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VOLUME 2, \
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CHARLOTTE, N. C., MAY 17, 1842.
and I
State of Xorth Carolina,
MECKLENBURG COUNT^\
Superior Court of Law. February Term, 1812.
DELITHA C. SPECK
VS.
WILLIAM H. SPECK.
Petition for Divorce.
IX tliis case it appearing to the satisfaction of the
Court that tlie Defendant, William U. Speck, is
not an inhabitant of this State: It is fherelbre Or
dered^ ttiat piiblioation be nidde lor three months
successively in the “Mecklenburg Jefrersonian,”
iind ‘’Charlotte Journal.” commanding the said De-
t'endant to appear at our next Superior Court of
Law and Equity to be held for our said County at
the Courthouse in Charlotte, on the Fourth Monday
in August next, then and there to plead, answer or
j iloniur to the said petition; otherwise julginent will
I be taken pro contesso, and the petition heard ex-
parte.
W itness, Jcunings I}. Kcrr^ Clerk of our said
fectcd by the introduction of Christianity' *o enlist
in this cause the countenance and support, and to
throw around it all the dignity and influence which
necessarily attach to the movements of those con
nected wjia the Government.
\\c are someti.Ties loU (for our causc, like cvorv
thing else that is great and good, has its difficulties
and Its cnomies) that the pledge proposed subjects
i;ecessari y the inan u-ho takes it to liie implied ad-
mitsioii t.iat he is himself laboraio- under the evil in
questio:,, and ilies to this as a means to escape
It. 1 h|o IS a grossly unjust view ol the matter, and
as injurious to our cause as-it is untrue. It is to the
sober we here appeal. VV'e call upon them to ral
ly to the standard of sobriety; we invite the temper
ate to guard the cause of temperance. Shall shame
interpose here? Can the man who loathes the bot
tle, and shrinks appalled from all the degradation to
“ ui uui tiaiu 1 to profess openly the
Court at olnce, the 4th Monday in February, principles which he practicesYou
Issued the 2Gth ot April 1812.
J. B. KERR, c. M
Printer’s fee .'$10.
s. c.
H
IVool Carding-.
. A i, AUU
who are temperate, how can you withhold your aid
Irom u3--.thc aid simply of your name and counten
ance? Temperate men rel'using to join temper
ance society!—withholding their name and influ-
enco!-—nay, throwing, by their nifusai, the weight
of both agamst us! It is uunntural, it is uninteili-
gible, it is cruel. It is most cruel in those unlqint-
A\ IXG thoroughly repaired his Machinery, | d j.. lo mo^ii. ciuei in inose unlaint-
•‘1!™:; I ' >he whole weisht
in a very superior
W'oclvly Aliiiaiiac lor 3I:iy, 1842.
I ders for CARDIXG WOOL
style, and at short notice.
, JACOB STIREWALT.
Mill liil], Cabarrus Co., May 2, 181?^. 00...
/Kl y.s.
1. I’uesuay,
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■_0 Friilay,
Saturday,
‘3- Sunday,
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J>nASES,
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•1 5H 7 I Full :»loon, 'J-l 4 .AI.
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.llcxmtdei* Bethiiiie,
S ^ 3 Ej © IB J
RESPECTFULLY ten
ders his sincere thanks to the
citizens of Charlotte nnd the
public in general, for the libe
ral patronage lie has reeciv-
ed; and hopes by strict atten
tion to business to continue to
merit a liberal share of public
patronage. He has now' sev
eral first rate workmen em
ployed and hasiust received
his Spring and Summer Fash
ions’. He will warrant/.’■oor/ ///*- on all occasions'.
Orders from a di,sian e will nicct with prompt at
tention. IIis shop will be fi)und in the North-East
v. iiig oi’ Mr. Leroy Springs' brick building.
.1 IU)crai discount made to cash ciistomfr?.
^'■harlolio, April 13, lSi2. 57 ..r
More New C^oods.
licit
now roci‘£viii^ and opening a
liiJiid.»oiiie Stock of
[pUIlLISlir.D BY REaUn.ST.]
The following eloquent Speech was roccntlv deliv
ered before the Congressional ’'I'emperance Society,
by the Hon. Tiio.m.\s F. Marshall of Kentucky.
I After a few introductory remarks complimentary to
j a lecturejust read before the Society by Dr. Skwall
j on the pathology of the drunkard’s stomach, Mr.
