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REV, THEOBALD MATHEW.

BY J. SIBNEY HENSHAW,
LATE ,OF THE U.S. NAVY,

Author of “* Around the World,’? ** Lectures on Education,’’ etc.

EW YORK:
J. C. RIKER, 129 FULTON STREET,

1849,Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1849,

BY 4. GC, RIKER,

In the Clerk’s Office for Southern District of New York.TO
HIS WORSHIP, THE MAYOR OF CORK,

ANDREW F. ROCHE,

Tue ReLieF COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS,
FOR THE SOUTH oF IRELAND, THE Rev. WM. O’Con-
nor, P. P., Dennis O’Connor, M.D., JoHnN MuRPHY;
U.S.C., et al. of Cork, The Rev. J.B. Grey and JosEPH
Pim, of Youghal, Puineas HoweELt, Esq., of Dublin,
and ApraHam Taw, London, untiring, self-sacrificing,
noble friends of the Irish sufferers, this imperfect sketch
of their distinguished countryman is respectfully in-
scribed, by the author, as a token of his gratitude to
them, for many unmerited civilities and favors, re-
ceived from them and others, while recently visiting

Ireland, upon a mission of Charity.

 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

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THE following sketch, based chiefly upon the
facts stated in “ A Memoir of the Very Rev.
Theobald Mathew, by the Rev. James Birming-
ham,” and corroborated by personal inquiries in
Ireland, and interviews with Father Mathew,
is the substance of an extempore Address de-
livered before a Society of Washingtonians, in
connection with the accompanying circulars
and speech of Father Mathew. They are pub-
lished partly in compliance with the request, by
vote, of that Society, and in accordance with
the earnest solicitation of a few friends in New
York city; but more to render due respect to
the subject, to prepare the way for the Great
Reformer, and to add another mite, perchance,
to his charity funds, by applying the profits of
the copyright, if any, to that purpose.THe. Wibs

OF THE

VERY REY. THEOBALD MATHEW.

Ne

 

AN

“ War its thousands slays,
Peace its ten thousands: in th’ embattled plain,
Though Death exults, and claps his raven wings,
Yet reigns he not even there so absolute,
So merciless, as in the frantic scenes
Of midnight revel and tumultuous mirth.”

‘*°Tis virtue that alone can give
The lasting honor, and bid glory live:
On virtue’s basis only, fame can rise,
To stand the storm of age, and reach the skies.”

SEES ESSE

 

Ir is natural for man to admire and glorify
courage, fortitude and perseverance, when suc-
cessfully exhibited, in the attainment of any
great end: but when such qualities are exerted,
through like obstacles, for a high and worthy
purpose, they command more general and last-
ing praise, in proportion as the object aimed at
extends to the greatest good of the greatest
number.

The skilful physician who wrestles with aLIFE OF THE

raging plague, until he masters it and stays its
Tavages, is a public benefactor, meriting tri-
umphal honors: and the ingenious inventor,
who risks wealth, health and life, in weari-
some study, to complete some useful mechanism,
which is to lighten the burden of toiling mil-
lions, is almost if not quite as honorable and
meritorious ; but in both of these instances the
benefit conferred is chiefly physical. The
Christian merchant and mariner who dare the
dangers of the seas, in diffusing the blessings
of commerce and civilization, and in uniting
the interests of mankind, are also benefactors,
though often actuatéd by speculation more
than by philanthropy. The hero who does
battle to repel an invader, or to free his coun-
try from a tyrant, does well, does nobly, even
though his heroism be inspired by revenge or
hope of glory, and be stimulated by the pomp,
pageantry, and martial airs of military power,
and though the service he render be only local
—in itself the source of evil equal to that which
is removed, And again he who contends in
the forum, or by diplomacy, to avert an im-
pending public calamity, or, amid the. tumul-
tous masses of infuriated people, allays the
rising storm of their passions, and sheaths the
sword which they have raised in menace, de-
serves and will receive a meed of praise andREV. THEOBALD MATHEW, TS

honor, though not the highest. But he, who,
with like abilities, risks and sacrifices, prompted
by humane sentiments and guided by divine
mandates, induces and enables his fellow-men
to subdue one or more of their tyrannic pro-
pensities, and to bring into life and power their
dormant virtues, is a redeemer of his race,
whose example and influence, like the rays of
the fixed stars, shall shine afar through the
epochs of time, until man shall stand, radiant
in truth and righteousness, free from the do-
minion of every passion and appetite, and, with
purified vision, shall look back toward such
benefactors, and gratefully acknowledge them
among the best and most glorious of the guides
and lights of humanity.

As one of the latter and higher order of ben-
efactors—as one of the modest few who seek
not yet most deserve the praises of mankind—
as one of the truly great and good men—the
Very Rev. Theobald Mathew has been already
commended by the noble and wise of Great
Britain, and the object of the following imper-
fect sketch of the character, deeds and person
of this distinguished philanthropist—this Irish
Apostle of Temperance—is to prepare the minds
of the American people rightly to appreciate
his exalted worth, and cordially to welcome
him to their friendship and hospitality, as heLIFE OF THE

has always welcomed those of their country-
i men who were presented to him.
Hi It is strange, that, among the uncertain ele-
i ments of history, any discrepancy should ap-
pear in print about the birth-place of a man so
distinguished, while he is still living in daily
communion with the inteHigent of Great Brit-
| ian; but, strange as it is, different publications
i in that kingdom have already assigned the
honor of his birth-place to two distinct local-
ities —to Kilworth, in Cork county, and to
Thomastown, near Cashel, in Tipperary county.
The latter is the place properly entitled to that
honor. Here his father, James Matnew, re-
sided, and near by, in the vicinage of Thurles,*
i his grandfather, James Mathew, was living
when Theobald, the subject of this sketch, was
born, on the 10th of October, 1790. His mother
was the daughter of Mr. George Whyte, of
Cappawhyte, Tipperary county, and his grand-
mother, on his mother’s side, was the neice of

 

* This was within a short walk of the ruins of the
ancient abbey and college of Holy-Cross, which flour-
ished unrivalled, as an institution of learning, in the
Dark Ages, to which the nobility of all Europe resorted
for instruction, and which alone, except a few Saracenic
Schools, emitted the lights of education through the
dense fogs of ignorance and superstition which then
enveloped the civilized world.REV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 15

the celebrated General Mathew, honorably
mentioned in Sheridan’s Life of Swift.

At an early age he was left an orphan, and
being adopted by the amiable and accomplished
Lady Elizabeth Mathew, the wife of his uncle,
Major General Mathew, of Thomastown, he
became accustomed, in childhood, to depend
solely upon that excellent lady for maternal
guidance, and his infant spirit undoubtedly im-
bibed, from her affectionate counsels and ex-
ample, those humane, humble and pious traits
which have since distinguished him.

His education was commenced, by the direc-
tions of his foster mother, under the care -and
tuition of the Rev. Dennis O’Donnell, the late
revered pastor of Tallagh, in Waterford county,
with whom he continued until he was thirteen
years of age. He was then promoted to the
lay-academy of Kilkenny, long and ably man-
aged by the Rev. Patrick McGrath, late Catho-
lic Rector of Ennistiogue, in the diocese of Os-
sory; whereat, as his contemporaries state, he
soon became a special favorite of the discrim-
inating president of that establishment.

At a later period of his academic course at
Kilkenny, it appears he became a favorite and
attached friend of two old. Capuchin friars of
the place, whose frugal living, temperate habits
and active benevolence inspired him to emulateLIFE OF THE

their example, and contributed much, then and
in after life, to develop those fruitful scions of
goodness which his foster mother engrafted
upon his heart.

After a course of seven years at the Kilkenny
academy, Mr. Mathew was sent, by the advice
of his pastor, the Most Rev. Dr. Bray, to May-
nooth, to pursue ecclesiastical studies, for which
he confessed he felt an earnest desire and a
special call. Here, though a close student, he
contrived to keep his benevolent sympathies in
daily activity, and, by his amiable qualities, won
to his interests the enduring friendship of many
excellent college-mates. Among the most de-
voted of his companions, though somewhat his
senior, was the very observant, most accom-
plished, beneficent and ever useful friend, the
late Very Rev. Dr. Power, of New-York, who
was from an influential family of the same
county in which Mr. Mathew subsequently
settled, who confided in him as a brother, and
whose services, together with those of his nu-
merous relatives, have been always at his com-
mand.

Upon his completion of the usual course of
three years at that rigid but thorough institu-
tion, Mr. Mathew returned to Kilkenny, there
embraced the order of Capuchin friars, and
remained in that city, with his two old fmarVw

REV. THEOBALD MATHEW.

 

friends, who had become his brothers, until he
was appointed upon a mission to Cork. He
then immediately repaired to Dublin, and, after
a season of spiritual preparation, under the
care of the Very, Rey. Celestine Corcoran of
that city, he was ordained, by Dr. Murray, now
Archbishop of Dublin, on Easter Saturday, in
the year 1814, and directly went to Cork to as-
sume the labors of his mission.

Father Mathew, as he then began to be
called, soon evinced untiring energy and fideli-
ty, with singular equanimity, as a pastor and
almoner. Night and day he was found search-
ing out, and administering spiritual or physi-
cal comforts to the poor of all classes, creeds
and parties ; and he was forever entreating the
vicious to reform, and directing the eyes of the
self-deluded to the chains they were riveting
upon themselves. Nor was he content with
such services, in addition to his ministry at the
altar; but often managed to settle disputes, to
reconcile old friends long estranged by family
quarrels, and frequently succeeded in compro-
mising the claims of litigants, before they were
fairly entangled in the meshes of the law, and
the means of all parties devoured in its vora-
cious maw. He was indeed revered by all, be-
loved by the good, and almost idolized by the
poor and friendless, long before he was publicly
2LIFE OF THE

noticed, or attracted the special attention and
| praise of speakers or editors.

H The first act by Father Mathew, which

! seemed to involve him unexpectedly in notori-

| ety, and to elicit a spontaneous acclamation in

his favor from the people of Cork, was a pur-

chase by him, out of frugal savings, of eleven

HH acres of land, which had been called the Bo-

i tanic Garden, for the express purpose of open-

ing it as a cemetery, free to the poor, who pre-

viously had no place, in or near Cork, where

i their remains could be decently buried without

Hi exorbitant charges.

Near the centre of this beautiful cemetery,
which is on Friar’s Lane, in the Evergreen pre-
Ml cinct, Father Mathew has caused to be erected
a plain obelisk, about sixteen feet high, and,
upon a tablet in the middle of one of its sides,
are simply inscribed these words:

ERECTED IN 1830

BY THEOBALD MATHEW.

Under this monument, with no after inscrip-
tion upon it but the dates of his birth and death,
he desires to be be buried, and, when it was
erected, he expected to be surrounded there
only by the bodies of his poor friends; but a
wealthy class, partly Protestants as well asREV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 19

 

Catholics, have persuaded Father Mathew, by
considerable and much-needed contributions to
his charitable funds, to grant them the privi-
lege of being laid in that now lovely place with
him and his poor dependants, and there already
are to be seen numerous monuments marking
the resting places of the rich, the most beauti-
ful of which is one, executed by the Irish sculp-
tor, Hogan, for Dr. Dennis O’Connor, in mem-
ory of his lovely, devout and accomplished
wife, who was one of Father Mathew’s chosen
friends. :

The frequent applications to’ its generous
proprietor for the burial of the poor, in this
Irish Pére-la-Chaise, revealed to his notice the
fact, before strongly suspected, that the major-
ity of the poverty-stricken about him were hur-
ried into destitution and to ‘their graves by in-
temperance. His devotion to the wants and
afflictions of the poor, urged by this revelation,
induced him to investigate farther the extent of
so great an evil. An examination of official
records assured him that the workhouses, and
prisons also, were chiefly filled by the wretched
victims of that ruthless tyrant, and every day’s
observation, in his charitable visits among the
community, presented additional proofs of its
Jamentable devastations.

He had seen the wretched people of hisLigh OF fe

country pass through several famines, in 1817,
1822, and 1829, each nearly decimating their
ranks. He had seen hereditary oppressions,
aggravated by odious laws and heartless lords,
gradually augmenting the rent-charge upon
the poor cottier’s lot and habitation, increasing
too the affliction of absenteeism, by which not

‘only the greater part of their produce was

withdrawn from the country, but also a great
proportion of their employers. But, neverthe-
less, he thought he saw more hideous and po-
tent forms of evil and oppression, in the distil-
leries which were daily increasing their perver-
sion of wholesome grain into a noxious and
depraving liquor, and in the equally increasing
disposition of the people to encourage the same,
by adopting the pernicious potion, as a lethean
draught, “to steep their senses in forgetful-
ness,” to quiet their consciousness of hopeless
poverty, and to consummate the degradation
and ruin which other causes only threatened.
At wakes, at marriages, at festivals, and
fairs, drinking was an invariable indulgence,
and, at the latter gatherings, especially, exces-
give drinking was common, and generally fol-
lowed by fightings and riotings. Ancient fam-
ily feuds, and the pent-up passions and dire
revenge, engendered by political oppressions,
then and there sought vent, and were inflamedREV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 21

by intoxication into madness and outrage.
Father Mathew saw all these and more of the
dreadful effects of intemperance. He saw his
wretched countrymen, in their desperation,
kindling with infernal torches a funeral pyre,
made up of all their remaining substance, hab-
itations and title-deeds to mansions above,
upon which they were about to sacrifice their
families with themselves, and he resolved to
arrest and withhold them from so suicidal and
sacrilegious a course. As he says, he “was
determined to devote all his time and all his
energy to the task of arousing the people of
his beloved country, to oppose that monster
evil and to crush it, before it had degraded the
land and the people beyond cure or redemp-
tion.”’*

Many were the obstacles obviously in the
way of the accomplishment of his resolve. The

 

