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'• i TAKE BACK* THE BOWL Take back— take back this odious bowl ^ For though it look so bright and clear, " . , ^ There's death within it to the soul— , ' To all that's high and noble here. Take back— take back the poisonous draught, B!j _,__^ It everHeft a sting behind. sg /^ xaK« iwv' y It wasi B, ' AndO.y Ml • That! ^jgsitsf^e^&^^ "t: iC' .'J I '■'■£■ ■•i''C' 1 mre not thus destroy my inindl For t^ugh I oft have 6>r it laugh'd, It evert'* ^!--i.-t.:_j Take liack baok this fiendish drinks for.BUchasI; ou catmot miike me thi|ik ? ■hall wiKt it when I die. 'i O take it baeicl^l^i Tou plunge a " 7%t5 would but' L. „-_.- Tu • ITM, robyftie of eternal iw' uitrary mfimtr. ig jjiave L\8T.' CATHARINES, U. C> ptoUSHED AND SOLD BY JOHN MARSH. • 1834. ^ ..■>i "\ \ ^«iVAlS ^ .T"' -'-V,.-. TmsSi ^«wsews»" - :W' ^ '^ ':r^ **^^' ' IT ■V- ■\- \- w ■ Y ■ 'k 4 / ^' I iiiiintnilgBlL iiii'^Ji "Hiirii' m^ > ._^ '•^r i*. ; ...•i.* :. THE (0(||)]U|^<»'^iiVa A^'St AST ^ ■'s 01, A POCmrr COMPANION^OR THE TEMPERATE it rfMi BY DOCTOR SPBlMOWATEBi \ or ■\ NORTH AMERICA. No quirter for thoM. who drink much or little. If thwe were no moderate drinkeri, there would be no dninkardi. af. CATHARINES, IT. C. ►UBLiSHED AND SOLD BY JOHN MARSH, H. Le%»enworth, Printen 1834. :. \ . . ■ • > . ..'•.-■, '-■' ■ * ■■ .■ '■■ ■ . \-' ■ ' . ■ ■ . ■ ■■■" .■..'■-..'.' ■^' ■'■ ■**■■".,. \ - . ■ - ' ■•,...' ■\ -. l U i ii.T " i i ■ .. wii ifil f ■ r. V-. X- « saefcr nAM — / )*i«i(i| ■%fi*r!.»' .ft,-tu.- " u V '.V:| P^IEUMINABIES. 'i v» ' 1. THE AUTHOR TO inS BOOK. Go, UnW^ook, into thi« drunken world of ouri. Prownup- ori drunkardi. Reprove, mo«t aharply, him who makes ihem. If poiflible, anatch from impending mm the moderate drinker. Deal faithfully with all. Scatter truth over the world, how- ever unpalatable it may bo to the million. While travelli^ff your unprotected round^ you will often meet with aneera and ridicule and contempt. The v^y name stamped on your fore-, head, will lead fome to abuse you. The truth which vou tell , will enrage othera. Some, in Bficrot, will manifest the most virulent hatred bdth to you and your message; while, in pub- lick, tbey will be loudest in your praise. Occaslonallv you >^ will bo smiled ujion. Sometimes you will be embraced with , th when the mighty Samson ^as fatigued and fainting with thirst, ^ . rofrophcd him with a draught of cold water, go with you, and ^ prosper you in assisting to bauiali from the earth, the ordinary^ ua0 of ardoBt spirits. • !.■■"* 'u, '■..■ . '.'■.'"■ ■ t ■' ^^. n. DEDICATION. ro tfte mmz emi^tyt mwufr^ ¥ THIS LITTLE ANTI-GETTING-DRUNK BOOK ft 18 DEDICATED BT TBB August, 1^92. AUTHOR. 'tfir « 4. 5 y ^^ i\ PSELIMINARIB8. QL fROEM. Perhapi I may b^ charged with exagsrenttinff the evils of ?'?iTT'iJ??^ "^ *l® "~^^ ardentlpirita. W I am sa. tiafied the half ha. not beep told. . Tlie lilf never can betolS I-nJL^°^^ ?*?"*P,J*'®??J*««'''*»« »"«' expect to be handled "without gloves." If he thinks he wiU bedissatia- SJIZ*? r!S** r^'tT^"^"!!' treatment, he had better lay dowfl this bttle book before he begins to read it. It knows not how to flatter. Should it fell Sito the hand* of him who takes a 6«fe because a httje wUWo him no harm, or because, while mhesJth a httk as he fcncies. wUl do him .ome goaL WeteU him beforehand that he will, before he reads it thrS^C dash It on ^the floor ma rage, unless he becomes a convert to IzLT'^'^^^^ '-.f^I^''^^: Those who call entire abstinence, temperance, will find at least, a portion of their sentiments !r * /*^^T®,?° ^T?" of them, briefly stated. They wUl ftlso find the leadmg objections against temperance and tem- perance societies, mentioned and answered. Those who make ®2^JJjnM»v«l>een treated as tenderly as the nature of the ^*»tt«enr«nd^th^ objections would permit. Thefkctssta- in tjiis work^are derived from documents of the most un- quMtionable authonty,\)r have come under the personal obser- yatoon of the wnt^r. In relation to the few quotations made inthese pages, it may be remarked, that persons qualified to CTjUcise^know where Urfind them. Those who are not quali- fi^ for this cynical task, wiH be excused from it by the AUTHOR. _ Ni^-Mwiy of the remaiksniade in this little book» <^Cenui» the habitual use of aU naxcotick or stupi^ff gubsfimces. iS aa tobacco, opi^^u in aU its pjfep«itioi»,<£c.^ » TOpmnces, sucn aa .y >/ '•A»& ^&. ■Aj f. V*- l- fi 1% ..p / |v- .'■ ■ . .- ■•'■•' _ »'- i 9 k'^. ■. ': ■ ■ 1 .." f'"'. ■ A ■n ■ *:■ • ,-. . (■ _ • * *• ^ ^ ■■.1? . ■-'■*.. ■ ■ '. ■ '-■ : ■-' V ■ i'---^>' w ); THE COLD-WATER-MAN. V*- '^ > /^ABT FIRST. V " fttE EVILS OF INTEmAiANCE. L h^Exkut, f IiiTEMPERAWCB has long been the cryinff sin of our laqd« . It is a demon of destruction. Its very breath withers every blos- som of temporal happiness, and destroys the last lingerine hope of hliss beyond the grave. When, with bloated face, and hag- gard eyes, and pestilential breath, it passes oVer any land, though all before it may be fair as. the garden of Eden, the blank of moral desolation will be epread over all in its train. Like a tide jof liquid firo, it has rolled over our country.— Every excellence within its reach has drooped, and ikded, and died. No class of our citiizens has been exempt from its baneful influence. It has found its way into every depart- ment of civil society. Intemperance has staggered into the workshops of industry. Its touch has paralyzed every effort of the mechanick to become a usefiil aiui respectable citizen* It has approached tJ\e b'ed of distress, and with trembling nerves, distracted thoughts, and more than half deranged intellect, it has attempted to administer the heiding balm to those virhom sickness has brought to the borders of the grave. It has stood at the bar pretending to plead the cause of innocent, suffer- ing virtue. It has sat on that bench where stem, unyeilding justice should always sit, and pronounce sentence agflSnst those very crimes which are the legitimate ofliprins of intemperance. It has entered the sanctuary of the ffirmer's happiness ; and all Eure, unaffected, substantial pleasures have fled before it. It ^ as found its way into our Ic^slative lii^s, and there, with a ridiculously aflfected sobriety and gravity, it has attempted to deliberate on the affairs of state. It has been seen in the la- ^dy's parlour, preying upon the very vitids of all that innocence, good sense, kindness and action, which alone can t^w an a2. I ■■'.-*'■" - ■ .■ ■ N. : ■ - \. ■ ,j: ■.'-'.'■ 4 . ; ■ ' .."-.■:' ■.■■ '•■■■: i . "i.V ":^V:^;;''-r;;::;:\/;:':-| ":..,)t, I ■ ^. ; ■ - •, ■;■*..- ■ ■■'■ *^'.. ■ -' ■ ■-■'•; V:--:-i. :■•■; 1 ^i-y ' ^. THE COLD-WATER- MAN. ' ^■\ A- ) f irresistible charm oround those whose enviable lot it is to di- vide the sorrows and double the joys of human life. It has ex- tended its evils even farther than this« Judas-lijic, it has ap- peared among the disciples bf our Lord Jesus Christv It has wept the crocodile-tear, while the friends of the Hedeemcr have agonized in prayer for the salyation of siniyirs. It has even entered^ the sacred desk, and there," in the name of the great Jehovah, preached the solenin truth, that the *' drunkard sltall ifdt inherit the Kingdom of God/' Thus we see that this irreptitious monster has already be- gun to suck the life-blood of the nation, /to undGrmine tho corner stone of society> to throw the cpfd blank of desola- tion over the warm and generous feelings of the heart, to freeze up the fountain of kindness irj the soul, to make the heart.colder than a mountain of iceand harder than a rock of adamant, to put an extinguisher on, vital piety, and to spread an impenetrable gloom over all; beyond the grave. The hor- / rour-stricken conscience of those who have madly and volun- < tarily fiillen victims to.it, must render this gloom doubly dis- mal. Since intemperance, when held up to view in its naked deformity, i^ evidently such a destructive monster, Where is the man that: would not use all his Influence to banish it from his neighbourhood? Since it is such a sea of liquid fire rolling over our land, withering and destroying in its course, what- ever is excellent, where is the individual that will not do some- thing to stay its progress, that will not strive to plant be- fore it a banrier which it cannot jiass, and which shall remain unmoved as a diamond pyramid in the waste of time, while /rolling years are passing by? Who that does not hate his fellow creatures with perfect hatred, will refuse to assist in staying the ravages of such an evil as intemperance? Who that has the 'least particle of good feeling for man, Will not strive to banish it from ou/land? NoTiB.— In the li^Statesi there are 300,000 habitual drunk- ards, 200,000 occasional drunkards, 400,000 hard drinkers, and several millions of self-styled temperate drinkers. What a pic- ture of moral depravity I These several numbers, no doubt, fall short of the truth. -Let any one enumeilite the habitual drunkards, be. in the circle of his own acquaintance, and ask himself; if that number give so many drunkards and drinkers, how many will be found, according to the same proportion, in 13,000,000 of persons, or in the whole United States? Un- less the person making the calculation, lives in a very favoured neighbourhood, he will discover a fearful increase to the. num- bers mentioned in this note. In this way the accuracy of eve- ry numerical statement made in this book may be tested. '■'Q f TT ♦ - i 'f- EVILS Of INTEMPIBANCB. ; ; 7 ','■■' ° "."».-■.• ' ■*■-■"'...'>-■*■ I ■;-*.. ■ ■ . '. -.■.,■■-. ' '_.-•.'■>..'■ II, It Wastes Property, »^ "The evila t)f intem|)eraniBe iure incalculably great and mime- tous. The fortune of the intemperate roan melts away, he knows not how. Whatever is valuuble in his estate, soon . •J jBnds its way into the possession of others. Like a^sieye, he Boon iscattei's what is desirable, and retains only what is worth- ; less as chaff. The amount of money wasted or worse than wasted for ar- dent spirits,*in the United States, is most astonishing. What • is paid for this one destructwe article in this country, would more than pay all our taxes of every description. The money' given for ardent spirits, (the very thought of which ought to make us tremble,) would more than support our government, pur ministers of religion of every denomination, our colleges, our academies, our common schools. It would in ten years, give a farm of a hundred acres of the best unimproved land to . every fiunily in the United States. It wouldin a few months - pay the publick debt. It would, in-a short time, ^ive a bible to- every family on earth. It would soon send a missionary of the cross to every dark corner of this our sinful, guilty, mise- rable world. It would feed the hungry, clothe th^ naked, and heal the sick. It would light up a smile on the cheek of dis- tress^ and carry consolation into the dwelling where poverty resides, Tx) have the supreme felicity of planting pleasure in every heart, of spreading joy oil every countenance, of scatter* «^ ing t^e light of revelation on the darkness of paganism, of dis- pelling the impenetrable gloom that rests on lul beyond the Jrrave, and of pointing sinners to eternal happiness, will sure- y more than counterbalance that pitiable pleasure, (if it de- serve the name^V which men find in drinking distilled spirits. Wheo we consider the enormous tax which tipplers of every description pay f we will no longer marvel when we hear them complainof "hard times," vtrhen we see them or their children in rags/or learn that they refuse to give a shilling to promote any cause which has for its end the good of mankind. The drunkard'^s property goes. It does no good, but much evil.— Who would be willing to spend his money merely for the sake of injuring himself and others? Let such and^ such only ex- change it for that most ruinous of ^ the inventions of wicked men, spirituous liquors.t : 'Nearly 150 millions of dollars in time and money, are spent an- nually in the United States for spirituous liquora. tit was discovered by an Arabian chymist, hi the beginning of the tenth century, accoraingto Dr. Mussey. / *9. ■ ■ ■ ■, ■t: -K ^ « e THiS COIib-WAtBA-MAN. }/ The ^oney epcnt in the purchase of ardent tspiriie is a dead loss to the community. Few individuals gain in a given time, say ten years, by the traffick in this article. It is perfectly evident, that the individual who purchases distilled liquor for his own use or that of his friends, gains notliiiirr, but actual- ly loses the price of the liquor, the time wasted in procuring and drinking it, together with the decrease pf the amount of . labour whicn his workmen perform by using it. Everyman who has tried the experiment on himself or others, knows that the same man will perform a greater amount of labour and do^ his work better, in a given time, without tasting alcoholick li- quors than with. It is then undeniably certain that he who purchases ardent spirits, that ha may consume them himself or give them to others, is not a gainer but a loser by this traffick* The vender is also a loser by it. A prudent man who de- sired to spend ten years in trading, would open his store in a neighbourhood where all the inhabitants w^ere sober and indus- trious, rather than in one where all were intemperote, idle and slothful. Why would he do this? The answer of every one would be, because the custom of the sober, industrious neigh- bourhood is the most desirable^ as well as the most profitable. Whatever therefore has a tendency to diminish the sobriety and industry of persons, diminishes, whenever it operates, the profits of their custom. ' In ten years the drunkard would not' earn the oile-fourth part of the amount of property that he would do, were he to k^ep so- ber. Suppose then that a sober man would earn two hundred dollars a year. He might spend one hundred of this sum in purchasing the necessaries and comforts of life for himself and bis family ; while the other hundred might be devoted to chv ritable purposes, or laid up in store. N.ow suppose the same man to become a drunkard, he would then earn fifty dollars a year. He could spend this sum and no more. The one-half or more might run down his throat in the form of alcohol, and the . other might keep his half naked family from starving to death. Fifty dollars, however, being the whole of his earnings, would be all that could possibly find its way into the merchant's bands. Whatever the drunkard purchased beyond the amount of fifty dollars, must of necessity remain unpaid. The sober man y would trade a hundred dollars a year and the drunk^J^d fifty ^ Which would be the best customer^ if the latter made no bad debtsi Should an individual spend but one dollar in a year in pur- chasing ardent spirits, he would not only wjaste the dollar for which he might have obtained some useful article, but the time fipent in purchasing and using the liquor, is wasted also ; and ■%: itl'- ' ■*™-.ir«^'^*T^-',V*-'-*V'' ■-..%;■ dead and ■ EVILB OF INTEMPERANCC^ 9 by receivinj^ it into his system, he is rendered incapable of per- forminff so great an amount of labour as he could have accom- plished without it ; hence if he had not purchased the dollar's worth of linuor, his pecuniary ability would have been sucli, that he might have purchased to the amount of at least two or three dollars in other articles. It is evident, therefore, that the vender of ardent spirittrjs the loser as well as the purcha- ser. Let every store, and ^v«fn, and grocery, then, wholly disgorge this article. Let the black seal of eternal reproba^ tion be placed on the door of every dram-shop on earth. Let every distillery become food for the flames, and sink down to the bottom of the see of unending forgetfulness. Let oblivion throw its veil of silence over all the manufactories of drunk- ards that yet pollute our land. Let their very name be for- Sotten, ^ Nothing is gained but much lost by the troffick in ar- ent spirits. Let it, therefore, be for ever abandoned by all men of integrity. Ith It destroys HealtK ' Intemperance is the very mother of disease. He who, in ordinary health; uses distilled spirits,*receives into his system, that which makes a slow but certain progress towards the fountain of life. Its effects are awfully fetal. It benumbs the nerves, deranges the organs of sensation and perception, in- ' lures the chyle and other fluids of the body, agitates and har- dens the brain, indurates the liver, deranges the nervous sys- tem, stupifies the senses, kills the kind an*^ generous feelings of the soul, and produces a host of diseases, or gives the tip- pler a predisposition to them. The diseases to which ardent spirits predispose him who uses them, are so numerous that It would require almost a pandect on medicine to name and describe them. Tim most alarming of these is the '^delirium tremens," the very thought of which is dreadful, is shocking to humanity. When disease seizes on an intemperate person. It usually baflle^ the exertions of the most skilful physician and terminates in death. What would scarcely shake the con- stitution of a ^ober man, will almost always destroy the life of the mtemperate.* Who, then, desires to be sick, and to have his disease terminate in death ? Let such a person drmk ardent spirits; and he will soon obtain his desire. Who IB willi ng to die drunk ? If any, let him use distilled liquor. *In the United States, not less than 30,000 drunkards die annual- ly. It ui supposed, and notovithout reason, that the death of near- \y one-third of the adults who die m this country, is produced or accelerated, either directly or indirectly, by intemperance. a4 ■if I ma/mtSHtHmn' m \ " ■ . ^ t 'li ^nn ij fj*gi t, ^ ^l> TBK COLD'WATE|l-llAir* ♦ ' 10.;' ■ ■^.■,- llie Bpirit of alcohol, regardleaf of the natural principlei vrhich govern the circulatioQ of those fluids which nourish or • refresh the human body, or support or carry vitality to its va- rious part8> flies, at once to the 4ead and takes possession of , the brain. This is lUSntHjUriie with regard to a large pro- portion 9f the spirit of distilled liquor which men drink. It is true, a comparatively small portion of it is difiused, like elec- tricity, through every part of the systepj. But the greatest part jlies to the brain, and when there, with all its power. Strives to throw reason from its threne. How often it succeeds, hor who tastes the cursed cup can tell. This is iarecisely the eflec.t of the most fatal poisons: they, in general, do not tarry for the , tardy movements of nature, but fly, at once, to the citodel of life and storm it,' and the victim dies. Taste not that, the sju- ^it of which, almost as soon as swallowed, enters the brain and begins its work" of destruction. » But in addition to all this, the use of ardent spirits produ- ces a disease of the stomach, which goes with the drunkur^ to his grave; His crs^yinp, insatiable appetite, unnatural in its • production, as well as in its demands, deranges and racks his system, renders it unfit for healthy action, and causes it to ex* bibit unequivocal symptoms of a diseased state ; for the sto-. mach of him who uses distilled liquor, is, at first, sprinkled and soon afterwards covered with pustules and carbuncles. Ta . sustain the vigour of this- disease, it must be fed with such an aliment as its craving appetite demands. When this aliment is at first denied, the desire for it increases to such a degree, as to drive its unhappy victim almost to desperation. But if the victim of this disease absolutely refuses to feed it, it will gradually lose strength, till it becomes so dormant, that he will scarcely, if at all, feel it. The momeiit however, he tastes alcohol, in any article, for any puqiose/, on any occa- sion, or in any quantity, the saving appetite for ardent spirits will begin again to rage ; the disease, m all /its stren^h, will ^ return. It will find him off" his guard, and in all probability will throw him into the drunkard's grave. Entire abstinence from all alcoholick drinks does not cure the dis)6ase called into ex- istence by the ordinary use, in any quantity of ardent spirits. It only leaves it in a dormant state. Itydoes not destroy the harpy that preys on the vitals ; it only of alcohol will arouse it into vigorous who have been once overcome by tl * it again to fnter their system. . . ^. The drunkard's horrid disease iTpartially hereditary. The children of habitual drunkards have a predisposition to intoxi- cation. The dprmant appetite for alcoholick poison, though jrs it asleep. A taste ction. Let those then ^deadly foe, never suffer ,-vt,»0m^'- -•» EVILS or INTEMPCRANCC* ii bcrefl of a portion of its power, is transmitted by drunken pa- rents to their children. Thia is one reason ainung many other* that mij^ht be adduced, to account for the fact, that the chil-< drcn of the intemperate so oilcn become drunkards. Let those then who would not brin^ this fatal, incurable disease upon themselves, and transmit it to their children, cease to use ar- dent spirits which will produce it; and if they are already in the least infected with it, let them refuse to taste eve*! ferment^ ed liquors; for these will feed, though soine of them when unmixed with distilled spirits, will not of themtielvcs, (exce{^ perhaps in verycxtraordinary cases,) produce the drunkard*B-. appetite. Tiioy will not usually create the disease of drunk- enness; but when it exists in a dormant state, they will call it into activity. Hence the inebriate, antj no other, will ^et drunk on cider, beer, or on almost any fermented liquor. If then the drunkard would ever become d sober man, he ulust to- tally and for ever abandon the use both of distilled and fijr- meuted liquors. Reader, can you do tMs? IV. It prodvtes Crime. ■I Tnte^iperance is a fruitful source of crime.* It boldly corti- mits every enormity. It fills our jails, our penitentiaries, our publicly prisoiis. It snatches the reins from reason, and places them under the control of passion. It induces idleness and dissipation of thought, together with derangement of intellect and unbridled, angry, mental agitation. It is no wonder then that almost all the crimes committed in p^r land, and espe- cially those of the deepest dye and of the mostcrimson hue, ehould be perpetrated by the intemperate. Who^is so har- dened 09 to delight in ciimel Let such only use this intoxi- cating pebon. * '% V. It leads to Poverty, • ' ^ ^ Intemperance will clothe a man in rags. Pbverty will soon throw its tattered garment round the person who needs the morning dram, t&e noon-day toddy and the evening sling.— Poverty having marked the intemperate for its own, pursues them through every walk of life. It. drives them from tKfe abodes of wealth into those of mere competency, from these into the cottage or hut, and then the wrecks of intemperahce, (if they escape the paths which lead to human tribunals,) are. ■ *Nearly or quite nine-tenths of the crimes committed in this coun* iryt can be traced to intemperance as their procuring cause. ■MRItttfC^^^'' '' ■ »■ ~ . i».j»-.. 11 ItUK OOLD-WAtCB-KAir. ■1 1 , crowded Into oar poor^ouiea. In these they tre supported by those who can Iairour-*on (AetV own strength. Of the SOO,- 000 paupers which the United States have to support, ^.t least 150,000 were thrown on publick charity by intemperance.— Let him who wishes to bo poor and despised and an outcast fVom BQcioty, and a friendless, houseless child of want, drink spirituous liquors ; and it is almost certain that in a short time he will be more degraded than the beasis that perish.— Who is so lost to all shame that he will suffer intemperanco to make him a beggar? Who wilH Why the tippler! . yi. it fnwrdertTime, ■♦■ Moments aire the chariot wheels of time. Carried on these/ wo are rapidly approaching eternity. The intemperate squan- der them away. Those spent in making, vending, procuring, or using this deleterious poison, fly on;^ings of lightning to the throne of God. There they tell themournful tSe, that they have been misimproved. . Time deceives the intemperate. Every moment eeems to them so much like its predecessor, that they mistake it for the same. The present moment wears the livery of the last which is " with the years beyond the flood." Thus though the intemperate fly as if carried on the wings of thought, towards eternity, they vainly think 4hey are standing still. Hence thev are lavish of their time. They squander moments. Oh, what madness ! to waste what worlds want wealth to purchase. Let men, if they will, sacrifice cold and lands and croons and countries and empires. Let them trust their own tempond happiness or that of their nearest and dearest friends, to tne mercy of the wild tornado. Let them barter the world for a toy, or throw^it from them ''as a thing of nought." These are but trifles, play-things of children, valueless compared with time. On the proper improvement of this, the whole bliss of eternity rests. Let' not man then, in the madness of iiis folly, throw time away. It is a precious tjfeasure, which 3vhen gone can never again be ours. Who would waste this most precioUj^ blessing for that useless, nay , worse than useless article, spirituous liquors? Vn. JK datroys BupeettMUty md Ua^ulnen, The too free use of ardent spirits destroys a man's respec- tability and influence in civil society. The wealth of a Crce- 8U8, the talents of an angel, the halo of glory which sparkled fyr a time round the heSi of Alexander the Great, could not make an intemperate man respectable. His influence is si- 3*S8|IWi*!^.'J' T*— 1»»!r[-.r«rj^-y%ji«» lU t P mn^-^- CTILS OF INTEMPERANCB. 13 wayf of little or no momont. Who, in any civilized commu- nity, loolcs up witli revoronce to an intemporato person 1 No matter what Btation ho occupies, he is not respected as a friend, ' or his favour courted as one who is beloved. The opinion! of a drunkard are ffcnerally worthloHs. They are seldom or never followed, Tne wise and good take no pleasure in hi* company. They pity him. They pray for him. They feel that he has already entered the vortex of disnipation. lie poon discovers the estimation in which he is lield by the respecta- ble part of the community. With conscious inferiority, he shrinks back from the presence of men of sterling worth. He finds a place in the society of those who have sujik deep as himself in degradation and infamy and ruin. The drunkard has even fallen so low that disgrace itself often despines him. Let those then and those only, who would hazard their respec- tability and inflacnce, sip occasionally that which certainly will irijnre B.nA may Little that is useful is ever accomplished by the drunkard. He seldom thinks of attempting to accomplish a laudable un- dertaking. To get drunk, and storm and rave, or act the part of a simpleton, and then sleep himself sober again, is the chief aim of the drunkard. If he did no harm in society, he would then be bift a useless drone. Let every man who desires to be useful to his fellow-creatures, avoid the intoxicating bowl as he would the lowest depths of disgrace. An intemperate man cannot be useful, respectable or influential. VIII, It deteriorates Moral Feeling. Intemperance dries up the fountain of moral f§eling in the breast of man. The intemperate person sees no excellence in social duties. Though loveliness might clothe them in its most delightful charms, he perceives not their beauty. Ho does not wish to increase the happiness Of his fellow-beings. He delights not to see worldly prosperity throw its mantle over them. But he, both by precept and example, strives to lead old and young from the abodes of wealth, and of honour, and of usefulness, and of happiness, into those of poverty, and disgrace, and worthlessness, and misery. Intemperance has killed even his last wish to take a high, honourable statid among moral men. He does not perceive that even morality would raise him almost inlinitely high above the le^I of the drunkard. Where is the person then that' has a singldBkrk of moral fedU ing to worm his heart, that will not exerWns every powerwK-^ prevent intemperance from destroying it in ot|;iers1 What is i ^^iSa»;^*.„. - Wl .' 1' ■A': u VBI COLD-WATtm-IIAir. roan, whon hit moral feoUng haa, through the influence of intoxicatiofr liquor, degenerated into childiah woakneas, or become beastly ferocious? Let all who would cultivate mo- ral feeling avoid the curse of ourses, ardent spirits. / TK^ hUempertmee is a PiMick Evit /■ / v.y/-; TKe intemperate man injures his country. Every reflecting person knows, that the drunkard, no less than others, is moraH ly bound to promote good order, good morals, and social hap- Einess ; fiecause all, without exception, ought to do this.— - lut alas! what good does the drunkard do his country ? Wo ought rather to ask, who can properly estimate ythe evil which he doesi Hpf voluntarily unfits himself for the proper dis- charge of any duty. In time of peace, he robs his country of the talents, and influence, and industry, and morality, and religion, of a good citizen, lie throws upon the community a worthless drone, that lives on the labours of industry. He atalks about like a moral pestilence, scattering his vile conta- gion with every breath. He is a walking plague, a living eath. He caters for hell. He recruits fo^ the devil. Oh! what a deadly damp does he breathe on bis country, when green-eyed jealousy, with a demon's heart, dares not plant a ostile foot upon its shores ! And what is the drunkard worthy, in the hour of danger 1«-» Should war, with its fiend-like loolc, and **ff&rmentB rolled in blood," appear in our land, and trumpet defiance to all re9i8t- ance, who should we then find ready to make his breast his country's bulwark 1 He in whose just estimation liberty is va- lued *' above lUl price," would meet the invading foe, with a heart of brawi and a nerve of steel. He would contend with the enemy every inch of ground. Where liberty stopped, there he would stand. Where liberty fell, there no would fall.— Where liberty expired, there he would die. The destroyer of his country's liberty must march over lus lifeless corpse^ in order to take possession of what remained when liberty was no more. And can men, when enffaged in a eood cause, with- out distilled liquors, dash through the blood, and sweat, and dust, and confusion, and cries, and groans, ancl death of the battle-day ? Can we imagine that a/lrankdird, who is a volun- tary slave to his cups, has any reaLtove for his country or liber- ty? When the demon of wa^^ppears to wrest tha.t invalua- ble treasure from the hand of those who will live free or die, what can we hope fVom the intemperate ? ^aU we send them into the field of slaughter, there to be mown down in whole hecatombs by the edythe of death? Should amiUionofdrunk^ ■/■' / W \ -.'