Marshall said:
Our aim is to banish tlic use ofalcoliol as a drink
from society altogether. We declare in our Society
openly, that wc will not take into our systems a sub
stance which the God of nature has rendered the
human stomach unfit to receive, and incapable of
digesting—a substance which has all the properties
of a poison, the eflfect of which is not only to de
range the animal economy and to destroy life, like
other poisQns, but to work a still more melancholly
ruin in the moral constitution of men.
Yet, for my share, for the very small and obscure
^ part I bear in this great effort, I have seen myself,
I within these few day?, taunted in a public print as
I a fanaii\2. • A f^iiiilliC lU tlic causc of temperance !
[ A coldwaier fMnatio strijvcs upon mj* car as some-
I thing strange and paradoxical.’ 15o ii oO, however.
I Be this or any other title applied to me, so coIJ U’a-
I ter and temperance go along with it. ” The objcct
and the character of our Society have neiLhei' k'ins-
j ship nor alliance with fanaticism, political or reli*
j gious. Our3 is the cause of morals, public and pri
vate, irrespective of rank, scct, or party; it ia the
cause of peace, of happiness,'of virtue.' Let me
here, sir, put a case for the consideration of our col
leagues in Conofress
of the cause upon its wretchol victims, writhinfr
and struggling with the chain which darkly binds
their strengtn, nor stretch out the arm, free and un-
p.ara.yxed weight, to aid m fending its links
asunder. You (-Mr. M. iitro looked steadfastly and
eainestly at Mr. A\ jse)—you incur no rbk^ you
make no sacrilice, you brave no painful notoriety;
jour lives are as y^et unstained j your good name
unscathed. Not a shade darkens the fair field of
\our unsullied escutcheon. There is no room for
shame. Nothing but honor to yoursf Ives, and bless-
ings to others, carx foliow' your union with us.
Asharnel of pure and perfect Temperance! Oh
no; true dignity surrounds her; tho diadem of ho
nor sparkles on her brow; and the flowing robes of
virtue encircle and adorn her clastic ancT graceful
form. Mine, sir, was n difierent case. Mr. Presi
dent, we of the Total Abstinence and Vigilance
Society,” in our meetings at the other end %f the
city, are so much in the habit of “ telling experi
ences,” that I have myself fallen somewhat into it,
and am guilty occasionally of the egotism of ma
king some small confessions, (as small as I can pos
sibly make them.) Mine, then, sir, was a difTerent
case. I had earned a most unenviable notoriety*
by excesses which, though bad enough, did not half
reach the reputation they won for me. I never was
an habu'uiil drunkard, i, was one of yo'.ir spreein^
gentry. Aly sprees, however, began to crowd each
_ other; and my best friends feared that they would
j soon rua together. Perhaps my long intervals of
entire aostinence—perhaps something peculiar in
j my form, constitution, or complexion—may have
prevented the ph\rsica) indications, so usual, of that
fcrriowv^ disease, till temperance societies
arose, was docmt^ incurable resistless. Per
haps I had nourished the vaniiy !9 believe that na
ture had endowed me with a versatility w'hich cnu-1
bled me lo throw down and take up at plea.sure any
pursuit, and I choso to sport with the gift. If so, I
v/as brought to the very verge of a fearful punish
ment. Physicians tell us that intemperance at last
es in Congress. L':-t me suppose for a mo-leii us nai imemperance at last
ment that the condition of tlie world were chan^ed- ' hut a dTseaL whir>“ ■"bulged,
that alcohol u-as but now discovered: that it had no! ■ “" I
anif Stttnmrt*
C)JOOD8,
Jf/iic/(t wet c pin chiiscd (it li'/n/suulUf low prices^
And will be sold to suit the hard times, or at least
its low as any concern in this section of country.
Ilis stoe! consists ol all kinds of Goods usually kept
;ii a country store. II»; has also a larire stock of
* »roceric3j which will be sold at reduced prices.