* Temperance societies, organized chiefly by the Soci-
ety of Friends, had existed in Ireland, feebly and inefti-
ciently, through nine years previous, and one of them
claimed Father Mathew as a convert: but it might be
said with more propriety, that he was followed, as a
leader, and joined by them. Father Mathew proved his
success in reforming inebriates, before the Friends in-
vited him to join their organization. It is said the pro-
posal was made through Mr. Olden, a Protestant, who
said to him, “ Mr. Mathew, you have got the mission,
do not reject it.”LIFE OF THE

old custom of offering strong drink to guests
and friends, and of making the readiness and
liberality of spirituous offerings the chief tests
of hospitality and fellowship, (which was then
common to all classes, and indeed to almost all
civilized countries,) seemed to be irradicably
established in Ireland, where every virtue of

hospitality crew spontaneously, and flourished
vie L y;

fruitfully, and every sign or blossom of it was
tenaciously cherished. Even the clergy, of all
denominations, in a great degree, sanctioned
the hospitable use of spirits, by their examples,
and, as many believed Father Mathew’s ob-
ject impracticable—a kind of crusade against
the wind—there was scarcely an Aaron or a
Hur among them, for a long time, to held up
his hands in support of the sceptre of truth in
that contest. The gentry too—by whose smiles
and favors all other classes live—were generally
both consumers and manufacturers of strong
drinks, and it was evident that any attempt to
stop the consumption of spirits aimed a deadly
blow at the pecuniary interests, as well as
tastes, of this influential class. Moreover,
among the manufacturers, were many dear
friends, and even his own brothers,* who had

 

* The elder brother of Father Mathew, Mr. Thomas
Mathew, was the proprietor, at that time, of a famousREV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 23

 

severally invested their entire fortunes in the
making of spirits, and who, therefore, must be
morally disrespected in proportion to Father
Mathew’s success, or pecuniarily injured and
probably ruined. But, though he loved his
friends much, and his brothers ardently, he
loved the welfare of his countrymen more. He
had to expect, as a matter of course, that the
host of publicans and tapsters, throughout the
land, whose name was legion, would revile him
and his cause, and do all they could to oppose
his efforts, through the public prints, by carri-
catures, and, possibly, by violence. But his
greatest obstacles existed in the predilections
and habits of the masses of the people—the
poor consumers—who had very generally be-
come manufacturers, in their humble huts, ofa
domestic whiskey, called Poteen, which was
temptingly pure and cheap to them; whose
habits and ballads—those potent law-makers—
had long favored and excited their love of in-
toxicating draughts, and who were accustomed
to learn and believe that a few drops of whis-
key were “victuals and drink and lodging too,”

 

distillery at Castle Lake, in Tipperary County. Two
other brothers, Charles and John, had considerable in-
vestments in the same establishment. And a sister’s
husband, Mr. Hackett, was also an extensive distiller
in Middleton, of Cork County.LIFE OF THE

a cloak for a winter’s day, and a blanket by
night, a comfort to the stomach, and a delight
to the heart.

Father Mathew began his work of reform,
at first, by personal applications to the poor in-
ebriates about Cork. He entreated them in
private, as their friend, to break off at once
from their tempter and destroyer, and to pledge
their word and honor that they would no more
taste intoxicating drinks. He exhorted them
from the altar, as a servant of the Lord, to de-
sist from habits of intemperance, as they hoped
for prosperity here or for happiness hereafter;
and, in 1838, he commenced holding his pub-
lic meetings twice a-week, on Tuesdays and

‘Saturdays, at a place in Cork, called the Horse-

Bazaar, where he addressed the people gener-
ally upon the importance of tee-totalism, also
distributed among them his temperance cireu-
lars, several of which were American stories,
and administered the pledge to the accumulat-
ing crowds, which then began to seek his in-
structions, and to adopt the terms he enjoined.

Irishmen had often before voluntarily prom-
ised to themselves and friends, that they would
not drink intoxicating liquors within certain
limits of time or space, but they had generally
contrived, by their native wit, to evade such
promises, For example, one of the merry lads,REV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 25

whom his friends were anxious to save from de-
struction, came finally to a resolve and declared,
with much spirit and firmness, that he would
never drink another drop in any man’s house.
Being afterwards found drunk, by one of his
patrons, he was severely rebuked, and wa
asked how he came to break his solemn promise.
‘Faith, your honor,” ‘he replied, “Ill make a
clane breast of it, and tell you just how it was.
I was sitting in company wid myself alone,
d’ye. see, quite innocent, y’r honor, while my
wife—good woman—and all the other childer
were after going to church, when the divil him-
self—the blackguard—walked in and said to
me, just as soft and respectful-like as one jin-
tleman to his aqual—‘ Mr. O’Flanagan !’ says
he, ‘Long life to ye!. You’re donny, you are,
and grieved am I to see the same. Och, my
boy, its all for the cratur! And will ye be suf.
fering for a drop or two of the jewel, when
your next neighbor has the swatest specimen
of the raal poteen in the wide world? True,’
says he, ‘did’nt I hear you promise you’d niver
take another drop in any house? But do ye
see,’ says he, ‘you might just take a drop or
two outside of the house, and no harm to ye!’
That raisoning was too convincing intirely, and
in coorse, I was tempted to thry the cratur
again, for the stomach’s sake, and, the flesh be-$ sss te

    
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   

LIFE OF THE

ing weak a bit, d’ye see, I got a drop too much.
But mind, your honor, it was all done outside
of the house! And [ll take my oath it’s not
the likes of me that will iver be tempted again
to take another drop, in or out of any house.”

He was, nevertheless, again found drunk, and
reminded that, as he had broken his promise a
Ki second time, he must be given up as a worth-
HY less vagabond. ‘“ Not a bit of it!” he replied,
“begoing your honors pardon, at the same
time. Just be aisy a bit, and J’ll revale the in-
tire sacret. It was the divil again, d’ye see,
il who was after lading me asthray into one of
t his own dirty bog-holes. ‘ Pat,’ says he, one
‘ day, to me, ‘ will ye be killing yourself intirely,
in breaking off, too suddenly, from the swate
drops that’s been the life of ye? Will ye be as
blind as a pratie to the drought that’s in ye?
Just step asthride of the sill of the door, wid
one fut wid-out and another wid-in, and your-
self neither in nor out of the house, and don’t
you see,’ says he, ‘how you can take a com-
forting drop or two, after that manner, and all
the while kape your promise to your dying day
aii The divil had me there; and just for all the
i world, like an innocent bird as I was, I yielded
Hit to the charms and swate blarney of the coaxing
sarpent. But just mind this! Ill be after tak-
ing the raal tee-total pledge and sure blessingREV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 27

of Father Mathew, immadiately, and thin, if
the old divil should be after calling again, won’t
I whack out the pledge, for a shelala, and give
him a bit of a shindce that'll excommunicate
hin intirely from my society ?”

In other instances, poor inebriates, struggling
with their enemy, have promised that they
would never drink any intoxicating liquor
within the county where they lived, but would
afterward travel beyond the county with bottle
in hand, to indulge their insatiate appetites ;
and ‘various other plans were devised to gratify
their tastes, without staining their honor, or
breaking a promise.

To prevent such evasions and to render the
resolutions or pledges of temperance sacred and
effective, Father Mathew prepared a form of
promise, which could not be easily evaded, and
induced his followers, upon their knees, sever-
ally to repeat it after him, in a solemn manner.
Then, laying his hands upon the head of each
kneeling promiser, he would solemnly pray
thus: “ May God bless you, and enable you,
in his mercy, to keep this promise !”

Subsequently Father Mathew had medals
prepared, to give to those who took the pledge,
as evidences to their friends and employers,
and as monitors to themselves of what they had
done; and he also commenced keeping a reg-LIFE OF THE

+

i ister of all the pledges taken. The first form
! of his medals represented, on one side, Father
Mathew, in person, administering the pledge to
a group kneeling about him, with these words
around the device: ‘“‘ May God bless you, and
nA grant you strength and grace to keep your
Wal promise !”—and on the opposite side was this
| Scriptural quotation: ‘He reasoned of right-
eousness, temperance, and judgment to come.”
Another form of medal, devised by Father
Mathew, was afterward adopted by him and
We by the total-abstinence society of which he is
i, president, embodying, on one side, the pledge
A which he now generally administers, and, on
| the other side, in the centre, the cross and altar
of the Lamb, with the figure of a man _ beside
it, bearing the standard of “ Sobriety ;” and
opposite, the figure of a woman with the
standard of ‘‘ Domestic Comfort,’ each about
to be crowned by an angel; and, on the lower
| step of the altar, industriously employed, are
iI seated a boy and girl, with their feet upon the
verdant grass, among, shamrock and _ roses;
Hi while over the Cross, upraised, is this motto:
hk ‘In Hoc Signo Vinces.”

The two sides of the last described medal are
precisely represented by the impressions upon
the second page, of one which was presented by
Father Mathew to the writer of this memoir,REV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 29

asa specimen. They are of different metals,
some of silver for those who choose to purchase
such, but the majority of copper, or a com-
pound washed with gold, which are generally
given to the poor who take the pledge.

The enemies of the Temperance cause have
charged Father Mathew with speculating upon
the sale of his medals. They have industri-
ously estimated the cost of each quality, the
immense number distributed, and, presuming
that all were sold at a good profit, arrived at
the sage conclusion, that they yielded a com-
fortable revenue, sufficient to compensate the
deviser and distributer for his untiring exertions,
But they might have saved themselves the dis-
grace of their base calumnies, by examining
the accounts kept by Father Mathew’s secre-
tary, in which a large pecuniary loss is an-
nually charged to medals alone.

The success of Father Mathew’s efforts, in
Cork, attracted attention everywhere, and in-
duced hundreds of pilgrim-inebriates from Kil-
rush, Kerry, and other distant places, to seek
his influence; but incited no spirit of co-opera-
tion, among the great and influential abroad,
until, in December, 1839, the Catholic bishop,
Dr. Ryan, invited him to favor the people of
Limerick with his presence and labors. The
advent of the Great Irish Reformer having30 LIFE OF THE

been announced in the cathedral, and by hand-
bills, and still more generally and enthusiasti- |
Wa cally, by the eager rumors of the people, from |
i house to house, he was greeted by dense crowds,
as he approached the city, and, within it, was
surprised and almost overwhelmed by the im-
mense throng, assembled from the suburbs and
i | surrounding country, to see, to hear, to welcome
wa and obey him. So much did the proportion of
Hi} strangers exceed the accommodations of the
| city, that four thousand persons, at least, were
HF that night there without a bed, although every
vii cellar and shed was filled, and the Commercial
| Rooms thrown open, gratuitously, to about five
i hundred. On the following day, when he com-

sah menced addressing the people, anxious masses
. continued to flock into the city and press their
way towards their supposed deliverer, whom
the poor of Cork had reported abroad as their
special friend, and revered spiritual father. So
great, indeed, was the pressure of the advanc-
ing crowd, at one time, along the banks of the
Shannon, near which the assemblage centred,
\ that the iron railing, opposite the house of Mr.
Dunbar, in which the Reformer was stopping,
Hi | gave way, and many were precipitated into the
4 river, though happily without injury or loss of
life; and some of the mounted guard of the
Scotch Greys, stationed there to preserve order,REV. THEOBALD MATHEW. De

were lifted by the people from the ground,
horses and riders together, and borne away a
short distance by the rush of people; and, in
the denser part, near the centre, where twenty
thousand people were seen kneeling together,
eager converts were quictly allowed to walk
over the shoulders of their countrymen, to ob-
tain the pledge, with the charm of a blessing,
from the great apostle himself.

From that unparalleled demonstration of
popular sympathy and veneration for Father
Mathew, his fame spread rapidly from city to
city, and the cause for which he labored and
his own character became objects of interest
and honor to Ireland, and, in some degree, to
the United Kingdom and the world.

Since that auspicious extension of the field
of his mission, he has visited every part of Ire-
land, in many places often, travelling at least
one hundred and fifty miles every week, some-
times into various parts of England and Scot-
land, and with such inexhaustible patience,
that he is ready to go anywhere, at any time,
if practicable, to secure the pledge, and save
from ruin, but one inebriate. e has dis-
tributed an enormous number of his invaluable
circulars, at an average expense for printing
them of from twenty to thirty dollars a-week.
The number distributed of his medals has beenLIFE OF THE

   
  
 
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
   
  

almost as many as his converts, and so exten-
sive and onerous has his accumulating corre-
al spondence upon temperance movements ‘andl in-
| terests been, that he has been obliged to support
a private secretary, to aid him in that depart-
ment and in keeping the register of his con-
it vetts., ,Yet, notwithstanding these unceasing
Wt labors of reform, together with his ministerial
il i services in religion, and his general care of the
) poor in life and in death, he has continuously
superintended the school and charities of Black-
ih Rock Convent, and almost supported a school
vai for the poor in Cork, and, during the present
Hl famine, not only been the dispensing agent of a
| large part of the charities for the vicinity of
Hal Cork, from America and other regions of the
Ml world, but also established and managed an in-
dependent soup-kitchen for the starving, at
which in the year 1847, hundreds were duly

fed.

And what has been the result of his exertions
and sacrifices in the cause of temperance?
Travellers, both English and American, who
have visited Ireland before his reforming power
was applied and since, declare that the change

it wrought among the people is marvellous, and,
ti asthe work of one man’s agency, incompre-
hensible. Previously drunken persons met
you everywhere, and, “at fairs or other merryREV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 33

gatherings, the sober man was the exception.
Now you may travel in Ireland, hundreds of
miles, and for weeks together, without seeing a
single person affected by liquor. Even among
fifty thousand persons, at Donnybrook Fair,
upon a recent occasion, not a symptom of in-
ebriation in a single instance could be dis-
cerned. In the. small town of Listowell, in
which, in 1839, there were no fewer than thirty-
three places licensed for the sale of ardent
spirits, there were, in 1843, only six; in Dub-
lin, in some of the worst districts, where there
were a dozen places for the sale of spirituous
liquors, there is not more than one now; anda
house, standing at the junction of several well-
frequented roads, in the county of Tipperary,
where twenty gallons of whiskey used to be
sold every day, in small glasses, has been shut
up a long time, and not a glass of whiskey can
be procured in the neighborhood.”