. /«lil!IWP''J'^' '/' / ■ kbd^ lence of /' nets, or /' / ratenc v^ /. '^■.' ■ ' sflectinf R morul ;ial hap- } thifl.-^ f1 Wo il which ipcr dis- country lity, ana nunity a ry. Ho conta-. a living il. Oh! y, when I; plant a nger?— rolled in 1 re9i8t- 'east hii tyis w.' i, with a with the d, there 1 fall.^ estroyer orpee, in srty was se^with- eat, and h of the a volun- orliber- invalua- e or die, ind them n whole >fdrunk- :? .<■'.■ BVILI or INTCllPBBAlfCK. 11 trda ■ttfger out to battle, the/ would give to ally tat If. Boble victory to a mere handAif of such aa can be both tern- Derate and brave. The um of ardent apirite breaka down tbe heart of courage. It deatroya, in the drunkard, every noble and generouB principle. He la unfit for that cool, calculating, determined braverv, which ia so inconceivablyijuMfUl on the field of battle. He therefore, in time of war,lde^rivea hie eountry of the courage, and wiadoro, and fortitude, of • good aoldier. Among a nation of drunkards, civil liberty could not exist. In such a community, the tree of liberty would aoon wither and die. Who, then, that loves his country or oivil liberty, will not bring the whole Weight of his influence to prevent the evils of intemperance, to stay the progress of this sea of destruction, to stem this tide of moral death, which is transforming so many thousand good citizens into nuisaocea to society? ' I Intemperance not only unfits men to discharge their du- ties, either in peace or war, but drunkenness is itself a national disgrace. Every true American would feel hurt, to have a citi- len of any other nation on earth point to a drunkard as he reels and staggers alon^ the highway, belching out his half-uttered oaths, and say. with a sneer: "There goes an American.** He would feel his lofty independent spirit sink, to see, on any publick occaaipn, a hundred or more drunkards patrolling the ■treeta, while the stranger should say, in an under tone of voice, ** The Americans are a nation of drunkards." Let us, at once, wijpe off thia national stiffma firom our national character, by refusing to use ardent spirits as a drink. Where is the man in whose veins a nngle drop of American blood flows, that will net throw firom him the drunkard's cup untested 1 What pa- triot would not feel honoured by assisting to remove from &■ country such a despicable stigma as dnudcennessT Even the moderate use of ardent spirits is evidently a na* tional evil. This leads the soldier and mariner from one step to another in the road to disgrace, till the rope's end or drum- mer's scourge punishes them for their neglect of duty, or % j the actual commission of crime. All who have any thing lik« ! an acquaintance with the army and navy, know that more than j nine-tenths of the crimes committed bv our seamen and sol* diers may be tnced to the moderate or immoderate use of die- tilled liquors, as their procuring cause. I love the soldier. I love^the sailor. It wounds my heart to see that blood follow the lash, which he would voluntarily pour out for the salva- tion of his country. I detest the practice which leads the sol- dier whose heart pants after glory, into the paths of infamy. To quaff the poisoned bowl doee this. Let the sold^ the% V .1 10 .V»i,- 9II1 COLD-WATBR-MAW. PH and tho mariner, tho protoctora of tholr country^a honour, avoid tho ordiimry uio of ardont spirita in any quantity, ai thoy would tho painful acourge of diagraco. Who that lovaa hia country can furb(*ar to (Vown upon thia national ovil, thia peat of aocicty, thia death of true courage, thia canker-worm of li- berty, thia gangrene of publick honour— tho uae of diatiUed Uquorl X. It i$ death to Religioui Feeling. . Intemperance, wherever it ei^iala, dcatroya all true religioUi feeling. Tho nolomn realitica of eternity aoldom make an abi- ding impression on tho mindM of the intemperate. Of the truth of thiH, the ChriNtian, and of<|H>cinlly the Christian ndniater, haa fearful evidence. Should the preacher'a reaaoning on eter- nal things be powerful aa thot of tho half angrtlick ^fewton, it would carry no conviction to tho drunkariTa mind. Should truth flaxh on tho intellectual puwera of iiijfltround, like tho bright blaze of tho noon-day aun, Iuh aouMfOuId remain enve- loped in tiio dark gloom of moral midnight. J)id persuasion, like the honey of eloquence, flow from tlie tongue of the mot- senger of mercy, he could not^hain tho attention of tlio intem- perate. Should he paint virtue in all its attractive clMirma, the tippler would not perceive ita lovcHneaa. Did ho, aa with a pencil of liglit, portray the undying bliaa that religion can give, he opuld not make the drunkard feel. Should he, with the light' «frM;velation in his hand, point the intemperate man to the darwikbodcs of cternnl death, tho terrifick sight would not itiake hrm trenible, ■ Were the cover removed from hell'a burning mouth ; could he with tho eyes of bis understanding discover the wretched inhabitants of that lifkvld of wo, drink; ing liquid fire mingled with the venom of the damned ; did perceivb them tossed upon a sea of flame, lashed into fury b|^ the treme*[^ous 'storm of divine wruth; should he behold the worm that ^«ror. ditefl, making its eternal feast on tho very vi- tals of thei^lMfeoptftl souls; did he discover infernal spirits robed in burtB ^Klfe| ^tq|ie, wailing in inconceivable agony; should be heii^np|fq^i»ll8 of^tho lost, or see them wri- thing in anguJaPMBJAi m teBB despair, amid the eternal foldi of the old 8erpa|p«K|lpne undy&Kjppbrace of endless death, the drunkard's%uP-BMled^ conBcHSce would not be hQrrour- Btricken. In v^w of all this misery, wretchedness and wo, it would not give the alarm. It would scarcely feel the sting of guilt. His judgement would convince him that his present course must terminate in endless torment, in thif place where hope never comes, and where God has for ever forgotten to be gracious. But notwithstanding all this, he would still stagger « I l?ILt or INTEMrERANCC. g 17 tn down through tho broad road towards that priaon of tor' row, and liop«lg«>QOM. and agony, on tho throihold of which XI iSlflSBfcf **"■ "*'*•"'*'' "no departure lionco." V*L!*ll iftJW .'* *=o'J unfooling heart, tho joya of heaven maic^i^inmHIroaaion aa tho torroura of hell. Should th« 1 for CfcriBt throw open tho very gatoa of hoavon ; h tho unvarniahod langiuiff^ of inauiratiun xiuoXt, icribo the glonca of tho upper world: ahould he point tho bmpornto to that kingdom which ahall never end, or Hpoak then ff that crown which ahall aparklo with goniM of im- njiorta I y, when earth and all ita empires ahall cea«e to bo- ■hould he lead them on the winsra of thought to tho v«»ry por- :fi °'^?^«f"** '»''••!'» »nf* "how them the rolie of rightcousnoaa with which tlio Hainta m heaven are clothed ; ahoujd the mo- ♦ . rodioua ''awony of the New Jerusalem strike their liHfening ear ; ahoum all the unoUoyed delight that ham.ii.e«8 and hol* noss, and reconciliation with God, can give, to presented to their mmd their frozen hearts, with all the bliss if heaven in view, would feel no pleasure, no gratitude, no rapturous emo- tion. The glorious author of such boundleaa, such ineflTable bUss, calls to them m vain for a sincere manifestation of love to him, the Lord of all. No spark of genuine love has lea its calm conaolmg delight in their bosom. No, the withering breath of intemperance has blicrhtcd their every religious feeP ing. Its cold paralyzing touch has frozen up tho fountain of kindness m tlieir soul. It has closed every avQnue to their heart. Intemperance throws the chill of doath over every re- ligious feeling of the soul. The drupkard's heart is coWor than that clammy, icy touch which freezes up the fountain of iSriwf *"^ /T®", ^^ *?* '''^'» '^ ^J*y tenement into ^frmty.^Over it, desolation has spread its most fktal blank. *1BK? «V***.'*T" '™Jy excellent has made ita escape.— ^here then is the person in whose bosom a single spulc of relifirious feeling or love to man is found, that will deliberately use his influence and tpend his time in assisting to make his fJ- wonlH n"S"?lK K^**** ^*^** ^T" ^^ "eighboSr as himseff would not, both by jweccpt and example, strive in every lau- dable manner to put a« extinguisher on intemperance; that SSikS,?:S ^"^^^^^ —- eyeryScellenJ^S XL n %iyure$ the tame of Reiigion on Ikirth. \ in hKfr^^l*® n»»n.n«t only destroys all religious feiimr £ tJL!? ' I?"*,*"? ^""^ injures the caus^ of reUfffottpn eSt£ la the drunkard, mtemperance steahi the keys ffom reason.-! m 18 TBK OOLD-WlTEB-mif. II, I It spread a monl wl of midkiight darkiieM over hit mind.— He throws open the flood-gates of blasphemy. Whenever he comes, iniqmtv, like a tide of mOlten fire, rolls over the earth. His presence, like the daihp of death, chills the' warm feelings of vital piety. Where he revels in his drunkenness, reli^on cannot exist. There wickedness flings away its last disguise; There, with brazenfirOnt, and hateful smile, and boisterous rage, and uncloaked vUeness, and unrestrained passions, and most active depravity, whoever is superlatively base appears, is encouraged, is caressed. When the drunkard drinks, and staggerSf and letches, and' wallows, even rude thought runs vHld. Who would thiiodc of finding piety where shameless wickedness reigns in uncontrolled supremacy? Should we search the whole creation round, we would noi find a single comer where the religion of our blessed Saviour flourishea in a nest of drunkurds. Who among the intempe- ■ rate thinks on reli|;ions JubjeCta as he oughtY Where are tlu^ drunkard's reasoning powers? * They are drowned in rum.--* Where is his conscience ? It is seared with nun. Where his Bible? It is sold for rum. Where his seat in the sanctuary of God? It has been forsaken for rmn.- iSyiusre are his sab- baths spent? Drinldng rum, in the tippling shop, or oyer the fiimes of the inebriatiiv bowl. Who are his compamons ?— The lovwsjof rum. What is his lanffiiage? The obscene, the degramng, the bUuiphemoui oaths of the drunkard. What are hip actional Tiiky are'auch as both God and man abhor. . What are his feelings? Those of a demon. What are his thoughts? The wild, hell hatched fenciea of a brain trem* bling under the deranging influence of rum. But we;fi>rbear. We thus see that the drunkard is pre-eminent in wickedness. He occupies the first nak in all that is low and degrading and vile; He is a standard bearer in the army of the prince of darkness. He is a rdlying point around which the heirs of hell meet. Whatgv^ isSetestafele in thought Or word or deed, centres in the drsqg^ard'. As far then a&«in has a ten^ dency to dMtroy holin»BS, so far has intemperance a tendency to arrest the progress and injure the cause of true religion.— Who therefore, that mays for the "knowledge of tiie Lord to cover the earth as the waters do the 8eaa,''^can with heart and hand, strive to people his neighbourhood, his countnr, the world with drunkards? Who that does not love sin and hate ion and holiness, will give the soul destroying draught to IdsfeUow man ? Who that has the least regard for the pros- perity of Zion, win scatter through the mordUtmbsphere^the withering evils of intemperance ? Who will plant the seeds of dninkenness in Ue neighbourhood, and then, hope to make ro» ■ ^ ^K"--^-^'- ''amnrwtl^^'imr- |>(i?WWl»B«!^¥*5(W»S"«» N; BTIL8 07 INTEMPERANCE. 10 fleeting persons believe, that he loves^mah or religion or the true God ? Who can be such an enemy to the community as to speni) his time in manutacturing drunkards? Reader, can 'you? ; ;■■ A" ■. ^ ; /'.■■. XII. Itg {f|/fuence oti Domegticlf ttappinets. Intemperance' like a canker worm> preys on the core of do- mestick happiness. Qn this and every other comfort, it places an exfinguitiher. Tlii^, the only wreck of the bliss of para- disOf which survived ^he fall/it destroys. When it enters a house, its very breath blights the buds of social pleasure.—- The soul of the intemperate man is not thrilled with joy at the thought of wife, $!hildren or tjriends. Poverty, and sickness, and infamy, and crime, are the almost constant inmates of the drunkard's abode. /, To prove that intemperance^hro ws its withering curse over all that is lovely in the domestick circle, we shall adduce only one example. And it is alas ! but a common every-day occur- rence. Il^ counterpart is acted in almost every neighbour- hood. To think of it is enough to make a cold chill pass through the veins. It is /almost enough to freeze up the warm current of li^^, But /truth must be told, however pain- ful the recital. "^.-' Of the millions of dwel|ingsint6 which intemperance haa entered, and from which it /has banished all the delights of so- cial enjoyment, we shall mention but one. It stood on an ele- vation but a short distance from the highway. It was a neat, c well constructed, unostentatious abode of happiness. In it dwelt a father, a mother, a son, a daughter. Taste, and science, and wealth scattered^ their delights in rich profusion in and around this little terrestrial paradiiile. Here domestick affection and felicity resided. Hejfre all the bliss that earth could give, was found. Here kindness ruled in evilry heart, and spread its sweetest smik on every countenance. Here' pleasure beamed in every eyOj while those little offices of kindness, which together compose much of the happiness^f human life, were performed*/ Piety, too, residied here, for religion had spread its man|j|i^ of purest affection over those who dwelt in this abode of Mlrthly bfissl A glorious hope of a blessed im- mortality, had /stamped it J sweet, placid, heavenly impression on the countenance of >Bawi ; one only excei)ted. From this dwelling, the voice of prayer, the incense of' the heart, ascend- ed, acceihable as the evening saciihce, to a throne of grace. Morningi noon and night, the recording angel penciled down in heaven's register, their holy aspirations after God's own precious blessings. Tbe one who would not lodge the Savi- r t -. ' -^'-^ ^4 I til so THE COLD-WATKR-M AH* ■.•\ ■ I ■.■ -i' ii:;; ^. I: .ii our in hig hdart, who felt no rapture, no holy love or pleasure in devotion, was he in whom the fiither and mother hoped to find the staff of their declining ^ears. Though piety infused no drop of heavenlv consolation into his cup ofcarthly felicity^ he was not altogether unhappy, for he loved his father, and his mother, and his Bister, and the homllbf his childhood, and one, too, far dearer than all, whom he had chosen as the partner of his days, the friend of his bosom, the wife of his youth. Her he had vowed, most solemnly vowed, in the presence of God, angels and men, to love and protect. At that time he had a heart ; he was sincere ; he could feel. Then his was the ten- deirness pt a man, of one of nature's nobihty. Then feelings of kindness clustered thick around his heart. When distress spread its darkest curtain over a fellow mortal, sympathy al- ways warmed his bosom, and philanthropy taught his hand to afford relief. He whom poverty had clothed in rags, and up- on whom a cold, unfeeling, heartless world frowned or looked with disdain, found, under his hospitable roof, a shelter from the pitiless storm of adversity. When age, with its wrinkled visage and snowy locks thinly scattered round the hem of its threadbare cap which three score years agone was the orna- ment of younger years ; when age, with its tottering gait and atooinng form, and its once warm current of life clidlled by the frosts of time or the cold blaists of a hundred winters, appeared at his doOr, he was ever ready to spread before it the mantle of comfort. His^ house was the stnuieer's home. Hospitality gave the way-worn traveller a cheerful welcome to his firesidd comforts. When disease laid its enfeebling touch on its pe- tite, he was always prepared to' perform the office of kindness, to administer the cordial of relief, to support th^ aching head^ to sustain the sinking frame. The chamber into which death had entered in pursuit of his prey, where he had closed the windows of the soul, and silenced the daughters of musick, loosed the silver cord of life, with a rude stroke, broken its golden bowl, arrested its warm refreshing current, and sealed up its fountain in dark forgetfulnes$, often witnessed his pre- sence^ Wheff a neighbour, a relative, a friend was called into the world of spirits, the silent tear would steal down liis man- ly cheek, and declare, in nature's eloquence, that his heart could feel. His deep drawn sigh would prove his grief sincere. ' When the sun of prosperity shone on those around hin^, de- light would sit smiling on his countenance. Age blessed him, manhood honoured hun, youth and childhood, and even infan^ cy loved him. Near this man, in whose bosom resided all human excel- ■lenceand sterling worth, lived a professed follower of the meek '«^':-w>«ss?|j|-*"*^**»!*W'-'^^ i^'!tt"t!-0f^Vt.T.VV^'** '■ EVILS OF INTIHPKBANCB.^ SI and lowly Jesus. He prayed, and prayed for nimen too. H« prayed that his master^s name might soon be known throagh> out the world ; that true religion every where might flourish; that the gospel in its triumphs, might be extended nu: and wide, and be, wherever preached, q. blessing ; that sinners might be redeemed from sin and hell ; and that God, in every nation, and province, and city, and town, and village, and hamlet, and dwell- ing, and heart, might be glorified.. But he kept for sale the bane of all that is happy, and good, and great, and Wise, and useful, DiSTiLLEp LiquoR. When he who lacked but the one thing needful j vital piety, in company with other persons met "* this professor's hbu.sei they at first but tasted, in friendship, '- soul destroying poison. At another meeting they sipped n, but with less caution. At' a third, a glass was caUed am. fc ; then, as their meetings multiplied, two or three, or four ^ lust be drank to make them social. Presently they retire re- luctantly, then at a late hour, then anxiously desire another meeting, then increase their times of meeting and their auma of money wasted. ' Thus all were hurrying towards the vortex of eternal ruin. At this eventful crisis, when they were standing on the slip- pery brink of dissipation, ohe began to feel his purse grow light, and staid his- hand. Another seeks a home in the wildness of the forest. In the dreariness of solitude, he es- capes impending destruction. Sickness seizes a third and snatphes himfirom the very jaws of this living death. Another hears the voice of conscience and thus escapes. The holy spirit as a miracle of grace, takes another from this sink of sin, and makes him a holy neir of unending joy in heaven. Not one was left save the pride of his father, the darling df his.motherf the stay of his sister, the idol of bis loved one. At the Christ- ian's house he called and drank, and drank and called again. Soon he began to drink his morning dram, and once, or twice, or thrice, during the day he must drink a little. When con- science with its voice of thunder said j ** Death is in the bowl," he wlio sold the fatal, cursed draught and put it in his neigh- bour's hand, could perceive in it, lie said, nothing injurious;— But love of gain had steeled his soul and thrown ovei it the deadly, hardening, withering veil of covetousness. It had left him — -— where O ! my God ! He still would sell, hii neighbour still would drink. The wary father now saw his son upon the crumbling verge of dissipation. .Distress began to prey upon the core of the good old man's heart. He wept and prayed in secret over his son, now almost lost. He reproved, kmdly, ^tmestly re- proved him. He persuaded, he entreated him to dash firop ^ ,^v c, f r, THE, COLD- WATER- MAW. / l|is lips,, that cap in the bottom of which lay coiled eternal death. He conjured him in the name of all that was sacred, ,, to exercise every power both of body and of mind, to free him« self from that fiital spell which the monster, intemperance, bad already begun to throw around him. But his remonstrances and entreaties wCre all in vain. The son, though almost a drunk- ard, felt no danger. A taste for ardent spirits was acquired. An unnatural appetite \fas#)rmed. A craving which gnawed his very vitals and was continually crying give, give, had been called into existence. This insatiuMe, rum-created desire, actinv like a canker worm to every oxcellence, was fast de- BtrOyin^ the kind, generous, noble feelings which nature had given him; though hitherto he had always been found among those who were called temperate drinkers, Nor had he him* selfMn a single instance, yet, been found intoxicated. But the " milk of human kindness*' was soured in his breast. His fa- ther was no longer dear to him. He in sulkiness retired from his presence. He returned to him who professed to love the Saviour, and purchased another draught of his soul killinnf Eoison. Now the noisy mirth of the son's dissipation was eard. Once it would have grated On his ears like the yells of a harpy. But with him it had lost much of its harsh, wil4i demoniack sotipd. At first he stood at a distance, then ap- proached, then looked into, then entered the haunts of intem- perance. The monster fastened a secret^ powerful charm up- * on his senses. He now mingled with drttnkards, joked with drunkards, laughed with drunkards, blasphemed with drunk- ards, drank with drunkards, but for a tirne drank sparingly. His home became neglected. His evenings were spent in the society of drunkards. At length he himself for the first time became intoxicated^ Hope's last glimmering taper then expired; The flood-gates of desolation were thrown open. Destruction, uijjpbstructed, might now rush on in all the wildness of its fury, and leave in his soul, but the wreck of nonsense. The walls that stood between, him and disgrace were now completely demolished. The citadel of honour was stormed by ^temperance. It had ignobly surrendered at discretion, to its bitterest foe. - The barrier was wholly removed. The flood was increasing in its rapid course. Hope itself could now discdver no reasonable prospect of his reformation. ' V ^ Ppr years every morning sun as it looked abroad upon the . world, saw the increasing happiness of his affectionate family. The smile of love, of joy, of frienidship, made his home a little paradise of bliss. She who had blessed him with her love and taught her children to call him father, spent her mornings in ' *«*iraiSW-'W?» \ CTILS or WTEICPERANOI. 86 •■> of desolation rested upon her aoul. Happineu fled from her dwelhng. Poverty Boon becamo her constant companion— Her speaklnff eye> as it languished in silent, hopeless, unin- terrupted sadness, told, in the eloquence of the heart, the tal« of her anguish. _ She loved the wretch and therefore mourned his fcbs«nc«.— She dreaded his return ; for his warm affections had degene- rated into coldnefs, his coldness into indifference, his indiffe- rence into neglect, his neglect into disgust, and this he fre- quently manifested by personal abuse. He had murdered his time, squandered his property^ thrown away his reputation, and banished every kind feeling from his heart. And yet not- withstanding all his unfeelingness and brutality, her affection! were all his bwn. No redeeming trait was found in his cha- racter, because he was a drunkard. His children were grow- ing up in idleness, and ignorance, and irreligion, because their fetber was a drunkard. His wi|e soon hacTno home, because her husband was a dninka||. Happiness here he had^one, for he was a drunkard. Th6 last of his hopes of heaven had vanished, for he was a drunkard. He sickened. The physician could give him no relief, for the patient was a drunkard. Ho died, and left the world as he had Uved, a drunkard. His bo- dy filled a drunkard's grave. His soul entered upon the drunk- ard's eternity. ^ His wife and children must now meet the scorn of an uh- feeh^jg world. His widow without a home and pinched with wimt, was thrown upon the charity of an uncharitable world. All the anguish that a heart can feej, she felt. The earth to ier ^as but a dreary wilderness. At every stiep she saw ita frowD or felt its sneer. Every inch of her pathway to the tomb, was thick beset With thorns. Her anxiety and 'distress were indescribable. Her children but here the heart sickens. We must cease to describe. None but a mother can tell what a mother feels for her children in distress. Our tongue cannot tell, our imaginationtannot paint, what she felt for her children. She lived a while in nameless anguish, then died a broken-hearted mother. Her children, for a time dis- tressed *nd alone, were at length scattered through the world, and soon disappeared. ' (Thus perished the drunkard's very name on the earth, p ! what a hateful, withering, ^eadly curse does intemperance throw on domestick happiness! How it breathes a happiness- kUhng pestilence wherever it comes ! The very atmosphere mwhich'the drunkard moves is tainted with moral death.— Where then is the man whose heart is hot callous to every tender feeling, that will deliberately taste tjliig borri4 cup, or , t# M ii ;ii^ •■■■* ^y; ■'^.•- ; • , .tB* COLD* WAT»^MA!f. /':::'' «mi«t, In any manner or dogfreo, to make hii neighbour a dnink- •rd? Who thatjioa the least regard for his fellow boinira Would be willing to be inatruniontol in destroying the social happmosa of one family, not to say of hundreds? Whore la the fornale who will not do something to snatch her sex from such misery, wretchedness and wo, us intemperate fathers or husbands or brothers inevitably bring upon them ? Where is the moderate drinker that will not, in order to dry up this rource of domestick misery, dash the cup from his lips, fully determined never to drink again another drop of this alcoho- Iick poison? Reader, will you ever again assist in destroy- ing the happiness of the domestick circle, by making or vend- ing or UBUig ardent spirits ? . '^ , xin. nmutheSmd, V Intemperance destroys the soul. It is a very Samiel to ail happinesB. It puts an extinguisher on every rational hope of bliss m the world to come. The holy example of others makes no good impression on the drunkard. Its irresistible eloquence does not change the bent ofliis mind, or make him act accordr ing to the laws^of God. The "gospel, in accents sweeter than angels use, whispers peace." Its language ought to carry rapture to every soul. But it eharms not the drunkard. In his behiUf the i)rayers of saints enter continually the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. But he prays not for himself. His sup- phcatmg TOice ascends not to a throne of grace. Instead of pra;ring, he staggers down to hell overall the obstructions which an indulgent, a taerciful God has placed in the downward road. Presently he steps over the verge of time into the bot- tomless pit, there to spend the drunkard's eternity. For ho who cannot lie ^has said, "The drunkard shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Poracupof death, he has sold eternal life. :. - I or an earthly hell, he has bartered heaven. For the stupi- ^ fying wretchedness of ffetting drunk, he has exchanged un- ending bhss m the world above. For the sake of poverty, and mi^ry, and disgrace, and contempt, and remorse, and sick- ness, and premature death, he has plunged his naked soul into ; everlasting burnings. For the degrading, banefiil, desperate ia ^ society of drunkards, and for the sake of wallowing with them " ^' .v m eveiy kind of filthiness, he has leaped into the jaws of un- ' dymg death. To obtain all that was pitiful, and despicable, / and vile on earth, he has rushed into the fearful abodes of the ' S""??' f^ei^e to spend an unending existence, a never ending life of living wo. Who that knows the vglueof thtf soul, wifi exchange It for the heart freezing misij^Twhich the intempe- /■ I" J* I > ,/ •;«K«!M*«,r«w»<»'-' mntU 6W IKTEMPCRAlfCl. tt drunk- boingi. fio social Vhoro is sex from ithcrs or Vhero is up this ps, fully I alcoho- dcstroy- or vcad- el to all hope of 8 makes oquencei accordr ter than ;o carry ird. ears of His sup- f stead op'^ ructions wnward the bot^ For he - lerit the ., nal life, e stupi- jed un- rty, and id sick- }ul into sperate th them I of un- ^icable, I of thi^^ ending ul, win iteiDpo* ^ / i*{ ST ' !J *;n»*ffnpon thomsolvos, and which they 9011107 all around them ? Who that fools for the souls of men or desires their ■alvatjon, will deliberately assist to make them drunk? Who tiiat does not absolutely desire Uieir eternal misery, will, for any price, or on any consideration, furnish men spirituous li- quors, mnco tlio drunkard's soul must sink down for over in unavailing wq? Who dares, in his presumption, throw an immortal 8o>il into hell ? If hone dare, then lot none deal out liquid dananation, in the form of ardent spirits, to his nciffh- SDour. Ffor by doing this, the dealer in this liquid fire, bars tha atOS of liGaven, and ontices his neighbour into the gulf of per- '^*°?* ,}X''° '? prepared thus toTtill the sobl of his follow 5?^\ Who would bo willing to people hell with drunkards! VVho? No one but him whose heart is steeled against everv ^ fine teeling of human nature. O ! the soul that never dies ♦— . It IS too precious, too valuable to be sold for rum. Reader if you value vour soul's immortal interest, dash the cup of death untasted, trom your lips. „— . .^- We have all, either directly or indirectly, felt, in our own prsons, the evil of using ardent spirits. There is not, per- haps, a single family in the United States, which has nptVor does jiot, number, in some of its branches, one drunkard— it may bo many. The national disgrace which it produces, its demoralizing influence on society, what it adds to the amount ot our taxes. Its withering influence on the community, arc Bome of the ways in which the use of spirituous liquors indirect- ly injures all. There are very few individuals Who have not in some degree, been injured by using it themselves. And who has never been disgusted by the sight of a drunkard?— An evil which we all feel or have felt, wealj ougEt to attempt to remedy. Who can say that not one of his relations has ever disgraced himself and his friends by mtoxication? What a merciless, destnictivO monster, that must be, from whose horrid fangs, no family, and scarcely ah individual, has wholly escaped ! Let all then who have felt the disgraceful influence wr?