Popons wi.-iiiiig lo purchase goods for CASH
AS ill find it to their interest* to cull and examine his
Charlotie. April. 16. 1812.
yet commenced that career of ravagt> which has
: marked its course and progress. I.,ct me further
suppose that the Congress of the United States
the representation of the people of this great empire
—the sober likeness of a sober nation in the case
imagined—were ju.«t now apprized of the discove
ry : that some great teacher, who had penetrated the
I qualities and eflects of this stibstance, and its future
possible bearing upon the fortunes of the human
race, should liere this night present, for the first
time, before the mental vision, in long and appaliinn-
perspective, all the sad consequences upon this peo
ple which have in fad followed its use; that he
should fully satisfy every man in this assembly that
58...F.
COTTON,
AM)
Cotton-Yam.
not become fully the subject of that fiendish thirst,
what horrible yearning after the distillation from
the alembick of hell,” which is said to scorch in the
throat, and consume the vitals of the confirmed
druhkard with fires kindled for eternity. 1 did be
come alarmed, and for the first tune, no matter from
what cause, lest the demon’s fangs were fastening
upon me, and I was approaching that Hue v.-hich
separates the man who frolics, and can quit from
the lost inebriate whose appetite is disease, and
whose will is dead. I joined the society on m\^^ own
account, and felt that I must encounter tlie title of
“reformed drunkard,” annoying enough tome I
assure you. I judged, from the cruel publici’ty
- It
}.oisonous as it is, and rinnous as its effects must be! t^Tl!ear aiu”\rave ^ t
t\x,s „»,i ,. , J lu ueai anu lJla^e. tjut 1 did bravo it all; and I
would have dared any thing to break tho* chain
rilHK MILLKDGEVILLE COTTON FAC-
Toil \ , (situated in Alontgomerv’’ County 22
!p! ol .SAliisbury.) is now in I'ull operation.—
I hose intnnately acquainted with the Yarn of this
1 actory, proler it to unv niruiuliu'tured in the State.
KDWARD BURAGE.
Ij-~The Subscriber wishes to procure about
fVVlJ nuyDREI) BALKS OF
0)
' Ot the best quality,) to be delivered at the Facto
ry, which he will spin, cither one half for the other,
or at eight cents per pound.
EDWARD BURAGE.
December /, ISil. 39,.,r
State of North Carolina,
MECKLENBURG COUNTY.
Superior Court of TjUW. Ftbmary 7\rrn, 1612.
-MARY N. TETER
I'S.
ELAM J. TETER.
this hitherto unknown evil w’as approaching our
shores: that the only antidote was abstinence''from
first contact; and that, if we once ventured to taste,
nothing could arrest its progress, until it had
wrought that entire mass of wretchedness whicii he
had, in living colors, pictured to our view. And
then let us suppose tliat the proposition were made
to Congress, not as a cure, but as a measure of pre
vention—as anticipating the commencement of an
illimitable evil—as seeking to guard and preserve
our countrymen m that glorious and happy state in
which they would be were intoxicating drink un
known a sober nation—a republican empire con
taining seventeen millions of people, free, sober
healthy, and, so far as this prolific parent of mise
ries was concerned, happy!—all the disease, all the
misery, all the long catalogue of crimes which have
sprung from drunkenness, banished—no, not ban
ished. but unborn, unknown, unheard of; Sup
pose, I sny, that, \\ ith this object in vi(i\A', an ap
peal should be made to these members of c'ono-ress
to come forward, each in his place, and, as an ex
ample to those who had commissioned them to
those whose image it was their ducy to reflect—to
whom they should be as a mirror—and whose
which I at last discovered was rivetting on my soul,
lo unclasp the folds of the serpcnt habit whose full
embraces^ is death. Letters from people 1 never
hac. heard of, newspaper paragraphs frotn Boston
to New Orleans, were mailed, and are still mailing
to me, by which I am very distinctly, and in the
most friendly and agreeable manner, apprised tiiat
1 enjoyed all over the republic the delectable repu
tation of a sot with one foot in the grave and an un
derstanding almost totall}' overthrown. 1 doubt not,
sir, that the societies wdio have invited me to address
them at difFerent places in the Union, will expect to
find me w!th an unhealed carbuncle on my nose,
and my body of the graceful and manly shape and
pioportion oi a demijohn. I have dired all these
annoyances, all this celebrity. I have not shrunk
fiom being a text for temperance preachers, and a
case for the outpouring of the sympathies of peo
ple who have more philanthropy than politeness,
moie temperance than taste. I signed the pledo-e
on my own account, sir, and my heart leapedlo
find t.iat I was free. Thechain liasfallen from my
fiee-born limbs; not a link or fragment remains to
tell I 01 er wore the badge of servitude. iMr. Pro-
Petition for Divorce.