At a national meeting, held in Dublin, in 1843,
by the nobility and gentry, in honor of Father
Mathew, at which the Duke of Leinster pre-
sided, the Hon. Col. Southwell stated, as a
magistrate presiding weekly at the sessions
where it occurred, that whereas previously there
were twenty cases of drunkenness before him
in one week, there had not been, during the
three preceding years, more than six or seven
3LIFE OF THE

cases altogether. Thomas Wyse, Esq., M. P.
HA for Waterford, stated, that, in the village of Bon-
mahon, in Waterford county, where, previous to
Father Mathew’s visit, upwards of fifteen or
sixteen whiskey shops flourished. for the perver-
{| sion of the minds and hearts of the people, not
a single shop exists now. Dr. Richard Carmi-
HA chael, surgeon of the Richmond Hospital, of one
Ht hundred and thirty beds, stated, that, before the
? pledge was generally taken by the poor, they
were never without cases of wounds, and brok-
en heads or arms, cruel beatings, infants half
a burned or scalded to death, and delirium tre-
mens, many of which were fatal, all effected
i by drunkenness; but, since the people have be~
come sober, the records of the Hospital exhibit
not a single instance of wounds, burns or scalds,
attributable to drunkenness, very few cases of
delirium tremens, and the gratifying fact that
the rate of mortality among the poor was greatly
reduced. Mr. Houghton, as one of the Com-
mittee of the Cork-Street Fever Hospital, said,
that, in this large establishment, that fearful
| disease, delirium tremens, used to be very fre-
mH quent, often several cases admitted in a week,
Gl but after the middle of 1841 not a case of the
kind was presented: and, in the Richmond
Penitentiary, near Harold’s Cross, the commit-
tals for drunkenness, during the year 1842, wereREV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 35

847 less than in the previous year, being a pro-
portion of about one-third of the whole number.
Captain Layard, M. P., also stated, that, a
short time previous to 1843, four hundred men
in one regiment of the army had taken the
pledge, through Father Mathew’s influence, and
he wished to God that every man in the British
army would do the same.

De Tocqueville expressed great astonishment,
in his visit to the United States, that one hun-
dred<thousand men should here be associated,
and bound by solemn pledges, to suppress their
appetites; but how much greater subject of
wonder it must be to him, that seven millions,
out of the nine millions of people in Ireland,
have as solemnly pledged themselves, within
ten years, to the same purpose, having nearly
all their names recorded in the register of one
man, with the dates of their respective pledges,
and that, with very few exceptions, they have
religiously kept those pledges unbroken!

The writer of this sketch has seen several of
the tee-total cabmen about Cork and Dublin
temptingly tried and bribed, by young travellers,
to break their pledges, but not induced to yield.
At most of the hotels in Ireland, the proprietots
prefer tee-total servants. Many of the hotel
keepers themselves regret exceedingly that they
are obliged, by custom, to supply their patrons36 LIFE OF “THE

with either spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors,
and will not allow a servant in their employ-
ment to taste either; and some of the old pro-
prietors have even given up their hotels, at the
risk of impoverishing their families, rather than
to deal in spirits.

Everywhere, in Ireland, drunkenness is now
a disgrace, and tee-totalism is, in every class, a
high virtue, except among the very few who are
allowed, among other privileges, to set religion.
and morality at defiance, and to destroy them-
selves or each other, in any fashionable way
which they prefer. Previous to the present
famine, three or four years ago, there were other
and various signs of the happy effects of tee-
totalism throughout the land: the ratios of the
destitute and of the criminal calendar were de-
creasing, habits of industry and peacefulness
increasing, and contentment and thrift spreading
from cot té cot; and it is now evident, that,
through the dreadful ordeal of three years of
starvation and pestilence, the general temper-
ance of the people has greatly contributed to
sustain their strength, and has aided them in
the exercise of that singular spirit of patience and
fortitude which has characterized them, and in
preparing them for the trials of disease and death.

These are some of the results of Father
Mathew’s labors and influence in the work of

BP ot aortasREV. THEOBALD MATHEW. oT

reforming the intemperate of Ireland. Yet,
though great and marvellous and sichly merit-
ing the praise of men, he lays not “ the flatter-
ing unction to his soul;” but ascribes all to
the blessing of God, whose humble instrument
simply he professes to be. He cluims no supe-
riority above his fellow-men, no extraordinary
genius or ability, which enabled him to ac-
complish so much.

He never possessed the magic power of the
orator, to thrill the souls of men, to command
the irresolute, to alarm the apathetic, and, by
one dazzling flourish of his sceptre or wand, to
make the promiscuous multitude yield submis-
sively before him. He had nothing of the
startling eloquence, the glowing imagination,
the artistic skill in narration—

“The thoughts that breathe and words that burn”’—

of an oratorical leader, nor even the highly-ex-
tolled dramatic power of his American coadju-
tor, Mr. Gough. It was not by such charms
that he wrought the moral wonders which dis-
tinguish his efforts ; but, relying, in humility,
upon the Spirit of God and the power of ‘Truth,
he presented his simple facts and entreaties to
the understanding of men, with such earnest-
‘ness and kindness, and commended them so
admirably by his own pure example, that theLIFE OF THE

majority of all classes believed him, and loved
him, and felt encouraged toenter the fold of a
shepherd, so humble, considerate and exemplary.

He has been patient and persevering far be-
yond the degree that most men will be, though
not at all beyond what any man may be. Al
though interrupted often at his frugal meals, by
calls of poor people for the pledge, in his ever-
open office, when perhaps a morning of tedious
toil and travelling, or other fatigues, have given
him an unusual zest for his repast, or when
perhaps he had guests at his hospitable board,
he has never hesitated promptly to attend such
calls, out of consideration to the precious mo-
ments of the poor, to whom time is money; and
lest, as he says, any, unconfirmed and neglect-
ed, should go away and be lost. Nor does he
murmur at similar interruptions when made by
applicants a second or third time, (as they often
are, with the idea that repeated pledgings and
blessings, like renewed vaccination, insure ef-
fect,) but, in such cases, he administers the
pledge and his blessing, as usual, and returns
to his guests and cold meal, with the same bland
good-humor and unruffled temper with which
he left them,

His perseverance has been already exhibited
in the narration of his labors, though not half
the difficulties which he surmounted have been

ee he ee be he eal ee at ee ee ene eetREV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 39

mentioned... At times the demands of his cause
and his charities have exceeded his means and
involved him in debt, but he was never dis-
heartened; and, since success has crowned his
efforts, and encircled his brow with honors, old
friends and new sources have relieved him
from such embarrassments, and, by the recent
favor of his sovereign and his nation, he now
enjoys a pension of £300 in addition to his
usual income. Though, in the early part of
his caréer, he was assailed by the scoffs, the
threats, and denunciations of a few selfish,
wicked, or distrustful men, he was never daunt-
ed. If reviled he reviled not again; if threat-
ened he heeded not.; but, shielded only by the
armor of righteousness, he saw the venomed
arrows of his enemies fall harmless at his feet;
and, while he pursued “the even tenor of oe
ways” onward triumphantly, they, one by one,
shrank, silenced, with shame and confusion,
into obscurity.

He has received praises and honors enough
to check the usefulness of any common man;
but he is not easily ‘ ‘puffed up,” nor thus ae
verted, and, although occupying a higher station
in the esteem of men than the vainest would
dare to assume, he is ever the humblest in his
pretensions. Though recently tempted to di-
verge from his mission- path, by the opportunityLIFE OF THE

of being Bishop of Cork, he preferred to per-
severe, through life, under the simple title of
Father Mathew, in his humble though more
arduous and extensive field of labor, in visiting
the sick and afflicted, and in raising wretched
inebriates from degradation.

In Christian charity, patience, forbearance,
i humility, industry, wisdom and perseverance,
Hat his example has been conspicuous throughout
: his career; but in none perhaps has he taught
i a lesson, or set an example, next to temperance,
Ha more useful to his countrymen, (and may I not
ve add to our own?) than in his rare spirit of
He liberality. In administering the pledge, or any
yi other offering or office of benevolence, he has
we never required any test, political or religious,
vil has seldom enquired of what party or sect the
subject was, and always treated them with the
same undiminished kindness, when he knew
they were opposed to his faith or his sentiments.
Upon matters of religion he has often said:
ull ‘Let each be satisfied about his faith in his

na own conscience, but not be uncharitably
bigoted; for, while each is striving to get to
. heaven in the best way he can, according to
ti i the light which God hath given him, why should
Hi = we quarrel with one another?” His views
upon this subject are probably well illustrated
by the remarks of a Dutch farmer of New-REV, THEOBALD MATHEW. Al

York, in reference to the same point, who said
that when he arrived safely in Albany, with a
load of wheat, he was never asked which road
he came, but simply about the quality of his
wheat, and, therefore, he would never abuse a
neighbor who might prefer to travel the old
road instead of the turnpike. Even in the
great contest for temperance, in which he is
commander-in-chief, the same generous charity
marks his conduct towards those opponents of
his cause,’ who. see no evil in manufacturing
spirits for depraved appetites, or whose patrons
require them to provide and sell the same. “I
have no hostility,” he says, ‘‘ to spirit dealers;
but I am sorry that they are inthe traffic, or, in
any degree, depend upon it for a living, because
they cannot make fortunes thus, except by the
ruin of thousands.”

Other virtues and incidents, in the character
and life of this great man, might be mentioned,
if requisite for a complete appreciation of his
worth; but, for this end, probably more than
enough has already been expressed, and it only
remains for us -to notice some of his personal
features.

Physically, Father Mathew is, in truth, the
best living evidence of the benefits of the prin-
ciples he inculcates, and his countenance is, to
his character, as a crystal dialto a clock, clearlyLIFE OF THE

 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 

Tevealing its workings within. Behold him,
reader, in the portrait which I will endeavor to
Ati present to your fancy, and judge for yourself if,
il in his form and visage, we have not the full as-
surance of a man with the stamp and signet
upon him of the Great Sovereign of sovereigns !
In height very little above the ordinary stat-
ih ure, or about five feet nine or ten inches, with
il i} a fullthough well-proportioned figure, he stands,
i now in his fifty-ninth year of existence, as erect
I and agile as any military commander of scarce
it | forty summers. His face, always smoothly
Malis shorn, is nearly round, quite free from wrinkles
na or indentations, and finely relieved by a full
i drapery of very dark hair, here and there inter-
mT spersed with silver threads. He has a capa-
cious forehead, marked by the signs of strong
understanding, under the brow of which his
soft blue eyes seem to be ever beaming with the
light of benevolence and a quick sensibility.
| He has a Roman nose,: and a well-propor-
tioned mouth, whose benign and thoughtful ex-
ih pression, in repose, and bland, winning smile,
assure the observer of the purity and sincerity |
within; and he has a sanguine, ruddy com-
a plexion, slightly tinged with a healthy, golden
Ty hue. His dress, though he lives in a country
where the several professions are often dis-
tinguished by peculiarities of costume, is neverREV. THEOBALD MATHEW. 43

of an ultra clerical character, yet always
scrupulously neat. He usually wears a long,
black frock-coat, with a cloth vest of the same
color, and sometimes black small-clothes, with
polished Hessian boots.

His deportment, always pleasing, is marked
by a rare combination of equanimity, sim-
plicity and urbanity. He has a cultivated taste
for the fine arts, and a general stock of infor-
mation, which, with his affability and modest
deferenee to others’ opinions, render him agree-
able to every circle and class of society. He is
free from every sign of affectation, of conven-
tional punctilio, and clerical sanctimoniousness,
and his usual manner may be said to resemble
nost that of

** A fine old English gentleman,
One of the olden time.”

But why should I particularize further ? why
extend or elaborate an eulogium upon one
whose character stands like a towering light
above the dark rocks and contending elements
of the world below—whose praise resounds
through every civilized land—whose acts and
example, according to the candid judgment of
the Right Hon. ex-Judge Moore, have “ con-
ferred more lasting good upon his countrymen
than those of any patriot or statesman who44 REV. THEOBALD MATHEW.

ever lived,” and to whom, according to the Irish
Wh Marquis of Clanricarde, his countrymen ‘‘owe
My a greater debt of gratitude than to any other
i man, not only now living, but of whom history
Hi has left a record,” and to whom we may justly
Hi) say, when we welcome him as a benefactor of
| his race, as one of our friends as well as of the
Irish: Well done, good and faithful servant,
AA while others of the world have done nobly, in
it the same great cause, thou indeed excellest
Nh them all!APPENDIX.AN ADDRESS,

DELIVERED BY FATHER MATHEW,

AT LISGOOLD, IN 1847.

“‘ My dear friends, I know that most, nearly
all, of those whom I now address, are teeto-
tallers, and have for a long time enjoyed the
blessings of sobriety; I know that you have
availed yourselves of the facility which your
neighborhood to Cork has afforded, and that
many of you are true and faithful members of
our society. But, so deep-rooted is my convic-
tion of the importance—the individual good
and national benefit of total abstinence—that
I would readily come here, were I convinced
that I could add even one individual to the
many millions who already rejoice in the free-
dom and independence which a virtuous self-
denial must always draw with it. Could I add
but one man or woman—one father or mother
—one daughter or one son—to the ranks of
temperance, I would come here with a joyful
heart, and consider that in that single adhe-48 AN ADDRESS.