*"'*®''^"*^® '"®^"^® ^ **^'® thedrunkard^s cup. Who can, for a moment, reflection the evils of intemperance and then say: «' The drunkard injures none huthimself: that he ^onlyAw mm enemy ?» He inuires all. He is an enemy of all; mis death to the temporal h/ppiness of many. He murders his own soul. Reader, wha/is that in your hand? It is the drunkw-d's bowl? Does it/contain the inebriate's disgustine potion? Is it filled with/voluntary delirium? Is that mad- ■' ^ ■■■.■84. -;■ v:. -"/■■/■• ■/ /. E. 1: . 1 1 I ii * r-"- ; ■ .TBI OOLD-WATIR-MIW. :. : which ■Miliek ,. drtmken- ness, a# the bottom of which is the mouth of hell. Its decep- tion is so artfiilly practised, that they imagine themselves per- fectly temperate, till they become the veriest sots. Thua blindly are they led on, till by the unnatural appetite which •ijTP iriLl OF MODCIIATE DBINimo. 89 n your It will Dtenni . ' I. in jrou , m yoa fttmo*- « y1 If akwill •■ • % .„■... Brtingf Scient I per- atters fipain tsdo- :ham- m 8i- eter- ;ry of tiken-. ecepi* sper- Thug irhich ;f , moderate drinkinfr hu produced, they are hurried Into endle« rowcry. Who dcMiroi to bo doc^^ivod by bin inoHt deadly en»« niy ? Lot such and only such, drink a little ardent apirita.** Let us baniMh the ouatom of moderate diiukiug from eivU w* ciety. It ia a baao deceiver* • if ' ' ..... ■ ■ ■ ■' '■■.■.'■ / 11. It kadi to Drunkenne$$. .. Moderate drinking ia the first step to drunkenneaa. It points those who practise it, to the drunkard's grave, to the drunk* ard a hell. The language of ita actions to tliem is, " follow Die and you will become drunkarda ;" while ita Siren voice whispers, " there is no danger." Temperate drinkers, as they • call themselves, throw upon the community, a whole host of drunkards. No man ever becomes a drunkard before he has, lor a timoj been a moderate drinker. Indeed, almost every ^ drunkard calls himself a^temperate drinker. He, however in- tempofate, is in his own estimation, a temperate drinker, for a long time at least, after he is a druokard in the estimation of every sober man. The moderate drinker is never absolutely safe. lie is one of a society which furnishes all our drunkards. Our whole army of drunkards, more than 300,000 in number, have, Without a smglo exception, ushered forth on the commu- nity from the society of temperate drinkers, as they call them- Belv^s. Since 30,000 of these annually drop into the eternal world, there must, to keep the ranks in the army of drunkarda full, come from among these temperate drinkers, at least 30,000 now drunkards every year. Is there no danger in belonging to a society, 30,000 of whose members annually become drunkards I That these self-styled temperate drinkera furnish lOI the drunk- ards, is too evident to need proof. Who does not at once perceive that the man who drinks no intoxicating liquor, ne- ver becomes a drunkard I And who does not know Uiat eve- ry drunkard was at first one of /A«?»c temMrate drinkers? In view of these facts, who among us does fiot cleariy see, that if there were no such temperate drinkers as compose this so- ciety, theire would very soon be no drunkards? Do we wish to be led to the drunkard's grave? If we do not, let us all with one Voice, declare ourselves on the side of entire ab- stinence. . V l^» ItcovntentpceaDrunkennessi^^ ■ ' He who, while in hfealth, tastes alcoholick liquors, appro- bates their use. Modeirate drinkers not only furnish from their ranJw, aU the drunkard^ on earth, but they also keep them in countenance, by drinking the same article whicb produces their ^**"'^'-'T^tt*»'' ir 1. ■ ■ ■■■■ 1^, ■:;,;: \ I I so THB OOLD-WATBB-MAIV. intoxlciUon. They «•, th«reforo, like dbtlllewtai «ia*,i of ardent epirlti, mccomplicim in all the guilt, of all the raiaer/ •nd crime, and death which drunkonnoia ocraaiona Thia la a aerioui charge, but a true one. The man who, «n any way. either .lirectly or indirectly, countenances, connives at. or en- coiirnpon tho cominisMion of any crime, is in truth, an accesso. ry bolnro tho (uct, or in other words, he is an accomplico in iti commission. No inaii who drinks any quantity of anloiit spi- rits, however small, will pretend that ho does nWountcnanct the drunkard by drinking the same kind of liq«SrVhat he doee! #l! i A' J**" 'Ifunkard's drink, and therefore countenances i.lif" J^t'"^- '" **""^'"* "• .^'"*^« *>« *»»»» countenances the .11 u. &. J*? If ^''''T"^ '** ^ ** ^"'"^ *>f drunkenness, and to •II Its fearful, disgusting, atrcicious consequences. Tippler, put IcLrw'XVyTu.'^"^"^'*"'''^*^^ ^}^\ "^ J***"' '^°*** moderate drinking, not only as the first •tep to intemperance and ruin, a step too, without which no vman ever became a drunkard, but also because it encourages tatoxication. Let us floe firom what is called the tempcrito Srk°ru*'''®"'^*P*"*''- '' " * ""»■' dangerous evil. l!«t ua i^rl,I?*/1C'^*'" T, 'P"- In drinking it we may swallow eternal death; we shall certainly encourage others to do so. If we taste the poisoned bowl as a beverage, we are ourselves Bv J^Sr.h.n:?"! "'^f 'y " ^°""** ''"'y »" «»t»'« abstinence! iniunng others. Who, then, will continue among that claas LTlu?//*"''** fiirnish a 1 our drunkards, in whicTi he i. pej! •onally in danger, and while he continues in it, certainly coun- K;^^ *K ^""/■''i''*'*" .*'® *^*" *^°'^ •* »>y «™pJy abstain- ing from the use of ardent spintsaa a drink 1 Whowould.by hie actions say to the drunkard, "we approve your disgusting SriSeiS life. ^'' '^" " '*' langukie^very mSfmtf . _ We cannot now stand neutral in relation to drunkenness.— The time has already come, when all men are claimed as abet- iZ'nifJI ^1?* ^easily sot, or by the perfectly sober. We my not be willing to admit that the drunkard's claim is legiti- mate. But he will claim us as belonging in some sense, to his * JS?'* ISif "^* "f ^'^^W-water-men. flis claim, he thinks, is * S?* * • V'® *'* ^^T'^ '° disapprove absolutely, any use of ardent^spints as a dnnk, the drunkard brings all the weight of - our mfluence to justify him in his intemperlnce, or in tagng » bnU, as he caUs it. This he will do wlThout addng our c?n* S^-Jt^i**K- •" do, though we tell himthat weibsolutelf con^emo all bis intemperate practices. W« can in no way .•■■^ ■,-f. A"-'., i'\^ "i^W" •~> -r- -^ iTiLi 01^ moderat; DBINEINO. •1 prevent thlf, but by bocoming membera of the tempenuieo lo- *^ 7i ^* *'^ thor6foro under th« n«cepiiity, ( whotbor we In- tend to do to or not,J of throwing tho weight of our bflu- ' ence jkito thn scale of drunkenneM or of entire •betiiwncs.— * Reader, which are you doing t ■/.''''■■ While we um as a drink, ardent .aplritffri any quantltf. It ia iri vain for us to admoniah him who ia in the moat oinl- nent dkngor of falling into the fktal vortex of drunkenneaa.^ Tell him that he standa on tho verge of the drunkard's grave. He rnplios (hat ho is doing nothing but what you and thouaande of nob*r men around him are doing. Tell him hla cupa are doHtroying his health, he will answer that you are in as great dnngor i^ he. If you sny that you ti^e but a little to do you good, hia answer will be, that he takes! a very litUo, just enough to do him good. It is in vain, whilo/you drink any, or wliHo ^ you dountcnance tho onHnary use of the least quantity;- to rensoi with him. Ho imasinea that he ia drinking a liXtU oc- caHiobally. And this, ho thinka, ia tbe nractico of all tlie mo- derate drinkers in his neighbourhood. ^While ho thinka he ia domg only what respectable people «^o, it is impossible to per auado him to desist. Who will any Ibnger countenance drunk ennotis by drinking a VMkf ■^/.■'■^' :-#.-^'-...^-' s, .IV. lU^ecUwiiktJhivMm Intern hyurunu. The least quantity of ardent spiiita drank by a peraon in health, is an injury. The article is an artificial, exciting ati- mulous. It is al8o a fktal narcotick. It producea an unmitu- nl action in the sanguineous system. It also materially dimi- nishes vital Busceptibility. This poison when drank,^ unleae it is useful in producing a medical e Ibct, ^veara out the prin- ciple of life. In this respect it resenbles other medicines.— When a person in health takes medicine, it alwaya injurea him. The object of medicine is, to [counteract disease; but when there is no disease to counteract, the power of the me- dicine being spent on a healthy system, must, aince it ia too great for a state of health, rack in some degree, the parts to which it is applied. Distilled liquor acts with a medical pow- er on the human system. A single drop of it, therefore, initk by a person in health, since it acts on him with a medical pow- er, is injurious. Whatever is medicinally stimulating, weari out the principle of life more rapidly than the nourishing ati- mnlants. And it is a remarkable fact, that ardetit spirits de- stroy the principle of life much mor9 tapidly tjhm any other artificial stimulant or narcotick. ' / ■i > \ ri |! ^'vT V^ -"'"•'^wiwttamm ,»•? ss :r TBI COLD-WilTCm-MAN. ijajOTiatity Of ardent ■pirit«/howeveri»aU,W fction for mtempe«ta •pp.titet M^ Ife who toX this article once, has broken down a bur which Wvea him ui M)[K)rtunity of taating it with less reluctonce a second time -- And the more frequently a person drinks, the less will be his reluctance to raise the cup to his lips. And «very time he tastes It he^is contributing tothe formation of that voracious mnpetite which can never be satisfied, that burning desire for alcohol, which alcohol, like oU oaa flame, can only increase. AcontLBued repetition of Its use, produces a habit which scarce, g' death Itself cantsonguer. Who would be willing to be thua toslavedl Whor Why the man that drinks a /&fe. *3„!J!?K*IS^ excitement which, in a person in health, is !Si?Sl J ^^ use of the least quantity of aistUled liquor, is an S^1S^J?*t* kA! *y % "I operatioii extends, it unfits the Wkfl!!^! ""^.^^^^""^l ^«' discharging their appropriate offices. w!?yr *" "y '^9'^ produces this unfitnis, evidently gaves the person in that degree, in jm unhealthy state.— Hence, for a healthv person to use the^Oeast quantity of ardent jpmts, predisposes*him in some degree, to every'disease, and inftf-nLl?*"^ ^"^ * "*?'^ ■^*""™« «»*e«*- Its benumbing influence is, moreover, the immediate cause^of some diseases. . uYn- rT ♦ K®*P^?^ '** ®^®'y {it< with death. This fearful scourge which the king of terrours holds in his hand, and every lash of which is q^lmost certain death to him who u^es any artfcnt spirit^;, and '^indeed to all the intemperate and vicious, has always appeared the decided friend of entire abstinence.* So true is this, that it has generally passed by the consistent members of tempe- rance societies, rarely laying its freezing hand upon them, and much more rarely throwing open the fiood-gates of life and driving their soul from the body. In thiis scourge, the Lord is delivering a temperance lecture to the v^orld. Men must hear. Let those then, who would avoid this discrimina- ting pestilence, refuse to taste ardent spires. Let them be assured that it marks for its prey, those wjho touch the ine- briating cup. , By those no£ intimately acquainted ^ith the history of In- dia and China and the Mohamedan countries, it may be asked; If it seizes with such discriminating, trenjiendoUs power, those who use ardent spirits, how is it that it destroyed such millions in the countries just mentioned? We reply> that the inhabit tants of all these countries, are in some respects, exceedingly intemperate. Most of them use large quantities of a liquor called arrack. It was ongiAally made in Tartary. Its int0xi«>'^ eating properties are of the most fatal description. It is dis- tilled firom rice or sugar, fermented with the juice of the co- coa-nut; or from mare's milk, fermented and distilled. This last jvas first invented by the TiCrtars of Tungusia. Its inebri- '^On the authority of a London periodical^ wc would elate, that in the whole Upited Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland^ not a single member of a temperance society has fallen a prey to the cholera, while it has slain in these islands, not less than 10,000 persons. In Montreal, (Canada, ) out of 350 entire abstinence men| but one died 6f this placue, though from that city it has carried in« to eternity, nearly 1,500 others. The case just mentioned, and one in the United States, are the only instances which have yet appear* ed in print, of cold^wateromen dying of this^ purifying pestilence. It appears therefore, that when it seizes the temperate, it is com- paiatively a muiageable disease. - T-i I ,l! \^ 'Hfw ■M: #: ating qualities wo altogether the most deadly. Many of those nations are, like the French, intemperate in their food. Others use opium, or coffee, or both to excess. And vice in its most hideous forms, stalks abroad in open day, in every corner of those countries. It is true, the most cheering beams of hea- ven slumber in their every vale. The spicy breeze bears on Its odorifick Wmgs, the fro8hne:ss of the morning. Nature, with a hand of profusion, has scattered over their land, the necessa- ries, the comforts, the luxuries of life. But there, moral con- , tagion has throwft its most desolating influence over the mind of man,^ lie is vile. He is degraded. He is intemperate in lood and drink. And therefore that purifying scourge, tho spasmodick cholera, has been sent by Providence, to Wipe from these lands, the polluting stain of their sins. ' . VI. Moderate drinking supports Distilleries and Dram-shops, Distilleries and dram-shops are confessedly the places where drunkards are manufactured. The men, then, who support these places, support what make all the drunkards. And what class of- men does this T Why moderate drinkers. If those who keep these satanick resorts, these gins for the young these traps for the unwary, had no custom but that of drunk- wds, they would soon take down their signs, close their bars and engage in some usefiil and honourable calling. This they will all acknowledge. The drunkard^s custom, therefore will- not support them. None will say that cold-water-men' sup- £ort them .by ld-water-men> ^ Where \i the man thait wUl refuse to enrol ^ -.' ^t #■. - VriLS or MODEiUTK DRINKINO. m hifl naine on an entire abstinence listl Who would beai>> willinff to "cease to do evil and learn to do well t" Who will Bet a aestructive e3(anii^p to* the young? Will any, but he whose conscience is seared Vith the burning ^inrit of alcohol? '^ Let none taste it, but sucli as are willing to make drunkards, ' to murder souls. And who is sufficiently hardened to do this? Besides thd evils peculiar to the practice of moderate drink* ing, idl those of drunkenness are, in a greater or less degree^ poUnected^with the moderate use of ardent spirits. It bringi witli it, in miniature, iill the demoralizinff, atrocious «vil8 of in- temperance. It also throws round itself a i^inating chariii by which it leads the million, into the odious path of intoxica- tion, and down to the drunkard's hell. Oh! theevils of mo- derate drinking ? How inconceivably ffreat ! How innumerar •, ^ ble ! Who can sufficiently abhor that detestable pritcticel ^ ■ :"■ ''^':'^:.:- X, The Pieaaere Bdat, To iWuBtnte the'feariully rapid and fatal progress of him who tastes ardent spirits, from the verge to the bottom of the gulf of intemperance, I ix^ielate what took place some twen- ' ty years ago, near the western -coast of Ndrway. So ha aa ray knowledge extends, it has not before Mpeared in print.— We hi^ye all heard of that tremepdous whirmool usually called "the Maelstrom," and by sailors the ** Navel of thesea." It is. ' but a few leagues from the western shore of the kingdom al- Tead|r mentioned. The water near It is kept in the most fear^ ^iul^coiiDnnotion. , In it ships of the heaviest burden are, in an "mstaut, shivered to atoms. The whale itdelf iis sometimes '■'"'^ overcome by the power of its suction, and dashed to pieces in its vortex. Its suction effects the water to a considen^ile dis- tance round. And thope who are so unfortunate as to come within the circle of its influence, can seldom make ui eflfort so powerful as to escape. V They are°generally drawn into the - flinnel and perish. » On thO'sWe, nearly Apposite to tins whirlpool, one fine aif- ternpon in the month of July, a party of yoimjgr laydies and gen- tlemen agreed to take an excursion that evenmg, in a pleasure boat." They were not tnuch JMScustomed to " the dangers of the sea." The young men could not ply the oars as dexter- ously as manj^ others. But they supposed there could be Ap danger. ' All tiature seemed to smile. The sunbeam briskly played on. the bosom of the ocean./- Calmness had thrown Its oily wand,?on the billow and it slept.' The ^ater present- ing a ismooU| unruffled surfkce, seemed a sea of glass. The ' most timordoifi would scarcely have suspected that danger, in its most. terrificK form, was lurking just beneath the surause. ■■■-■ ■■ .■ 1.-. .. ■ .::■/ c-:- .-: V. : .■ .;: •:.■■: K\ *!- -\ /- X VflLS V>r HODEBATB DRINKING. m M» iMM on an entire abstinence list? Who would be oii^ willinff to "cease to do evil and learn to do well?" Who will Bet a destructive e:(ailai^p to the young? Will any, but hd ^^ whose conscience is seared Vith the burning S|)}rit of alcohol? '''"^ Let none taste it, but such as are willing to make drunkards^ ' to uitkrder souls. And who is sufficiently hardened to do this? Bemdes thd evils peculiar to the practice of moderate drink> ing, idl those of drunkenness are, in a greater or less degree* ponnected^wjth the moderate use of ardent spirits. It bringi witli it, in miniature, kill the demoralizinff, atrocious «vil8 of in- \ temperance. It also throws round itself a i^inating charitt by which it leads the million, into the' odious path of intoxicA- tion, and down to the drunkard's hell. Oh! the-evils of mO" ' derate drinking? . How inconceivably ffreat ! How innumera--, ble! Who can sufficiently abhor that detestable practice! > .;.:";;•■: < X, The neaaere Boat, To illustrate the'fearfuUy ncpid and fatal progress of him who tastes ardent spirits, from the verge to the bottom of the gulf of intemperance, I ixoUielate what took place some twen- 'ty years ago, near the western -coast of Ndrway. So hit at ray knowledge extends, it has not before appeared in print.-^ We bi^ye alln^ard of that tremepdous whirlpool usui^Iy called :y_ "the Maelstrom," and by sailors the "Navel of the sea." It is. 'but a few leagues from the western shore of the kingdom al« Teac^ mejitioned. The water near It is kept in the most fear^ ^iul^coigaimotion. , In it ships of the heaviest burden are, in an "instant, shivered to atoms. The whale it^lf iis sometimes "'overcome by the power of its suction, and dashed to pieces in its vortex. Its suction effects the water to a consideTable dis- tance round. And thope who are so unfortunate as to come., within the circle of its influence, can seldom make an eflfort so powerful as to escape. V They are°generally drawn into the * iUnnel and perish. « On the'shore, nearly opposite to tins whirlpopl, one fine af- ternoon in the month of July, a |>arty of younjgr lacBes and gen- tlemen agreed to take an excursion that evening, in a pleasure boat." They were not much accustomed to " the dangers of the sea." The youn^ men could not ply the oars am oexter- ously as manj^ others. But they supposed there could be Ap danger. ' All tiature seemed to smile. The sunbeam briskly played on. the bosom of the ocean./- Calmness had thrown Its oily 'wwad'^on the billow and it slept.' The Water present- ; ing a smootl| unruffled surface, seemed a sea of glass. The ' most timqrOoifi would scarcely have suspected thaC danger, in its most, tierrifick form, was lurking just ben^th the 8ui%ce. >"»\ •^■w»»-' n ./•; THC COLD-WATIB-lf Air'4, :/-- - Thee^nliiij ctme. The youngr people aMeinbl^ ohth©;' beach. The mellow moon-^^ would tremble for a momenr and then sleep on the calm, unagitated breast of thtf ocean «^ The pleasure boat was unmoored. The payty gaily entered * The boat was moved from the shore. It was soon under way* It was rapidly propelled by those at th^ oars. But they soon . discovered that it would skim gently dVei^tbfe bosonrof the . deep, when, the motion produced by the o(|rs had ceased.— Thev allowed the boat to glide gently along. Tli^y felt no danger. All was thoughtless hilarity. The i^otion of tji© vessel in which they sailed, became gradually, but to them,\ insensibly, more rapid.. They were moved by the influence of the whirlpool. Their motion was rotary. They soon came rdlitid almost to the same spot from which they had sailed.-p. At this critical moment^ the only one in which it was po8gible> fr them to be saved, a number of persons on shore, who Jtliew their danger, discovered them and instantly gaye the ilarm. They entreated those in the boat to make one despe- rate eflTort and drive it ashore if possible. When they talked of danger, the. party of pleasure laughed at their fears, «md passed along without makmg one attempt tO deliver themsehres •worn impenAng ruin. The boat moyea on, the rapidity of its ^ motion continoally increasbg, and the circle round which it was drawn by the rotary movement of the water, becoming nnaUerh It soon appeured a second time to those on the land. Again they manifested their am;iety for Che safety of those wEmc danger they saw, but who, if delivered, must be deli- vered by their own exertions ; for those on shore, even if they launched another boat and rushed into the very jaws of peril, could not save them, wlule they were determined lo remain inactiye, and be carried by the accfelerated velocity of the wa- ter round tlus mouth of the sea, ready-to swallow at once both them and their ^boat. They still moved along in merriment. JPeals of laugliter were often^iieard. Sneers were, the only thanks given to those who wOuld, with delight, have saved th«m. For * time they continued to. move round in all their thoughUessnessw' Presently hojivever, they begin to hear the ' tremendoQs roar of the vortex below. ' It sounded like the hoarse imsteady bellowings of /the all devouring earthquake, . or like the distant sea in a stoi^. By this time, the boat ever and anon would quiver like an aspen leaf, and then shoot like lightning through the now foam-covered sea. Solemnity now began to banish mirtii from ,ihe countenances: of those in the pleasure-boat.' They half suspected that danger was near.— ' Boon they felt it. When they came again in sight of land, ^their cries of distrees would have pierced the heart of stone.-— ^. /. t: _y » ■■■■■;./■' ,f m oh thd; k moment ocoan^^ fehtereJl. idter wky, hey Soon nr of tile y felt no n of the to them,\ luenceof on came Bailed.--- possible^ >re, who fave the le despe- )y talked ars, a^d imsehres ty of its which it ecomihff bhelano. of those be deli- ' n if they of peril, > remain the wa- nee both rriment. be only e saved all their , liear the like the hquake, sat e\£t oot Ime ity now ein thd near.— ' > of land/ tone.--- ■•-} SOPRCC or INtEHPEBANCB. 80 U , . \ 9' *^®!Pf?'J¥*cy ■ ■»ke,'! wa8 now the exqiamation of dei^ ' ^V\' ^ thicfc^black cloud, Nrfjif to add horrour to this scent Qf distress, at tljis moment, ^rouded the heavens in darkness, Tho oar^ were pliea/with |very nerve. They snapped and their fragments were' Kurriea into the yawning abyss. The boat now trembling, now to«sQ#hbw whirled suddenly round, -, now lashed ^ the spray, wis presently thrown with violence ^^ , mto the jawsjj^ death, opened wide to receive it and the im- ^ C mortals whomut carried. ^y 4 Thus perisJfei the pleasure-boat and all who sailed in it.— \ And thus perish thousands in the Tortex of dissipation^ who at [_ 1 ' smoothly sailed itround its outmost verge, who were scarce- *y> as they supposed, within the sphere of its influence, and who would laugh at those who could be so faithful as to warn them of their danger. We ask the young, and especially youn» men, to lay up m the store-house of their memory, the account ; of the pleasure-boat 4nd its destruction'. Let thtfin remember f ?„. '^Prove it when sinful pleasure betokfens them to its soul- ' killmg bower, and especially when any one offers them the cup Which contains a single drop of that fiery death, spiritu- ous liquors. It may perhaps save some, may it save many, may It save all who read it, from drunkenness^ from a drunks ^ ard s untimely death, from filling a drunkard's grave. L •v: THE COLI)-WAT]^R-MAN. rABT THIBD. / THE SOURCE OP INTEMPERANCE. I. F^uTi^lasBetqf mokeHilaged in producing it^ f Before we can effectually eradicate any evil, we must diacoF ver. its source| The cause must be removed or the disease will be contiimallv returning. Where then i» that tremen- dous, unexhausted, inexhaustible fountain filled With death, firoin Which t|ie sea of 'intemperance flows. Wh^ is.thi« J ;•' * ■A* ;■■ ■■ 'A • - :.:h # TUK COLD*WATER-MABr. :-\. '# «tore-honM of Iniquity 1 From what reieryoir doea intempe- ^ ranee receive ita aupplieaf Wiita thia ia diacovered and emp- tied, i^d that which fills itceaaes to exbt, this scourge of scourges, this plague of plagues, will then, and not till Umo, be^holly banished fVom the&ce of the csfth. / There are four classes of misn who together produce all th« intemperate drinkers in the universe. These then, in their . unitea' capacity, each however acting a different part, are the . efficient cause of all intemperance in' the use of ardent spirits. Let ai\y one of these classes of persons wholly cease to exist; and intemperance, like a river which has no supplies, will soon deluge our world no more. Did any four indivi4uttls do the ^ten thousandth part of the evil that these four classes have; 'done and are still doing, they would be yiewed as outlaws.-* They would be hunted aa the lig-er of thq forest. None would harbour them. None would give them quartjer. All would pursue them aa common fbes., They would be followed night ; and day. All their devioas windings would be marked. They would be ferreted from their lurking places. The thicket, the mountain, the glen, the cave, would be searched. Nor would the pursuit be given up, till they were safely lodged withioi the bara of an iron gntte. How is it then that these four' •classes of men who are together destroying annually their mil- lions of money and thousands of lives, are permitted to con- tinue their incalculable depredations, and still pUve unfrowned upon, in the very heart of civil Society? We trust that when they are described, and the eyes of the community opened on their crimes, their ranks will be deserted, not a single indivi- dual advancing to supply the vacancies^ till /no such classes will be found on earth* '- H. The Font qf these Claeeea, This claes is composed of such persoiis as furnish the article of whatever kind it m^ be, from whicl^ alcohol is obtained.-i-> From the aaccharine, nrinaceous or nourishing productions of the earth and from no other, this pemicidus liquid can be tor- tured. The superabundance of these vhich>God has furnished for the nourishment .of man and beast, are by inconsiderate or money-loving persons, traivBferred to those who will use them in deluging the world with monU, spiritual, eternal deaths They are cultivated and sold for the express purpose of distilla.-/ tion. Those who knowingly and wilfiilly dispose of what is truly nourishing to the human system} to those who they know i)^- tend to draw from it a ruinous beverage, cannot be innofient in the sight of Him wlio requires his nccountable creatu^ to '\- ■ N_>.--' ed night . They iOURCK or INTCM^XRANCI. 41 1. haye^ g^Ie eye to his glory in all th^y do. Like the mois- ture whu^h opmpletely iktumteg the firh>und. near the fountain head of ^ detolating stream, this cksa of mpn continually iuik- ply, thouffh almost totalljr unobserved, th<) source of intempe- Tance, By^hem the distiller is enabled to make intoxicatinff hquor, the rum-peddler to sell it, ahd the tip^l that it does not. This proposition * will ap|)ear evident to persons of enlarged views, when they reflect that it is almost if not altogether certain, from demon- Btrative evidence, that all the various substances of which we have any knowledge, owe the whole oftheir differences, whe- ther of kind or effect, to the different changes or modifications of the same particles of matter, which, in their atomick or sim- ple state, are of the same kind, and produce under like circum- Btances the same effects. Without a chymical process of some description, alcohol cannot 4)e produced or separated from other particles if matter. It does not exist in any substance, so as to be perceptible, by any of its own peculiar effects, or m any other way, before the substance has been united with others, and has been subjected to the chymical process of moistening, fermentation, chymical affinity or election, or some Bimilar process. After it is produced by chymical action; to separate it from other particles of matter, another chymical process is necessary, such as distillation, precipitation, or the like. All the evidence which we have on the subject,, goes to prove that chymical actios so changes, |nodifies or unites dif- ferent particles of matter, as to produce alcohol, a substance c2 III 4t ■I: . 