^'of alcohol, confessing that it was belter to acknowledge a fault than to persevere \n error. I could detail four or five cases, wiiicii conldnot but be iinpresaiveand alfectiug. 1 - could Bhow the extremes from ailluence to misery, reached in a few years by more lluin one familv. 1 could show you how the son of a major-Kcncral. himself a captain, and afterwards an M. P.-^a man exalted above all these by ncbleness of mind, by exalted benevolence nnd kindness of hiiart— this man cast down to the lowest depth of degradation, and dying on a tavern floor, "Unhoujeird, disappointed, unnanncalcd, XT,. ___i,,j„:..,. ..'."fls. but sunt to Ilia ai^coiint Witk ail his rmpcrfc'ciions on liis head." His wilV, once the leader of 11 cioty, from house once ri.'Huceil ^ to to .. beggary, house with so- jtassing pillo\v ink, test irth Miat jrtjr per- ,itu- the and and —if who bau late des, luru rant il — :ing . tiful the lUS- late ed? s ia ifise \kcr ts— , caa rl^id :l' of , our itnd > (ioa, • . tUa ■ ,ftc«.i hpra 'est • dits it it illOl, ;dgo hicii ;. 1 e to Hum aun and hove illL'd HI an tiun, !d, ount so- ?sinp; illo\r ease, risking for a little flour— begging for bread to keep lier from starvation. One aon, educated tor. and having practised ns a bar- rister, enlisted ns a private soldier, and wa? at last frozen to death on the public higii- wuy ; another, educated as a phj-sician, dy- ing in an outhouse ; while a third had been imprisoned for assaulting his parent. Such are some of the results of irl temperance. You bid me halt I — you ■wish not to believe me — }'ou say stop ! and so I would, if I did not believe that what Avas then done some twenty years ago i.-:! still doing, by reason of the stime pernicious habits of drinking. I would stop if I did not believe that even now, in Ottawa, some of the best of parents, some of God's own children, are weepiiig as bitter tears as were shed over fallen human- ity, over children who are at this day being dragged over the same accursed road tp perdition. The same habits are at work, producing the self-same vesuUs ; and you young men who are placed in Uie providence of Gods at this important period in Canad- ian and Ottawa hisLor^, in the responsible situation of "representative men," have to deiermine at once whether you will think, read, examine and decide what have been the causes of past intemperance, and fearful tailurc— what aro the usual cflects of daily indulgence; and you must -judge also from the lacta and reaiiUs, how fa.- my allusion and opinion couceruing the history of the vst is correct and true : and then, in view of the truth *iiuH«,i by due examination, dctei- luinc whether yuu will go on in the same course and risk th'^ same results, or whether you will ftt once muke safe work with this question, and resolve 'Ho touch not, taste not, handle not," anything tliat ^^-ill destroy your nervous system, awaken niigor,cr,jablc apiietite, and uulit you for the highest antics of life, and thus be jirepared ami aided in tlic fulfilment of your high destiny, set an ex- ample of sobriety and industry, whicli shall give tone and character to the";city of Ottawa "Tf-Ujat shall vjuibalm your names in the fi^eiiiyes of its bistory. Like Zion of old, yO|Ur chief glory may be, nay, ought to be, thafcJ* Klie ]K'riod of Ottawa's inauguration HS Hflpir-iiH of Govervnicnt, this man and th 1 1 Iv^re born tlicre. L.'t ii be the starting poiut/tyf the city's regenetmion, this revival of loiupenyice, which sV.all prove alike benehcial t temptation and evil. They I5uffDd obedience to assumed authority— your deference for re- puted superiority— your fear of gingularitv— yoiir respect for fashion and custom, has dragged you on to be the very cause of much f/«":L?i!5e«l^^«•«^"d therefore you just- was recently held in