HW sion I had earned a rich recompense. Nay,
Wh could I advance that cause which I love and
a revere, as the great instrument of good, I would
journey to the uttermost bounds of the earth—

| I would fearlessly brave the perils of the deep
han —I would face any danger, or encounter any
} risk—so that I could extend the blessings of
At Temperance to the whole human family; for I
consider that after Religion, nothing is so power-
| ful in its influences as Temperance. From the
a first moment that I entered upon my mission, I
Hs saw the evil with which I had to contend, in
th its true shape. I knew, by sad experience, the
BNI dreadful ravages that it made in the peace, and
We honor, and happiness of individuals; I saw
ih the vice and immorality that it had spread over
! communities; I observed that it had filled
prisons and workhouses; that it had gorged

the churchyard with countless victims; I saw

it striking down the young and old, the proud

ae and the lowly, the rich and the poor, the igno-
an rant and the enlightened—that it spared neither
I sex nor age—that it was more ruthless than
the sword, more terrible than the plague, more
desolating than fire; I say, I saw all these
results of intemperance, and I was determined
to devote all my time and all my energy to the
task of arousing the people of this county to
oppose the monster evil of Ireland, and crush

 

| eee ee bee a bh , 22st Pe ee Oe oe ee ee ete rae pt [ye py omAN ADDRESS. 49

it before it had degraded the land and the
people beyond cure or redemption. I promised
good results and many blessings to the Irish
people if they followed my advice. Millions
believed me; and blessed be the day that they
had faithin my word! Thousands upon thou-
sands now pine in want and woe, because they
did not take my advice: to them the horrors of
famine and the evils of blight are aggravated,
while tens of thousands of those who listened
to me and adopted my advice are now Safe
from hunger and privation, because they had
virtue to surrender a filthy sensual gratification,
and the wisdom to store up for the coming of
‘the evil day. Thousands are now perishing,
who, if they had not the folly to spend their
hard-earned money in drink, in riot, and in
debauchery, would now be safe from danger,
and enabled to assist, by their charity, crea-
tures who are now without a friend to comfort
or assist them. The prison and the poorhouse
are opening wide their doors for many who
have wilfully brought ruin on themselves and
their families, and who, had they only sense,
would now be aniong the wealthy of the land.
I will not upbraid such victims for the past—I
would rather cheer and console—I would rather
tell them that it is not yet too late—that no
one should despair—that there is still balm in50 AN ADDRESS.

Gilead, still a physicianthere. I would assure
them that the oldest and most inveterate habit
can be overcome by a simple effort of moral
courage, by one virtuous resolution. Habit
and custom tyrannize over men because they
want courage to face or oppose their tyrants;
but the strongest chain of passion that ever
fettered the soul, and led man’s senses captive,
can be broken by a bold, a virtuous effort.
The pledge which I ask you and others to take,
does not enslave—it makes free—free from
vice, free from passion, free from an enslaving
habit. The fewer passions that rule us, the
freer we are; and no man is so free as the man
who places himself beyond and out of the
reach of temptation; for as the Scripture
says, those who court danger shall perish
therein. The freedom which I advocate is one
you can obtain without any sacrifice—of health,
of pleasure, of money, or of comfort. On the
contrary, it will add to your health, your
wealth, your pleasure and your comfort. Tem-
perance brings blessings in both hands—bless-
ings for time, and blessings for eternity. Let
the drinker of strong drink examine his past
life, and he cannot fail to see that the darkest
moments of his life have borrowed their murky
hue from intemperance. I never knew a young
man or young woman to go astray, and walk

PSS ESS SS ee See eat bea ie eae he be ees A eR re oe eee per rrAN ADDRESS. 51

in the ways of lewdness, whose departure
from the path of virtue was not chiefly from
the influence of strong drink. Parents, and
mothers in particular, should be constantly on
their guard against the evil effects of example
upon their children, and should be determined,
like the virtuous mothers mentioned in the
Sacred Writings, to devote their children to
temperance; for, by so doing, they will be de-
voting them to temporal and eternal good.
There is no danger in such a course. There is
no injury arising from temperance; nor any
difficulty in taking the pledge.

No man performs his duty better than a tee-
totaler; no man is better able to brave the vi-
cissitudes of the season. I am now in the habit
of travelling constantly during the last nine
years, in heat and cold, in rain and snow, by
day and night; and I have never suffered any
inconvenience from it, because I was a teeto-
taler; and now, thank God, I am as active and
as full of energy as ever, and as determined
now as I was nine years ago to devote myself
to the great cause of reformation, and moral as
well as social advancement. I never knew
what true happiness was until I became a tee-
totaler; for until I became so,I could never
feel that I was free or out of danger, or could
say to myself with confidence that I would notAN ADDRESS.

at one time or another be that most degraded
thing—a drunkard. Let no one tell me that he
is safe enough—that he has no occasion to
take the pledge—that he is above temptation.
There is no one strong enough or firm enough
to resist temptation ; no one so strong or firm
that he may not fall. I have seen the stars of
heaven fall, and the cedars of Lebanon laid
low. I have seen the proudest boasters hum-
bled to the dust, steeped to the very lips in pov-
erty, and sunk in dishonored graves. It is not
uncharitable for me to proclaim, from this altar,
the doom of the drunkard; for has not the
Apostle Paul said that the drunkard shall never
enter the kingdom of Heaven? And for what
does the wretched drunkard risk his prospect
of heaven? For nothing! There is no hap-
piness in drinking, but much in abstaining;
the abstainer is the only man who can say, “I
never will become a drunkard.” No man ever
became a drunkard at once. Whence, then,
come the drunkards? From the good, the
pious, the firm, the boastful, the moderate ; it
is from this class that many a confirmed drunk-
ard has come, who has fallen little by little,
until he has been plunged forever and ever in
ruin and misery.” (Father Mathew then im-
pressively narrated a melancholy case, which
occurred in Cork, of a wretched man who hadAN ADDRESS. 53

fallen into the river while laboring under the
influence of drink, and who, on being taken
out and carried to the. Bridewell, shortly after
expired. He then continued)—“I have no
hostility to spirit dealers: I am sorry that they
are in the traffic, because they cannot make
fortunes but by the ruin of thousands, for it is
the poor and famishing people who are the
chief consumers of what they sell, and their
principal customers. Manufacturers and sellers
of strong drink may with safety to themselves
quit their unholy traffic—let them become mil-
lers, grinders of corn, and sellers of provisions
—then they will injure no man. While I have
no hostility to those who produce or sell strong
drink, it is my duty, as a Minister of the Gos-
pel, to warn you to fly from the public-house
as you would from a plague, or your worst en-
emy. I deeply regret to say that persons who
are fond of talking of patriotism and liberality
and humanity, are using every exertion to
multiply those houses, by procuring and grant-
ing licenses. It is a sad and dreadful thing to
see them grow up, in such awful times as the
present, when the cry of a stricken people is
for food—for the means of keeping famine and
death from their doors. No sooner is a railway
started, even a viaduct commenced, than instant-
ly the publican and the distiller will procure54 AN ADDRESS.

a license for a seller of whiskey and porter;
and the consequence is that the men are plun-
dered and demoralized, while their families
pine in wretchedness. I was horrified the
other day to see two timber houses erected for
the sale of drink near the viaduct on the Cork
and Bandon line of railway. To give an idea
of the perseverance with which licenses are
sought for, and the efforts made to procure
them for dependents of Brewers and Distillers,
I will tell you one case—that of a certain per-
son in Cork who wished to get a license for
a new establishment a little outside the city,
who was refused a license in Cork, and at
several other sessions, but who eventually went
down to Midleton and there obtained it, al-
though some gentlemen from Cork, backed by
a strong memorial against the grant, went
down to oppose it! I wonder that persons
connected with the trade would sit on the
Bench, and interfere in granting licenses; for
how can that magistrate who grants a license
for a certain house, afterwards have the face to
fine a wretched man for getting drunk in that
house! Brewers and Distillers ought to have
more taste than to adjudicate in such cases.
But, my dear friends, if every house in Lisgoold
was a public-house, that would be no reason
you should go into them. I am here in theAN ADDRESS. 55

name of the Lord—I am here for your good.
This is a time to try men’s souls; and that man
or that woman must be a monster who would
drink while a fellow-creature was dying for
want of food. I don’t blame the Brewers or
the Distillers—I blame those who make them so.
If they could make more money in any other
way, they would; but so long as the people
are mad enough to buy and drink their odious
manufacture, they will continue in the trade.
Is it not a terrible thing to think that so much
wholesome grain, that God intended for the
support of human life, should be converted into
maddening poison, for the destruction of man’s
body and soul? By a calculation recently
made, it is clearly proved that if all the grain
now converted into poison were devoted to its
natural and legitimate use, it would afford a
meal to every man, woman and child in the
land. The man or woman who drinks, drinks
the food of the starving! and is not that man
or woman a monster who drinks the food of the
starving 2”SPECIMENS
HA OF

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ae CIRCULAR NUMBER I.

Ai i “The Night is passed. Let us walk honestly
BE as in the Day, not in RIOTING and DRUNKEN-
| NESS, but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.” —
ae Sr. PavuL, Rom. xi. 12; 13) verses.

FATHER MATHEW’S ADVICE.
KEEP AWAY FROM THE PUBLIC HOUSE.

Keep away from the Public House.—You
it will derive no advantage from its company.
at There the drunkard holds his revels—there the
1 gambler entices to the waste of property—there
the blasphemer utters his horrid imprecations—
there those who are ripe for destruction tempt
others to imitate their crimes, and lead the un-
wary to their ruin.

Keep away from the Public House.—Y ou willCIRCULARS. 57

entail distress upon your families and yourselves
by its expense. The money which is thought-
lessly spent upon its gratifications is drawn away
from the comforts of home. Do not say you
spend but a little upon your pleasures—that
little saved would provide education for your
children, confer comparative plenty upon your
home, and afford a fund against affliction and
illness.

Keep away from the Public House.—Let any
man accustom himself to the excesses of the
public house, and want will be his home, rags
will be his clothing, and destruction will be his
end.

Keep away from the Public House.—Look
around you and mark how many in the public
house have stupefied their faculties, imbruted
their reason, and have entailed upon themselves
cruel diseases, which are hurrying them with
fearful haste, and in a state of awful unpre-
paredness, to the bed of DeaTu and the Bar of
Gon.

Keep away from the Public House.—That
man is not your friend, but your enemy, who
entices you to spend your money, to waste your
time, and to degrade yourselves by an associa-
tion with the profligate and profane.

Keep away from the Public House.—Every
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must be conscious that the‘knowledge acquired
there‘ is not the knowledge of good, but the
knowledge of evil; not that of advantage and
peace, but that of sorrow, sin, and shame.

Keep away from the Public House —How
many fathers, by habits contracted at the pub-
lic house, have had to bewail the profligacy of
their sons: how many children the degradation
of their parents: how many wives, the unkind-
ness, the crimes, and the brutality of their hus-
bands: and how many families have been
filled with mourning, lamentation and woe.

Keep away from the Public House.—What is
the public house, as a place of common resort,
but the wicked man’s pleasure, the drunkard’s
home, the profligate’s delight ? where many who
were previously estimable and respectable, have
been rendered curses to themselves and pests
to their miserable families; until they have
finally disappeared, and passed through the
gloomy grave into endless perdition and de-
spair.

As you value your honor and happiness in
living—as you prize the peace and prosperity of
your families—as you desire to avoid the wick-
edness which has disgraced, and crimes which
have destroyed so many of your fellow-crea-
tures—as you wish for comfort on the bed ofCIRCULARS. 59

death, and hope for happiness in the world to
come—Keep away from the public house.

One Loaf of Bread in a Family is worth a dozen
pints of Ale.

JUDGE HALE ON WHISKEY DRINK-
ING.

Judge Hale, after twenty years’ observation Ha
and experience, declared, ‘ That if all the mur- I
ders, manslaughters, burglaries, robberies, riots,
tumults, adulteries, and other great enormities,
which had been committed within that time,
were divided into five parts, four of them would UR
be found to have been the result of Whiskey Ha]
Drinking.”

THE JAR OF WHISKEY.

Here, only by a cork controll’d,
And slender walls of earthen mould,
In all the pomp of earth reside, Hi
Revenge that ne’er was satisfied— Wet
The tree that bears the deadly fruit Weila
. Of murder, mourning, and dispute ;
Assaults, and barbarous assails, Hin i
The images of gloomy jails, il ;
The idle thoughts on mischief bent,
The midnight hour in folly spent—
Ajl these within the jar appear,
And Jack the Hangman in the rear!!
360 CIRCULARS.

In the murder of Mr. Leonard, which took
place between Ross and Waterford, when sen-
tence of death was pronounced on Malone the
murderer, he said to the Judge, ‘‘ Yes, my Lord,
I am guilty; but,” pointing to his mother, who
was in the same dock, he said, “she has been
the cause of it.” It appears that this monster
of a parent had agreed for the price of blood to
be shed by her two sons—for there were two
‘implicated—and she watched the approach
of the unfortunate gentleman, and handed the
pistol to her son when she saw him coming.
Malone at first was startled and said, ‘“‘ How
can I murder the poor gentleman ?”—Take this,
you cowardly rascal, said the old woman, and
gave him the remains of a half-pint of whiskey
out of a-small jar obtained for the occasion.
He drank the fatal drop, murdered the gentle-
man, and was tried and hanged, adding to the
frightful list of the victims of whiskey.

CAUTION! CAUTION! CAUTION!!

FATHER MaTuew, cautions his beloved tee-
totalers not to be duped by persons who sell
poisons, falsely called “Temperance Cor-
pIALS.”—Whiskey is the principal ingredient
used in these cordials. Crper and Fruit
Liquor are also prohibited.

  

JECTS ese see eteaperasCIRCULARS. 61

Beware, therefore, drink no wine, nor strong
drink.’— Book of Judges, chap. xii. 4.

 

II.
WHY AM I A TEE-TOTALER?

i—Because ale, porter, gin, rum, brandy, wine,
and whiskey, all contain a portio of spirit which
is calculated to derange the human system.

2—Because none of these drinks are ever use-
ful, but always injurious to persons in health.

3—Because drunkenness is our besetting sin,
and leads to idleness, quarrelling, swearing,
fighting, stealing, adultery, murder, impiety,
and almost every other sin.

4—Because our drinking fashions produce a
vast amount of poverty, domestic misery, in-
solvency, bankruptcy, crime, destruction of
property, disease and premature death.

5—Because a great deal of valuable land,
time, labor, and capital are worse than wasted
upon making, vending, and using these intox-
icating drinks.

6—Because 55 millions of money is annually
expended upon the drunkard’s drink in the
united kingdom, which ought to be laid out in
food and in the manufactures of the country.
7—Because 5 millions of quarters of goodie a ee fo yet

     
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
    

CIRCULARS.

grain are annually destroyed to make these
poisonous liquors.

8—Because intemperance obstructs the prog-
ress of civilization, education, religion, and every
useful reform.

I—Because abstinence is sure and safe, but
drinking moderately is difficult and dangerous,
and has led to all the drunkenness in the country.