1 ■/ .; '.:';;TllJB.C9U>^WATJU^l|4yil,_..;^ -. alt0jg;ether AJR^rent in kind luid eftct; from thoie uaed in dm- ■ ducing^it. *^ The juice of tlie grape and of tlie apple, or wine and cider before they aro subjected to tlie vinouB and acetick fermenta' tion, (which last cofnmencea wljere artificial acidity beirina V contajn no alcohol. The juice of these when first expressed, 18 as free from alcoholick poison as it is in the fruit. And no one over became intoxicated or even light headed by eating well preserved ripe grapes or apples. Before wine and cider begin to "work" as we say, they would not make a man « u " 7. *°°"®*' ^'"*" ^w^®* "™'Jk would. Hence the toper lovoi hard ' cider or old wine, because they contain a greater pro- portion of alcohol than when recently made. When we speak of pure wine or pure cider, meaning that which contains no al- ♦ k ' ^® ™"*' intend these liquids before they are subjected to the first stage of the vinous and acetick fermentation, bo- cause alcohol is produced in them during this process, never before its first incipient stage. The various kinds of malt liquoi-, since they are all sub- jected, during the process of manufacturing them, to the be- ginning of the acetick and vinous fermentation, contain a greater or less proportion of alcohol, and therefore ought to be avoided as injurious in some degree to k healthy person. It may also be remarked, that fermentation, though it produces alcohol, always leaves it in an imperfect state ; while ditilla- tion, precipitation, or the like process, perfects the destructive properties of the alcoholick particles, in the very act of sepa- jratmg them from other matter. However, the greater the de- /greeof fermentation is, the greater will be the number and perfection of the alcoholick particles. This increase of the al- cohol will continue, till the tartness of the liquid becomes so ^reat that it kills or completely neutralizes the alcoholick spi- rit. This is the reason why the harder the cider is the less quantity will make the toper drunk; and that vinegar, though It may be made from hard cider, when its acidity is perfect, will not produce intoxication. That alcohol does not exist in the productions of the earth, in their natural state, or when properly prepared for the use of inan or beast, will, to say the least, appear exceedingly pro- "•f "'®' *f ^<*^ absolutely certain, to every chymist. Because every chymist, nay, even the novice in chymistry, knows that by uni- ting two or more substances, a third is often produced, which is totally diflferentln its kind and in its effects, from any or all those original substances in their uncompounded state. Thus, for examiplejEpsoin salts may be nothinjg more than sulphnrick acid •M t^ metaUoid magnesia, united- by chymical affinity. 1 ' * '•vU. . ■ >.' /-*. . ■ A ■ * ' SOUKCi: or INTBMPERANCE. 4S ...s!??"^^' !^® ""y *'^"'''*' t^wreforp, that wo cannot dotonnina with perfect rcrtamty, whether alcohol exist, in a latent^i"! m othor Hubntancoa, or whof her by chancrinir or modifvinir their particles by chvmical action, alroLl in proLeT.yVou! t^nl in relation to tluH Bnbjort wedoknow.' Ifit exists ina lain? l! DrC;Ji^'"'"''"'•''^ f'*^'' ''"" ''"^"'''^ *»'«•"' "•• when pC - ly prepared to nourish his creatures, it is not in that situation &rV i'"''^ ^"^ ""'^ •^*'"««^''*'- ^° "^'ver hear of a mw ppttttoes. or anv saccharine matter in its natural state, f ho al- fs°Sr "ll^^r?'""'*'"^'"'^ ^''^ P'"toof which bread ismade, V hnlii'*'" °5"' "'^ ^'""^T °^»'»kinff. BO that bread proper! hr baked, contains none of this insidious poison. It is eviient from the remarks now made, that if alcohol be found in any of irom wnat harf«been said, cannot prove to bo the case,) it oro- duces none of those injurious o&ets which are ex^bitenn bpld re lef, when persons in health u.c it freely! When it i! haflce^lf^^™?' power from the situation^ln Xh God has placed it or when it is produced by the chvmical affinitv or election of two or more substances, and on ^hen d^s J ^^itTZ''?'^'^''^/''''^ ihespher^^Tt'sorora- ioiffor di^tmnt?^'^^*''^ ''*'° ^^^'^' ^^ productions of the Boil tordistilk ion, can screen himself from guilt, behind what God has done m giving peculiar properties to these! lie ^a^- not be so rash as to say that alcohol is created bjr Aim ghty pow- er, in these productions ; because he has no evidence to sun port such an assertion, but much against it. Let no one there- fore fee innocent, who pours into thd distillery thpaea^^^^^^^ iTauidfir;'"Tir,rrA'^^^^^^ liquid fire. Let all who do this, feel that they are assisting f«i desolate the world with intemnerance. wflfthe farmed Sho IV* The Viwm DrinJa aXlowed in Scripture. it^rmSs is toTr^?."' *°>^ "temperate in all things."- temSce it nn!!."°^^ immoderately. Whatever^is in- Severi^aliows .'th^ condemns. The moderate use of allows n.i ni^ • ' '^ ^H?'®^'*''®' temperance. God in. his word Sofs tronHrinr'^w'*""^*''^^^^ wine, of mixed S? ttnq or strong drink.- Wine and strong drink were allow#.H nl epiration also commands uato "g(ye strong drink to him thJt- Co / ^ / VliC COLD*WATr ^j "?* }^ >"«a""«» temperance in every prooM ar tide of food or drink. What then is the stronrdrmK thi scriptures? All that has yet been Jd orStenTn aSLwer ure Z^'""',^r""'^^" yttlemore than SS?^^! Iv hitle^?an7;il.^"Z '''f ^^""T^ conjectures are geneS- S^ liiS^d^t^T "^'^Je-f^ed nonsense. One with a ve- ry teamed look, tells us that it was a decoction of herbs. A .-^f' » ' 1 * ■ -/ .• ■ / • •■ ■ ■ • y ^ '■/■'■ ■'■ - ■ . ' » / \ Y-. . ' ■ . ■ '.■' . « */ • * . A ■ '■■:■■■.■'•• • " 1 / ** ' , ■■ ' ^ / ^ ■ '-'f- ' ■ -^ -■" ..■"■- / ^^ ,'■■;" t- " '' 9 . ^ .-■■.■ - a o / .■ ;■■-■ Jl^i-.-iidl^' ? ^rink, In "■y. Kve- attention, able quan- crtoin cir* »f wine, it rnorica,) a allow u», ' 10 a nou- ffreatcst ndrefVeali In Hi^nilar and othor prepared, ^en thoso tern, man iultoratod chymical >1 is pro- with pro- \i alcohol, »ntity, to sre in Ca- »e, which at which therefore Icoholick r a medi- t may he (fore, and lentioned f all, for ft, which Qoderate Jred that imperate ^oper ar- il of the 1 answer I conjee- ^eneral- >th a ve- irb». A « lOURCE or INTKHPUANCS. ." •econd tArma that it wu the Juice of dale* and other ftulti r««„ i^ *^"* Spicea, aa a fourth will have it, wore uaed to wi i?„.T- '"'^ ■''°"» **"»''• Another mainta^. that it WM wine having ita aqueouanea. driven off by decoction. But S; S^Zi^lZ'^rUT '*" T*V '' %"• No well autbintica. {•II ... ,Lf I » °^'' *"^ ''"^''•"^ **"■' ^'•y- The Bible d.,0. not tell ui what It WM, except by calling it ".trong drink." In Zr^:^il^'^' 'i ""' ^**? ^" P'«»>*»»'y the'.ame article" Ai!ll'c T:-. S»»<^« we do not know from any good evil feS^Jin^C •*i'V™*'°!".P°'?*!'**"« conjecture onthat aub- Ject can .carcely be considered better than another. Nor can •ny one con«cture be reUed on. Indeed to us it is of no co^ W ?h? r"^** ^"^ y^ "' " •»«<^i«ntly extensiver for we ' SJ^^^J!«J .-S ?'^'^*^ « N""^ ^" *»»^ Satanick art of distilling aJ^Th.? ; ^" *°;*9 '^^^ '^'^^^ ^'"nk w" i» "w. We know also that strong drink, in smaU l|iiiiitities. was not iniurious to A J/Sr°" "*?** T^ .*'' »«••* ^'^'^'^ God authoS it^usl ^ ^o ££-"^M?'L~'?^"*^" «• '*» ^"^^^ ourselves or others, orTo 4o what will hav« an etU tendency. Ardent spirits aa a drink fc^rLVlf'^'"'^'' -^ ^n'°^^ oEJy'^Js^net iSrm'p:5'u'^'nit!"' '•" ^ve,the seal of God's Approbation Tf«?m??i"f I^® ""?*^ y*"^ mentioned in scripture, unlets we admit that it was mixed, with Water, the same Vemarks may be made that were made ib relation to strong drinh^ If^he wme was not mbied with water; then we doVknow UtS what It wa. puxed.; But wm know with what it Was not mi^od S^iLT 1 "^i V^^ "Jcohojick liquors. W« know tharwhen no^emtely used It waepoti/ishing and refreshing; for omnT SfnTJ^**-^ "^^r^ H' "• remember then that ,m,re SS ^^.T^' *"^ i:^"*^ ^""^' and these in smaJl^Z! titles, are the liquors whic^xwe, by divine authority, mav use L"oSl.'" uk'"S"'^k*»*'^'^ ^^^'^ « »o danger %ry pr^ tw'ih? '^'*" '^®. ^""^ '^ ^ '«^tion 'o wine, we may learn Si'- .n'^rr ""^'y.^? "> if wehave not acquired the dS *Td s appeti e, us6 it in federate quantities, is, because it in tuch quantities, is in som£ degree Sourishin^ and refreshing" rfl^nT"* 'l *l^^J' *''*"^"" "*» imperfectly-formed ^c& l!£-^ ' ***f ".*** *T*^ '^^ P®"»o» who uses it moderately unlese he ^ already a drunkarT The syne remarka mayS ^ /■•- V /'■■' 40 ■••^- '■-/y ■-% -.^^A './ ■ I .:■ THE COLD-WATEB-MAir. tnitU b« ma^econcei^g the moderate use of idhiij ferment- ed-hquow, auch aa ciW and the like. But alcohol conU^ no redeeming ^quality. Ih it there is no nourishment o?w! fteshment to,slrengthen the systeta, nor yet tartness to neu- S^°'»J°""if®"^ln® Pe™»«ous effects of the alcoholick goison ; therefore th^ least quantity of it is, as a^drink, inju- th«^i!J^l•""^®™*"* ^^ *^* ^°^^ ^ iris word, authorises SSJl Vf ?."" '^*"'' ^'"^^ '^^^^ '^^ »t'»n« drink, which, under certam circumsbnces and in small quantiUes. were not «Jur|ous,butbeneficiff; but who can ima^ne/tS ?y doSL & J?ii-®K "\ftT^ ^"^'^'^ spirituoSs liquors, a singll l^Ll''-'^r:7T" ^T^ ^y * P«"on » health,^i8 pernicious I- t.n^^'fi^^K't ""^rS^^ authorises the use of nouridring That rn^ ». r^/* Tu T"'r**"« »" ^«»»*h, take arsenick ; as, iSrl °? authorises theWoderate use of wine, mixed wine and strong drink. Wd therefore we will use ardent spirits. Suck ^ w^fr"%-"y^^,'A*V??'^"''«- ItissheermaSness. Who would suffer Winselfo be hoodwinked by such silly sophistry I ton^^r ™T "^^ '^ the United ^tWei pour th4uSs orWa i?i.n ,rY"%*'-Tf.^'"*^ distiUeries.*^ Let no one of the n^ThfLI !yr??r >» '^•H? *ny of the. hundreds of thousands ofthese BOatterefover the world. Better bury the fruits bf ^"it'^'^Vr".'^^ ^'^^ of the ocean, than pouithem^S the earth m the form of a flood o?liquW destruction. Letno maS hi$ neighbour, hie country or his God, feed the dia :who lov( tillery./ y* Th Second Class, w^^ The next class m order whose business it is to manufacttire drunkards, is composed of aU those who'distill, or in any other W produce .alcoholidk liquors. He who takes the «go5 «SI^ God' and converts them into ardent s^rits,^tht; soul4)lightmg, hell-securing poison, has an awfdlly solemn •ccount to setUe with his finjj Judge. What the inSStS? lyse and benevolent Creator has provided for the nourishment ^^ ietii|^, and from rt is produced, by the wicked in- vention and Satamck art of Ihose who manuftcture intoxica- lang liquors, an articte m which nothing nourishing or refresh- ing can be discovered, and which in Atm,i^utin^ *u^ «,^.iA\^ui. i#.«.';«l- v' «-«.».,«..,« i.u«i, wuicn IB, juce a pestilence walk- n£Z f ^fr'l^ ""^T ^lt'«»y>nf before danger is apprehended, ought to tremble when they reflect on the wscount which they 3-1 ■■ •t i SOUBOK OV INTEMFBRINCE. 47 9 ferment* 1 contaiiifl ent o^re. 88 to neu- alcoholick rink, inju- lutborises ik, which, were not by doings I, a single Tnicious?^ ouriahing nick ; as, wine and 8. Suck IS. Who iphistryl ■its of his ne of the bousands adundaht I fruits of n on the i no man the die ufiicttirtt ny other I "good its, that solemn afinitely ishment ked in- itoxica- refresh- •Id with mt chanff^^^ e walk- bended, sb they I < ttust soon ffive of their stewardship. And such are all mann. ftcturers^ofardent s,«nt.. They ?ake wharOodTaa iwMo nourish the body and from it produce a liquid which dMtroy! man? Dost thou distU this desolatmg poison I fhenthvem- ployment is detestable. Forsake it iSiSdlately.iS/wS' py will soon freeze up the fountain of humarity in thTsout Were there no manufactories of alcohol, soon intemiAjrance would cease ; for the inebriating cup woild then e^ lo^^S Mhausted;^ and there would be no fountain at which it could £ Ji r® wS®^' ^J""* "^"."l^. «»"'«"« to fin the drunkard's k i Who^would spend his time, and ruin his neighbour- hood, and destroy his own soul for the sordid gratification of ^SLiS^"^'^^^ '^^ disgusting pleasure of *„iS^7^® 1 J® K^ *"^®"*. "P*"*" »" ««oiher class without Which \we could have no drunkards. These men spend the S^^lte ^^K? K ♦^^T'^ t***^?. their neighbour's>o! Mrty for Out w^ch theyTcnow will So him no gSod, but a^io- SZSIS?^ 7'^^l^^^y ^°^. that himSelf or his family is suffenng for wknt of the necessaries of life. How heart-rend- wg 18 It to see^ons who wish to be considered relpJcUble J»- the^M^^ those whom they may eveiiVofess miow, may say m palliation of their nefarious conduct, that in ^is way tW support tb&famiUes. But who, we would i? ha- given these men a ri^^ to support itefrf^^^^^ Wh^^Z "''^^^f' **'^ *^«y ^^^'^ ^iU ijure^themf Wo^w"^*?r*^ '^" '** i^l*ase their income by diuwSg into their coffers, the money bf their neighbour, while thef ^ l^V'^*"i^^'^**3?^^^«»*^'«ttcharacteivhi8Sou^ Where ^ wW^h'^^in"^' "" ?* '^*»**^*» ''^^ moraTvirtueVa pnS ' which will permit men to ruin others, soul and b^dy, f^ Sw- sake of gwn, or as a means of supporting their families « Such a plea in fevour of making or veSkngwdentsbSitsi^ wholW SlSJr ♦i*'* ^? ?»°,?^. *»»ve the least shadfw of right to dept^y other men'sfluniUeainorder to fupporthi.own.T?odo 'W m P 48 tHC' COLD- WATKH-MAir. thi* would be to act pe the robber who would take the onniA nr him upon whose life aud healthhis ftmU/ahappinMsdeKS imd then administer to him a slow poison which he knewwouS unfit hiin for usefulness, and would, sooner or later, leave him ' -Itr^t uZ^l^y^'''^'^^^ '\PP^?^ in him the foundatioS & J 1 /k f I*?® '?u**®' ''s"'^ "°* he justified in supportinff Us ftmU^ by taking the man's money for the slow poisSn, thfutfh in tJus way helnew he would ruin both the maS and his TmU jajceot Buppomng M«r families, fiirnish men with what thev know will jlestrojr both them and theirs? The Tchaig/ mSi«^i"'?'' trafl(ck,.the drunkard voluntarily niakosTdoeTfot J^ake the liquor valuable, or the evil it produces les^certata wi^ni^i«flL??r7*^"*^'$^^^*^« liquor less 4Trmous.- When we reflect that a sea of 60,000,000 of iraUons of ardpnt spirits, IS annually poured out, by distillers LTvenLrlVntl ihTZ^.ZT:;r ^"^^^^'^ *^"'^*'y ' ^^ we re&cTtiat hSn^rHf i ^""f" ""T"^^ "."' •*" ai?ny of more than 300,000 - 8Soinif?ho"''*f'^''"f^ continually keep it recruited, though 8Q,000of them step into eternity every year, our very heart sicl- ens in thinking of the flood ofdistress whi^H th^rare Sus The means^of producing. These men are to drunkenness what the ' fountam IS to the stream. They supply it. If none sdd siS ntuous liquors, the drunkard coGld SJt buy. He must theSl fore fi-om necessity become sober. / «« muse inere- Men ought not, for the hopeof gain, toengagein evU orac W_ To manufoctumor vend dgtiuid liquffi a bSlmT is^videntlyanevil. None therefore have a moral right t^fn' gage m the business for the sake of 8upp6rtinff™e7f &n?W or for any other consideration. But caSLt SSZ^vS^! ders of ardent spirits. Me other men, support their famSies by not the capital invested m distilling and vending ardent sn^rSs Jfrnrl^y^^r "^?* traffick/proluee as great rnotSer profits than it now does? It is now a wellestaWished S S appears from the testimony of above 3,000 persons who have relinquished the traffick in the United' States, and Sso from that of many who yet continue engaged in it, ind who probS by love a httU, that the profits an^iSg from the sale Xiri- Sn JTk?'-'^ "TJ^' -^^ "•** altogfther, swallowed uTby ^ ^JfL^^^''^''^^J'y'''^^'^^^^'''^^' This traffick caLot T^ ?™ffi^?™ '" *'^ ^f'^*'"'' ®^«" t*»e pitiful plea of gain; • To traflick in an article which does no good, but much evil ^ ti!^"' ' ^"t ^^ j'> ^^ *" ^"j"^y to ^^ who b2ys it, aud to the con,mumty, the extent of which cannot be measured by . *■ '"' ■ '■ * "'"■-■■".".' ■ ■ ■ "■•■ ■ \' > .■-•*.' ^ '■■'■':■■ -• -" ■ » ■-;''''^ ■:3\ ''^/■:'.l • ■ . '• .,V.-" ■ ■'■ ■ '■' ■;.■■'"« 0- (^ ' :'■' ;.' . ■'■■■ ■ r r 4 ■-.tftj. t9i*t. ij wiii » mjJi. - Ki "0f:r^-r, ■ ^' SOURCE Oy INli^EllPERA 40 the ii^ury dpne. if to iell a « »aU quantity be^an evil, tTeS a larger quantity ntust be a |rr«ater one. If to fumiah liquor taone man and thereby to ruin him, be morally wrong, to^ athousand men, m th^ same wa y, cannot be right. ^ to mi^ tor misehr in one neighbourhood, be odious in the sight of God jnd good men to scaUer it in a hundred neighbourhoods mast be m^ore so. ^-If to retail ardent Jpirits be an evU of untold mag- mtude,tosell by wholesale must vet be a greater evil. ToseU m quantity then, of this article] howeve? small or great, hi an evil, since Ihe article itself does no good, but harm to aU who use It for any but naedical purposes. Let every conscientioua man cease «r ever'the trafficic in that most inlurious article, ipintuous liquors. Mtd let all remember that if none sold this J»oiaon,thB^^would be no drunkards. » "one ww r JFourih CUua, or Drinken^ «n%lS® ^^^VetsoT^vMtxtmt which we could have no drunkards and the worst too, if there can be' any worst whn'-Jr ntT.^!*r !.f "^^ *"^^ exceedingly pemicious, aire thos^ hnL^\f^- ^J' -2^ '9"fu"- T« "se intoxicating spirits in any ?« fn S'^ ^""^"^^^ in the road that leads to drunk^hness. it Si ♦?/• 5^ '^*'** '^"P**'***"' It is to play with the basilisk. Itis to inflame our system. It is to triSe with the soul. Itis Ui.^Wnn°'^^l''®?i^®.?"^^j2^^'««' '^ d«n«on of fools, the ' f5j»n?*«tock of devils. To use ardent spirits as a beveiige, in any quantify, is to prepare ourselves to become food for the monster intemperance. It watches the moderate drinker, rea- ' V^Jfll T^^ '** make him its prey. And O ! how Often f^n .^«?^ >^ feng after bein^ bounrf^in it. chain} Like an fJn «K • " Pf?^^»n? »^o»t amonff moderate drinkers. Sa- tM-like It IS seekmg whom among them it may devour. Who S- ^5**1^ ®*P°'^^' Whow3lstaiidreadytofilltheiank8 drank intoxicating Uquor, there would be no drunkards. This isatruth so evident that even the intemperate can feel itaxon- Jhe'Sonr When "touch not, tasTe,^6t,J^d?en^^^^^ ASXfiL^T^'^ ^^^^"""^ '«**'io'> *o ardent spirits mk rSS'^ f '?"^"^*^« ^»" oease on earth; then religioiv ^,1?. ?hT«f i^^''^' ^*? "^« f"''** conquekng andio W quer ; then "hohness to the Lord" will be iiscifted on eve^ gospel banner ; then a robe of rigbteousnes8,^£X£^pJ2Z K^^^^i^^.lf^^^'^^ ^e sprikd over th^ earth? Ho^Tdt X**^ii^* Ji**Wt'- When ahaU it be reSSSl Wh^ Why when all. in principle and in practici^ b«^ti,ld^ ,A ■ ti I '^ t- J .1 •s I f ■V. IMB. f^'t • ^ : THJE COLD-WlnU-IUir.. ^ f , r . the drunfaudrf. and Tcedp them mcdimtenah^ ThoSTwS : JmAj^r^ Header, aw you one of iScZ ^ '«,S*Sf*!f ^"^^ cimipared to the raging flood ^ irhich SSrSiir'^J?*!?**'" tinpughout its course. Bry up'theSioS^ ■Md ril a wMch auDDly and.the flood ceasea to desttqt. It .ceaaeg to ewat. Moderata^drinking in ita yarioua dSrees tZ«i5?'^' li'^jr ^^^'''^^^^ the^immedi«rZpl?^^^^^ ' &!^1k";i.- ** ?J intemperance, which is spr^Aj/desola- toon over the world. These keep it raging fc all it? fury.l , They may fqr a time,move^impercepti^ SongThdihlyin^ Cil «ntK-'L*"*?"P*'*^® ^*^^*=^' »« it rolls over She earth, ■ leaves nothin|r wherever it moves, but the blank of\l3iolation ^^fi^!^'^^^ *»•« wreck of imi^ortaltt •Whereihen lattikflian that will continue to supply the streams of ;ntemperarMie,libe himself one of them? Kerwhe^ IS the man that wilftnot u^ his influence, his eve?v ox^rtfo^ to^4nr up the whole of them? Who wi 1 L sS brwkrd ,, and82d^''*^^**^"P^V*^»- Its poison may 'i t . i <^* *• . \~. ■^i 'to 4 * *'JhX - •f -'■». *> n t THE COLp-WATER-MAN. • r 1 4 -t PAUT FPURTH. let ' . THE VuRfc FOl^ INTEMPERANCE^ \ ^ !• Oeneral jRemarks^ We h&ve taken a bird's eye view of the use ofardent spirits. We mast see thftt it is the bane of ajl that i«,pleasant or desi- rable on earth : andthat it ban the gate of heaven a^nst the drunlrard. We have learned what an evetavhelmintf evil it is; We have discovered that it is jfolling lilie ,i,sea of deiith.over our world. We have sought for and found ;out the source of , drunkenness. We have seen that a single dr6p of distifled 11-" quoMoes a ^an in health an injury, the evil of which itnslm- - -possiblfe for him. to measure^ In .view of its witHferhiff, eter- nal evils,.what is our duty respecting it#liae? . With these ' facts, and a thousand more df a simifef kind, before his eye. ' what accountable creature on iearth, will not' hesitate before^ he puts the ein;l|anting cup to. his lip's ?^ U whut light ouffht be to consider Its ordyiaiy use in My quluStity ? A sinirle dfop when 4ruik by a pe^soik in health, ie not a^ lifiatter onidiffe- '!S"f ®A T® **° **** ^*?"«^®' ^»,«w ''^ this light. He now knows that the Lea#t quao|ity of it does him afisitive injury. The question^then withTegard to aby use of ardent spirits, except - as a medicme, IS simply.thisj ^ Is it right oris it wron^ to « w[- u tn**' which, in the smallest, quantity, will iiSure us f Which dass of persons ar^ committing sin, those who or those who d6 not drink ardent spirits ? If it is A duty to in- • • jure oureelves and those around us, by drinlcing a litUe, then those who. abstain entirely are neglectifig- their duty : Btat if . It is wrong to mjure ourselves and others in any degree, then It IS wrong to drtnk any quantity of ardent spirits. However much we may b^ exposed, to any hardship ih'W kind ofwea- ther, this liquor does not prevent, but predisposes to disease. It snakes those who use it slaves to t^e bottle; to abandon it n- ♦ ' ^' I h f M THE COLD-WATXa-lf AN. ^^ Skice tru/liberty therefore, cannot take away liberty. Hmce tmd isk-w Bists in the privilege of doinir what is riX JS- T®'*^ *'*^"- entirely is iLrty.^ Let «8^arsoll"fJ* '^^^^^ "«^ duty in re atioa to this most deleteriSiSr And ha^^^^^ discovered our duty, let us oerform it «,!*h"!l.-« • *'*^>n? n. Various methods preienhtd io Cure'httem^erdnce, ; "■ ■ ■ k a'fadly^ riSeS ««e™''.''°°"°;if .'"''■"S"" • feed it with herSiSnVbmS Hr^r ''"'T ' "T? should continueitSprMffj 1 • '"erefore desires that men nate inteXrance aI i^ ^^^'^T! ^^P^ ^^'^^ »' ^^^ ^'^termi- "wy love a attle, suggest this ri»n, wo«Ud probaU; be among ^^ ,»•*! « « >^ y t/ con- Its U80 is our baving ^ meek- atiomr, ? ■ . ■ V . CUBS rOB IHTEMPIBANOC, 83 W IlfTi*"'^'' "rl^|!'« •fce e"* with dronluri,. Bt act to qunff their much loved bevefcre"Thiri.,r 1 >T - lYntMn^ "^V^.P'^' ^''" ^^"^^ «° Ji"le regard for the bub- their folly will dSIk ift^ ■ ™<»Ptal8,.m the madness of Mve till ir«S!i .?" •: If the monster intemperance were to *' TheXnmt «'.»?^*T® ?'8^^' ^*® L" hopeless deAair. the use of ardem wirits t^^^^^^^^ ?""'^^ °P'"'*>» fi^^o"" the progress ofinttVancp^"^^^^^ uselSs x>r worL thJTu^^^ To'rplt' " '^^V^"^"^^^-' *• in thte cpu^try. th^SonLS:.il^' amrlaw eflectual ^'^ l-L I "i^ pVoStobie ; tat a^VZ^nZu^S^J"^^'*^^" '«r' »«'* La .. thi.u^i''"Me„^^rrLs trsSt'?„"'S: 54 THE COLD-Vf AYKR-MAM. '% n ■ ■■« dent tpirttf as a drink, !■ ui^evil. Thoy must iMurn t^t to make or vend or drink thv cup of death, i» a crtflie. and such as deservea to be frowned upon, execrated and puniuied. \ To cause such a purified morid sentiment to pervade society, some* thing more discriminating, more enlightening, more powerfbl than laws, must throw its cheering influence over the commu- »nity. To accomplish this, an eiwctual remedy for intempe- rance must be discoyered, and used by the piiblick. ••r-^-v; ■•-.■■-.. ^,:: :, ^/ ;.. ■ ■■■:>#■.•;..■ -:.-^. ''-'■'—.■■' '•';.■ • ", ■ i ■ ' '■ 'l ■ Intemperance is scattering its desolating evils all around u$. What shall we do? Is there no cure for this pestilence?— Must this moral contagion continue to exist? Mustitconr tinue to increase, till the whole World shall become a dram- shop, all the men and women beastly sots, and every youth uod^ child a moderate drinker? We look on. We seethe evil of using ardent spirits. We deplore the eviL We/re/ the evil/ Shall we still look on and sufl^r the evil to progress with is^ calculable rapidity? Forbid it mercy's angel! There it a r«i- medy, an effectual remedy for intemperance ; ^me too that al- ways cures. It is entire abstinence from the ordinary use of all intoxicating drinks. The monster intemperance can be slain^by the smgle blow of entire abstinence. By the same sitnple meahs, the whole sea bf liquid fire, that has so long de- Bolated the w'orld,can be s^yept, at once, out of existence.. By |his, that which has more than widowed the mother, fnore.than orphaned the child, caif all be annihilated. In short, entire ab- stinence will 0fibctually, wholly and for ^^er,termiiiiate all the evils w\th' which the use of ardent spirits has everocaused in the worlds It will dry up this fbuntain of misery. It will, place upon it the seal of eternal forgetfiihiess; JVom it/dis- tress shall never be>dloved^to issue, when all have become, in truth, cold-water-men.^ That entire abstinence from al j intox- icating^ dritiks, is a, perfect and practicable cure for intem- e in iti^ everV degjree,,i8 an identical proposition, a self ' truth. Who. does not know that the entire abstinence 6t get drunk? Who does not know that aigr inan thoeses, cease to drink ?c Here then is a cure for endoua iflcourge of Satan, intempei^nce. It issim- . ', cheap I (keap as the' crystal ^tream from the never ig fountain. j[t is a perfectly efi^ctual remedy; it iedways cures. .The case may be recent or chronick, it may be less or more obstinate ; but it must yield, however stubborn,, to this remedy. Tippler, use this, jemedy but for, one mohthi and if during that month of entffe abstinence from all alcoholiek 'd- k^ Trsrr f'i ' f^ie" CURE TOm IHTKIiraftAlfCiB. U Uqaon, whether distilled qt fbnnented, yoq get drank, then my that entire abttinence is not »n e Actual cuire for intempe- ranee. Shall we all adopt tMa infidlihle remedy for inteinpe- ranee, this effectual preventive of dmnkennestf? Shall wef Certainly. Who tanrefuael *' ■..,.' ' ■ ■. '•'• V^ •■ '-■;..■■■ IV.* The dviy qf Entire Ahttineiue^ To abstam entirely flrom the ordinary use of ardent ipirita, is a moral duty binding on' all men in every age and in every country. For a person to injure himself or olhers in any de- Sree, never can be morally nght. We are all, then, bound in uty to refuse to do so. Those whoTuse the least quantity of distilled liquor as a drink, uvjure themselves and otherf . Isjt not a moral evU voluntarily to do this 1 ' And is it npt a moral duty to avoid a moral evil? i^ Inteniperance is confessedly a moral em of the first m^^^- tudo. God positively condem'ns it in his word, ihitire ^|b« Btinence effettually prevents it. Are we not all moriUy bound., ^■^to do all we can to prevent what God ccmdemnaT By abstain- ' ing entirely we put i^ extinguisher on intenmerance. Siqce to drink ardent qpirit^ #hile in health,' is injurSput, ite ordinary nse never was,, is not now, and never can be justifiable, To -refuse to use it thu8,,thereforo, always^was, u now,>and al- ways will he a duty binding on every rational accountable crea- , ture on earth'.. It never can be {ight forDersonfa to injurethem- ' selves by drinkinff ardent spirits. When, more than a hun- dred years (^go, t^s'aiiicle be^m to be used -in this country . as a beverae'e, was it right? Was it not then, aa now, a mo- ral evil to do n^jpng, or to do what was then|tlfid still is, inju- rious? Was it nbt^en a moral duty to abstain'ftom the evil practice of using ardent spirits ? No reflecting person -can he- sitate in giving an affirmative answef to these quiANlMis* The scriptures in many general prohibitions foribid all evil practices,^ and therefore that of using ardeni s|»riit8. ^*Do thyself no harm," and "abstain from all appearance of evil/* are commands of Omniscience, that condemn not only the .ordi- nary use of spirituous liquors, but also every other. evU prac- tice. All therefore are^ by diiine^ authority, bound to entire nAistinence ; for none can maintain that to drink ardent spirits while in health, is not the ty^pearanU of evil. From this there- fore, God commands us to abstain. ShtUl We, or sfahll we not -Obey? ■-..!--. ■■■::■,■.■, .;;*'-"■ The prophets, the apostles, the primitive Christians, our Sa- viour, drank none pf this poiiBon. None of it existed in their day, nor till long iilier. We have the example therefore oT ./■-> c'iPiiAjfi^Aiwnw^ ^^ e?iW^tSSfe*t#i^?ii«s»* '■ ■y ^Tte^ M TBB COLD-WAVIA-IIAN* » \ i . all thef« in fkvour of entire abstinence from all om of aDirita'' wia liquors. Entire abstinence must Itavo been • moral dutv or these would not all have practiced it duringr the wliole of their lives. I rem all this weight of evidence, it it undeniably cer- tain that to use ardent spirits in any quantity, excebt as a ne. „ dicine, IS a moral evil, and that to abstain entirely from the poison as a drmk, is a moral" duty. WWch sliall we practice • ."■'. ■■■ ■■ ' r ^' ■ . ■"'■'.-.'*■''■',■ "?• The duty ^forming and joiutng Thtiperance Soeietm, . I' w.Muty at the present day, to form temperance socictiei and unite with them. This, like the duty of entire abstinence from lUcohobck liquors, is not a duty w^ich is bindinir on the . men of every age and of every country. It is a duty of a dif- ferent Jcind. , It 18 built on a different, though not less immo- • vable foundation. For those who lived centuries before dis- ^ tUIed liquors of any kind existed, to have united themselves in- to temperance aSirociations, would, to say -the least of it, hay# * been useless. Had the formation of tchiperance societies been * duty bindmff upon the men of every age and every country, under all ordinary circumstances, then our Saviour whoful. tUied "all righteousness;' would have formed such associa- tions and woyld himself have become a member. The pro* phe^, the apostles and the primitive Christians would also with- out doubt, have formed or joined such institutions, had it been a duty to do bo m their day. But we have no evidence that wiy such societies existed in their age of the world. Nor would they then have blessed the community. They would have been useless; for ardent spirits did not then exi#t. All as a matter of course, practiced entire abstinence from them'. la ages therefore in which this poison did not exist, and in those countnes, if there are any such, where none of it is used, it could not be a moral duty for the inhabitants to unite them- ^ ' . selves into temoerance societies. Had this been a duty bind- ' \ iag on the people of all ages and of nil countries, the prophets, the aposUes, the early Christians, and above all our blessed Saviour, would not have neglected to perform iti Since to form temperance associations in their, day, would have been useless, and since none of these holy men, nor yet our Saviour formed any of them, we must conclude that to do so was not thten a duty.. But^they^haye proved to us, that by divine inspiration, they • knew that distilled liquor would be one of the many evil "in- ventions^ of wicked men. They have given us many prohibi- Uons which embrace the interdiction of its ordinary use, In- W m »^ ^t . wm ■•-•MIMSMMWiUM CURE FOR Ilf TEMPERANCE. 67 de»4 every passAge in thfl word of God, which forbidt ut to injure ourselves or others, rokillinji( poison. But thoy did not form temperance so- cieties, ami thcrcfoi-Q to form these is not a duty binding on the men of cvol?y age and country. But have wo no dntiea which are not thus vniversally bind- / ing? Most assuredly wc have. Not a few of these duties ^ are binding on us. And we are under as strong obligations to pecform them as if thcne obligations extended to every moral creature in the universe. Our obligation to do Our duty can neither be increased ncNr diminished by the number of the indi- viduals to whom it extends. We see that the use of spirituous liquors is a most alarming . moral oviL We know that in an ago and country in which there ' is none of it, the evil of usinrg it cannot exist. The fact that this evil does exist in our day and in our own country to an alarming extent, calls upop us most imperatively, to do all in ^ our power to banish it from this and every other land. " As % we have opportunity'' we are commanded to " do good unto all men." In this passage of scripture, God requires us toem« brace opportunitMs of doing good. When, therefore, we have an^ opportunity of joining a temperance society and of thereby doing good, at least by our example, if we neglect or refuse to do BO, we neglect or refuse to obey the command of God.