Montreal, is intended to umto all possible strength on the question of legal prohibition. Every man who desires to remedy or rsduco the evil, though not him- self a teetotaller, can lend his aid by becom- ing a member of the "Alliance." It has no pledge, but is designed to combine the influ- enceotallwho are convinced of the public evil of intemperance and the traffic- The 1*« «^^'*'"^''«•' f^'0"»a" t^at can intoxi- cate. Hoist the temperanpe flag— a aober man or no husband-and you are safe, and the cause itself also will te safe. You have perhaps, seen an accountof the Black Valley Railroad I met with it tha other day ij Montreal, and here it is: You have in this a rignette or cartoon of this road in full operation. It would be ludicrous if it Avere r\ 1 • . /..,. , ""'«'i"'"cui lo pass jur. Dunkm's Bill, which would give power to every municipality to d'. 1 with the evil,and to punish the violators of existing laws which is found now to be almost impossible' We cannot get all we wani at once, we i|;>U3t be content with an instalment. The man who asked of his neighbor timber to build a barn or stable, was refused: but when be asked for a coup'e of sticks for not an awfully true delineation of the wav Jf ° ^V^^^^'i ^o^ a coup'e of sticks for in which multitudes take passage to destruc- e'^'^'^'^f t^' ^,° P* ^l^^t he asked, which was, tion. .The trains move by a poKivet?me~.-^^^ I'e wanted. We shall hav^ tion ii 'f,'""'''? ?* ^'PP^°Kt<>". passing by Topersville ari-iving at Drunkard's Curve ; r^'l^^^^PJ^^y^^nninghy express to Demon- l\^!i*v**n^''" ^^ lightning express Ihrongh Black Valley to Destruction. We are told tbat persons desiring (o leave the train will find ihe stages of the Temperance Alliance at Drunkard's Curve, and all the stations, above, road^ to copvey them free to any of «ie villages upon Coldstream River. Below l^runkard's Curve, ambulaces will be used. Passengers in th7sTeprgXcar7^specS ZT'"' k stock-holders, will bo waked un at SprPPP. r*^*'"''^ o'" '''' - o Owl Forest. ThunderiaTiS, and L L end'Sf thj will -rways bring in many who. would the road. Ami rhon ,„^ J„ »^m .i-„. _." nevw join ar most of what we want if we succeed in ob. taming the passage of Mr. Dunkin's Bill. tie is a worthy man, co-operating with us in a good work, and let us hope that success will attend us iu the Legislature of the ♦T"°,^7„; Meanwhile let lis keep at work in the old Temperance Societies . 1 am al waj.» in the habit of recommcudin*; cvc.ywhor« the keeping up of the good old fashioned society, with a pledge to 1'^ signed at the meeting, at the secretary'? office, and at open monthly meetings — freo of charge,ceremony, or baJgc. vvith a good committee the road. And then we are told that stages ro|» Tobacco-laud connect with all the trams. Ifanyofynn have taken passage on tbis road, vou had better leave the train at once i/you have reached u.^st^tfuaAvue. e an «.ilbuJance IS needed, be quick to avail yourselves of the opportunity of deliverance --go further and you are lost. This Black Li ^. Railroad carries more than 30,000 of ,h! ''"**i^ annually. It is said the business n f hu |;^*V^'"'"v.*'?' ^*Pi was pronounced by Rev Mr. V. AiiDRopR^atK! the I'lrpo meoiinR disperso.t eviuonily '■'■''•■-■'■'" ' — '- -'' ■■ ' cvcnirij^, naan 1 . . --.5.,. ■">•■. ■....i(, ^i,j|n;i-?|i-n aciigincd wr.h ihu iToc'tdings ultlio ..#' wm6^w lU^iU:-i,iU, ^;iUWjp ^:,:- i'.H Who iatfc; foef *^^ hath sorrowt who jiith ma^mu^f, Who ; fe*th b^W^iftjyl who liath wonnds with- out c^sia t ^Ifw^^h r^^ ] ; ;^*M??: that taapiy Jk)ng^^^ft^ the wine ; tlwy that |b *^ seek Look «ot Jl|^ i||>oj^ the Wiiiei when it is i^, when U r iivetff Ifs cdl#r;tt^ the ^:^ Itself wight. ■ "'' !ilf '|h€i; )E4#''|t,;:btteli,.:Iifke a ' serpeii,t,. 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