10—Because I find I cannot effectually warn
the drunkard, unless I am an entire abstainer,
Hy 11—Because I like to join those who are ex-
ne erting themselves to promote the reformation
Me and happiness of the nation.
a ‘ 12—Because it is important to set a safe ex-
a ample of perfect sobriety to our children, friends,
Wie and associates.
ie 13—Because it is our Christian duty to deny
is ourselves even lawful things to promote the
ie happiness of others.

14—Because, while millions repent of drink-
| ing, not one repents of being a tee-totaler.

be 15—Because, while no blessing is pronounced
upon drinking, God’s approval is frequently
recorded in favor of abstinence, (see Jer. xxxv.,
Luke i. 15, Rom. xiv. 21, Prov. xx. 1.)

16—Because I should be ashamed to touch,
taste, or handle, or keep in my house, the
article which is filling the land with misery,
lamentation and woe.

Be a eS a he tr ar be a ee Pepe are er martCIRCULARS. 63

17—Because nothing but tee-totalism will
cure the drunkard or prevent the moderate
drinker from becoming such.

18—Because by abstaining, I find myself
healthier, wealthier, and happier; I am more
respected, and better fitted to perform my duty
both to God and man.

SOLEMN FACTS.

.

Ist—The habit of drinking intoxicating liq-
uors prevails to an alarming extent; and in con-
sequence of this there are, it is computed, not
fewer than a MILLION drunkards in the kingdom.

2d—The habit of drinking intoxicating drinks
is the cause of three-fourths of the wretched-
ness, misery, pauperism, felony, robbery, mur-
der, cock-fighting, dog-fighting, man-fighting,
rloting, tumults, shipwrecks, transportations,
executions, and premature deaths, with which
our national annals are stained.

3d—Besides the fifty-five millions that are
expended every year in intoxicating drinks,
there are fifty millions more in eXpenses, loss
of appetite, law-suits, trials, doctors’ bills, coun-
ty and poor rates, building and supporting ad-
ditional prisons, workhouses, infirmaries, lunatic
asylums, &c. &c., in consequence of drinking
such liauors.CIRCULARS.

4th—The use of intoxicating drinks weakens
and debilitates the moral, intellectual, physical,
and mechanical powers and faculties of man,
Kika deprives him of his reason for the time being,
Ka and inflicts on him lasting and, in many cases,
irreparable injury,

Sth—By the use of intoxicating drinks, oNE

HUNDRED THOUSAND are brought to a premature
grave every year. The awful mortality attend-
ant upon cholera and other epidemics is greatly
ey increased by intoxicating drinks. In conse-
ie quence of the use of them many die.
Ny InroxicaTInc drinks destroy more than
ne sword, famine, and the convulsions of nature ;
le so that some have computed that as many die
in | every year, prematurely, as would cover upwards
| of forty acres, allowing two yards to each grave.
Ve 6th—Intoxicating drinks make thousands of
| widows, and tens of thousands of orphans, and
great distress and unhappiness in many fami-
hes, both rich and poor.

 

 

 

THE DRUNKARD’S DENOUNCEMENT OF HIS
ENEMY, FATHER MATHEW.
fat BY COLONEL BLACKER OF PORTADOWN.
Away with Father Mathew, away with sober thought,
Away with silly notions of doing as we ought;
We’ll drain the overflowing bowl—a fig for life or time,
Hurrah! hurrah, for whiskey, the source of every crime.CIRCULARS. 65

Away with lather Mathew, away with good advice,

About our comfort, cleanliness, and cottage trim and
nice.

Sobriety and temperance, on life are hcavy drags—

Hurrah! hurrah, for drinking, for poverty and rags.

Away with Father Mathew, and his efforts for our good,

The change from squalid penury, to raiment and to
food ;

Let him talk of starving children, and the saddened
mother’s weal—

Hurrah! hurrah, for whiskey, the treadmill and the jail.

Away with Father Mathew, and his eloquence so fine,
What reck we of commandments, human or divine 1?
Who bend before our idol-glass, in adoration low,
Hurrah! hurrah, for drinking, come future weal or woe.

Away with Father Mathew, and his wishes for our
peace,

That guarrelling should be no more, and discord ever
cease.

Give me the joy of fisticuffs, and rolling in the mud—

Hurrah! hurrah, for whiskey, the bludgeon and the
blood.

Away with Father Mathew, and his energies to win
Our minds from dissipation—the flowing source of sin;
Another and another cup—give revelry full scope 5
Hurrah! hurrah, for whiskey, the gibbet and the rope.

Ho! Tapsters, to the rescue, ye Publicans, come on,

Let Vintners sound the war-whoop for occupations
gone ;

Shout every advocate of Vice, whoina word can edge—

Away with Father Mathew, the Medal and the Pledge!

>CORRESPONDENCE.

   
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

 

The following correspondence partially ex-

‘hibits the active interest and exertion of Father

Mathew, for the welfare of the poor generally.
During 1846, after the scarcity of the present
famine began to appear, he learned that some
of the poor applicants for admission to the work-
houses were not well treated, and that laborers
upon the public works were often purposely
paid off in tippling shops or inns, where they
were tempted to drink spirits. ‘To correct these
evils he wrote to several officers of the govern-
ment, having charge of such matters, and also
induced an influential friend, Mr. Trevelyan, to
investigate the subject, and to aid him in seek-
ing the proper remedies.

Extract of a letter,in reply from Col. Jones
to Mr. Trevelyan.

“Office of Public Works, Nov. 26, 1846.

“The statement in Father Mathew’s com-
munication to you is, I understand, too true, in

  

SEES SS 8 Pte eet ete ah rts of RED Ee rd ee mor sat. Sir FasCORRESPONDENCE. 67

one respect, as regards the effects produced by
the abundance which now prevails among the
laboring classes. I have heard several com-
plaints as regards the increase of drunkenness.
As to the payments being made in public houses,
that is directly opposed to our regulations; but
to prevent irregularities of that sort is very dif
ficult. The establishing of shebeen, or drink-
ing houses, or huts adjacent to the works 1s not
within our power to prevent, and in general is
a concomitant with all public works. We do
our best to correct abuses and irregularities im-
mediately we hear of them.”

———E

THE REY. T. MATHEW TO MR, TREVELYAN.
‘“ Cork, Dec. 16, 1846.

‘“ Since last I had the honor to address you,
I have been in several parts of this wretched
country, remote from and nearto Cork. I am
grieved to be obliged to inform you that the
distress is universal, though the people are
more destitute in some districts than in others.
Where the rural population is dense, and was
accustomed to emigrate during the harvest to
other parts of the empire to reap corn and dig
potatoes, no understanding can conceive, no
tongue express, the misery that prevails. The
money earned during the autumn enabled these68 CORRESPONDENCE.

spalpeens, as they are called, to pay the rent of
their potato gardens, and supply themselves and
Ne ai families with clothes and other necessaries.
This resource has utterly failed, as well as their
own stock of provisions, and they are now
wholly dependent for the means of existence
on Public Works.

The amount of loss sustained by the peasant
whose acre of potatoes has been blighted, has
not been sufficiently estimated. Bread-stuffs to
the value of £30 would not supply the loss.
The poor widow or orphan, or both—the pigs
and poultry—were all fed; and the pigs and
poultry were a source of profit and comfort to
the poor laborer’s family.

‘ There is not in Ireland, correctly speaking,
Ro farm work at this season of the year. We
| have not here farmers such as are in England.
The soil is held in small lots, and horse hus-
bandry prevails. As to the nobility and gentry
who cultivate green crops, they have a few
working tenants, who hold from them potato
gardens, and pay the rent in labor.

_ Our country people, like bees and other pro-
vident insects and animals, lived during the
winter, upon the potatoes they had stored and
the little money they had earned during the
harvest.

The present exorbitant price of bread stuffs,CORRESPONDENCE. 69

especially Indian corn, places sufficient food
beyond the reach of the great bulk of the pop-
ulation. Men, women, and children, are
gradually wasting away. They fill their stom-
achs with cabbage leaves, turnip tops, &c., &c.,
to appease the cravings of hunger. There are
at this moment more than 5000 half-starved
wretched beings, from the country, begging in
the streets of Cork. When utterly exhausted,
they crawl to the Workhouse to die. The
average of deaths in this Union is over 100 a
week. Some change should be made in the
regulations of the Workhouses in the country
patts of Ireland to make them tolerable. In
some districts they are closed against applicants,
though not half full; in other places the treat-
ment of the poor is so harsh, that death outside
is preferable. In one or two Union-houses, the
females who are admitted, many of them once
respectable, are rudely seized upon, forcibly de-
prived of their hair, and clothed in the garb of
guilty convicts, though extreme poverty is their
only crime. I deeply regret the total abandon-
ment of the people to corn and flour traders.
They charge from 50 to 100 per cent. profit.
Cargoes of maize are purchased before their
arrival, and are sold like railway shares, pass_
ing through different hands before they are
ground and sold to the poor.710 CORRESPONDENCE.

We are establishing soup shops, in all parts
of the city, to supply the poor with nutritious,
cheap cooked food.

After this long and painful detail, allow me,
honored, dear sir, tothank you for your suc-
cessful interference with respect to the tempta-
tions held out to the laborers on the Public
Works. When I assure you that the few lines
vou addressed to the Board of Works accom-
plished more good than if I had written vol-
umes on the subject, you will pardon me for
a having added to your multitudinous and most
if laborious official duties.

?)

vt MR, TREVELYAN TO THE REV. T. MATHEW.
“ Dec. 24, 1846.

4 ‘‘T have to thank you for your letter dated
a the 16th instant.
ey I will not enter upon the painful statements
‘ in the early part of it connected with the gene-
ral subject of the scarcity, for I am convinced
i) that we are already doing all that it 1s possi-
a ble for us to do to mitigate the calamity, and the
rest must depend upon the people of Ireland
themselves.

There are, however, some details towards the
conclusion of your letter relating to the admin-
istration of the Poor-law, which appeared toCORRESPONDENCE.

me to require immediate notice, and I wrote
upon the subject to Mr. Lewis, the Poor-law
Commissioner, who has replied as follows :—

‘Lreturn the copy of Father Mathew’s let-
ter, which you have had the kindness to send
me. Pray ask him to write to the Dublin OF
fice of the Poor-law Commission with respect
to any case in which the hair of a woman in a
workhouse has been cut without her consent,
or she has been clothed in a penal dress. If
he will communicate the facts of any case used
in this manner, I have no doubt that an imme-
diate inquiry will be made into it.’

I hope to enable you to do at once what the

occasion requires.”

This is but one, of many cases, in which
Father Mathew succeeded in correcting the
otherwise overlooked abuses and wrongs, im-
posed upon the poor, by government agents.

The sympathy for Father Mathew and his
labors of love, now felt and manifested through-
out Ireland, is so great that his movements and
deeds are heralded by the people, and chroni-
cled by public journals, with as much prompt-
ness and interest, as are those of the royal
family. The following notice, for example, is
one which appeared in the Cork Examiner, in

July 1847.CORRESPONDENCE.

‘THE VERY REV. THEOBALD MATHEW,

“The Apostle of Temperance returned to
Cork yesterday from a visit to the County of
Londonderry, where he administered the Total
Abstinence Pledge, at Cockhill, near Buncrana,
on Sunday last, and preached the Dedication
Sermon on the consecration of the New Chapel
there. The reception which the Very Rev. Gen-
tleman met with in Londonderry was most en-
thusiastic. 'The Chapel was crowded to excess,
and the amount of the collection, with the pro-
ceeds of the sale of tickets, exteeded £200, a
just tribute to the exalted piety and powerful
eloquence of the distinouished preacher. After
the sermon he administered the pledge to a very
large number of persons.

“On Tuesday the Very Rev. Gentleman ar-
rived at the city of Londonderry, where he ex-
perienced a most cordial reception. On the
same evening he was entertained at a splendid
soiree in the Corporation House of ‘ the maiden
City,’ at which the Mayor presided, and up-
wards of 600 persons assembled to honor the
noble son of Erin. Among them were the
Right Rev. Doctor Maginn, (Bishop of the Di-
ocese,) W. Smith O’Brien, Esq., M. P., Dr.
M’Loughlin, Rev. Mr. M’Loughlin, &c. &c.
‘The members of the Temperance Institute

SRST eRe Se ee eh ee eb)CORRESPONDENCE. ti

intend on Tuesday next to honor their Reverend
President by a soiree, after which he will pro-
ceed to Dublin, where on to-morrow week, he
‘is to preach a sermon for the benefit of that
noble and praiseworthy establishment—the
Olivemount Institution.’’—July 20, 1847.RECEPTION MEETINGS.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
 
 

 

—Z 2 Oowaoner—-x_-

RECEPTION meetings, like that at London-
derry, and the great one at London, in August
1843, and testimonial meetings, in honor of
Father Mathew, like that at Dublin, in Janu-
ary 1843, have not been uncommon, and, gen-
erally, at each of them, eloquent speeches have
been delivered, in his praise, by the most dis-
tinguished of all parties. Among the most
brilliant of such specimens of Irish eloquence,
and as a corroboration of the sentiments ex-
pressed in the preceding biography, the fol-
lowing remarks by the late lamented Daniel
O’Connell atthe Dublin meeting, deserve special
notice. Amid that great concourse of the most
illustrious and learned sons of Erin, assembled
at the Theatre Royal, in Dublin, at which His
Grace, the Duke of Leinster, presided, after
several had spoken, Mr. O’Connell came for-
ward, and was received with the most enthu-
slastic applause accompanied by the wavingRECEPTION MEETINGS. 15

of hats and handkerchiefs, which continued
without interruption for nearly ten minutes.
When silence was restored, the honorable and
learned gentleman proceeded as follows :

“My friends are laboring under a mistake if
they think I came here to make a speech.
(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Although I am
rather accustomed to public speaking, I have
not come here to make what is called a speech,
nor have I the presumptuous vanity to suppose
that Iam capable of making any speech that
could compensate you, one moment, for delay-
ing the expression of veneration and approba-
tion which you entertain for that excellent man
whose name has called us together here this
day. I would be ashamed of myself, if I were
capable of thinking that I could make any
speech that would enhance his merits, or place
his virtues or his utility in a more striking point
of view, than the simple enunciation of his
name alone must command.