—* This is evident fit>m the fact that we do not embrace the op- portunity of doing g[ood, thus afforded us in his providence.-- Wherever intoxicating li<^or is drank by persons in health, there it is the positive, the divinely authorized duty of all to ^ embrace the opportunity of preventing evil and of doing good ' il by forming themselves mto, or joining temperance societies.?-* • Novv this poison is thus used in our country, and in relation to it, America expects ." every man to do his dfuty/' expects everj person to become a cold-water^man.' t ■- VL The importatu!^ qf United Effort, ,-* "' ■ • - - • '.■■■■ ^ Perhaps one is ready to say, "I know the use of spiritiioui 'liquors, in any quantity, is injurious to a person in health : I drink none myself; I, on every proper occasion, show to othert ". that I disapprove its ordinary use by any person. And what could r do more were I a member of a temperance iBocietyl" We would say to such a person, as an individual you can do nothing more, ^ut you know that union makes strength.-^ \i /^ ▼ 08 TBS OOU>*WATC»-HAII. ^■■■. ■■|^ '^k ;4(* A nuiiber of Individual! mittd, tlwavi advmnco with inor« forca and carry with thoni greater influence, than the aani« Prsona would do if they all engaged iingly in the Mme cause, ten tbouaand of the braveat among the brave should enter th« field of contest without being united in one band, br led on la battle array, tbey would scarcely put to flight a hundred poW troons who wore united in opposing them. f In this country we have, long since, learned the iinportanc« of united eflfort. We all feel an enthusiastick glow rising in , our bosoms when we reflect on that glorious day which gavo our nation birth. Then a little band ofpatriots met and pledged their '* lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honours'' in the cause of liberty, and for the salvation of their country. Thia little band thus having pledged themaelves, and being bouni to|rether by the atrong, unylDlding cords of patriotick love, withstood, and repelled too, the concentrated forces of the then most powdrftil nation on earth. JThe world struck dumb with wonder, viewed in astonishmenfef the unequal otnflict. It saw a mere handfbl of men without^money, without soldiers, with- out arms, without munitions of war, without shoes, often withw out clothes, and aometimes without bread, David>-Uke fearless- ly marching out to meet this Gq\i»h of the nations. The ad- miring world looked on till she who had long sat queen of the nations,, resiipied almost voluntarily, h^r aeat of honour to th« new-born ropublick. These men might, as individuals, have felt all that abhoV wnce to tyranny which they did feel in their united capacity. But had no union of eflfort taken place among them, the banner of liberty could not have been raised on our shores, as a bea- con to direct the nations of the earth in their tiolitical course. They signediLn instrument in which they pledged their lives, their fortunM, their honour, for the sake others. And shall we rdme to sign an ins^ument in which we pledge ourselves to abstain entirely as long as we choose from the use of ardent spirits? When we see that union of effort against any evil, is Its destruction ; shall we reftise to unite against that worst of all evils, the use of ardent spirits 1 When we see those who place their feet on the threshold of the temple of liberty, and on Its door-pcwtsmrote in characters of blood, "It shall never be resigned,*! iinhesitatingly subscribing a pledge : shall ire refuse to sini apledge, lest we should abridge our liberty 1 We all loTe liberty. We are enraptured at the very sound. Sooner than resig^ this invaluable patiimony handed down to us by those glorious worthies, thie heroes of the revolution, we will suflbr o|ir ri^ht arms to be torn from our shoulders, our hearts to be torn from our bodies, the Qt rds of .afl^tion which bind • -y^ ^•^-.TZ'^ssirz 'V oums worn iiiTBiiPift4ifoi« W to thoie whom we tiIuo much more than life, to b« btoktii br the unfeoling rudoiWM of the opprefaor. No, we all lov« UWtv too well to resign it. W4 have » Hgbt, if we chooet, to lubacribe a pledge of entire abatinence. To do right ie every American's birth-right privilege. And wo be to tbt man or to the nation that would attempt to deprive lia of it 1 We AoiM liberty. Let us exerci our energies in opposition to tha now prowling through our cou of the mdst fatal bondage, upon'^ despotick hand. Should any one gain has stolen, attempt to persuai ater's slaves, let us reject the thoi^ght Itbetty* and unite all ;ant distilled liquiMr, to rivet the chains horn it can lay its heart the love of lb become this roon-. a noble ifdlignation. / X Let use all our influence to prevent it fVom throwing its en* ihtnting influence around otir fellow-creatures. When none <^ shall be chained by its charm, then we shall all be truly Aree. The standard of true libertjr will then be our country's boast. America will then be the birth.-place of genius, the cradle of liberty, the joy of the brave, tlie torrour of tyrants, the home of the f\reo, the pride of the world. Banish ardent spirits ft-om our country, and soon she will rise to the very heavens in point of wealth, and happiness, and glory. But if we harbour in our bosom, this 4p(lion of death, a century will not have rolled its years around, before America will cease to be the home of the exile, the refege of the oppressed. He who in other na- tions wears the manacle and the fdtter, but whose heart is ftee / / as air, will weep tears of blood, when he learns that JtaMfica, ' through the influence of rum, has feUen before tbd^nPot'e frown. When he looks upon his babes growing up inSmvery and no American freedom to throw its mantle ofcomfort round them, hif heart will bleed in nntold agony. He Jtels that U* berty is more precious than gold, than worlds, thin life itself* But America, if ardent spirits as a drink, be ndt banished from / our land, will soon cease to unfurl the banner of freedom in / view of the admiring nations ; and thus to cheer the stranger, / encourage the champion in liberty's cause, and strike with dis- ' / mav, whoever loves the chains of bondage. Union of effort / laid the cornef-stone of American liberty. Union of effort is / the cement of its temple. Union of effort prevents it from •/' crumbling into the dust. Union of eflbrt can stay, at once^/ that destroying flood which ardent spirits are rolling over on/ land. Their desolating evil is great; it is extensive;- it^ alarming. This is enough to arouse the energies of freenreii to unite against it. It is an evil ; and because it is an evi), w« ''^■ oughttopreventitif possible— —^If possible, did I say I To do thia most e£foctually, nothing is necessary, but for iill s(^ Pi / / / ■^•.z 60 THE COLD-WATIB-MAN. fr f ■0 '■ ■ » ■ ber men to nle4g>e themselves to enUre abstinence, and adhere to thjEit pledge. To the complete success of the temperance i;|9formation> union of effort is indispensable. Let us then as one man unite \n this glorious cause. Let us use our liberty to , keep ourselves and our children free from the galling, degrading chains of intemperance. Let it no longer be toid by foreign" ers, ♦• the Americans are a nation drunkards." We can pre- ; 'vent it by all uniting in the pjdnciple of entire abstinence. Those who uhite ijr^e temperance reformation, mSst, to besuccessfiil, pursue steadily, a well-digested, re^lar system % in their operations. Prudence and judgement should charac- teriise their every plan. The object which they propose to ac- con^plish, the entire disuse of intoxicating Uquors as ordinary drinks, should be engraven J)n their mind. It should bo the centre to which every part ortheir plan should verge. But the . importance of systematick operations to the complete success of any benevolent enterprise, is so clearly and ably presented to the mind by a living author, than whom few hold a happier pen, that! will bo excused for quoting his language. "The first requisite in benevolent operations, as in all other Under- takings, is system^ a fixedness of design, and a steady adapta- tion of the means to the e'^d. Every step gained in a system strengthens, every step gained without it, weakens. The first object acquired leads to the possession of a second, and that to the attainment of a third, if all the objects to be attained arte originally chosen with reference to the accomplishment of a plan. Every new object, where there is no system, divides **the already scattered forces ; and success, if pursued, might diBsipate them entirely, and jeavebut the ^ain pleasure of ha- ving a number of defenceless stations, each calling for assist- , ance, and all calling in vain; whilethe society only retained the ■ empty boast of an extended liKfe of operations, and of being equally helpless and incfiicient in every quarter of the globe. -On a system, each part strengthens the other ; the line of com- munication is kept entire; as each point is gained the whole advances; they are s^lin movement towards the same posi- tion, and they rest i^pori the same centre of support." The temperance ,reformattoii, if it ever extends its mantle of charity over the world, must do so by pursuing a well-regulated sys- tem of ojperations. Those who move the main'^pring of this mighty, moral, purifying, renovating machine, mnst therefor&be men of intelligence, men of thought, men of activity in the caiise^ System must pervade the whole. Such men and such only, 'fcr; •Viftj^"* CURB rOB INTEMPtllANCI. 01 nd adhere tmperance M then M liberty to deffrading y foreign- i can pre- ence. , noust, to ar system Id charac- ose to ae- I ordinary lid bo the But the be success esentedto a happier B. "The ler under- \y adapta- a system The first , and that s attained shment of on, divides ed, might ire of ha- for assist- tained the [ of being' :he globe. le of com- the whole ime posi- rt." The of charity lated sys- ng of this ereforehbe the caua luch only, can commence and keep in operation, a system which will hit' nish tl^e ordinary use of ardent spirits from the world. ^ ^ .■■ ■Vni."- Of Per$evermee, '•?. Thougji systematick operations are indispensable to the suc<* cessful accomplishment of any object, these in themselves are insufficient, are unavailing. The best plan ever devised by man, if left unused, would accomplish nothing. If wet^ould arrive at a given point, we must not Only be prepared to move and to iace Mie proper point of the compass, but we must ac- tually advance and continue to move on, or we Will never ar- riverat the point proposed. The temperance society proposes to dry up the misery-making sea of drunkenness. To accom'- plish this oli)ject, its officera and members must persevere in this glorious work. All sober, respectable persons who abhor in- Ssmperahce as a detestable evil, ought to unite in opposing it in i^s every degree. They must do this; or that degrading, demoialiiBing scourge, intemperance will neverwhplly cease to flood the earth with misery. When no sober man nvill taste the drunkard's cup, then and not till then, will the ii^'toxica- timg bo^l be used no more. To accomplish this object, so de- vlbtly d^ed by every good man wKo rejects on the subject, temperancemen must persevere. Stand forth then, ye friends, ye tried friends of this Cause. Let perseverance be,' f 62 THE COLD-WATftR-HAir.' men tnd as citizens. Your personal en^loyment ts that of which I intend to speak. To engage in some useflil caUiair you know/is the duty of every man. " * ** • Whatever has an evil, a demoraUzing "tendency, you, is ra- tional beinp,know ought to be avoided. Your employment 18 undemabryof the lattei- description. You have perhaps lonir been engaged in it. Yo^i have been sending tears of i^ish over the community, by «the bottle, the jug, the barr< the hogshead. You have been flooding our land witirdistillid U- quor. You know its evils ; for you have seen and felt them, ine busmess m which yon are engaged does no good. You Bniri^ SS.h*'?. • y°"' customers by selling then ardent S^fW ®»'^*>»d?«re never enters your mind. You cannot say that your businessis innocent. You know that it is de- stroying thousands ^d tens of thousands every 'year. You Know It IS making paupers and criminals and demons incarnate ^ul^-i!" ^**"S ^'^'''ise be respectable men and useftS fiIli!?V ^°T.?*? y?" knoMws wrong. You know theref lore that your^daily business is the practice of immorality : for you cannot believe that to ruin your neighbours, is moralitv • nor canjou s^ that your business is not carrymg moral deso- lation through, tl^ world. Perhaps you have sefn S dS red, but continued to practice this evil. Perhaps you hav^^ reflected upon it. But it is mucft mort probable that thel^ of hwney has thrown its darkening veil over your mind.-! Jlte''^' Tl -"[f "*?"':®^ you to engage or continue in your employment. It IS desolating th^ world with wretchedness.-. . You know this truthi because you have seen the drunkard.— After you have seen hun, j^^ have continued tp hurry others in^"^" "»«f ''"lord's grave. ■ This is the direct, the poS the only tendency of your employment. WUl you as rational accountable, immortal beings continue it any lomrerl Will you spend any more of you^e in filling the world with drunk- > .*o»n<>l* a respecflil^ station in society; will you de- Sirt i*^. — '*?."*°^ y**"' P''^^®"' nefarious employment ?— Think on this subject, and let your conscience decide. J^Ih Modeta^ jh-inken. SJiall we or shall we notj Moderatf drinker,Mrhat say you ? arrest its proffress, the monster inteniperance? By asWnir lupn*?h •''"' ' '^^ "°5 ^"*^??* .'*» i»«»»^ tl^e pious, the ioraU? even the immoral and irreligious reader. You all will skv destroy It at once; for wherever intemperance lays its deso' SS^n *? ' "^rn y^^^'S^ °*" happiness vanishes and misery with all Its untold wretchedness appears. You ^jll say, " It \: M I '% ■"^ ^ um mmt wm » — n r w< .-■>.■ CURE FOB INTIITPERANCC* 03 ■%• ir is the duty of all toibaiiish it firom our land." But lot me tell you, notwithstanding this, your sincere declaration, you are encouraging, harbouring, feeding the monster. Your are per- haps surprised ; but believe me, every drop ofdrdeiit spirits you dnnk, encourages intemperance. You countenance the use of the drunkard's drink. Do you desire to see intempe- rance banished from our land? Let every moderate drinker, then, take jap arms and oppose, manfully oppose this despo- tick tyrant. It often comes in the guise of a friend. It ca- joles and then it is most dangerous. When.it wxears the mask of friendship, when it pretends to be useful, when it desires to live unmolested, it will if not opposed, Joab-Iike; aim a fatal blow at the happiness of those whom it professes to befriend. Trust It not ; believe it not. It is watching. Hyena-like, for its prey. Its professions are all d^eptive. Its touch is almost CCTtain death. The monster intemperance will not Voluntarily retire. It will not leave our countryat our bidding, nor will it be dri^ yen. calmly away. Its resistance will bevpowerfql. It will not move deliberately and pleasantly aloiig, till ir arrives at' tmr sea-beaten frontier, and then bury itself for ever beneath the fdoming billow. It can neither be banished nor destroyed but by force Will you all then, cease to feed this monster I Will you all assist to destroy it? Of all foes it is the most tatal. It destroys everything dear and valuable to man iii time and eternity. Will you not, then, in the name of man. m thename of liberty, in the name of God, dash the cup which feedait, from yeur lips? Will you not set your faces like a flint, moppositwn to it ? Will you not advance upon it, wear- ing the panopoly of entire abstinence? Whenelothed in this. It will wilt before your frown. ,; " *i. ^-^ you^ refuse hereafter, to countenance him wht> drinks the drunkard s cup, er to encourage the drunkard whom it in- toxicates? Will you now uhite wfth those who taste not this wtPi, " . ^®**^' who "to\ich not jijie unclean thing?"^ Will you assist them to present an unoccupied middle ground between the temperate and intemperate, wide as the gulf th't separates heaven from hell?*^Shall we all refuse to drink af- dent spints, lest we oursiBlves become drunkards, lest our uld lead our neighbours or our children into the drunk- lird s grave, mto the drunkard's hell ? The very hell of hell must be the impending doom of him who, by traffick or by pre- cept, or by exaniple, turns his fellow creatures into drunkards. Shall we then drink, and thiTS by our example, countenance drunkards and others in drmking their fatal draught? If we ^ink none, shall we then refuse to unite with others for the purpose of bamshing this more than Satanick evil from our >■•■■■ V-':--- ■...,...•:■/■■; "■■\::d4./.:- - ■■ ..■ ■ ■"■X- wm «ii> 64 THE C OLD-HIT ATER-lf AN. 1 !: 1 land? Shall wp rcAiso to.londvOur names and mfluence to those who would slay, with a single bloEW, the monster intem- perance which we all detest I Shall we go with these men and form a portion of their pprty ; or shall wo stand back and dishearten them by declining to lend tlicm our aid ? Shall ^e givecouruge to the drunkard by standing, iis we vainly ssuppose, neutral? Shall we smile or frown as ho raises the deadly drauglrt to his polluted lips 1 On which side shall we^tandl Shall we be the friends or the foes of drunkenness ? Moderate drinker, you are on the path that leads to drunken- ness and ruin. You encourage intemperance by using ardent spirits as a drink. How long will you continue to cncqitiagQ, by your example, this ruinous, dempralizinff custom t Be en- treated by a friend, to forstice it now, and to necome immediate- ly, a cold-water-man. 1^ - / XI* Ta Patriots^ if In the patriot's bosom, love of country is the ruling passion. His country i.s his idol.* Touch it, and you touckthe apple of his eye.. When war with its bloody front appears in the ho^ rizon of hiacoufttry's happiness, distress preys upon the core of his heajl When it spreads its dark, lowering clouds over her glory, anguish strikes his soul with its dagger. He feelSi at all times, for his country's woes. patriot, a desolating scourge in the shape of; liquid fire, is passing over your beloved country. That unrelentin|r tyrant^ ; interaj^rance, has set its foot upon her borders. It has coii}<' ; menced its work of death. It w stalking abroad in open daffT*" . carrying inits hand, its despotick chain already forged. Its ' chain is that of the most degrading, fatal bondage. Upon all it meets, it breathes a soul-destroying spell. Their love of liberty vanishes. They embrace their destroyer. With its chain, it binds them as in the unrelaxing grasp of death. _ It continues to draw tighter and tighter, th^ cord of despotism, till every generous feeling is forced from the %iiind, and the poor victim, a voluntary slave, expires in hopeless agony. Pa- triot, to you, country and liberty are dearer than life. , Will you not, then, s^p forth, and with a noble independence, drive by force of argument and example, this enslaver pf the soul from your/happy land? I know you will. You see what an insupportable burden it throws upon your country. You are ready to give it the fatal blow. To do thisj there is no time like the present. Therefore now slay this enslaving tyrant. ♦' Becoi^ a cold-water-man. ^ ** iy*i**l ' »l|i*j ■ ..mm ^ II '.llili^lP * I mce to intem- se men ick and hall ^e jppoee, deadly •standi runken- ardent Be en- lediate- - / )assion. apple of the ho- he core . ids over W le feels, I fire, is tyrant, OS com- ►en datjfjr** 3d. Its Jpon all love of ll^ith its ath. It spotism, and the y. Pa- . Will ;e, drive 1 ;he soul what an You are no time tyrant. ♦ 't¥ W- ctTRB roR inrEunttAHO^i XIL 7b Ptofunanal Men, 65 You witk others hav6, in the success of the tempefanice cau«e, a comm*!^ interest at stake. - Whatever niay be your profiin* ion, your, usefulness iivdiscjbarging its duties cannot be promo- ted by jdrunkepness. Are vou a physician ? Ighen you know ^ that the ordiimry use of ardent spirits is ii\jurious to^health.<-- Yott know that it often produces diseases of the moat alarming ' type. You know that it is scarcely possibly to cure disease - ~ m a drunkard, apd that tfilammatiqnjin hini is generally fktal. In pecuniary mttters, you know tl^t almost all your bad debts are charffea to your rum-loving eipployera.< It is your duty, then, and your interest, and ought to be your ptivilege^ tof ad- vance the cause of tiiimperance by becoming a cold-water-daan. Are you a lawyer 1 Then the crimes of th0 intemperate are familiar to you. Call them to mind. O, hW black ihe ciita- logue i What a fearful list of all that, is homUy disgusting and base ! ^iBas crime to yod lost its o^ousness ? If not, wJby hesitate to strike out of existence that whicht multiplies it to such an alarming extent? Why should you ^blush to dry up one of the sources W^crime, -by bpcomiBg a consistent mem- ber of the ten^erance society? V Are you an araba^ador for the Prince of Peaipe ? Intempe- rance, like a sea of sin, has rolled ils ftioontain tyaves over the world. Holiness has fled before it, and takenv shelter in its sanctuary the piOutf heart. Wherever this monger lives, true . religion dies. You love hotinetis, aijd desire to see the cause of true religion flourish. ' You are anxious to promote the glo- ry of the great Jehovah on earth. Tben practice uninterrupt- ' ed, eternal opposition to intemperance in all its degrees ai "^ form J thiEsn join a traiperance^^iiety^ A,': ,,, \ Professional men7youhav^iiat influence in <;iyil. society. - Your learning- and talents and other, estimable qilalities, enti-v * tie you to respiect. Your opinions alb noted and ripverencedj' Your responsibility is therefore vwy S^ ^Ibr You ar0 all/ mosi solemnly bound to use your influence iPpromoting \thi of Godahd the best good of. man. Will you do so ' 'scribing a>^pledge of ent|)Eie abstinence?" ' v^, -T •v\- XIIl* 7h I^'ofessqrs o/'BtsUgion. * |Jv^ry persoii both bjtsptecept and exai£iple, favouM entire ab^iij^nce friSfm the prdmdry use of ar^Qnt spirits, or he coun-^ tenances drunkenness. Professdlr of religion/ whichVcaUse' do ybu promote, that of efhtire abstinence or that of diriinkenr ness? Neutral you cannot^be. Ar6 you a cdld-waterVman, V, 1.1 '.-•V ■ '\ *-%J A ■ ...' ■'V |lj(,t-lip']»,N iiwii m »i u»n P THE OOLD^WAI or do j^^tiaUwiiHlef W&i fo and w6fte^r9ceiV(^'into.the,(fhttrchoL wilUofl^lpni to bi^^'prepartii ulito ev< a gooSvfork ; a ilbrk which hides ft m\ tiiu^ef man. |Are you jjfiei^r are you ready to ^ «lMoi<^?" i|lf y ^,'<.«ft.fc,'S|^ inlhv «(l^ -'. 'i \ f V 1 . f I It r t 1 ' t 't, • ' f ■ ■I ' S 'A are thaUylir Wfio c^ oeig^jboi ,in, 'quii)$ir ranee oa ,. injutJBS t&e rnibitfo: ^i||%ii«h'thi8 ;b«r(ftti8h'your tt>.? jB, yoii IdKi Ifore living^ _ l\jil, atrocioui ain.< iiyingiy deirti-oyi h: tVe up' your fOul->l " ^ of (haj;, religion which , ,p,<:anndt how plead i|fn< m, that all you noaike apd ec ^^ towthat vou seldoni or evel i,yoa value this cadse of ^Chriflti' iouB hulpieaf 1^1^ which you are engared. %> ^esstotrof religion. Do not wrap the cloak' \\^ round ai|«vit whtc)i ia^sK^itft^hed to " fijthy lucrp," • . ■ ke.it, would ioifer yO^ to d^ifftroy an immortal- u- A religion t^twffl;i|^rtjt8r professor to act PfJly, wit^ his ey«4 op^,4)ai|ai)t Iw Christianity.— icine. ■ til ^yet Ignorant On t^s sufayject^ you have closed' the ur understanding |g|Biiiis|:-^i|jb^J^ trut^ which. Do.. iH>ul thils. eye^.of ^r , , ., „ . ite iiiti^^aQ:lendour, £aiHeen sluittng'around yotfw ™*TijS, cannot justify, you. ' jtit vou u^ of the. » , Thitf i9 impossible. A iight of the drunkard has told> > ^ you> in|; language 'lYfaich yoja cannot misbnderstandA^t the' \ *" , bdsinesfy^, distilUng or .vending ardent ;Bpiri^ is destroying ' \ y9ur«m(' ci^eatures for time jand eternity. Tol» are doingr, this. XJkhers are doing^it. Every man who distills, or sells, or ^mks 'ardent sjpi^its, is doing it. All such persons kUow> - . the^ue doing t|iis.'' They all encourage each Other in theif . |, ^ viciotPpracticc, that of dealing in or Using'distilled liquor.-». 6, ' . They all enopura^e the drunkard to drink* The;^ will, all fo ,^' his money, give him the poison, at least wlbeh he is sober. Froies^r of religion, Will^^u ^knowingly and delibi ^ ' destroy, for this world and thSbrld tb come, your fello^' . and yet pretend that yoUjHBiim? 'O, let'consciei ewer. Will \fou, throw you^pighbour into heli for a si- , , and then say yt)U loVe him ? HOw can the, professed fo! ' of the Lord Jd|^s Christ, harden his heitft against the teL„ the nlethef anoTthe cries of the worse than orphaned childri 'J' r. \' \ CUR£ FOB INTEMPEEANCl. t^ Bed this U t of tl^Ql;] \ kit tK^i . , sdoingfv >r8ellB,>v-,ij|; in tbeifv quor.-^ ' I all fp< Ser, •'\. V ■:■:•!: 'ft- ,he turns the husband and the father into a ddnioni and y Hiin for doing 00, often takes (he last morsel of bread om their tablq and loaves them to beg or starve? Will vom ""in repeat this crime by making your neighbour drunk?—- ly<(u sell hiqa what you know will injure Um? Will yon dnnking, encourage the degrading vide of drunkenness?— iir^^ott not join a temperance society and thus do all in your l^power to dMpountei|iance the ordinary use of intoxicating U- |quors? If you will not forsake this abominable traffick, if you ^" will not lay aside the drunkard's cup, how can you believe that -yours is the spirit of ChristT For the sake of that ittligion which you profess, do be entreated to forsake your injunout u business, and the pernicious custom^f moderate drinking, XIV. ThOsLadk^. _.-/.,::.■■ :--!w ; ' , Ito conclusion, I iffust say one word to those who exercise such a sweet, mild, heavenly, and therefore iifesistible influ'- ence ' over mankind. Ladies, we .are onga^eaii^ a glorious wufare* It is one of extermination. We give no garter.-* We ask none. Our enemy is intempei^anee ; that is^ any usei of urdent spirits as a drink. Our weapons are smiles, and teitrs^ anii persuasion, and entreaty. Our field of battle is the worlc^ The particular post which we occupy is our own country.— ^ Our strong hold is our own neighbourhood* Will you en|^ag« ' fbr,u8, or for our enemy ? There is no neutrality m this war* , fare. You either drink no ardent spirits or you drink k little, KveryUttle^ If you drink none, you are for ^; if you ^rink V any, yoju are against i». Uf you are with tia ^ith your whole >i( heart, theucthe victoly i^Ars. Your inflt^ence is great, it is powerful; it is irresistible, and will remain so till every man oa . e^rth becongies a Turk, a^ paga^ or a drunkard. All the men ' "in the universe combined caidiot resist your influence. If you ar^ in &voar <|f- our enemy, we cannot succeed. We must eventually give Up the contest* We cannot if we would, rcK 'sist your influei^ce;;, an^yeviyflliipt if we could. We would only enlist it in,^||||i!y|M^ is now^ spreading the mantle of cSpoiin^ej^lh^^ \ x , ' Oi|i»cauSQ.i^ijH0 of philohthw^yfi^ Will ypu throw > your swce»?'restraining influence round aj*'oi*d sinkmginto^ Xthe gulf o£lnte«]perance,Tand save it? M^ V^^ Baviaiir bowed 4iis head and died,' when Peter, the nbld, 8e^-^dltffi^^«»^^ \; P^r,fbrsook his LordI, when the other ^isciples lefthun alone, ^nln the infant church wept tears of blood over RS^xpAnng; '^ ■X w ♦' ■ ' ■ ^ J Saviour^tben to throw ft drop of codici&tien ifliD Jiis cupuwr wo, y(ni were 'Mast at the cross and first aUlje tomb," •^'And will you not how t^h out your hand, anf^ntly l&ad fi%i' ■^• ^s* t^^* #■: .:»#;' :%■ '■ ■•-* ■h 08 TBI OOLP-WATEB-MAIf . .r f the brink of deatraetion, timoat a whole iwtion leedy to plnnge into the «ea of intoxication, that rolla it* fiei^ bilfowi below ^ ■./■■,<■■■ themt We know the power which yon can and do exereiae over the community. Did every female in our country frown upon V the ordinary use of ardent spirits in any quantity/ there is •carcely a drunkard, however debased he might be, in the Uni- ted States but would become ashained of his cups and forsake them. Female influence begins at the fireside and extends -^ to every corner of our globe. When it is exerted in favour of ■'J ^ a. good cause,, it blesses the world. But when it is enlisted in '' the promotion of wickedness, (and unhappily it sometimeeia,) •^ it throws a withering curse over the human race. Ladies, yo» know we are engaged in a good cause. ' IVe know that we can-' not succeed without you. Will you come forward and help us? Will you give us your pledge in favour of entire abstr- ^ ^- nence? Will you smile on our efforts? Will you frown on our opponents? Will, you, heart and hand, engage in thi« glorious undertaking? The enterprise deserves your notice. Its object is to dry up the fountainof anguish in the broke* # hearted mother, to wipe the tear from the orphan's eye, to bea^. ' con the young man from the drunkard's path, to provide a way of escape for the strong man ensnared, and to snatch the drunk- ard himself from the brink of hell. To do all this extensively/ we need your help, we need it much ; without it we cannot ac- complish our object. Will you, ciBui you refuse to give us your aid in such an enterprise as this ? Whenever benevolence hu moved over the world, you have blessed it with your smiles.