“The name of the Rev. Theobald Mathew
is, in fact, a spell-word. It proclaims in itself
the progress of temperance, morality, prudence,
and every social virtue throughout the land.
As I have already said, I came here not to
make a speech, but to bear my testimony to his
indescribable merits. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
I could not stay away from such an assemblage76 RECEPTION MEETINGS.

as this; for though I felt how little importance
my attending here could be, still I owed it
to myself to share openly in the testimony, here
rendered, of the mighty moral miracle that has
been performed, and to raise my humble voice
in the declaration of my sentiments of admira-
tion, at his utility as a man, and his virtues as
a clergyman, by joining in this demonstration
of the gratitude of his country towards hin.
(Loud cheers.)

‘‘ Having said so much, I ought now to retire:
for I feel this, that it is not in language to de-
scribe, and that there is not rapidity in human
speech, to follow the brilliancy of his career.
(cheers.) There can be no wings given to
words, to enable them to rise to his moral exalt-
ation. You might as well think of looking the
noon-day sun in its face, without injuring the
vision, as to place the merits of Father Mathew
in a clearer point of view than they at present
exist. (cheers.) Noy: and if witnesses are want-
ing of his utility, I call on four millions of tee-
totalers to come forward with their testimony.
(loud cheers.) I have heard a great deal to-day
~—and I did not hear it for the first time——of the
intensity of the useful work he has performed.
I have heard of families reformed—of mothers
and children redeemed from ruin-—of youth
brought up in virtue, and rising into manhoodRECEPTION MEETINGS. TT

with honor, whose career would have been
blighted, and their hopes blasted forever, if the
temperance pledge had not come to their rescue,
and saved the individual from destruction, and
society from a curse. I have heard much of
eulogium on the Irish people as they at present
exist, and I only felt some cause of regret that
in forming a contrast with their present state,
and that from which they had been rescued,
there was some appearance of showing that
they had been previously in a state of degrada-
tion, and that in praising what has been done,
there was too heavy a censure passed on the
former condition of the country. Perhaps I am
wrong, and that my anxiety arises from the
jealousy with which I regard everything re-
flecting on the character of my country. (loud
cheers.) It would appear, as if prior to the tem-
perance movement, the Irish were a depraved
people—emphatically a drunken population—
and that it required some mighty apostle of
the Living God, to rescue them from their de-
pravity. Take notice that in saying this, I do
not mean in the slightest degree to detract from
the great merits of what has been done by the
Rev. Mr. Mathew. (hear, hear.) I admit that
he has performed a mighty moral miracle; but
at the same time, utterly deny that the people
of Ireland were at any time inferior to their78 RECEPTION MEETINGS.

neighbors, or to the people of any foreign coun-
try, in any part of the globe. (lowd cheers.)
While I have been speaking, a thought has just
flashed across my mind, to which I must give
utterance.—It is, that the parliamentary papers
furnish evidence on what I have been referring
to. Do they show that Ireland was a drunken
country? Quite the contrary. Taking the
population of Scotland, with relation to the
population of Ireland, what do we find? Now,
Scotland is a country that everybody praises.
(hear, hear.) You do not blame Scotchmen for
praising Scotland as they always do; and it
happens that Scotchmen always contrive to
take care of each other, wherever they meet.
(laughter.) But the parliamentary papers show
that, after all, the Scotchmen, in temperance
matters, are not really so good as they are rep-
resented. What is the evidence? I take up
the parliamentary papers, and they show me
the consumption of ardent spirits in Scotland
and Ireland, before Father Mathew’s mighty
movement commenced. Now I hope you do
not think, that the Irish drank more than the
Scotch. (laughter.) But even that would be
enough to rescue them from the charge of de-
pravity; as they are not worse than a people
who areso praised. But the fact is, they did not
drink half so much. (hear, hear, and loud cheers.)RECEPTION MEETINGS. 719

I have it from the parliamentary document, that
for every pint that the Irish drank, the Scotch-
man drank two pints, and what is called a
‘tilla” into the bargain. (cheers, and laughter.)
And that occurred, too, during a period when
there was very little illicit distillation in Ireland,
and a great deal of it in Scotland; and if the
illicit whiskey was taken into account, it would
make the balance one-third more against Scot-
land. I then say, that Father Mathew did not
redeem a drunken people; but he did redeem a
people who were predisposed to his mission,
(hear, hear.) As I have talked of these parlia-
mentary papers, I may allude to another fact
furnished by them. You, my Lord Duke, have
these papers laid on your table; you have the
reports of the different committees on the state
of Ireland before you; and while you read
them occasionally with anxiety—may I say,
with deep regret—there were others which made
your heart bound high within you: there is one
especially to which I allude—it is the report of
Mr. Spring Rice’s committee in 1830—which
proved that there is no country on the face of
the earth, where the moral and domestic virtues
of the people exceed those of the people of Ire-
land. (loud cheers.) This is not the testimony
of the mere lovers of Ireland; or of persons
who are anxious for the liberties and rights of80 RECEPTION MEETINGS.

the Irish people; but it is the testimony of pub-
lic officers, and of strangers long located in the
country, differing from the noble duke in poli-
tics, and of course differing exceedingly from
me. (cheers.) It appears from their evidence,
that the relation of husband and wife, of parent
and child, the endearing tie of brother and
sister—that every social and domestic virtue
were observed in no country on the face of the
earth with more purity, and strictness, and
affection than in Ireland. (great cheering.) Yes,
Father Mathew is an instrument in the hands
of Providence; he is a meet instrument in the
hands of the Almighty—an instrument of light
and worth; beams from Heaven mark and en-
lichten his career, and blight and misery vanish
wherever he appears. But that Providence that
inspired his first success, and that instilled into
the Irish heart those virtues that prepared the
way for his preaching, has, I trust, a reward in
store for the country that has so signalized
itself. (hear, hear, and loud cheers.) I do not
now allude to any particular event in futurity.
I only speak of what the future may produce;
but whatever that may be, I ask, are not the
people of Ireland prepared for a better state ?
Yes, the nations of the earth proclaim it; for
what nation under Heaven can furnish the glo-
rious spectacle of four millions of human beingsRECEPTION MEETINGS. 81

 

united with no other object but to deprive
themselves of a sensual gratification, solely in
order that they might exalt their moral dignity.
We hear of the Carabinair, and of secret soci-
eties, and of revolutionary gangs in many parts
of Europe; we hear of the republican bodies
in France—of people binding themselves to-
gether for various purposes, few of which are
of utility; but, where is there an instance of
four millions of men uniting together solely for
the purpose of conquering their vices, increas-
ing their domestic happiness, and giving a tri-
umph to those who love them most and desire
to serve them most heartily? It is not an asso-
ciation formed for any factious purposes—it is
the first of the kind that has ever yet appeared
on the face of the globe. Father Mathew be-
longs to that sect that knows no religious dis-
tinction—that knows no enmity by reason of
any difference of creed; and heaven knows
that man must have a cruel heart and a bad
judgment who hates anybody because he differs
from him in belief. His society is one where
every good and useful virtue is promoted—
where the mother becomes more happy over
her children—where the wife is more blessed
by the return of her husband—where the hus-
band is relieved from the scream of distress from
his starving family—and where, if employment
6"RECEPTION MEETINGS.

is to be got, the wages are no longer spent in
vice, but in the happiness of his own home, and
in increasing the joy and quict of his hearth—
the greatest of all human luxury. Oh, yes,
Father Mathew and Ireland, you were, indeed,
fitted for each other. If ever there was a man
suited for the country, it is he.—He is without
a blemish or a stain—he appears like an angel’s
wing, without the slightest taint to sully the
purity of his sacerdotal sanctity. He, the
anointed priest of the Most High God, performs
every office without affectation. He is gen-
erous and social; he is, in fact, the very picture
of good humor and good health. His physical,
moral, personal, and sacerdotal qualities all
combine to render him the man of God and the
friend of the human race. And then he has
come amongst a people that have known ca-
lamities not for years, but for centuries—who
have been reduced to the most abject poverty
by the grinding hand of tyrannic power pass-
ing over them for ages—who, after three years
of famine, and when they were just emerging
into something like comfort, were...... but no,
I shall restrain myself from speaking of any-
thing not belonging to the immediate object of
the meeting. The destitution of the country is
known—the poverty of the country is known—
Father Mathew comes amongst them, and theRECEPTION MEETINGS. 83

 

destitution ceases—the poverty is mitigated—
the violence that so often disgraced the land is
at an end, for the sober man will never commit
that crime to which he was first instigated by
intoxication. Oh yes, Ireland is fit for Father
Mathew, and Father Mathew is fit for Ireland.
“J told you that I did not come here to make
a speech, and I am really astonished at myself
for having delayed you so long (loud cries of et
‘Go on’). No; it would be profaning the sub- Le
ject to go farther. Do you want it to be be-
lieved that Father Mathew requires your ap-
plause, or that you are in need of being told
that he has conferred a benefit on society. On
such a subject I have not words to describe my Hei
thoughts. For the first time I find language feu:
totally failing to describe the intensity of the a
veneration for the man, and the excess of my ap i
joy at the effect he has produced. And if there |
was nothing else, I would find enough to de-
licht me in the assemblage I meet here to day.
How many thousands are here united in this
one object, who differ on so many others?
Alas, we differ on but toomany, and how I wish
that our differences could be confined to only
one. But whatever may be the diversity of our
opinions elsewhere, here we have no difference
at all (hear and cheers). Here the Protestant
and the Catholic, the Presbyterian and the Dis-RECEPTION MEETINGS. .

senter—the Nobleman and the Agitator (laugh-
ter )—the wealthy and the poor—the Conserva-
tive and the...friend of Ireland. I was going
to drop another word, but it shall not emanate
from me for the present (hear, and cries of ‘ Re-
peal’). Whatever our politics may be—what-
ever our creeds may be—whatever our con-
dition or avocation in life may be, we are all
here of one mind, and that is, how Ireland
should express her sense of the merits and the
virtues of Father Mathew. We are come here
to pledge all Ireland to the working out of that
measure, and to show that we are worthy of
sharing in such a plan bythe enthusiasm which
you have shown in listening to his praises, and
by the anxiely exhibited of trymg who can
praise him most. I thank you my friends, I
need not tell you, for the kindness with which
you have listened tome. I feel how inadequate!
have been to the subject, for words are nothing
when such a topic comes before the mind.
There is no painting the rainbow, the ray that
comes from the sun, or the angelic plumes that
flutter round the throne of the Deity; and there
is no angel more pure or worthy than the angel
of public morality, dignified in the person of
Father Mathew. [The honorable and learned
gentleman resumed his seat amidst the most
enthusiastic peals of applause, that were re-
peated for several minutes. ]”TRIBUTE FROM MISS EDGEWORTH.

ONE more laudatory tribute to Father Mathew,
by its own merits, and on account of its author,
is entited to an insertion here, and is com-
mended to the reader’s notice. It is contained
in “ Orlandino,” a-work recently published by

Miss Maria Edgeworth, who, though eighty- :

three years of age, still wields the pen of a
vigorous writer.* After alluding to the sim-
plicity which characterizes the remarks of
Father Mathew, and the great success which
has attended his labors, she continues as fol-
lows :—

“Tt has been prophesied by those incredulous
of good—it has been feared by those most hope-
ful—that this reformation cannot be lasting.
It has lasted, however, above NINE years; and
though instances of broken vows, of recurring
intemperance, and of the declining influence of
the pledge, are reported to have occurred, yet
whatever may be the frailties of individuals,

* Since deceased.86 TRIBUTE TO FATHER MATHEW.

this great consoling fact remains—the vice of
intemperance has lost its impudent grace, that
jovial permit of conviviality which in this
country it formerly enjoyed, and in which it
revelled to the destruction of health, domestic
happiness, and social order. Now, intem-
perance is no longer tolerated in good society,
In the middle classes it is shamed and dis-
countenanced; and even among the lowest
srades of the people in Ireland it is looked upon
as a brutal and unfashionable vice. This con-
quest at once over the sensual propensities and
vicious habits of a nation is unparalleled in the
history of human nature. This mighty moral
reform, this vast step gained in civilization for
this whole country, has been effected by the
energy, zeal, and perseverance of one private
individual, without the aid of legislation, with-
out appeal to force, without disturbance, dan-
ger, or injury to any human being. Since the
time of the Crusades, never has one single
voice awakeried such moral energies; never
was the call of one man so universally, so
promptly, so long obeyed. Never, since the
world began, were countless multitudes so in-
fluenced and so successfully directed by one
mind to one peaceful purpose. Never were
nobler ends by nobler means attained.”VEST? T@ AWSETU R.

 

Fatuer Matuew has long expected and de-
sired to visit America, and, being invited more
than two years ago, by Messrs. Grinnell and
Minturn, to take passage in one of their ships,
would have come then; but was deterred by
the hope of rendering essential relief to his
afflicted countrymen. Within the last year he
was impelled again to decline invitations from
the same and other sources, on account of the
disturbed and desperate state of his devoted

countrymen. But, as the emergency requiring.

his presence in Ireland has now in a great de-
gree subsided, he is enabled to fulfil his re-
peatedly deferred visit among his numerous
friends in the United States.

Among the many civilities extended to him
last year, which will undoubtedly be renewed in
the same spirit of cordiality, the public will
ever look back, with pride, upon the distin-
guished courtesy proffered him, of the freedom
of New York city, by vote of the mayor and88 VISIT TO AMERICA.

council, the invitation of Chancellor Walworth,
President of the American Temperance Union,
to make his house his home; the similar civili-
ties offered and urged upon him by his special
friend, Thurlow Weed, Esq., of Albany, and by
the liberal host of the Croton Hotel, in New
York, Mr. Moore, and others. Nor should the
kind expressions of sympathy and friendship
for Father Mathew by the Hon. Henry Clay
be forgotten. When Capt. Knight, of the ship
““New World,” was presented to Mr. Clay by
his honor the Mayor of New York, as the
gentleman charged with the honor and _privi-
lege of bringing Father Mathew to America,
Mr. Clay remarked: “I am most happy, Cap-
tain Knight, to meet you and to make you the
bearer of the assurance from me, that Father
Mathew has the most grateful feelings of my
heart. He is the friend of man, has spent his
‘whole life in doing good, and is engaged in a
work of the greatest philanthropy. Tell him I
believe he has the entire sympathy of every
good man in America.”

In answer to some of the letters and invita-
tions sent to Father Mathew, in anticipation of
his visit in 1848, the following to Thurlow
Weed, Esq., and to Mr. McGrath, Secretary of
the Roman Catholic Total Abstinence Society
of New York, indicate his own wishes respect-VISIT TO AMERICA. 89

ing the manner of his reception here and the
objects.of his visit.

Cork, 6th Dec., 1847.

My DEAR FRIEND—

* * * * x: *

To Messrs. Grinnell, Minturn & Co. I am
deeply grateful for the renewal of their highly
cherished and generous offer of a passage on
board one of their ships; and as it is my inten-
tion ta proceed to the States, with the Divine
blessing, about the time announced for the de-
parture of the ‘“ New World,” I trust I shall
have the privilege of sailing under the command
of our excellent friend, Capt. Knight.

Although it will be a great sacrifice to me to
leave Ireland, yet still Iam exceedingly anxious
to gratify the wishes of the patrons and sup-
porters of our sacred cause in America; and
also to express in person my warmest acknowl-
edgments to your high-minded countrymen,
for the noble aid they afforded our destitute
poor in their late calamity. I regret to be
obliged to say that the prospects are still very
gloomy in Ireland. The laboring population
are not in general employed, and though pro-
visions are cheap, thanks to the supplies of In-
dian corn, they are without the means of pur-
chasing them.VISIT TO AMERICA..

Assuring you of my gratitude for your un-
varying kindness, and “looking forward with
pleasure, to a renewal of our acquaintance in
your happy country,
I am, with high respect,
Dear Sir, yours devotedly,
THEOBALD MATHEW.

TuHurLow WEED, Esq., &c. &c.

Cork, 23d February, 1848.

Dear Mr. McGratu:—To you and the gen-
tlemen of the Committee I feel deeply grateful
for the sentiment expressed towards me on be-
half of the members of your Society.

Iam much gratified by the assurance that
my humble efforts are so highly appreciated—
at the same time I do not attribute any merit to
myself. The wonderful change that has been
effected is the work of the right hand of the
Most High God, and is admirable i in our eyes.

It will be a great sacrifice for me to leave
Ireland, but, whatever may be the consequence,
I trust that, with the co-operation of the friends
of temperance in the States, our sacred cause
will proceed and prosper.

With regard to my movements in America, I
am free until my arrivalin New York, when I
shall consult with my friends on the subject.VISIT TO AMERICA. 91

I anxiously look forward to the pleasure of
meeting you and my other dear friends some
time in May, and, with sincerest wishes for
your and their happiness, 1 am, my dear Mr.
McGrath, yours devotedly,

THEOBALD MATHEW.

Cork, April ie

My pear Capt. Kniaut, Saip New WorzD:
—Your esteemed letter has just arrived, and I
thank you with my whole heart for your ex-
ceeding kindness. It pains me more than I
can express to be disappointed in my expecta-
tions of so soon crossing the Atlantic with you,
and of seeing my dear friends in America, but
I anxiously hope that this will be the last dis-
appointment. Now that I am, thank God, re-
covered, I see no difficulty to my intended de-
parture in August, and I shall, with the divine

lessing, assuredly take passage under your
command, on the 2Ist of that month.

To the friends of humanity and religion in
New York I am deeply grateful, and I ardently
desire for an opportunity to express to them in
person the sentiment that throbs within my
bosom.

Add to the favors already conferred by apol-
ogizing for me on your return to New York,92 VISIT TO AMERICA.

and assure the good people there how anxious
I am to be with them in September.
Again expressing my gratitude for your kind-
ness, I am, &c.,
THEOBALD MATHEW.

As unkind insinuations appeared in some of
the American papers respecting the motives of
Father Mathew in visiting the United States,
intimating that it was to make Catholic prose-
lytes, or for political purposes, in favor of the
British government, whose pensioner he had
become, he addressed to his friend, Col. Sher-
burne, the following letter, which shows how
much his sensitive heart was wounded by such
harsh insinuations; and, as an explanation of
the reason why he could not visit his Ameri-
can friends last year, it properly belongs in this
place :

Cork, May 30, 1848.

My DEAR CoLoneL—Almost ever since I
had the happiness to see you I have been con-
fined by a severe illness, with which it has
pleased the Almighty to afflict me.

Your kind letter has cheered me exceedingly
and will I am confident hasten my convales-
cence. I am much gratified to find that you
are pleased with your tour in Scotland, and
your visit to Ireland,VISIT TO AMERICA. 93

I thank you for your solicitude for my feel-
ings, and I candidly confess that the para-
graph you have extracted from the “New York
Sun” has wounded them deeply. At the mo-
ment this paragraph appeared in the “ F’ree-
men’s Journal,’ Dublin, I was prostrate on the
bed of sickness, weak in mind and body from
the effects of my malady, paralysis, produced
by over exertion and anxiety in the Temperance
cause.

The only grounds for the charge of the
“ Freemen’s Journal,” was, my having lately
obtained from the British Government a pen-
sion of £300. Not a shilling of that annual
income can be appropriated to my own use. It
has been assigned to pay a premium of insur-
ance on my life for £6,000 the amount of a
balance of a debt I have contracted in my per-
haps imprudent zeal to promote the great Tem-
perance movement, and there will be an addi-
tional charge of the insurance office of three
per cent, on my going to the United States. Af
ter all I have sacrificed, health, property, and,
in consequence of this debt, my peace of mind,
it afflicted me exceedingly to have, at such a
moment, in the slightest degree, violated the
great principles of non-interference in the re-
ligious and political controversies that agitated
the world. The motto upon the spotless ban-94 VISIT TO AMERICA.

ner, around which millions have crowded,
is “ Glory to God on high, peace on earth to
men.”

Pardon me, dear Colonel Sherburne, for hav-
ing occupied so much of your time with my
sorrows, but it has afforded me consolation to
pour them into a congenial, sympathizing
bosom. I now am, thank God, restored to
comparative health and strength, and confi-
dently hope to be able to take my passage for
the United States about the middle of August.
Ido not expect to have vigor to exert myself
as I have hitherto, but I promise myself the
kind indulgence of the American people. I
have presented your remembrance to the Mayor
of Cork, and other friends, who all unite with
me in congratulating you on your safe arrival
in London.

Believe me, Colonel Sherburne,
Your grateful and devoted friend,
THEOBALD MATHEW.

Col. J. H. SHerBurneE, Strand, London.FAREWELL SPEECH

OF

FATHER MATHEW UPON HIS DEPARTURE
FROM IRELAND.

 

On Sunday, the sixth of May, just preceding
the departure of Father Mathew from Cork, a
meeting was held in Blarney-Lane school-house
by the supporters of the temperance cause, for
the purpose of enabling Father Mathew to ad-
minister the pledge to the inhabitants of this
densely-populated locality, amongst whom a
general anxiety was expressed that he should
visit them, previous to his departure for America.
The fact, that this was the last meeting which
that Apostle of Temperance could attend in this
city, until his return from America, attracted the
attendance of a vast assemblage of persons
and hardly since the commencement of the tem-
perance movement was there witnessed in this
city a more numerous or enthusiastic meeting.

The arrival of Father Mathew was greeted
with the most enthusiastic and sustained accla-FATHER MATHEW’S

   
 
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

mations ; and, after they had been with diffi-
culty repressed,

Father Mathew said—“ My beloved friends, it
is an unexpected pleasure that I enjoy this morn-
ing. I had no idea of meeting so vast an assem-
blage, as my expectation was that a small meet-
ing would be held in the upper Blarney-Lane
‘Temperance Hall, in order to infuse new and
continued support and zeal for our sacred cause
into that respectable body (hear, hear). The
absence of the excellent Mr. Dowden, the Pres-
ident of that Temperance Hall, induced, I sup-
pose, the members to convene a public meeting
here. The appearance of the meeting is cer-
tainly a pleasure I did not anticipate; and I
trust it will be productive of much good to the
cause; as this is certainly the last time that I
shall have the pleasure of addressing you for a
period of twelve months (sensation). And [|
trust that my primary object will not be frus-
trated, and that the members of the upper Blar-
ney-Lane room will continue to assemble in
their Hall in all the strength and numbers they
at any time possessed, and that those who will
take the pledge to-day will unite with them in
upholding the respectability of that room, and
sustaining the glory and efficiency of the Tem-
perance cause (loud cries of hear, hear). For,
though I am well aware that tee-totalism, or itsDEPARTURE FROM IRELAND. 97

prevalence in Cork, does not depend on the
members who attend the Temperance halls, still
I should wish that the Temperance rooms and
tee-totalism should go hand in hand, and should
flourish together (hear, hear). Many adverse
circumstances hitherto prevented the Temper-
ance halls from being well supported. The
members, though faithful in general to the
pledge, suffered from the severe pressure of the
times; and though the sum was small that was
required from each member, still, small as it
was, it was in those calamitous times an object
to a great many; for, a penny or two pence
paid for admission into these Halls, merely for
the support of the Hall and its incidental ex-
penses, was very often required, in the necessi-
ties of a family, to purchase bread for the chil-
dren (hear, hear). We have, I trust, better
times coming. The Almighty God, I hope and
fervently pray, will bless the coming harvest,
and once more restore plenty and abundance to
this oppressed and afflicted land (loud cheers).
My object, my friends, in proceeding to the
States of America, in compliance with the invi-
tation I may say I have received from the
whole of that great and glorious people, is first
to thank them for their sympathy, their well-
proved sympathy with my countrymen, and for
the abundant and generous assistance afforded
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by their liberality and humanity (loud cheers).
And, secondly, to promote as much as lies in
my power the great cause of temperance in that
vast country; and to diffuse the blessings and
happiness which it especially confers amongst
the people who inhabit its boundless extent. I
find it impossible for me at present to accomplish
much in Ireland. Much does not remain to be
accomplished, for the greater part of the Irish
people have taken the total abstinence pledge
(hear); and though there have been lapses and
breaches of the pledge, the numbers who have
been deluded by temptation are as nothing com-
pared to the great body who still remain faith-
ful to their solemn engagements (hear, hear).
The impossibility of my laboring as I was here-
tofore accustomed in the cause of temperance,
is a matter merely confined to my own feelings.
I could not, in justice to myself, witness the
distress which now prevails throughout the en-
tire land—destitution quite as great as that
which existed in the years of 46 and ’47, when
famine was at its height, and the people thought
that such misery could not again be equalled.
The people then had some resources, but they
are now exhausted, and they have no means
which would enable them to live—and, though
the poor-law is in more active operation, though
out-door relief embraces thousands of recipients,DEPARTURE FROM IRELAND. 99

this provision is of very little avail—to use the
forcible expression of Sir Robert Peel, its only
effect is to preserve “a lingering life’”—to keep
body and soul together; but the unhappy suf !
ferers gradually pine away—in appearance they fai
are but the shadows of men—living skeletons
without the strength or animation of men; and
it is my firm conviction, that unless something
more efficacious be done, unless measures of be
a resolute and comprehensive character be |
adopted, that thousands and thousands of the
population must perish before the next harvest
(hear, hear). I could not reconcile it to my
feelings to witness this sad and harrowing spec-
tacle throughout the land—to see people die for
want of food—and to feel that it was not in my
power to alleviate the sufferings of those desti-
tute creatures; for many who, when I first went
round on the temperance tour, visiting the vari-
ous localities of Ireland, were in prosperity and
affluence—who were the generous supporters
and consistent advocates*of the Temperance
cause, are now reduced to the*most abject dis-
tress. It is then to relieve myself from this
dreadful necessity, and perhaps, also, for the
sake of my own bodily health, which more par-
ticularly prevents me: from making the attempt;
and asI cannot effect any good here during
the present season, I am anxious to avail my- |100 FATHER MATHEW’S

self of the leisure afforded by the unhappy state
of this country, to fulfil my long-promised visit
to the people of America (hear, hear), and to
throw myself on the kindness and forbearance
of that great and considerate people, who will
make allowance for my weakness, produced by
severe infirmity, which has continued for more
than twelve months. I go also to afford myself
the pleasure and consolation of beholding my ex-
iled countrymen, not, as here, lingering through
a life of protracted starvation and constant mis-
ery, but in the midst of prosperity, enjoying the
remuneration of their industry, and all the com-
forts that plenty and domestic happiness confer
(cheers). Iam anxious to visit that land where
T will behold no Irishman or Irishwoman de-
prived of the necessaries of life, but where I
will see all enjoying peace and prosperity under
the wings of the American eagle (cheering).
But I trust, my friends, that, during my absence,
you will remember the solemn pledge you have
taken (hear, hear)—that you will observe it
faithfully—that you will remember you have
made avow and solemn promise before Heaven,
which you are strictly bound to observe (hear,
hear)—that you have called Heaven and earth,
men and angels, to witness this promisé—a
promise made entirely and exclusively for your
own good (hear, hear, and cheers). To myDEPARTURE FROM IRELAND. 10]

own knowledge, there are thousands at present
in Ireland, enduring the extreme of misery, and
with little prospect of release from their suffer-
ings, who, if they had been tee-totalers, would
be now enjoying comparative prosperity—many
who, in a retrospect of their lives, must attrib-
ute their present distress to their own intemper-
ance (hear, hear). It is not necessary for me,
in order to prove this assertion, to mention the
vast quantity of corn consumed in the manu-
facture of whiskey and porter, and the vast
sums of-money expended in the purchase of
poisonous liquids. People constantly complain
of the poor rates, of the oppressive height to
which they have arisen; but what are the poor
rates, even where they are heaviest, compared
to the money expended in the purchase of strong
drinks? (hear, hear.) It is a great and serious
aggravation, my friends, in the commission of
acts of intemperance, to be guilty of them at
such a period as this—to indulge in intoxicating
drinks which can confer no benefit, but are
alone productive of evil, when your fellow-crea-
tures are perishing for want of food (hear,
hear). You do not reflect, my friends, that
whilst you are in the tavern, enjoying the bois-
terous pleasures and unmeaning gratifications
which such a place afférds—whilst you are in
the tap-room, or perhaps in your own families,102 FATHER MATHEW’S

indulging in strong drinks, that you are, at the
same time, drinking down the food of the hun-
gry, and the clothes of the naked; and that
there are at that very moment thousands of your
fellow-creatures,—when you are spending your
money in dissipation, which only impairs the
health and ruins the prospects—perishing for
want of food and the common necessaries of
life (hear). Iam sure if any man of common
humanity, if any man of ordinary feelings and
sympathies reflected, when enjoying himself in
this manner, that he was drinking the food of
the starving, and the covering of those who are
perishing from cold and exposure to the weath-
er, he never, never would be guilty of such
abuse of the gifts of God (loud cries of hear,
hear, and cheers). How many families in this
very neighborhood are now in the depths of
misery, unable to obtain for themselves the
necessaries of life, who would be amongst the
respectable, comfortable, and comparatively
independent of our city, if they had taken
the total abstinence pledge—if they had ab-
stained from intoxicating drinks (hear, hear
hear),