— i And shall we now in vain solicit your approbation? May wd not expect your cordial co-operation? Some of you att already ' with us I some of the best too, where all are gooi^ But wo want you all. We feel vour worth. Come then, and aa one t individual, unite in this glorious work ; and then intemperance in every form and degree, will, abashed and out of countenance, move with a quick but reluctant step, out of our country, and out of our world too ; nor will it leave behind, as the curse of the earth, aa the death of your bliss, a single DRUNKARD, ' XV. lb-«fc We would now call upon all of every name and of every ' Iprade in society, to unite m one irresisti^e band, and raise an ' impassable barrier against the tide of intemperance which is destroying every moral excellence with which it meets. Let every man who desires to see bis neighbours and friends hap* pay and independent, wholly abandon the making, vending and 1 fl^ 3^ ■«> Ht' 3^'^ -V y: CUBE rOB INTCMPERAIICK. % iO ililti^;ar(I«nt flpiritf. Let all who wonld do a verjr gnUA good with very little, ^xertion, join a temperance society. Reader, when you 45 this, your influence will he exercised in favour , : of a good caiise. When no person touclics the int!bxicattng . cup, how inconceivably rapid will be the increase of our protf-,; perity ! Then America will stand as high abovd other na- - tions in morals and religion, as she now does in civil and reli< gious liberty. Who would not promote the happiness of hia country I Is there a person on earth that will riot lend a help- ' ingfhand ih the promotion of this cause? Concerning whom shall it be written on the broad face of Heaven, in characters of living light, '^He would not when he.might, do good by be- '■ conling a cold-water-man." We call upon all who aro/not yet. drunkards, to come for- ward and help us, by giving their names, their influence in fa- vour of entire abstinence.'^ We ask not for drunkardp. Wo do qot hope for their names, and their infl^uence is nothing.—^ ' Did we call upon them, our voice would be unheard. We mi^ht as well fling musick ori the tempest to still its rage,-aa to mvite drunkards to unite in fkvour of any good j^se. We might as well smile on the lightning to arrest its course, as to . attemptto call the drunkard ^om his cups. But let all who a^a ^ not sote, unite theil: eflTorts for the purpose of destroying thd ^■ monster intemperance. In view of the misery it has caused, the edrth might be clothed in sackcloth and the heavens wear ^ weeds of mourning. Let it then be driven froni the face of this earth and from under these heavens. , . V This is a great work. But let all engage in it, and it will -^ easily be accomplished; We invite the Christian, the patriot, ' the nirmer,^the merchant; the professional man, the statesman, the mechamck, the labourer, the husband, the wife, the father, the mother^ the sola, thf daughter, the brother, the bLsHat, all, all to enlist in the cold^lditer army. i We call for volunteeri; None are tooelevatpd to enter .the ranks. None are too low to be admitted. Here all caiy do good; here, therefore, all may come. No matter to what party. he belotags, no matter by what name he is called/the in- dividual is received here with a cordial welcome. Who then, will come and jpngagiln this glorious temperance refonnatiShl We ought rathejJQkk, where is the man that loves hrniself, his neighbour, h9l||htry or his God, that will refuse? The ca^e is a biessed^ne. It will finally triumph. Already in xl^Jnited Si|late8, 5,000 habitual drunkards have been reclaim- ed. In reseuiriff these firom the vortex of intemperance, what a sea of miserY MM been exhausted! What an ocean of tears ed] ''SpvhattliouMn^ of broken li^arts have been ■'% ' - - *«. ?i I f 'i ■' ■ f ■^: 1 ■::i Ki ^r ■i I m ' :, \ '^S. has been dric •*\. MAi?; -:'m: '■■■■/.-■ / . :. w^. 70 bound up ! How m%xfMtL% h*vo boon f nfttchod fV>om the v«- ry Jaws of that doftth JIfnich "n«vor, never die»I" The «11- •eemg evo of God, wid that only, can diicover the whole of the good already accomplighcd by tho teinpcran^ejefonnatiotf May its benign iniuence extend. May jy|iiifM| aniite •> principles be acted on in every comer ofaurrthw intomiwaC Y world. Mav cold water, that sovereign rein«)dy for intempe^ ranee, soon be tofslituted every where for intoxicating drinW Ao accomplitfigiiifl grand object, let all men join temperance societies, and War as distilled liquor is concerned, become in very deed, coJfYvator-men. Lot none taste ardent spirit!. ' except as iiniD^ine. ■ * ?,» % i\ ; ^-*c> - 4^. XVI. Except as a Medicine. ■pi*'- Except^ as a mediciil^ ! Except as a medicine ! I could aK most wish that thi^ phrase, so far as it relate*to ardent spirits, was banished froto tfal English language. Why use this poi- son of the soul for a medicine ? '♦ What !" the physician will o^;/!^""!.'".®^ coJdrwater-men take aw4y our medicine?^ Will they>J| their tem|ferate phrenzy, ransack the very apothe. jary s shoR and take awatdbis drugs ?" In their astoniBhment tiiey will perhaps ask, " How can we cure the sick without al- ^ • u ,„, X^*^" ^® dissdve oiifr gura« and resinv without alcohol ? We would answer, do both 'Jbat as your old pro* allcofi^ f| totype Esculapius did, Jong before ipraa invited by wicked men. Everjr physi j^ kn<>y|"that t^ ace m^ny ar- ticles which, as diffiisive sfl[|lant4|?wiU s*ly the^Je of Wdent spirits. And conconPted acetick acid, together with the other menstrums, especially the oils, acids, alkaline, lixi. viat<* &c. mil dissolve everyJlM or resin, oj^y thingMse that can beilbsolved by alcohCfffl is necessi|K curingls- "^^^r eases. There 18, therefore,„noaMuteriec^8ity&r**»taininir 'i^^. f- alcohol ;|fl the physician's studj^ or ia the wk>thl|iK»Mhop.-- M^ It IS noVn.n essentmUi, ntceMwy, though aJirylSuvenient, and ^ - " ' gten a usefcl, medicine. We might, thdlSte, l||e'and*e heal-4- -5^*if" .iTE'^^L*" '''® alcohofin exisfH ^ thrown in-* "1u ^'jf^^V^^dnoi another dr4 df it evSeSgain tortured from the fiMad creatures of God", to destroy ^e souls of men. xarn. Tumedgc: The pledge which all who become members of temperance societies are required to- subscribe, is not an oath, a solemn vow, or a covenant entfered into with the Sovereign of the uni- ver^as we are sometimesvtold. It is simply an agreement h^ # <" ^ i OBJBOTIOlf 8 TO TEMPCAAHCB. tl Tho all- ivholo of rmatioiif. mperattt „ ntemno^ ' drinW iperance como in •pirit*! %t • '4' ould al« ^ spirits, liis poi- ian will cine?^— , ; ; - apothe« : ":■; • ishment boutfj- V ' writhoui . > ^ (Idpro^, fe- lted by J |ny ar- »iace of . ' ■ er with e, li*i* ♦ taiiyn^ tr. ^ ihop.-» 4» . Rt,and ."* "^ leheal- % iwn in- . d from in. erance lolemn le uni- eemaU rwluoh tho sobor part of the community enter into with oieh \ other, for tho express purpose of di8countenancing> the ordina- \»y, which thfey know is in any degree, an improper, an iniu- ious use of ardent spirits. Tlio subsUnce of this pledge or Agreement is as follows : We the subpcribers, residing in the town of in the junty of believing the ordinary use of ardent spirits, llf%ny quantity, to be injurious, do therefore agree, that wo Will not use them ourselves or give or sell them to others, ex- cept for medical purposes, in cases of Jpdily infirmity. ^ • ■ • 1^1 ■ • ' lib My person who subscribes a pled^vby which he agrees to .ain entirely from the ordinary use of ardent spirits, has the P>'iv>Mtt[e of erasing his name wnenever hethooses. By thia tgr^eiflbnt, every soldier in the army of temperance is a volun- teer, not merely when he first enlists, but during the whole time he continues in tho ranks. Not a pressed man can be found in the Whole body. Who will come forward, then, as a \ ^zSt®®'"' '** Pi^on^e jjw glorious work I We would not use .comWsory mea#tesnf we could. We desire volunteers; 5?"Tfc' volunt#rs. Who feels it to be a privilege to unite With CKsober pert of the community, in throwing the blush OfconsCMa shame on him who will venture to drink the drunk- Wd's difli^nd thus encourage drunkenness? Such are the persona we depik^. Let all who feel thus come forward and join the cold-wAr society. We cheerfully extend to them our hand and gi^ them * nearty welcome. Reader, will you come? x; . • . ' ^P (I -^-^■ THE COLD-WATER-MAN. •♦ '"^ PART FIFTH, 0BJECTJ0N8 AOAIN8T THE TEMPE|IANCK RE FORMATION. I. .Oljevtiom o/DiattUers and Vendtrg, " That any person should object to the principle of entity ab- atmence from the ordinary use of ardent spirits, is one of those truths which can be accounted for, only^om tho fact that "the carnal mind is enmity against God." / ^ I ki f ■r'-/-'- i-' y i -\..- I' |- 't. ;. W , . THE OOLD-WATlll-llAlf. /•*. t* Tho munuflictaror tnd vender of diatillod liqaor ttrive to quiot thoir cormcioncoH by raylnfr, that " It ii right and jui- tifiablo to iimko and vond what thoy chooM, if they can Hnd purchaaera ; that tho ovil conststa in uaing, not in making and aolling this article." It ia postible tliat theae men may b« aincere in making fuch declarationa aa theae. For their own aakofl however, we doubt their aincerity. If they are truly in eameat when thoy make them, they must not be aurpnaod if reflecting neraona ahould think them bordering on idiotiam or lunacy. What ! no harm in making and aelling liquor on pur- pose to bo drank, and on evil to drmk it ! Who but the iitian whoae heart haa been hardened by tho indurating- influence of rum, could maintain that there ia no harm in mailing or vend- ing, what it ia an evil to uae ? Do such men really auppoae that there in no harm in taking their neighbouf'a property, for what • thoy know will injure him. Do they acknowledge that to de- fraud or rob tlieir neighbour ia an evill How then can those men bo innocent who take hb money in exchango for what tlioy know has a tendency to 111 both aoul and body 1 If thoy take it and give him nothing in cxchanjfo, it is, according to their notions of propriety, improper ; but not so to give him for it what they know will iiyuro him, and all over whom ho has any influence, and all with whom ho associates. This tru- ly is a principle unknown in cthicks, a principle which Christi- anity abhors, which men of sense ou^ht to blush to name. But if the evil, the wliole evil consists m drinking, not in making and vending ardent spirits, why do they not with all their hearts, promote those societies whose object is to prevent men fi'om (/rtnArtmjf distilled liquor ? If to distilland vend ardent spirits bo justifiable, then thoso who engage in tho business certainlv may pray that God would prosper them in it. Is there a distiller or vender of this poisoil on earth, so perfectly hardened in sin, as to be capable of ut- . termg this petition? "OLord, thou heart-searching God! deign to accompany with thy blessing, this hogshead, or barrel, •r jupr, Qr bottle, or gloss of ardent spirits/ which I am now send- ing torth^on tho community, or which the dnlnjcard is hug- ging to his bosom as he staggers from my doo^. May it be ^e means of doing great good to souls, of promoting the cause W Christ and tho glory at God. May every quantity however small, whic|i I sell do much good to my neighbourhoud, to my > country, to the cause of Zion which I love.'° Is there a single dealer in tho article, who dare pray such a prayer? If none of them dare, it is an uhdoniable argument, that none of them really think their business innocent ; thot thOy are so certain of Its injurious tendency, so certain that it is in itself a fatal M »~^ M ""^r" / <■ ei fe OBJBOTlONt TO TKMrBKAMCB. 75 ?vU. that th«y dmra not pny for God's bloMinf to rwt upon it. 'hat upon Which we dare not ask God'a bleaaiof to rest, we know to be evil. If the oonedenee of dialillen and tendera of this article, will not, without giving the alann, allow them to ask upon their business, the blessing of Almighty God, there can be no doubt bat that they know that what they are doing to deluge the world with this Uquid, b an evil, a fkul evil! the practice of which .they ought to abandon immediately .<— Who can say that to make the drunkard's drink and put it into his hand, is not an evil 1 If after eeeing the extent and magnitode of that desolation of which they are the very source, tney continue their perni- cious employ ment, they sm with thdr eyes ooen. "nieu ini- quitT admits of no paUiatioa. A flood of light is thrown up. on the devastation which they have caused. Their crime be- 3 ins to appear in all its dieadfiil reality. It has becomo ev- ent as if written with the li|[htning's glare on every sign for a grocery, or t^vwn, or store m our land. It is undeiJable as if a voice of tinilider declared it in evtty ear. On earth it is uM»ibed in characters of blood. It is mmoUled in the registers of eternity. It is reedy to fly in their fiuw and harrow up their soul and seal their condemnation at the day of judgement. If love of gain now shuts tkeilr eyes on this awfiilly defocmod de- mon of destruction which is annually destroying its thousands, if they continue to harden their hearts and blind their mindaand eear their consciences, by continuifig to do what they ought to know, what th^ do know is producing so much misery and ruin, it will soon be, (nay it now is,) impossible for them to convince reflecting men that they are innocent, or that their sin is one of ignorance. ^ t* But the vender of epiritoous liquors, wheee conscience be»ms to sting a little, says, as a palliating «xoase for what he feels to be a neflurtous praoUce ; " If I do not fiimish the drunk- ard with ardent spirits, others wiU." What an excuse this is for doing what we know, and are ready to admowledire is wrong ! What a prinm^e lUafoi^iateccoutttable bemg^ re- gulate his aeUons by I To e^^ j|^&ime because, ifhe does not, another will ! Who exct^ V^i|^r of rum would not be ashamed to let such a principle of moria conduct pass through his mind 1 Who hut a lover of nun could be governed by it ? If it be an evil to make and vend ardent spirits as a itik the more that engage in the business the greater will be the eviL In this respect it is like all other crimes. If the num- ber who engage in it be increased, the individual guilt of each will not there^ be diminished^ But the evil to the eommunir ty would be proportionably magnified. One is not l^ss guilty • J Ki ^ ). M i, ♦*. '•■.'■! • 1'^ » ■ ^ THS OOLD-WATER-JIAN. ■■» ■) ( becauM snother eoimnits or may commit the same crime Mr neighbour would not be justified for burning my house be^ cause If »« did not an incendiary would. On what principle, then, can the merchant or innkeeoer be justified in makinir his ^ neighbour dnmk, because if he did not the grocer would ? But how does the objestor know that if he didnot giv6 the drunk- ard mm. another would ?. His example in holding the cup to bis neighbour's month, has led others to engage in the manu- ftcture of drunkards. How then does he Jinow but that bv re- fbsing to sell ardehtspmts. to the drunkard, he may i others also to refiise? But ^hy does not the man who sells the intoxicating cup to the sot, when he knows it is wronir, toll us the _honeet truth! We all know it.- Why does he not . say, "I i»^ould rather grasp the drunkard's -sixpence than re- love of 'filthy lucre' that leads me to destroy my neighbour whom I ought to love. For money, for money, wid for a ve- ry little of it too, I havQ already throVn many souls into hell • and am crowding others as fast as possible intoihe same pit of „ unavailing wO." Let no man ever attempt to still his-con- 51w "*«}? r'l^ ^'T^^^*'^'. '^'^jf^ ^'•^"fif' »>y this most pitia^ We plea, If I dp not commit this crime, others will." ^ ^5* **<»y«ver one comes forward triumphantly with a decla^ /rtUon which he supposes wUl efiectually excuse faim from all blame m this matter. '♦ I,;' he wUl de*kre, « do not sell to the intemMrate. I-only sell to moderate drinkers, or to the drunk- ard ylien he issober." Jndeed, you will, when the drunkwd w sober, give him enough to destroy his self-command, to make hun staffger uid reel; and then you wiU send him to another ,to complete that rum which vfiH^have begun."* You will with a^8iren!s voice, lure the temi«te diinke? into the wild mazes 'hJ^V^'^V' ^^ thenleave him a miserable wreck of what" fte 6nce was» to be wholly destroyed by others. While Eb Kf *S/*£7?" ^°' ^'^ IJ*""' *"^ " "°t a disgracfe to ydur house, you filf his Gups.^ But so soon asjou have deprived him yf his propertv,hi8 selflcommand, his iappiness, iSs repZ- k tion, his usefiiinfess, his health, you banish'him from yo«r^nre:i sence r and then you lead otherd into the very iame cK^f . . dissipation.- Is t&s a Jess evil than to sell t^ninka?ds?l You wiltnol give the fiery cup to the sot, liutytu will lead th^' modeote drinker to drunkenipss.. Is not thifyiSriS'S- " ^ :j^t, hke leaping out of > pot of boiling water into one^ h^ng lead tacool yourself? Is it possible that you can think It ngSt to sell liquor to him who calls himself a modSSe ' ^> dnnker, and thus lead fiim oil to intetaperanc?, while you consi- der It acnme to put the cup of death into the drunkard's hand I ^ ^■ -»•■ V ; -;• OBJECTIOIIS Ta TEMPERANCE. 75 \ I' "^ \:-"- • z ??■■■ Of the two evils, would it itbt be much the leset to ccmtiiiue to mH to the confirmed sot, wid spfure the moderate drinlrar^ For the one^ there is little or no hope. I'he other may yet be Mved to himself, his family, his country, his God. If, notwithstand- ioff tiie flood of liffht that has Burst on this odious trafficlc, you mil tell, we woiUd entreat you, in the name of humanity, to sell to^f^ intemperate. But spare, O, spare the moderate dhnker! llis case is not yet hopeless. It is tvue, he is on the way to drunkenness. The gulf of dissipation is before - him. He is* rapidly approaching it. His^esent Qoime lead* to the drunkard's grave. Into this he Will soon enter unless he tuna. Do not then, we entreat you, entice Inm.forward in that road which leads directly to intemperance. Do not „ ffive another drop, no not for worlds^ to the temperate drmker. , We plead for him. Intlie name of mercy, O, ^are him!— .. Lead him not into the quicksands of dissipation from which so few were ever delivered.- If you must have a victim, take a ' drunkard, one who is almost, if not altogether lost. But do , not le|id. to destt-uction, one who, if your spell be not thrown over him, may yet be saved. ' 1. The man who knows he is a diunkard, who intends to continue his intemperate habits, but who wishes something to % justify/or at least to excuse his vile* practice, declares, *H may , as well get drunk on rum as on fermented liquors." The in- sinuatioq ipontained in this declaration is, that cold-water^iineqt - become intoxicated on wine, beer, cider, fcc. Every one ac- " quainted w^h temp uses ingpoderately, tha|(which hai^ln it both nourishment and ' refreshment, and whose acidity neutralizes, in ^ meMUre, th« :: i . » ' ; .■ '■■■i^' ■• * -■ C 9 ^0" r - . ,f^-- ~.«_.__„ .;. ■.-: ;i1-ntt*v-- :*;.•: .«^ T« TBK COLD-WATXH-lfAII. O 1-^ \ T! •I V 1 ?» dertructive power of the liqik*. The ayiteto ia ttnaMlimied and refte^ in a degree, bj that which produce* the intoxi- cation. Hence, to becon^ inebriated on anient apiritt it more * mjuneae to the body than it woald be to become equally lo oo ftiniientod liquor*. The example of him who rate drank on thia ne&noua poiaon, ia the moredangeroua,iMad therefore the » more mjttrious. Aato the appetite for alcohol, or the diaeaae or drunkeniiesa, diatilled liquor and that only» will uaually pro- duce it. It ia therefore evi<^ent that, though to become intoxi^ cated on any article, ia an exceedingly mggnvXe^ moral evil, yet to become intoxicated on ardent apirtta, injuree the drunk- • ard^and the community much more than to become intoxicated on fermented Ijqoora, and is therefore much the greateat eviU «. But the drunkard when he becomea mellow, or*' hot," ma he would aay, preaente Mmaelf with another objection avainst . theraovem«rtaof thoa^coW^water-men. He, while hli neck fS^l*?/*^*^ w**"" *e weight of hie head, ani hia legu timt of hia^bc»4y,vandvaneea. Staggering and reeling, he ex- teada one^leff to the right as a brace for Ua body, and before be baa it ftirly planted on the ground and haa steadied himself be saga to the left where the other in ite turn reluctantly per- torme the mime'office. When, by often repeating these mov6- mfenta, be finds himaelf aa heauppoaes, within hearing, he with a rum^reated hiccough^ atammere out ^ "Hear — — me.-*— - These— ^-hiccough— ^-cold— -water— me»- are [!?fr ^'enjP®***®;— -:Temperate— mei>.^-^-4ake a Httle ^Iike me," We would not h^ye noticed the drunk- ^ ard a speech, had not aom^ men who have not yet become " complete sots, occaalmally quoted it as an excuse for drinking ^ a mUy and m order t^throw a veil oyer the minds of the un- ^"7* And. we only mention it now to ahow to what misera- ble shifts those men are driven, who oppose the temperance cause. Whoever Saw the man drunk, tipsy, fuddled, or mel- ^ low, that did not taste intoxicating liquors 1 Such a one can- ) not be intemperate in.the use of ardent^jpirits. But will the drunkard tell us bow much, in his estimation, a man must drink »-^iorder to become temperatfel To do this would make him sC^fger as ^ctually as if he had drank a quart of the "good creature. Into what despicable absurdities those men wilfrqn, who are drfittke that cause v«ich will hang a hope of self-defence on such a h^k as this. If it stands at all, it stands on a foun- dation of whicli Viin of sense ought to be ashamed. Flee . from It then, aii|^ iv fearless stand on the side of entire ab :^^^--.N .'/■'^ -"-■-'- •.' .„-'i- . .f ,P.,' OBJCCTION0 TO TUf ^EB4N|PE.; m. OfM9Jm'0MDrhtk«n. 11 U One who lovea m Uttte^ with a ■oothinff smile Mid mce- fill bow, prasento hiniMlf and Ut bottle, with— "A little, my dear air, will do yon no haim." No harm ! no harm! a Uttle , will do Tou no harm ! Why, that is a sngulac recommenda- tion. Men of sense take wtet will do them #OMe goodi, Of I will be none the better Ibr taking it, then the time spent in using it will be wasted, and the trouble of driiddnf will be la- bour in vain. 'The liquor, too, will be wasted^ and its disa> greeable taste will be oadured fbr nothing. No hannl no harm ! But is it, in ftet, such an innocent article that a little will do no harm? A little of it makes some pMrsoiis drunk, and does that liule do qp harm % A Httle drank by a healthy per- son whose system is not already^ deranged with its iptuence, may be felt passing like electriaty, through the .varv>us parts of the body, or flying at oiice Co the brain, tbpre to turn reaton into an idiot, and thence^ to ttmow a palsied weakness over the whole man> to unnerre his strangtb, and to render him inca- pable of powerful, persevering action. And does that little do a person in health, no harm t A little predisposes to, and causes a multitude of diseases of the most incunble type.— - And does this little do no lugnn ? Every drop which a person in health a'idSem to pass his lin^imkss it be usefiil as a medicine, is injuriona* The dedaratfor then, that a little will' do us no harm, is, unfortunately for those who love a little|not true..*-. For a little, even a smgle drop, «^; do harm' t(F a person in health. A litUe taken occasibnally, forms in t^e, the drunk- ard's i^jpfitite. AxA who will say there is no m^ in tSis?, {ict no one then'ever again «ay to a person in health, clbcem- ine alcoholick lionor. *°A Httla will do vmuno ha#i." I^ little. JL'^lfiut were this i$«mp bos time and ing alcoholick igqnor, *IA little will do yomo ^Mt «li4Mi^^does jBoine'^d,o/fan much Jw. •edaration true, what man ofUMnsewc money, Aild associate with tipplerst mi^ly for the sake of do- ing himself «o term / Let 4is th9fi%e^ the man from our presence who dares to say a secol^ ti«B/«'A lijii^ wUl do you no harm." His example will poisbn tite moraSr of cmr child-^ ren. He may be the means of destiroj^ng opr xiwn souIib. He is seeking our ruin. 'And shaU we IfhtentO his sirtii voice, while the burdOnof hieiDi|gi8,''AlitUe willdo you no harm." No,^ us teach lum by our positive refiisal, that we know tl^ jleath is in the cup ; that every pSftkle 6f it is^as a drink, inJuriduB, and will if used, do us we know not how much hajnn. f Others declare, "W^ drink but very little ^ our habits Me formed j we are therefore in no danger*" Tosttchlwould my in the language of inspiration itselft '< Let Him tTiat think- '■r J... .>. «.. 1\ i>'i ■>*• i\ ^ in TBS OOLD-WATCK-MAir. 1 ' ;/J- V. ■'*'V--.- 3- .« .. eth lie ftandeth, tAke heed lett he Ikll^'* If you are alteady in ; «* |he habit of drinking, if you yet stand, you stand on the brink of an awAil precipice. The ground on which tou stand is uo- - ving towards its verge. Your imaginary iaftty only renderi ^ your, danger doubly dreadfUl. You ought^ at once and for / ^^'4f* ^"^ the cup from yonr lips. In doi^ this and in no I other way, you may hope for saftty. But perhaps you only 'drmk a little occasionally. This occasional drinking, with •,, ^ *<*'» ™*"y "» whenever they can obtain the glass, ^t sup- « mm. ^ ^"^ ^^ °? particular desire for it, though sometimes when \t IS ofibred, you drink because others do. Entire ab- stinence then will be no inconvenience to you. You may a« well rtstain entirely as not, and thus by your exunple at least, do all the ffood in your power. But after all, why should you : occasionally injure yourselfaJittfe, by drinking a little? Why should you bccaaionally set a bad example to Uiose around you^ and especiaUy to the young, by drinkmg « '^M'^ in their pre^< sence? Why do you lendTyour exam[^ to the deidl that he mav use it 'at persuading men to believe that drinking is repu- table ? Why should a man take a little medicine wEen he is in perfect health, especially if by usinf it he ii^ures himself and those with whom he associates ? Can you give a reasona- ble answer to these questions while you continue to drink a little ! If youc«Uiet, then never again while in health, drink ! a little of that, ^jtKsall quantity of ^ch does such untold mis- chief. 9. "But a liCUe spirituous liquor is nourishing and refresh- ing/' is the declaration of one who would almost as soon lose his right hand as his cmM ; " may I not, therefore, take a lit- tle?" That which has in it ndthing nourishing or refreshing cannot nourish or refresh the human body. tW distilled Iw quor can neither nourish or refresh, is a fact almost too noto- * nous to need proof Who does not know that ardent spirits ;^ are wholly destitute of every nourishing and refreshing qiffdi- ty? Who can look at the drunkard and doubt that & drink is thus destitute ? Who is yet ignorant of the fiwit, that a per- son deprived of nourishing food, will die the sooner by-using distilled liquors? The)* do not refresh, they only ei^larate the system for a short time, and then leave it more depressed and enfeebled than it was b^ore. Let no man, therefore, dri]|Mc ^a little fer the sake of being nourished or refreshed. '"Ardent spirits nave no power to do either. Those who drink them for this purpose will certainly be deceived. Ji^ may mistake ejxbiliCslion for refi»^ment, or ea e Hl ment for nourishment. — ' But nnce they contain, nothing noiMuhing or r^reshing, it ie imfKMwible for them toi^ouri«h i» re^ih those who use tl 1/ ■ ,^ ■-. .'I t.)i y #" fK . i W :i, O&lieOTlONS TO TEMPKRANCB. \ombA Who fn be sq»eiinp|e 08 to Mek nou^hmeht in that which contianfl none? Who but a tippler that dearly loves a Hitk^ could do thia? Not one. Wnerels the man of sense; then, vtrho will venture to say Uiat a little of that which contains no nourishment, is nourishing ; or that a little of what cannot re- \ iVesh, is refreshing? We verily believe .that the number of \ such persons is now very sinall, and is continually becoming 41 "A little of this article/' as one class of persons maintain, r ." is pool^, and will therefore enable iis to endure, more com- fortably, the oppressive heat of summer." How that which, when it has completely saturated the human systmn sometimes produces spontaneous combustion, can be anti-calorifick, or be what can resist heat, is a question to answe^ which might jpuz- . :Z^ a tippler with all the powers ofriipl to assist him. Since w^ have on record several well autmfSicated instances of spon- taneous combustion, the ftct of such combustion takiiuf place, cannot be doubted.. The cases of this kind worthy of credit, were, except one, females much addicted to the use (^ airdent spirts. And though the humaa body iif composed of i( variety of combustible qaaterii^, yet it will not take 6ge and^ be con- . sumed, even by smothered combustion, umess iC be surchar^d by an extraneous inflamable nubstaiHse, How then is it pQssible foi; that to be cooling which, like an inward flame scatters com-, bustible materials through the system, and scpashes the very' vitals of him who uses it? To determine this point would re<- quire the powers of a salamander that is said to feast on fire.— : Till we fin^ that what will ham will cool us, it is in^vain to talk of spirituous liquors enabling us to resist the sultry beat of summer. It does noijn the least counteract the heat of - W&rm weather. Experience, which is the only sure test of theory, confirms the remark now made. Those who do not drink ardent spirits, endpre the heaLof summer with as little, - nay with less, inconvenience than those who do. Whoij would 4rmk liquid fire to jpooi-iiimself inTMj^arm day? 5; "Then," say another class, *'aut^ WiU certainly warm OS in cold weather." A little fire or noqrishingfood will warm " OS, or prevent the cold from producing am injurious or disa- • greeable efl^ct^- liF^ood or exercise or both wUl keep the blood |. «nd other fluid^. of the body in circulation, and thus preserve. * , or increase its mrtural heat. The heat of fire when moderately , a]»p]ied to the^part which su^rs' from cold, soon restores it to an agreeabl^ temperature. Biit that unnatural Ijeat which spirituous liquors produce, and wluch bams up the human vi-. tals, atfotds no more protection against the cpld of winter than. A it do(3s against the 4eat of summer. It be^upbsthe livki|r n " ,;, * V ,,, /' . li •J *, ■» •>»^ i - , ^^ , i. \ i-' 3t^ 60 fi^ tlflC CO^-WATCKMAN. o v^' flinctlon.; and thertjfow a perwiti wUtflPeeie the aooMrftr drinking ardent aplnts in aiiy «j|ua|llity: , Whom do we fioa ffwen to deat}^ pr noirly to in the ttiOQiit«lihi|idw drift t |i it " «*?*,^'liSt*'^?' ^* "nanyho, in hii 6^n Xumation, diinke a hUU/ Whom do we sed ahi^^iring with'cqld iiShe morning. 'jfefei^jL*""™^/^'* 1'??""' '^^ » noble indejiendence mavct 1«p^ the^jnuelck of hw owit elirill whl^tie, g^ to hi« em- ptoyment i^Bgardlesa <»• the piiiclring frott or Ghillinff wmi^ M?l*^not the imliyidna} i|^h« fjient the previous evening ove^ , "Vipa J . Hie trembjfrng joints, ht» tottering gait tell w who ; ^ 1 IS, inUMjuageto^ plain to be miiundtfrstood. Who in the \ •» ', hire coMh^ui ilmoet continuiiHy complaining ef the cold!