“It may be said people of other countries
drink more. What avails that 2—it wont les-
sen your culpability; it wont lessen your injus-
tice towards your families, or your cruelty toDEPARTURE FROM IRELAND. 103

your suffering fellow-creatures by spending
your resources in drunkenness and dissipation.
Your own families, their comforts and their
happiness should be your first consideration,
no matter what others do, or others can afford
to do. You cannot afford to drink intoxt-
cating drinks; and though you may consider
them a luxury in which you are not warranted
in indulging—a luxury whose consequence is
destruction to those who indulge in them.
Speak of fever, speak of cholera, speak of all
the ills to which the human race is subjected—
speak of all the ills that have latterly fallen
upon us, even famine itself, and they are
all but as dust in the balance compared with
the evils brought on families, even in this city,
by the use of intoxicating drinks (hear, hear).
And even though your circumstances may per?-
mit you, as you believe, to gratify yourself by
the use of intoxicating drinks, you owe a debt
to your families, you owe a good example to
your children, you owe edification to your
neighbors; and when you consider this respon-
sibility, you will recollect with regret and dis-
may the ruin in which you might have involved
so many thousands by your bad example. No
man is borna drunkard. Well has it been said
that it is the first glass of whiskey that makes
the drunkard (hear, hear). ‘The most virtuous104 FATHER MATHEW’S

man, the most temperate man, is liable to fall
by little and little. “ He that loves danger,” says
the Holy Ghost, “ shall perish therein,’—and
the man who drinks, loves the.danger. The
most inveterate drunkard that ever disgraced
your city, the greatest drunkard who ever pol-
luted your neighborhood by his crimes, was
once as sober as any present, once he had as
little idea of becoming a drunkard. It is an
axiom in morality that what has happened to one
may occur to another. No matter what your
resolution may be—you may say I am deter-
mined not to become a drunkard—if you are
actuated by such a resolution, I say put away
intoxicating drinks, for your resolution is as no-
thing as long as you expose yourself to danger.
No man can say with truth or certainty, “I
wont be a drunkard,” but a total abstainer. J
know myself many hundreds of persons, who
were as sober and as regular in their conduct
as any person in this assemblage—who would
shrink from the imputation of being called
drunkards, who are now mouldering in the
drunkard’s dishonorable grave. If you wish
then, my friends, to be temperate and virtuous,
to live all the days that Almighty God allows—
if you are anxious to lead an honorable and vir-
tuous life, respected by the community of which
you are a member, loved by your own familiesDEPARTURE FROM IRELAND. 105

for the comforts you confer on them, and ad-
mired by society for the example your conduct
affords—if you wish to obtain all this—taste
not intoxicating drinks. If you wish that your
children and your children’s children should
honor your memory when you are no more—
when the long grass is growing over your
grave, be temperate; leave them what is, per-
haps, the most precious legacy you could leave
—the legacy of your own virtuous example.
Many a child is ashamed to speak of his father
or mother—many a-child is compelled to blush
when he hears theirnames alluded to; because
they lived the drunkard’s life. But no blush
will crimson the cheek of the child who knows
that his parents were members of our society.
Then, my friends, avoid intoxicating drinks;
they produce no pleasure, they afford no grati-
fication compared to the risk and danger to
which you are exposed by their influence
(hear, hear). Now I shall proceed to do what
I believe you are earnestly anxious I should
commence—to receive your pledges, your sol-
emn promises that you will lead temperate lives
—that you will shun the ruin in which you see
thousands involved by the indulgence of this
debasing gratification—and that you will leave
your children the invaluable legacy of honest
and virtuous examples.”106 FATHER MATHEWS

Father Mathew then descended from the
platform amidst the most earnest aspirations
from the entire assemblage for his safe arrival
at the other side of the Atlantic, and a deep
anxiety for his return amongst those by whom
he is so sincerely and deservedly beloved.
Many, in tears, expressed their regret that he
should leave them for so long a time.

The Very Rev. Gentleman administered the
pledge to the greater number of persons assem-
bled; and, between those enrolled, and those
who renewed their pledges, there could not
have been less than several thousands ac-
cepted.

Previous to the day on which Father Mathew
was to leave Cork, the vicinity of his humble
house was quite thronged; and on the morning
assigned for his departure, at an early hour
crowds of people assembled around his door.
The temperance bands were brought out, and
mingled their plaintive notes with the loud
lamentations of the multitudinous mass of
people there assembled to bid their benefactor
farewell.

This leave-taking was too much for Mr.
Mathew’s feelings, and instead of waiting for
the mail-coach which was to convey him to the
railway at Mallow, he stepped into a private
carriage of a friend, and departed unobservedDEPARTURE FROM IRELAND. 107

by the crowd. The scene wassaid to be a sin-
gular proof of the intense affection felt for this
remarkable man in Cork and its vicinity, where
he has chiefly passed his virtuous and _philan-
thropic life.

He proceeded by way of Dublin to Liver-
pool, where he accepted the hospitalities of his
friend Mr. W. Rathbone, who, it will be remem-
bered, generously and unsolicited, gave Father
Mathew £500, to enable him to pay the extra
charge demanded by his insurers, and to visit
America. He remained at Mr. Rathbone’s dur-
ing his detention at Liverpool, where he daily
administered the pledge to hundreds, and on
the 21st of May set sail in the packet ship Ash-
burton, for these shores.

FATHER MaTHEw is now upon the Atlantic,
with his eyes and his hopes directed to America.
The desire of hundreds of thousands to see and
hear this eminent Christian Philanthropist, will
now be gratified.

Since his first determination to visit America,
Father Mathew has passed through many se-
vere ordeals. The misery and suffering of his
countrymen, by famine and pestilence, have
been aggravated by personal misfortunes. And
amid surrounding calamities, his health failed,108 HIS MISSION.

and for a: season the worst apprehensions were
experienced by his friends.

But, with returning health, the long-cherished
purpose of visiting America revived, and we
have information, by the last steamer, which
shows that his arrangements were made to em-
bark from Liverpool in the packet ship Ashbur-
ton, on the 2ist inst. We may look for him,
therefore, about the middle of June.

Father Mathew’s mission to our shores is
one of the purest benevolence. He comes on
an errand of mercy. And most fit and worthy
is he of his high calling! Ireland and Eng-
land have profited largely by his efforts. Ar-
mies of men have enlisted under his Temper-
ance Banner, whose wives and children, raised
from want and misery to comfort and happiness,
will follow him across the deep with their bless-
ings. And he will, we doubt not, upon unfurl-
ing his Banner here, raise up other Temperance
Armies in America.—Jour. of Commerce, May
29th, 1849.PULL s Toes

BY. Jenfs BIKGR |
129 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK. ie

   
   
  
     
 
    
  
   
    

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COBB'S SERIES OF SCHOOL BOOKS, it

CONSISTING OF

COBB’S NEW FIRST BOOK,

COBB’S NEW PRIMARY SPELLING
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COBB’S NEW SPELLING BOOK, in Six
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COBB’S NEW JUVENILE READER, No. I.

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Proceedings of the Board of Controllers of the
Public Schools in the City of Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, April 12, 1844.

  
   
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 

At a meeting of the Board of Controllers of |
Public Schools, of the First School District of /
Pennsylvania, held at the Controllers’ Cham- ;

ber, on Tuesday, April 9th, 1844, the following
resolution was adopted, to wit:

Resolved, That the Pennsylvania edition of —

Cobb’s New Spelling Book be introduced, as a
class-book, into the Public Schools of the First
School District.

THOMAS B. FLORENCE, Secretary.

PHILADELPHIA, January 16, 1845.
At a meeting of the Board of Controllers ofthe Public Schools of the First School District
of Pennsylvania, held at the Controllers’ Cham-
ber on Tuesday, January 14th, 1845, the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted, to wit:
Resolved, That Lyman Cobb’s Series of
Readers in five Parts, Philadelphia edition, be
introduced, as class-books, into the Public
Schools of this District.
THOMAS B. FLORENCE, Secretary.

 

Proceedings of the Board of Commissioners of
the Public Schools in the City of Baltimore.

[From the Rey. Mr. McJilton, one of the Committee
on Books.]

BaLtimore, August 16th, 1845.

Dear Sir,—I write merely to say that Cobb’s
Series, consisting of a Primer, Spelling Book,
and five Readers, were adopted by the Book
Committee this afternoon, at five o’clock. They
will, therefore, be introduced into the Public
Schools of this city, when they open on the
first Monday in September.

In great haste, respectfully yours,

J. N. McJILTON.Proceedings of the Board of Directors of the
Public Schools in the City of Lancaster (Pa.),
August 12th, 1845.

Resolved, That Cobb’s New Spelling Book
and Series of Readers (Pennsylvania edition),
be exclusively authorized and adopted by this
Board, for the use of the Schools under their
charge; and that arrangements be immediately
made with Messrs. Biddles of Philadelphia, to
furnish the same.

J. ZIMMERMAN, Secretary.

Proceedings of the Public School Society in the
City of New York.
The following Resolution was unanimously adopted by
the Board of Trustees in May, 1846.

Resolved, That Cobb’s Series of Readers, be
introduced into the Public and Primary Schools
under charge of the Society, whenever new
reading books shall be required.

The Committee having charge of tbe night
schools, established by the Board of Education
of the City of New York, in November, 1847,
adopted Cobb’s Readers, Nos. 3 and 4, to be
used in those schools.

A similar Committee adopted Cobb’s Readers,(5)

Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, for the same schools, Octo-
ber, 1848.

Proceedings of the Board of Education in the vi
City of Brooklyn, Nov. 13th, 1845. Bi

The Board of Education in the City of Brook- Wil ie
lyn, after a very long and able discussion of the tit
comparative merits of Cobb’s and Sanders’ Se- |
sies of School Books, adopted Cobb’s Series, by
a large majority and ordered them to be used in :
all the Public Schools of that city, in place of
Sanders’ Series then in use, by the following
resolution :—

Resolved, That the Spelling and Reading
Books of Lyman Cobb be introduced into gen- |
eral use in the Common Schools of this city, |
and all resolutions conflicting with this resolu-
tion be, and they are hereby repealed.

Proceedings of the Teachers of the Public School
Society in the City of New York, Feb. lith,
1844,

At a recent meeting of the Association of
Teachers of the Public School Society of the
City of New York, aftera full discussion of the
merits and peculiarities of Cobb’s New Seriesof Reading Books, a unanimous expression was
made favorable to the said works, and the fol-
lowing Committee appointed to communicate
to Mr. Cobb their entire and hearty approba-
tion of them.

The Committee would also state, that the fa-
vorable opinion of the Association was formed
from observing how exactly the books are
adapted to the wants of the Scholar. Every
word used is accented, pronounced, and defined
once in the course of the Series. The lessons
and books are also graduated from easy to more
difficult, and every new word is defined in the
spelling lesson immediately preceding the read-
ing lesson in which it occurs. The particular
definition applicable in the lesson is printed in
italics, that the learner may thus ascertain the
exact meaning of every word he reads. The
selections are from various authors, chiefly
American, carefully avoiding all frightful and
improbable stories, and colloquies of inferior
animals, such as nourish an appetite for fiction
and romance. Such are the leading charac-
teristics of Mr. Cobb’s Books, which the Asso-
ciation warmly recommend to their brother
teachers.

Mr. Cobb’s Spelling Book is strictly a Spel-
ling Book for Schools, and in the opinion of
your Committee, is better calculated, from its

 

Pe ee ee ty te ete br tee]strict regard to system throughout, to overcome
the difficulties that beset the way of the young
learner of the orthography ofour language, than
any other book that has come under our obser-
vation,

DAVID PATTERSON, }

JOSEPH McKEEN,

WILLIAM BELDEN, +Committee.
JNO. W. KETCHUM, |

J, PATTERSON, J

Proceedings of the Ward School Teachers’ Asso-
ciation of ‘Teachers in the City of New York,
July 16th, 1845.

In presenting books for the adoption of this
Association, your Committee unanimously rec-
ommend the following :—Cobb’s Series of Read-
ing Books. In the arrangement of these books
much care and attention have been given to a
proper selection of instructive and interesting
matter contained in the different lessons.

The admirable arrangement of the difficult
words in spelling lessons with definitions, and
the questions upon the reading lessons, cannot
fail to interest the pupil, and produce the most
happy results.

This Series of Books embraces a regular
course of instruction in reading, spelling, and
definitions, by which the minds of pupils mayCB)

be successfully disciplined, and a ready, free,
and correct use of words and language acquired.

Cobb’s Spelling Book has been examined
with great care and attention, and your Com-
mittee feels great pleasure in recommending it
to the favorable notice of this Association, as a
work of merit and scientific arrangement, and
particularly calculated for our more advanced
classes,

S. DURAND, Chairman of Com.

The preceding Reports and Recommenda-
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