-* ' ^ Jt i# the mim wiio would keep Himself warm by taking 4 tf' ^? ^^f^^^ '^«*» andaa often m may bftf^onve- Sent beaidee. Let noioi^ therefore ever attempt to k&p him- . rlJl^t t' '^ *^»»"« warm whep cold, by drinldng a litU* of that which never counteracts, but always, by its defeterioue inflnence, incr^Mes theeffecti of cold as well w of heat on tb« human syitetn^' .;-/. ''' /■'' :'■': ^:' ■ ■ fl^-But thos^wjio ee^determiiied to find a lurking pkoe for the^monster intemperance to hide in, lest he should be de- stn^ed outright by^bis deadly foe, entire abstineiMse. say :— When we, ]abour *ard in tii(} :^arm, «iltry sun, a little wUl keep the cold wMer from iiquring lis." It is true, we often hear of intemperate persons fiOjitng dowii^ead, almost instan- - Jwwojjsly, after tiking a drat^t or<*old Water. But who ever beard of cold water deatroyijiglifo, before distilled liquors be- came an ordinary beveragel Wlioat the present day, ever Jipars of an individual that has iieV«sr drank wdenfrspirits; being Injured by the use of cold water? If then the use of this pe? niciousJiquid, so deran^s the hiimsS system^ that pure water which God has provided in such rich abundance for every thing that lives on earth, and which is so refreshing to aU, wiU chifi the fountain of life, and drive the soul from tSe body, surely it ought never again to be MrmitM to Vitiate our taste, or en- ter our stomMh. But if the -^b^ of those who nse this ar- ticle professedly for the pui||iMieol preventing the enl that cold water might do them, l^,^lie^t^e one, why not use some ^ one of the t^sattd other pifeyeijtives which ai* cheaper, more easily obtained, or «re ndtirishing ? If w^ miit milk, vi- negar, molasses or augi^ with water, the' latter will not then mjure us. Many kinds of beer make a safe and wholesome dnnk. If, before we drink, we apply a litUe cold water to our wnsts and temples, it' may then be used in any suitable quan- tity with, perfect safety. If, after arrii^g at the fountain, we tarry a few minutes before wq drink, we will^then experience V y \ § I »n i w eniog ovei toll iM who lyhointho iecold1««iit> >y Uking 4 r bf fiionvo- iag a litUo dewtoriouo leat on tb* kinff pUkoo >ula M de- ice, say ;— . I little will I, we oftMi oBt instan- it.who ever liquon be- ; day, evet irits, being >f thia per- pure water ivery tJnng I, wiU chifi f, surely it ate, or en- lie tbiaar- r evil that t naeaome r eheaper, xmilk/vi- U not then vholeaoine Iter to our able quan- antain, we experience f w y , no inconvenience flrom the fireo uae of cold water. Therefore in uaing tU« re(Veibing beverage, those who refVain entirely, flrom afdeflt spirits as a drink, have little or nothing to fear.— And for those who^ are in dii|iger from its use, there are so many safewaysofpniventing any evil results, and those so venr'ean- ly practised, th^t no man can be justified in resortinff for this purpose, to that which it dangerona and iiyurious. It is vai|B tbrl^ person to say that he uses spirituous liquors merely to prevent the water from injuring him, when he could, by using nourishing articlea, with th^ same convenience and much leasv expense, prevent any danger he might be in from that source, \ and at the same time remain perftttUy aaib from that ten thou- sand fold greater evU, intempenuiice. In using nourishing or refreshing articlea, he would neither injure hinuielf in receiving them, nor others by his example. * 7hat the apprehended evila jiirising from any nedessary use of cold water may be prevented without drinking a single drop of 'Ardent spirits, is now perfectly evulent ; because many la- bour, and labour hard, and, drink cold water and enjoy ^ood health and sound mindi, and calm and .neaceaful dispositions, while they "touch not, taste not, handte not" the dirunkard'a accursed poisoned cup. Let the tippler then throw off this mask; and if he continueetb drink,, let him no Ipnger say that he does so to prevent the cold watier'from injuring him. Let ium stiigger out from behind the Curtaih and say what we all know to be truth, that he di'inks because he loves the deadly draught. If he does not feel williiKf to stlmd forth in his trua dress ; if he is satisfied that he needs an excuse for his present mode of drinking, let him alMtain entirely ; and no man ex- cept the drunkara will ask him to o0^r an excuse for not drink- "inf.- ■ - . \:\-: :: T. There tan men, e^ Men too, yrbc»B we would fata call respectable, that actually slander tt^ttbouringpart of the com- munity, by affirming, "they will n«t work witneut ardent spi- rits." Now this is not true with respect to, 1 had almost said, one labouring man in a tlMosand. There is scarcd|^ a man in our country, who laboim for his daily bread, but would ra- ther work without distilled liquor of any kind than to associate day after day with a drupkard. Even the dnmkari himsdf will, unkws he has become a beastly sot, labour without hi«* dram, a^e appeal to that very respectable and numerous das* ; of our citizens who, labour for others, and we would ask them ^ as a body aild as the ver^y heart and sinew of socMty, if they . do not feel themselves iiumltod, by the very thovuffat that they -^ will not labour/ unless ardent 6i»rits are fornished them. CW thii^ we do know on this subject. Those who furnish ardent ,. e4 . • ^ mi' .«••.■ 'Nl^ ■■* » THB COLD-WATBR-MAN. a- ■•:■■& m I o »^. *r ■'%■ /Mine •piiritBAwill thi pint* wUl •tand the chance of havinr. aa their workm*.^ .ft ^ ^n]2lL f*''^" '?• temperate, and therefore the beS J^ «««Pe»te men will not. when «M»y can avoS ti wove tC^r'*" "^ «»«"»P«~te. We neeTnot at- aowKhl! wl *'"»P«™'« workmen are the beat. Every ^ whin^'^hSSi"'*^;***?' i' "'«»»' ^^'^^ *»»* **2 iji»:fyo»WaoifhedraS^^^^^^ knowa'flZ Kr«" '"'^^ *•> *»^« »»»Wt of Kg-lab^«S water m«,7l^'^?? ''*'l® **• laboura for such a man. Gold- hundI2kf^^°°^?"8«'»»™»» withoutmm. Theyemplo* Wbwf J^H te" "* mechanical and mann&cturfnrertX. intl^eurmedicme-chSte. Who then in (iew of thew fck? wR ' w to thS«„^r ' "'^ ''"Vf"" •ocfttiM. W. would intJS ^^ '*'**" entirely, we hav^ao evidence that you can ex i^m^'' r^ yonrself .f^imriah the pr^ KJ Z SESJ? Perhaps you wUl fi^od that your own aafetv will reqmre you to join a temperance «oclety. ^ If yo^ir^er rfl ' ■ \ ; t # • ' *»•■ Mrorkmmi, iQ pie who fUr- ore the beat ey can avoid need not at- »eat. Every low, that the Me of ardent b, or a year, «. And al* If labourere, of examples I abnndance, I an engage* 1 befumiah- ; willreAise bat cold wa- oan. Cold- 'hey emplofr- tunng esta-V erefore that \ ow ploughs ' pBaailftom >ftrd, except , efkcta.will lea will not drink? of persona, re the very ./ MBOssed of ':• ler with or . I the use o^ be cause of cannot go- »; 9 the cause- :~ themselves We would ^ come out ee society. y from the >f that you ' rink. But at you can Try the lafety will scover, af- * ^ J . OMCCTIOJNS TO tlllFB9ANCk. M ttr uaklnf t ftlr tr^, that you oannol govern yountU; that you cannot abstain entirely, then you have approached too near the drunkard's grave to be of much service to the temperanoe cause. *But if vou can govern yourself, then you are the va« ry person of all others that ought to exhibit your powen of -- •elf-government, by abstaining entirely flroto the use of alcoho- lick drinks. - 9. Another class say, " We are decidedly in fhvour of th« temperance reformation ; but we wiah to treat our friends who visit us." We would say ^to such t Treat your friends with " _. lundneis. and attention, and respect, Be, ih every sense of ^the word, hospitable. But be not suspicious of your friends. Do not ii\jure their characters by supposing that they love » Uttle. , If they are indeed your Jhends, do not oilbr them what irou' know will ii^ure them. If they have already acquired • pve for spirituous liquors, they odght no lofiJlBr to be amn- lered among your friends. Their influence may lead you in- . to the paths of the destroyer. Their example will ruin your Iwniiy. Let no lover of this fiery liquid, be a welcome inmate of your house. Those who deserve your friendship have no » desireTor this fatal poison. Dispense Veith it then whoUy. as ' A a hospitable beverage. ' , ly- "Those cold-water-men drink behind tfTa^door," is the declaration of one who, judging others by h«Llf;''imagines that everv man must love a KttU as well as he dSfii Butbo w we would ask, do you know that these men *'#ink behind the door." You cannot see through the door, esjpecially if it is a » panel ope. .When they leave their hiding-places, their breath does not tell to every mdividual within twenty fbet, that they tad *' kissed black betty," as you ■ometimes c^l taking a dram. • How IS It that your breath smells so much lUttr * hogshead of rum unheaded, when you take a litUe in the oM retired cor- ner ; whale the eold-water-man who takes, as yoVsay, " a small Jiom behind the door," has no tell-tale breath to inform all near him that he has been drinking 1 Now we verily believe that the breath of Uie cold-water-man wouM smett of rum if he drank it, almost as much as that of another iiMtdual. To- be serious, there is nothing to induce these men to drink be- hmd the door. They can have their names erased from the : temperance list, whenever they choosel Many of them are men of integrity, and therefore would noidJeive if they could. Those who are not honest in their proibVaietis of temperance '' could not deceive if they would; &« "^^ r~. . . » detected by th«r hreatlk ThedeclaraU * water-men, in gpo^ standing in the soci«^ rite behind the dodr or secretly, is not tru^ invinably be ore that cold- ik ardeht spi- . 1 I / r.: Mi i.'X' ■) r- ? 1 1 ■i •1.1 w % 0/9^ ■' . ' .MV^- u •,.'.^- f HS CO|.D-iriTIII-IIAir»f^ • Memben of the temperance locioty ought however to aj- bete religiouily to the temw of the pledge. Indeed it might be well M « matter of prudence and expediency, and to iihut the moutha of thepe captioua cavillera, for thoie engaged in the ^ cause to abstain not only flrom all ardent apinta, aa the pledge -^roquirea, but also to abstidn from all fermented liquors, and ••- pecially from the ordinary use of wine. It. One says, "Let drunkards join temperance societies. They need to be reformed. 1 am a temperate drinker. I am therefore in no danger." This is precisely the objection that the veriest ^^unkard in the streets would make. But we will ■uppoee fbr a nioment, that you never oet drunk, or at least oiuy on particular occaaioos, such aa Christmas, new-yeara day, the fourth of Jnim^ be. What theni The little yon drmk does you an injury, sets a bad example for others, and has a tendency to ensnare the young. By ^drinking a little you say to the drunki ' ' ' ' say you drink only just enough to do take, while you « he is doing ; ^hat join temperance soci f ;hat you af^ove of drinking. You '11 do you good. He thinks lie takea d. In vam yoo point out his mis- it It is right to do what ho supposes a little. You say, " Let drunkarda j„.u .,,.«i^.-«-« ~-^. Do you think these associations are good and usefiill When or where did you ever hear of druiDiards aaaociating together for any good object? ^.J" do thoy ever attempt that is useful 1 What areJ;hev good for, if they should endeavbur to accomplish any laudable underto- king? Whenever any laudable association ia formed for any purpose, it is composed of sober mc^i. These often unite for the purpose of banishing evil from the community, or for pro- motmg the cause of virtue, of learning* pf liberty, of religion. The sober part of the community musPdnite against intempe- rance, if it is ever banished from the world. When every «o- J)er man ceases to drink, intemperance will soon cftase to ex- "^st. |4en who are not drunkards drink ardent spirits \ and this I ' is the sole reason why any drunkards are found on earth. Let ^ this truth be indelibly written on every mind, that if there were no moderate drinkers there would be no drunkards. \ When you believe this truth and practice on it, you wUl then feel that the temperate ought to join temperance societies, for their' own sakes, and for the sake of those with whom they MsO- ciate. 1£. When the tippler is borne dov^ 'with anjirresistible tor- rent of evidence, when he writhes under it, and looks in vain ' to every point of the compass to catch the smile of approba- tion, when he finds no-relirf from any quarter, he, m a dermer effort in defence of drinkinf, exclaims: "There is naharro U) ^- * , ;' ' Jr" : . ) « «r to %A' it inir ht d to Hhut |;eU in the tie pledge ■, and «■• gociclies. Br. I ■«» ction that It we will rat loaat BW-year*! little yon there, and g a little ng. You she takes t hif mia« supposee jrunxarda lociationi ir hear of I What goodfor^ > underta- sd for any 1 unite for r for ^ro- f religion. intempe- ev^ry •<>- ue to ex- ; and this rtk. Let h6re were I, vWhen then feel I, for their' ;hey MbO- Btible tor- ks in vain ' approba- a dernier aharmii) . ) .;. .\; • OBJIQTIOMt TO TIMraAAirOI. ^ AdHnkinf i«mpenl«ly." To drink _ ^•nd a tamperate drinker, art pkraaM 141 ua attempt to diaeowr wWt we i man in beiUtli. "He drinka diatUM » Wkere ahall we draw Um line between . intemperato driakarf A gill of apiritu< one man drank a wkole day. .Hei, ainef he BPt be called a temperate drinker. Another „ quart or parhape two quarU in the eamf time. thrown into the ditch. But he who diinke a ouart or two in « day cannot, except by a groae iierveraion or language, be called a temperate man. Where tnen ie tlie line between tem« porato and intemperate drinking % Iftbere it no harm in drink- ing teoMierately^it beoomea a very important matter to dia- cover the point where temperate drinnng ceaaea and intett- peranee oooimences ; for intemperance is acknowledged by all to be an alarming evil. We see that the line of demarkation cannot be detenniatd by the quantity drank'in a given time : because what wiU scarcely aafitate the hardined Mn of one man, will make another atupidlydnink. What then is tem- pemte drinUag I and who is the temperate drinker ? are ques- tiona that still return upon us with all their inportance. Per- haps in the Abjection itself we may find a clue whieh wiU lead us to a correct answer. If there is no huin in drinUmr tem- perately, then wherever there is harm in drinking, tim^ must be intemperance. Now where docs the hartn begin Y for at that point intemperance commencee. One gets mellow, aa he says, to do him good. Another for the same excellent reason gets driink. Another is sure that he ia not a MU profitted by becoming intoxicated occaaional- Iv. AliMfagiveaafourthagoodappeaie. AH drink because there is. not only no kann, but some good, accordii^ to them, in drinking. One geta drunk now and thni, because by doing so he saves many a doctor's bill. We would hint to such sn individual a plan by which he will be freed altogether from the bills, and pills too, of physicians. Let him keep on drinking, in- creasing the size and frequency of the dose, and he will soon be ■IX feet under ground. In the drunkard's grave no doctor's voice will reach him. He must however hear the sound of the Archan- gel's trumpet, and pbey the summons, no matter how unwilling he may be. But notwithstanding the many advantages which fhe tippler discovers in his cups, no one ^ould serioosly call the man stricUy temperate, who becomes intoxicated once a year, or even once in five years, f he frequency then of drin^dng doM not fix the point after Which we are seeking. Where then does the evil of drinking conunencer The question still ■*vl .'. V V- 1. -•»«;^i«*- \ ". ■ ■ V * ■■1 -- ■■*»'■ .'; . V 1 . a . • ' ■ ■ ''"^ ■-•-■.■" ..'■. '■-<*■.' - *'/ . "- ' -. . -',:■■ . '^'' ' 1 _ » MKIIOCOrV MSOUniON TMT CNAIT (ANStond ISO TEST CHAiT Ho.2y ' ■■ ■■ ■ ■■'■ '•;■.■„ :^^' ■ : : ■■■: 1.0 '•I.- 1.1 ■■ "^ . 1^ 1^8 |3j2 IM itt u u ^ 2J 2.2 ^. 1 '•« 1.4 I 1.6 V- ^^ 1653 Eatt tilain StrMt TJS Rochmter. N«w York 14609 USA ^= (716) 482 -0300- Phon« (716) 288-5989 -Fax tl • ^♦' m THE COLD*WATBa*MAll. J ,. [ V*"-' 1< TetuniB : Where does tcmporate drinking, in whicli tfctro It no harai ceaic? Where dbe« intemporato drinking, which w an execrable evil, commences! What p«int ■eparatea temperato from intomperato drinking 1 We call upon the drnnkaxd Xo assist us in answering this puziUnff question. He has travel- led through oil the mazes of drinking from the first sip ttot draws the face awry, to the deepest dregs of the drunkard ■ howl. He then ought to bo able to fix, with perfect accuracy, the point which separates the temperate use of %rdent spinta from the intemperate. When an interval of reflection arnves, when the ftimes of intoxication are allowed to evaporate firom his brain, when reason for a moment resumes its throne, when thought for a short time, steadies his mind ; with trembling V>int8 and sepulchral tones which bespeak a broken down sys- tem ; " Ah,** he will say, '♦ the first drop ! Oh, the first drop ! Beware ofkhe first drop ! In the first drop li^ conceded all the drunkard's misery h^re ; and in it are the drdgs of that ««P w wrath which he must drink hereafter ! Th« first drop I Oh, the first drop ! While it smiles in the cup, it hides un its heart M sting of eternal death ! Oh, the first drop! That is rum ! He that avoids the first drop is safe. Frown the cup which contains it from your presence. Look not upon it but with disirust. The first drop I Oh, had I avoided that, I niight now have been a man of wealth, of respectability, of influence, en- joying happiness here, and hopes of heaven beyond this Mying life.' But now, having tasted the first drop, I have become Br--— drunkard." Tears might steal down the furrows in hia ch^k, while he described the evils of dririking the first dron; andt)t« next hour you niight see him intojticated. His self- command was in a great measure stolen away by the first drop, and those which IbTlewed it. , «» v The drunkard has answered the ouestion correctly. He has told us wKere the intemperate use of ardent spirits, in which the evil Consists, begins. It begins with the first drop, and. con^ tinues with every succeeding drop which a person in health drinks. A single drop, as we have already seen, injures the person who while ui health, permits it to entej hia system.— To use any article, at anytime, in such quantities as, to injure us, is to use it intemperately. Since then he who, while in health, drinks a single drop of distilled liquor, mjures himself* (though he may not be sensible of the injury,) he must use that drop intetbjierately. If a drop injures us, to nse a drop is intemperance. He however who uses a larger quantity, be- (6auae he injures himself more, is more intemperate than he who /uses but one drop. Both use that which injures *!«"»» *2^ therefore both are intemperate. You who love to be thought S'^~ .'#-«*W - « . , \, ■&-*'* Jf>' '■• •>::. ■ f , ■ , I- r. V pBUidTIOlVS TO TElTPERANCt:. 87 « toinperate drinker, itre perbupa diftpleaaod with this rcasoh- iiig. Bu£ before ybu reject it, let me ask you ; Is it not true? Does it not carry conviction to ^ur mind ? Does it not chal- lenge the consent, yea eve^ the approbation ofyour understand- ing ? If it' doesj then become temperate indeed by refusing to taste ardent spirits as a drink. The use of this article as a ' medicbe is the only temperate use 'of it. If then wq use it at all, let us use it for a medicine when prescribed by a tempe- rate physician, and for no other purpose ; because, for a per- son in health to use a single drop, is intemperance in a degree. We do not affirm that «very individual who tastes distilled li- quor as a diink, is a druiduird ; but hei is in ^ fair way to be- come one soon. He uses ardent spirits as an ordinary beve- rage, and is therefore in some degmeiAtemperate ; and no man can tell where intemperance in any degree ends and drunken- ness begins. Let us all then drink temperately, that is,' not .taste ardent spirits except as a medicine, in cases in which it is prescribed by the cold-water physician. '.:■- •■,•■■■. . ■,-■'.•■*-■■•■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ '■■ " -:■. . ■ . ; ■■' • 1. The knavei 'Who hates a temperance society as sincerely lis he loves a UttU of the " good creature," whispers : " Weak men join tempierance societies." The ignorant who know lit- tle or nothing concerning temperance menlor temperance mea- sures, catch the sound ; and the burden of their song becomes, "cold-water-men are weak/ ^.Whether a sober or a drunken man is the strongest, let the ditch and the mire in which the latter often mAkeii his bed, the swine among which he snores, and the wieked boys who trip up his heels as he staggers ho^e . from the dram-shop, testify. Th6y know by experience how weak the drunkard is. But seriously, who are these weak men that joia tempienrance societies ? Why, thej^ are our C roveil^ii- purs, our Assembly men, our statesmen, our legislators, oUr judges, our lawyer8,'7hiT physicians, our divines, our civil aiid military officers of every name and of every grade, our far* Iners, %r mechanicks, our merchants. These are the weak men who join teny^rance societies. Who wouid be ashsimed to have his name enrolled among the names of such men aiei these? Every true American wiU feel an independent pride, a conscious dignity, by being associated with the talent, and learninj^, and moral worth, and piety of his own country., 'He who joins a temperance society is a fellow-member wi(h tblb/ wi8est and bes^ men now on earth. * 2. Another brazenfaced' objector comes forward, and wii^ all the impudence and assurance of ignorance, boldly declares J '..H R«»* 1^: •-I m^ 1. y 88 'tUM COLD-WATKI^-MAjr. that " Tempertnce men injure those who traffick in ardent flpi- 1 rit»." Now 1 must confess, that when 1 first heard this objcc- ? tion against the cold>water-men, I was wicked enough t6. think tnat I could discover under its mask, a very little squint ' which resembled its sister that once, m the city of ISphcsus,' looked sour at the preaching of the g^igpel, because it was like- ly to overthrow idolatry. DemetMus the silversmith discover- ed, that to make silver shrines for the idol Diana, was very pro- fitable business. 'Sut Paul preached that " they which be made " ^ with hiLnds ^re no gods." This Demetrius addressiuff others engaged in the same' lucrative occupation, said, "Ye know that by thia craft we have our wealth." They discovered that if the people believed Paul's preaching, their idol-makiqg bu- smess and the wealth arising from it, would soon cease to- gether. This preaching agamst ijlolatry, they knew would soon prevent them from gulling the people out of their propor- tv, for what they had occular demonstration was destroying their souls. The preaching of the apostles would prevent these money -making men from injuring those around them. They must th^efore cry out against these holy men, and their mes- sage as if they themselves were thereby sustaining an injury; They imagined that to prevent them firom injuring others, was - ** • doing them an injury. Temperance men strive to persuade their neighbours not to sufibr the Venders of ardent spirits to injure them. 'This is the kind of an injury they do to those who traflick in this destructive article. Similar to this was the • injury which Paul's preaching did to the Ephesianjailversmiths. w^ This 18 the kind of an iujury that honest men do rogues or ^ thieves when they warn others to be on their guard against " them, or when they take them up and put them in prison*'^ "O," say these men, ^' this preaching against the use of air- ^nt spirits in any quantity, except as a medicine, will ; soon ruin us. It will open the eyes of the coraiigAnity on this sub- ject, and then it wiU be impossible to make men buy or drink this poison which saps the comer-stone of life. By acting thus, how thev do injure us !" But we may ask, how doe* this' course of conduct injure you? How much must we drink ? or how much must any one else drink in order to do you justice? Do we injure you by refusing to let you poison our morals and ruin our souls with yoi^ rum? t>a we injure you, when we refuse to encourage you to traffick in an article every particle of which, y/hen drimk by a person in health, is evidently dele- terious ? If a wooden-nutmeg peddler should make his apnea- ranee among us, no one would say he was injured by an indivi- dual who should make known to the pubhck the imposition about to be practised upon them. If he should besmear them •vi ^¥ K OBJECTIONS. TO TCMPEIUNCIB, 80 lent »pi-l i» objcc-* ough Vt>, c Bquitit' Iphcflus,' VAS likd- iscovcr- ery pro- bo made ^ others o know red that li^g bu-* )aae to« ' would proper- itroying Dt these They >ir mes- injury* jrs, was ' Brsuade >irit8 to those tvas the smiths. 1 g^es or against ison.*-^ 1 of ar- il ; Soon tis sub- r drink acting >eithis' ttk? or istice? als and len we •article y dele- appea- indivi- osition r them m with A slow poison which would eventually seal up th^ foun- tain of life, a brighter shade would not thus be thrown over his conduct. Ho might say, it is true, that it cost him much la- bour, aijfd time, and money, to make so many ^autiflil wood- en-nutmegs. He might complain in a pitifijf tone, of what he might call the injury which had been ddne to him by the man who exposed him. He might appeal to the sympathies of the people. IIp might say that his ruin was certain if they did not buy his wooden-nutmegs. He might say what he choijo in favour of his iniitation-nutmegs which he desired to sell. He might jpositively affirm that a few of them would injure no one. But all this cant would be in vai|i. The people whose eyes were open to the deception could not be gulled. The peddler of stone-cotton, of brick silk, of basswood-hams, or ^fcast-iron axes, would be as little encouraged when ho charged the per- son who exposed the basoiwss of hia wares with injuring him. He then who would charge .|bo, person that refused to drink ar- dent spirits himself, and jftehjike^ito persuade his neighbour to throw from him the poisoned cup, with injimng the ven- ders of this article, must be himself almost crazy, or think others are 90. What! charge a man with injuring the ven- ders of ardent spirits, because he persuades others not to suf- fer themselves to be injured by the traffickers in ihii ruin- ous liquid ! Such a charge crown« the climax of abs&i^ity. No man hereafter need attempt to raise higher in the scale of folly. Merely to prevent men from suffering others 40 injure them is doing evil! What nonsense! But we dismiss the subject. It is too childish for serious contemplation. It is too silly to feel the liuh of ridicule. > Those who would throw the veil of deception over all with whom they meet, sometimes charge the managers of the tcin- ?erance society with deceiving, forging names, and the like.--. ^hese and similar ridiculous accusations, we pass over in si- lence; 4)ecause none, no not even the drunkard will believe them, or can be deceived by them. Their falsity is too bare- faced to lead astray the most unwary. Accusations like these made against men of the most sterling integrity and of the most unwavering varacity, must recoil with tremendous force on th^ head of him who makes them. In the sincerity of oiff soul We pity such accusers ; because we cannot but view them in the light of wilful caluminiators. We are compelled to con^ aider them ae slanderers of the most unimpeachable characters. Sueh shameless misrepresc^ntations can never injure the tem- perance cause. Those who make them can scarcely be in- jured, for they have nothing to lose. \ • •isl .If- „ k i I 90 .■■t ■ 'I. ■f- ■■frr ..".'-I. f- TUB 00I«O*WATBR-HAl«. / 1, "But tcmperanco is prieBtcraft,"" bawh the infidel who, in roligioua roatteru, never tolls the truth it' a falsehood will possibly answer his puriwM. Ministers of the sro*H' »' "*"?^ be confessed, (wo had almost said to their shame,) arc not, in, general, in the front rank in tb^armv of temperance. Judges, and Htatesmen, and lawyers, and physicians, sind in many in- stances, farmers, mechanicks and merchants, advance before them. But we are happy to say that mantf ministers of the gospel, belonginff to the various denominations of Christians, . o exert their inQucncc in promoting this good canse, the cause of temperance. It appears then that temperance is priestciall, and juage-crofl, and govemour-craft, and statesman-craft, and lawyer-craft, and doctor-craft, and flurmer-craft, and mecha- nick-craft, and merchant-craft, and indeed the craft of aU those who engage in promoting its cause. But no man who regards the truth will call it infidel-craft. These persons hate the tem- perance cause almostas sincerely as they do vital piety. May temperanco) which itf the craft of all good men and the bane of most bad ones, soon extend over our now intemperate world. It may be remarked here, that in modern tofidel phrase, ^ priestcraft is almost universally used to denote what is truly excellent. In the hackneyed phraseology of ittfiddity, it means to be engaged in promoting tne cause of vital piet^, to £svour sabbath-schools, missioqs, missioimry societies, bible societies, tlje temperance cause; in short, to be engaged in anv cause which is truly ffood and benevolent, is wliat Infidels, kc. call priestcraft. TTie more such craft we have the better. Mav It flourish to the eternal overthrow of every ^peeies qf infidel- craft which strikes at the root (Hf all that is dear and valuable ; to man in time or eternity. . , . .ii a. "But temperance-will unite church and state," insinii*- ates the crafty enemy of the cause. He fears to show his . cloven foot, lest he should be confironted by men of sterling in-' tejfrity. His enmity however, is fM> great tha^ he finds it im- possible to conceal it wholly. He therefore shields himself be- . hind this mock patriotism, and nuses the pitifbl cry of " church and state." But rum and state make no part of hia lamenta- tion. We dismiss this sorry obiection with the single remark, that if to lay aside the bottle will unite church and state, then let them be united. But we must confess that we can disco- ver no connexion between lentire abstinence and that infidel scarecrow, the union of church and state. What redundant credulity that man must have who can believe that to refuse to drink ardent spirits, will unite church and state ! :;U- rt' . 1 %■•■ ■ OBJSCTiOMS TO TKHrKRANCE. •I ^t upon wfilt •Tidenc« !■ thti ehtrga of a dstifrn to qbIu church and state, which i; mo otien and with ao much aura- ranee, brodght againat Christiana. Ibuniaod t H is an acknow- ledged fact, that Christianity has ofl*n relucUntly formed an unholy alliance with different political govemmenU. But by whom was this union formidi No one acquainted with hit- tory will say that true Christianii were over efliciont actors in- forming this union, which i&ways li«n been and always will btt> fatal to vital piety. Conslantine tho Great, who first united church and state, was not a tpember of the Christian church tUl many years after the »«ion wan consummated ; perhaps h« never was. The various other political or military Icadors who have/ormMf a union between the church and the state, have been either opposers of viul godliness, or perfectly indifierent on ehe subject of religion. The only apparent exception to thia sweeping sUtement, is that of Oliver Cromwell: and infidels will not Maintain that he was a pious man. The few pious monarchs that have lived since the Christian church was firal mi^e the religion of the Roman empire, found this union ex- isnm, but did not fvrm it. Our own Washington, the father of his country i a professed, *nd no doubt, a true follower of ► the Lord Jesus Christ, discountenanced wholly this unnatural union. When none whom even the infidel would be willing to call a true Christian has^veryet united or atteiQpted to unite church and state, how inconceivably credulous he must be to imagine, that a design is now or ever has been or ever will bo formed by Christians to unite church and state? But it may be asked, why should the enemies of religion form this union I We answer, to accomplish political purposea ; not with a de- 1^ to promote the cause orreligion. Church and state always ba^ been united by the enemies of religion. We may there- fore reasonably conclude, that if this union is^Jver formed in this country, it will be by those who hate Christianity. OfMiier$i ^ 1. Avarice with its griping hand and heart of steel, steps fbr- ward to plead the cause of intemperance. And this it 40M, strange to tell, though it feels that drunkards squander mom money than all other vicious characters together^ It solemn- ly avers, "That if all men cease uJarink ardent spirits, than produce would not command aoMgh a price as it now does; because distillers would then bet ompeUed to discontinna thsir operations, to relinquish their nefarious emplo;^m«nt." The secret spring that throws out this argument m favour of m- temperasce, is this : the ava^ious are convincod that they ■4 .!■ 1! ':y^ I y 'h^r TIIK COLD-WiTM-MAII. ;« •t i ( '■;i ■ .1 ■r-V- 1 1 I » can, |H«rlia|Mi with caie, wring that ahilling Oom th« hand of lite drunkard when intoxicated, which thoy could not, by any moanM, ol»lain wlicn ho in aobcr. Wo kjidw that tntomperance incrcadCH <»ur taxwH, our poverty, onr m'tt6rj, our criiucH, our dia- easoH, our doattta. Tl^at it dooa all thiaevil, and much nior«, we have fearful evidence in the exanipUm which we «oo on every hand almost dflly. But where have we the, evidence that drinkinff liquor tncreaaoa the price of nroducol , How much more will th4itard obtain for a bunhol of com, than can be obtained by a Mober man 1 Does the farmer who never becomea intoxi- cated, who iH perhapa oven a cold-water 'liian, and whone neigh- boura are all tomnorato, And, when ho goes to market, tnat the merchant prctora the drunkard'a wheat to hia t Will the morcliant in fact give the intemperate the highest price 1— Does not the aober man generally make the aofctit bargains 1 Docs ho not usually taka.boine with liim the largest aum of money for a given quantity of produce disposed of 1 Theae. questions aro easily answered. Wo know that if there waa no intoxicating liquor drank, men would bo more industrious, more wealthy, more happy, more hoalthy. They would raise more produce and perform more labour of every kind. And it is very probable that the varioue articles which the farmer might expose for sale, would then command a better price than they do at present. Because then the drunkard's fkmily that irnow almoat atarved, would be fed. His children who are now almost naked^ would be clothed; Tho drunkard's houscT which is now a mere hovel, would be repaired and Aimished. Its thousand crevices through which the piercing northern blast enteirs and bi^eathes its shivering chill on all within its walls, would be closed by the hand m industry. The drunkard's wifb would be decently apparelled^ her happineas promoted, her respectability increased. Let our 300,000 drunkards all become sober, indastrious, prudent, repectable men ; let their families be fed and clothed, and laaged, and inBtructcd at, thoy ought to bo, and what an asto- nishing opening it woulJ make for all useful commodities in our country. The farmer who now fUrnishes grain enough to «upply the drunkard's cup with the intoxicating.poison, might then furnish both food and clothing for the whole family, we can all see which of these would be the most profitable traffick. Besides, did every inebriate become a sober man, nine-tenths of the bad debts which now are worse than nothing tbtke credi- tor, might then with ^ase be collected. Nor need he afler- wlards expect to lose the price of what he sold, becanse then there would bo no drunkards. Many a dollar everv year steals, inamall fVactions, out of the possession of him who calls him- .■.; ! ./ami tCOTIOIIi TO TiMI'S*^*'*^** 03 Ininn to .pendli (-rj^^'J'^^t'^X^X Suu-hod, would influence hi. »»te**',!^tt/r P""« '"'«>* actually bo '"^^'H"*' J^^Z »mr7 time-" tU gruul th« »a- . ■oon b« itiplcniiinoo. * .« „-i.t The poor would S;"of.o''.!;a«y.lwouia«^^ What- then b«come rieh, and y* ''^,'^^°^*-J„„t and ptouvcr, What- •Ttr i« uwftil wo^ld find «nj""««*'^;^'„' IZ Uniihod IVom ro- ^veriplni"riou.touhlboft(^..v«^^^^ ^,„„.,., „ ^o.^ . ■pectable aocietyV T'*"? • „k\,ado ofovory dcscn|»tion would truiie ardent .mn4.M^^^^^^ of ovcry kind "^ But «uppo«, t\4 tho •""'^'"f • ;""^« Wl^ tf.cu ? ^u«t iquor.did iiH^rca^H^P"^ "*inS kJJ^; po.itive iifury, - ]„!,„ drink what SU do 'hom no good Jut * ^J^^ | merely for ,V^« 'jfe "^^ul'^^SJof g^^^^^^ Sector employ- make myself sick for the ■»«« "VjJ; « „„noy for what will mentl ^Muat 1 inuU my^\^^^^^ do ipe no tfood, bit harm, in "'"VJ^. lu^e that ho would Jains! I know thSfkrmor too well to "^"^i^V^ sinew of the s.kmetodo.0. »v«'s^rrrwr. Jn'^^^^^ world. He would sboner throw ms religion, increase it. F»7^^yV*^j!!lI"fires Hft knowa what a dia- .nd happines. o^ h->^^^^ "uo after contempla- • «^'^E ^'^•^Ws cWirfwoSd himself. forafeW^»;^- ting the drunkard's 2MttcwT,w« . ^ ^^^, Who linis. become »/'"'W^,**!jrt'dr^S or his daughter or for monev w?«^^.f *H^1 mo fo^iS^^ would makolis b^j- sister a drunkard^s wife\l J^' J *%5^ ^^g toys that run in the ther the l*«irh'»>^ •'°^'{ ff.i^ *v ' ^^^^ aJdent spirits, and streets 1 Why then should any man "f »"V , ^V tho pur- ; jEnjurehi^Belf a^^^^^^^ pose of incroasing tlio giMn, \«ve" " ° ^cuho to plead the Sonwhateverl ^^^^ J^X £diS^s c^^ cause of intemperance. K^P^Xtl^^ persons who have learned to ^'""**^r."'®^me " affirms one ^ a. *'Buttemperan(»i8aA.oncy-mak.ng8C^^^^^^ ^^^^^ whoknowsof no moving prSci^^^^ IP but one small mistake in tlks objection. ^ "^j ^^q^ that the :-^ I ♦ .% i' / I. V-. 1 ..t > r > tlM drink which Injurw him. W« lioW «f nMin^r roM-w«t«r« men who ai^nd much time and monry, in ftudy, in trtvolhiif , in printing oircuUra and nwwvpapera M jvffMHitoua distribu- tion; but we do not know of ono who ni4fimt himMlf rich by the practice of teinporance, in any »>thoT| wmk ««xcept by aa- vinf hia money. > No peraon ia required to^ peV a ling le cent In order to become a inemher of the tninpeTince\jiocioty. RInre thia ia a well known fact, no |ier«on raft, with\ any tolerable degree of plauaibility, affirm that men ol|^tain n^bey firom it.— Men may ap«a»tiig acheme. Wo ought to cell thinga by their right names. QiMry.— Doea the obicctor think it wrong to majke monejp by engaging in what iaboth honourable ana useful t\ VIl. qf Fotttieiaid, 1. '*Tii« temp«fine« refbrmttlon l« an elecftdneerinf •cheme," vociferfttea the designing politician, who is in agony leat the thousand votea which he has heretofore purchased for a glass of rum each, should be given by sober men to the more deserving candidate. We would say to such a selfish patriot, do not treniWiit for you know now, and shall soon leum mor* conclusively bv experience, that a sober manjalways gives a ^ ♦. nio?e independent vote than a drunkard. Iflyeu would be elected by temperate fVeemen, you muat deserve .their suf- fVages. Every man knows that a designing politician can lead, by his electioneering plans, the intemperate astray much more easilv than he can the temperate. We all know then, whether the friend or the enemy or temperance is most likely to bo en- gaged in an improper electioneering scheme. The drunkard himself will acknowledge, that it is the enemy of temperano* and not its fViend, who attempts to buy his vote for a aram. 2. " Large aocieties are dangerous," insinyates an equally crafty but less hardened enemy of the temperance cause. It must be confessed that the temperance society is large ; andy like good old Connecticut, it has a wonderfbl faculty of get- ting uirger. In the single state of New^York, there are now (A. D. 1882) about 170,000 cold-water-men. The number is inci;eaBing rapidly every day. If every individnal iil;:tho whole U. States, (in which there are already more than 500,000 tem- |MraM# men,) should abatun entirely firom the use of ardent ti. r. m fc nf, ibu> .by tln IIM*« ibl« I.— Rut ty« It in mo- ight rinf [onjr I rot uore riot, nore es a i be ■uf- nore Ibor ( en- l-ard ano* n. lalljr It and, get' now er i» hole tvm- denl^ > ill«l>' r J .pirtf. M a drink, th, "»-»:^ji,n,*:zMils^ th«n th« i^K iMy of «*7"'"*''r ^''/^.^ m.^ aatiff«»roua than tinrt. Hul .« U a fhct »^» ^''T' '^J.J^ r«^/,, »^nK» mot* drunkardal !>««• •"X "-J Tf ^''.{l, f„t «Ury man b«com« miW.and kinrf, ami P'T*'';''' ' ^ Vo hlv* a^arf « m.m^^ If •«el«lir. ar« «"-'•''"*■; j;':^'"/b«uer ; but ff b.H. thi^ Mr moan-, lh«n the ^!3^ Y^\S^^'^ ^^.^x^J \i, • goo^l one, Ulbr the »»r"«V jhSe"oCriS«T«ry«i^^ be and thWbre th^ larrHt^onHj t^b^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ i;^;:rnrri*i«rr^horth^^^ ^i^:- 4bnlr, Cill d^-tToy n.J;!^;7i;.tt't.\".U ^to an? rq\d.watrr-.nan. wo cannot dl.^ov«rth^^^^ ^^^J Sitiona of law, love and gratitude, " .^™ '\r: J".,^ o« ^hexf oA. He enfeys the liberty of an Adopted child. Me^nere- I f'i \ / Aim ■.^wfj «y I i (': •/ 9« TMI COLO- WATKA' MAN. fbr« who nI«dfM blmwlf lo Ao nmhi, by J<»»uiiig a tflinp«r«nc« ■ocicity iitiji.y* «nor« h»»«rlf Ui«u Ukj p«rt«»n who r»AiM« to h*> eofiM •iwrnber. Ihm h« m»y li«v«i Ihr prittl^KH ofAoin^ wr.mf by drinkinij • tiitU •r.knl •|»iril« wbil« m henUh. It i« htw- ly lo Miiu ft U'm|»flr«»M-« iiidrty. Il b wUvwy, tt iM*t M % m» ffot, not to join. <'<»ii>« rorw«ri| lh«i.. A*-* lik« lr««mfln.— Eiioy yo»ir lihtity. Um U in 4oiOi §m»A» J«m • t«tt!i«nu»¥« Mctoty. Vni. qfPr^fet»9n^mt^im I, Th« profnMor of rrUgion who 1ov«« to t«k# * jft*" ' tloniiny, My*, "Our church !• a lomiKirunrH) ii«Hi«iy. W« hoiMi thb aiwortion b m«il« tbrmifh iRnorto**, b«c»uM l.l to not true. No churrh, by Itn ilmnplm*'. ••njoiiw «nflr« »b«tl- Mnco fVom ardent •uiritM on ita ntcm»)«'ni. Kvi ll»hl« Ikvour* drinking a httl«. 1 hough tbfl nihio ftb«olutoly condriun. h\\ nin of every .h-mrrintu.n iinji in •v..ry dogri'o, ihor^ttio inni who WouUl wilhi.gly Utli^r onu half ^ ormorf.oflh«ir.ln«oiithi«holyhook. But wh«ro. wo wotild 'Mk ihM'« th« Hibfo rouiitiuiaiu « drinking ardont •piriia m My 9 ouMitilyl Whmtm du«. it inform u» th«t w« omy UM, wlalt i fo health, 1 little diatiUod liquor 1 ie there a .inale pa.Hage in the whole word of Cod, in wliich we are to d tTiat we may - do what will iiuure mir*elve. and other, a UttUf n corny niaiidii ua to '^ce^io to do evil ; and karn lo do well ; and thcrcforo to abataiii .nitiroly from the evil prHctice of uaing ar- dent «pint.. It dirocta u. to " love oih, anothor •««» »»l«'^^ ua Uiat " love workolh no ill lo hia noiglibour. We imiai not tliereforo u.o ardent apirit- a. » drink; for if we d« we inj jure our neighbour by our example. Where ahall we find in that book whi6k. every where rc . i;'. ^ /T* ' •» /'/* 'yrrvv.s^'' ■-»-~it3crf- i;^^-?' 1 1 p .1 %.' ■ ', "ft-'k'^j. ,^ 5 1 ^ ('■ I * -V 11^ ., t ;-\- THE COLD-WATER-MAN. ■ .'■'■■ ^ " " •'^ ■ ' ■'/'': ';' ■■^••' '■'.-■■■■ ■ '■'. ■,•:■■■'.■ ''■'■■■."'"■., ''nf- ''■■■..;■--.■■":; :■ '■.■ \.\-.''.'^'^^i, '■' '"':'\\'- '.■ ""■ ■ ■ • ■ ^ ■ -'" v;- ; ■■, " ■ "* ■■ ;■ ' . \ ■•■ ■■. ■# .: ;'/ ■ F:'. : , ■:;■■ 'PART SIXTH*. ; . ; BqSCELLANEOUS. ' KJfc« oflke Son o/Hinfum; ^ The Beginning, Progre$», cient Mythology, and had f^^l^^^f\^ZSent dead, parti- specting the manners aiid ^"J.^l^^^^Jui'Jew^^^ ^^rly upon that ?in^ar P|*^,»^^°^^^^^^^^ and their , demned fethe «c'^£«'"F*"tr'CirMo^^^^ valley, of danghtew to pass thrduffji the iBre ^J^^l^f^^y into a alSni- .te».variety to the Bcene^ tu^ i.«o„fv of the oroBoect around f I pas^d along *^?i^"&i*^tlevS^^^ iWiediately ^ ■ me, till risine a c<>n«?«"^^?f. ^i**^*;^^ on two of its sides, ^Wow'me, a leep ^^^^^^ r'^^'^^l^niC The sides of the and ppen only at the n«*h and^^ejroutn^ ^^ evergreens, mountains we« f^^^^^ ^^w^lfSinX whiph hung over and a,dark imd almost «»P;J^W| ^o^aTto render evfery , the valley, ao greatly otatruct^tb^^^J^^^^^ 'Towards the °^ '^^^S^5f te^ere 1^^ «»e view, e^ south end mdeed, all .^'^f^" J'^^ r-om what appeared to he . cept where a lund glare f^'fJl^^^Znponthe darkness burning volcanoes, gleamed for » ^?"®"^g;j^„-e objects, as ^ and^reSder^ objfecU ^^^.^^^f^Xm Se dwSfunci^^^ and of demons then appeared ; "ji*^^-^^ft?"eT now as of rude . ir^oSt^^-n'fa'^^^^^^ y^yste^. ,!.!--'—• *:• TflF VALLET Of HIHNOM. 00 An* .ji.— — — - bio J^^^St& r^^-v'^s^^ in hi. .1>I««»"".. "V^r SS I- ■' »''• •»■"' ** * ^ « Thia valley," he replied, w ^J *f "f"^ demon : the sounds Wh«. wo taa MWhed fte top, I «* "^,„»u„ coi«tty ftfthet ^verged from the one^^^^^^ was open to the view,^ ^ house of «*^*^!SS«i " AeM- ! !( ^ 100 •rHK COLl>-VrATBft-liAlV< ciallv open the country which all the t«;«»^«" MP« *^"jl were tolling to reach. Thia man waa dteased in ^Wte, and SefoundXt he waa numbered amonff the "f^antaof the KofthS Happy Land ; and aUtioned here, he aaid, by hW JSiJnf fe rS to tl^e inquiriee of travellera reapecting, ^STSTo wayl% W»wSrXhat\he ro^^ aS^ten?; SS the%heta, and a,«atle8^^a^^ w n.MMl over it • but that since their day, a nearer ana oei- , t« w'S^d S dia^overed and cast up, i^^^^ vrile« ^w turned. O,^ *»»i°«Jv '*T^*^iSrich thS VcS veller refliaed to drink of a aparUmsr !»!!««' J^^^J*'?.^^ man oflfered them, they wercj invanably directed *« cj™^*;"®^"* Slwaytheyhadc^e^eltethemthat,thougha^^^^ vet it was more certain, and less dangerous. But if any pariooK S the TqSJ^e offer^ them, he Ssured them the new way ^ theCt, and that they would fed »" •^«»d«««.« «^^« ZeZd of iiquor althehouse^f hisbrrthien aW th^^ Tn anawer to mv inquittei, wy companion informed me tnat tWa 4« o^ of^thS^sferv^ny of Moloch,^ notwithstajdinr he SeISS tobe in theemploy, and wore theliveiy of the King ^^my^^^^ tWUie«>le object at wfach heaim^ ».. tiM noMe^ion of filthy lucre. My wnerable conductor Sited S1jo%X^ toad which, aftert^^^^^ oraS"S iSwr rail parallel wUh the «l the Mine conclueioiie were "d»P«»^„'»^ mouth, while «ome lew appearea ^^^^^^cemively, espe- .w known J. " Poverty HoUow." Into tlita !<»* pl*™""" «SvrS?X pewinto the Valley of Oecwond 6™^'; SfSere, wton they continue their jo«r.K>y, «»»ey leave theut - f • \\ r I - M (S \ i f f i 1(02 ' ■■-^y-"-THlBCOI^-WA««*MAW..::,-'^; ■. • . ■ ■• ■•.».■■■■■.■■-.";■•■ wives and chlWren, unlesfl thoy chopg© to follow therti to the V2tey of the Son of Hinnom. Thw, I afterward. a*w, wa« frequently the case; for who loves like woman, and whowj SffiSn^is stronge; than a child'sl Poverty Hollow -^as thickly studded with half ruined cottafireii and nuserable tene- S!Xre the inhabitants sought sSelter «toi« the sun and ■torn.;. Most of the«e had once been posses^^ofpmper- ty; bjitsome was left in oije vaUey some in another, tiUrt last they carne to this place to companion with the children of want S tlie victims of vice. Of the women and children of this place it was literally true, that «• All their inheritance waa grief." . > , From the "Valley of Qccosiondl Drunkards" Tsavv several paths leading away into the country till they were lost m a d^rk indtangledforest, overwhichloweredaporpetual Htorm. One oftheseVthsmyguideinformedmewascalledThieves-R^^^ another.^obbe/s-Artey; and athird Murderer's-l^ane. He far^ ?her iSMhatvery maJy occasioiml drunkards took one orthe other or more frequently all of these roads, with the hope of ScKpov^y Sollow •, but that they uniformly found tfcem- selvSion the hills of Disappointment ; »>ecanie bewildered up^ on diiJk mountains, from which the ji went down into the Val- ley of the Shadow of Death, »?? were seen no ^ore. ^ ^ Turning from the scenes of distress exhibited m Poverty Hollow, w© pursued our way along a path of almost porpendi- Sd^icenT^Steodered gloomy tocks and the thickly interwoven branches of the trees, which mew'riong the sides and at the summits. Our ears were now , ialuted with female lamentations and_virtth maniack cnef. "J"' irled with the idiot laugh, the bhwpbemous curses, «»* J™? J™" feeni^shoutsOfrevelfy and riot. Now and then we distinct-^ lySd the din of war, the songsof the victor and ^egr^s of the vanquished and the dying. As we proceeded the noise and the uprSar became louder an^d louder, the «?oke »"d.'^f "JXr long perceived, became almost insupportable, all evincing that theValley of tiie Son of Hinnom was near at hand. ^ Just then wecametoaplacewherethewayseemedtobeelosedbyalarge mountain whose impending cliffi threatened destruction ; whfle from it^sides and it^summit, incessantlightnmgs sent outtheir forky flames, and thunder in deafening peals reverberated from hiU to hUl, s^mfeg to indicate that tEe hour of naturtf s^«rth had come, and that she was expmngmcoiivulsions. - This, Said my guide, ^'Isthe last barrier between th^ f'S^tlj'i irrecovl&le rain, T^^i^ once passed, there is^httte^^^ return". There, said he pointmg to an inscnptionm I6tte^^ fir© upon the bl&k surfece of a threatening cliff— there is tw > t ilf mtm TQS VA^SY OF HIK^OM. 103 theihto the !■ saw, wu And whoM Hollow -WM. Arable tene- tho Bun and d of proper- other, till at e ehildrenof 1 children of §aw several lost in a dark Btorm. One lieves'-Road; iiane. Hefar- ok one or the lithe hope of ^ found them- swildered up-* into the Val- lore. d in PovertjjT lost perpendt- r overhanging B trees, wBich jars v^ere now ; ck cries, nain-V 8, and the un- sn we distinct^ J the groans of I the noise and and the stench 1 evincing that nd. Just then osedbyalarge ruction ; whue ^ B sent out their ^rberated from natures death ona. ^"rhis,'* i drunkard and f little hope of on in letters of Br^beTeisthe lait warning those who go down into thi* valley ever receive.** I looked and read, "Drunkards shall tiot inherit tlio kingdom of heaven." The same declaration blazed in every flash of Uffht- ning, and rolled in every clap of thunder. •*And do any," I m- quired« "ever pas^ the barrier." " Yea," he said, *' the influ- ence of the liquor they have drank, and the insatiable and mad- dening api>etite they have created, leads many to ^,"*™P' f^* passage. T 4,»«»«„«. *'he way lies just pt the foot of yonder threatening rock, and near it is a body of deep ond troubled water, called the Dc^d sea. Many in attempting to pass atournJ the barrier, roisa their iaothold and are plunged into the lake and ^ie; others make goed their way and arrive at thO valley.'! Thus saying, • he mov had taken ite into the und amon^ enly tenaai- other wave ere was the but no oAe • "Celebra- ad till they ;ame down ■tnd Pover- vay crowd- ire gOne to gh the fire (mple there [rentum^,^< from which " The way f theise vic- i^ntered the wly for the red, and as [)lfu% Where in fenced off tor save the priest, they , they were liitityof U- epted their devotion. After quaffing the delicious beverage, they avaia bowed and retired. Others then approached and sacrificed.^ By and bv the first worshippers, finding their zeal kindled by' tae potation thev swallowed, again approached the consecra- S? ■^'' H[?i ^yffA, oflbred money, drank and. retired This they did repeatedly, tiU they appeared to be perfectly iJenzied, and after shooting, and dancing, and frequently beat- ingand bruising each other, they sank exhausted to repose. When they rose the next day, it was to enact the same ■cenes and to end in the same manner, till st length, worn out in the service of the Demon, they were carried away towards the lower^end of the vaUey which was covered with impene- traqie darkness, and I saw, them no more. C. 8. ReformaHon ofDrunkard$. v N. has a wife and pretty large flimlly, but alas ! poor man, HKe many others, he was much given to- strong drink. His earnings were very considerable, in the situation in which he was employed, yet, strange to say, he ofiered almost every S Sr* ®^,*>»" .wages at the shrine ©f Bacchus. Scarcely a T*fi*y *®»»!« ever he spare, to feed or clothe himself, wife or children, which was evident from their appearance. Fre- quently, when leaving the tavern, the pavement which he in- - stinchvely found, was by far too narro^for him; he was therefore, under the necessity of taking the causeway. It was no uncoinmoa occiwrence to see him carried by the arms and legs, to his domicil and tlie bosom of his family. Since joining our society, he is quite an altered, sober man, to his IZS**^ ifi*"*!*- -^^ »««fy"^>ei«n<>w more respected, and ' SSS,f ** K*^?"''^"♦^5*'"*? i°. *»™- His fiimily is more com- S2'^?'?*''*'fi°**'*'*^."'* '^^-"'*'«y'e«eive hfsincome. He wS Ko if.^^1!^** •"'**^^' appearance. A spirit dealer, to . n« * J 1?"*^®®" ? «****^ customer formerly, sometime ago accosted h"n Uius in passing his door— "iK you have got a nft!nht °"^*^'^f • "Yes," replied he. " my dramming hal ? h!L^^ ^y^u" S P»''<'»»*«e your new coats, but now, iince Litlff ?*"•? "*®^*"P*~?f®, So^^'y* I have bought one for myself, for it was very needful*'* *, In one^of the towns in this county, ten men entered the meadow to labour during one of the wirmestdays of 5he lart I i 106 Tftll Ct)M>-WATEll-lliW. ■ummer. Nine of them irffed ardent ipiriU ; the remaining one adopted the principle of entire ahatinenee. Of the nine who drank apirit, eight aunk under the preaauro of heat, whilat the poor "cold-water-diaciple/'.poaaeaaing but an ordinary conatitution, auatained the accumulated weight of both, per- , formed a good day'a work, and returned homo with cheerful feelinga, prepared to enjoy his repose in ita aeaaon, and enter upon the duties of the coming day. The one who used ardent spirit and continued, to labour until night, possessed great atrength, and an unusually firm constitution. Another ftur- mer about the same time had six men labouring in hia fielda, three of whom drank spirit; the remaining throe, though not all of them 'cold-water-disciples,' choso another and more nourishing beverage. The, whole of Uasihree who resorted to the bottio, found ere the sun had reached mid heaven, that they had leaned upon a broken reed; that *good old Jamaica' consumed instead of increasing their atrengih, and were obli- ged to retire from the field, an^ leave the remaining three to perform the- work- of six. ' h: THB WORM OF THE STILL. ■\ I HAVB found what the leam'd aeem'd ao puzzled to tell- The true shape of the Devil, and whore is hia cell ; Into aerpents, of old, crept the author of ill. But Satan wwks now as a worm of the still; , Of an his migratibnt, this hat he likca best : How the arrogant reptile here raises his crest ! His head winding up from the tail of his plan. Till the worm stands erect o'er the prostrated man. Here he joys to transfomii, by his magical spell, The sweet milk of thfe earth to the essence of heU ; Fermenting our food, and corrupting our grain. To ikmiah the stomach, and madden the brain. By hia water of life, what distraction and fear! By the gloom of its light, What pale apectrea appear I A demon keeps fune on his fiddle finance, ^ While his passions spring up in a horrible dance i Then proiie on the earth, they adcare in the duet, V A man's baser half, raia'd, in room of his bust, • 'mm mftining the niiM t, whilft ordinary >th, per- cheerffil ad enter d ardent nI great her fkr* i« fielda, »ugli not fid mor* resorted ^en, that Jamaica' ere obli-> three to BANirCE or TBMrVRANCK. 107. ..-fr- Such or{rie« the nights of the drunkard display, But how black with miiiu, how benighted his day! With drams it begins, and with drams must it end ; p A dram is his country, his mistrcMs, his friend} Till the oseiflod heart hates itself at the last, And the dram nerves his hand for a death-doing blast. Mark the monster, that mother, that shame, and that curM! See_ the child hang dead drunk at the breast of its nurse ! As it drops from her arm, mark her stupifled ataro ! Then she wakes with a yell, and a shriek of despair. S Drink, O! drink deep, from tliis chrystalline round. Till the tortures of self-recollection are drown'd; Till the hopes of thy heart be all stiffen'd to stone— i^ Then sit down in the dirt like a quean on her throne. No phrenzy for freedom to flash d»er the brain, Thou shall dance to the musical clank of the ehain ; A crown of cheap straw shall seem rich in thine eye, And peace a|id good order shall reign in the sty ! Nor boast that no track of the viper is eeen. To stain thy pure surftice of beautiful green; ' For the serpent will never want poison to kill. While the fat of your fields feeds the worm of the still! THE BANNEll OF TEMPfillANCE. Thb Bar nbr of Tempemnce now is displayed, And thousands around it with zeal are arrayed, Determined tho monster to sUty-— The monster, who long has spread ruin and death, Polluted the air, with Its pestilent breath, (M!* our land, once temp'rate and gay. This monster is Drankenness, stalking abroad, A foe to the precepts of man and ofCfod, Who blasts the fair land which we love. His dark^Smi^ doings, who doth not deplore, And seek his expulsion from Columbia's famed shore, j||L That peace may our sorrows remove?, lip Ye patriots who glory in freedom's great cause! Ye Christians, who rev'rence your Maker'a high laws ; I «,■■*] X 108 VUC OOLD-WATKII-MAir. It, M 1 i ::'f. I Whit«'erb« your rank or your cr««d t Ye paatorM and people— come, join in tbifl war, And widows ana orphans now aunk in despair, ■■.^ No loiiftr with angoiph ■ball blM4l ■■'."''. ■■ - ■ -■' '■7' . ■ ■ ■ ' ■■''■' ■■■■•■■,■'•- ■ ■■\. Religion, hum&nlty /virtue invite i^* . To join ta this atruggle, thia glorious fight, Whicli Heaven oeholds with its smile t x Itabannenarebloodlesspt causethno ill, ^. - But teeketb the dark ragmg pasaiona to still, . And root out the hateAil and vile ! Ye fViends of fair Temperance, O be not dismayed ! The wicked and vioioua, these will be arraved Against you, with hatred and acorn; And others, whoso names are with justice revered, ITen these, have amongst your opponents appeared, * But in this do they virtue adorn 1 .■■ ; . .•■:■.■■' ; ■ -v 1 The deep-rolling waves of the nations afkr, The, mustering of squadrons for havock and war. Foretell of a hurricane wild! America, my country ! repent of thy crime ; Intemp'rance hath «toin'dl (hee, to earth'a farthest clime; m, iFor ihut tlum art jmUtf rmM«d, Oreat Qod ! in thy mercy atill smile on our land : Avert the dark cloud ; may thy all-gracious hand Be stretch'd out, our country t9 save ! ' .0 ! listen to those who devoutly to Thee, Both morning and evening bend humbly the knee, \ ' In prayer for the Hom6 of thitiprave, • , Then, then shall the Star Spfiigled Banner be seen, la glory and beautv; then, comfort serene Shall gladden the palace and cot; Then, wide shall the voice of rejoicing be heard, And nations shall bow to the " life-giving" Word, While aogels exult o>r our lot ! *^ • ■ ■: ,-• i) . -• %- i '■■h. # .1.. ■fl J i. w ^* J-"- /i^- -1 t \ n uf- ^•,- 1- # z^- \-^ m * I '1 f ,A ^,7 ,ai:^ .:sife^i % "^m^ " ['v t"» \ «. '■■ .. 1 ' X ■ ', / ••**.jnyi^'V»;'»T('j' •i. ■•■' i ■ "ri- >-V, '• < —3-^ |lA ialdtoLfi l iailifcibnbnb=ii=ii=ici in BRITISH TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES. Q The first European Temperance Society was established at J BW Ross, in Ireland, in 1 829, by the exertion <^G. W;5Carr. U 51 In Englandj^here are now tnore than 400 societies, and more U than 80,000 meinbere. In Ireland,> 20,000 members. D fi In Scotland, kbout 400\socicties, and 54,000 members. \\ i The Canadas\and other distant ^oloijies, comprise eevferal fi E thousand memboys, so that the entire number of British sub- || p jc'cts pledged to tbtal abstinence, exceeds 150,000. * Yet the evil is in a great measure untouched. The quantity w spirit which pays duty 'for homei consumption in Great Bri- tain, is from year ttf year increasing. According to Parlia- mentary returns, it amounted in 1833, to 25,982,404 gallons at 5| proof, wliich, with the addition of one-sixth for the reduction g!?6f strength by the retailers, amounted to £13,429,331, Ss. lOd. Jj Vrand this sum does not ii^clude any part of the many millions n of gallons known to be illicitly distihed, or imported without Ij npaymgduty. / ' . n r During the year 1833, 29;86a persons were taken into cus- ^ f tody by the metropolitan police for drunkenness aloBd, not-in-^|| y cluing any of the numerous cases in which assaults and more |! S sefioul offences were committed under the influence of drink: jJ it should be observed that this statement relates only to the |y i I suj^urlte of London, without any calculation for, the thousands fl 01 of Wses in the city itself. . f| The poor rate and county tax for Englai)4 and Wales amount |j i to £8,000,000, «^ which £5,000,000 are occasioned solely by Q prinking; add this to the cost of the liqudf and we have £18,^ n 429,331 58. lOd. for the diiteci expense. This, in only twenty, jj f-n ]fears, amounts td three hundred dnd^evenhf-fvemilU^^^ » sterling, in which nothing is included for the enormous waste s ji of property occasioned oyj the consumption of wine and beer, j! p tobacco, and other stimulants ahd'narcoticksytill useless and all U Dj hUrtfuli^nothing for expjensdsW prosecutions-— the injury done D IT to trade— the loss of shipping, vaA the notorious destruction ■ Ij of jproperty in other ways,/ • R n These results, if loss dieerii^g than have been obtained in R . r this country, have established in ja few minds, entif| (Confidence ij ' |! in/the proposed plan of relief. Ourbrethren of the old Ivorld, || 11 it IS well known,^^ are less prompt iVi adopting** new expedients, j! p je^s willing to depart from establiwed usages, than we ^re^!| yet a great Jmpression has been produced, and if we should 10 Q] happily shaJte off certain other vicious Habits which now impair u y the force of our example, we may hope tblead in the moraVas J H to