appearing to the satisfaction of the
, Court that the Defendant, Elam J. Teter is not
'Z; '1''" State: It is therefore Oniem/
made for three months sue-
cesMve y in the -Mecklenburg Jeffersonia,;,” and
•int Journal, commanding the said Defend-
■in 1 ^ Superior Court of L^iw
^nd Equity to be held for our said Countv at U p
Uurt-house in Charlotte, on the Fourth Monday "
muMo thfiif" •T,’.'' P'ea.l,ans«.ero7de-
'>e taken uro coniv. ’ judgment will
-parte, conlest,o, and the petition heard ex-
our said
, '^^“edtlieseftof April, 1842^'"
Printer's fee c. m. s. c.
tue and happiness it should be their pri^dcr io'guard | ^ident,''the temperX'^mbts^ -tre ex
—a proposition were made to take a solemn public ! posed as I have . , ait ex
pledge that they never would stain their lip with I rom he act to wifi . amioyance
the polluting eontact of a ,,oison whieh n.'ust des- i euTothevs thl" wo su 'I? ""f ’‘'"t ‘*° ''T
troy their countrymen; I ask, sir, who would i ers -iv ^;ir and i ^oth-
pause? Who would refuse? ^Vho would reje,n i reach o^a ;l“i. frLt'^l‘T“?.'!^ '•^^^
a pledge, the impassable barrier against such an in-' There are men"of a ^ f-‘-\empt.
undation of misery? I would not-I au. sure I soiuteVf^™^^hD^7i ^
would not. So far from considering such a pledge only this one vi-e' Ther"- V 1 n- ?! ’
oc tic. _r r 1 ° .' ..o, I1 here is no danger that a man
ol lofty rnind, a high-spirited, wcli-educatcd gentle
man will stoop to other vices which sink and de-
pade humanity. He will not lie; he cannot steal •
ho is incapable of dishonor. Death itself cannot
diive him to the perpetration of baseness. Pover
ty, wan:, starvation may assail him, he is proof
agamst them all. This alone can drag his virtue
genius can guard what
35 the “surrender of my freedom of action,”'^I
should exult in the deed as one by which I had se
cured my own and preserved the liberties of my
country. The friends of the temperance cause,
however, are unhappily not in the condition I have
supposed. The demon has not, only approached,
but has been welcomed to our shores. He has al- ..j...... .
ready wrought among us an amount of mischief and I down ; and agahist i^t what
misery which lam wholly incompetent fo descnbc.
It is our object to arrest and expel what we cannot
now prevent. We seek to secure in aid of the most
^ gloiious moral and social revolution of which the
. vvfjrM has any record, save o'nlyr that ndr'cJi was cf.
magnannnity shield us? Who has not seen the
most towering, the most majestic, sink vanquished
beneath its powers? Who has not seen genius
prostrate, courage disarmed, manhood withered
before the march of this lell Jestrove;- cf all that
is great, arul bright, and beautiful. It seems, in
deed, as if, with the cunning malice of tyrannv
and the ambitious policy of a conqueror, th'is grim
king; selects the loitiest vijtims, and (rom those who
ornament and the
stiength of iheir land and race. Certain i.t is that
political ambition or elevation is of itself no safe-
guard. I have been told that the last gfiasily spec
tacle CKhibited to us to-mghL—the ruined ftomach of
a dead inebriate, once the living receptacle of God's
good and healthful gifts, and so by him intended to
remain was part of ihe frame* of a distinguished
statesman and member of this House, a man of
nius and of eloquence, whose mind led oncu t°he
councils of his own State, and whose voice has of
ten resounded through this hail, while listenio-
thousands hung with rapture upon its accents
Look on that picture, and imagine, if we can, the
horrors which must have preceded a fate like that
iJut, sir, this poison stops not with physical destruc-
Uon ; It is over the intellectual and moral man that
It achieves its greatest triumphs. The erect fbrm,
th^e muscular limb, the taper waist--Oh! how they
change under tho transforming touch of this mon
ster magician. liut it is not the trembling limb, the
bloated body, the bleared and dimmed eye, the sluo--
gish ear, the blotched and ulcerated skin, tho poi
soned breath, the destruction of strength, and ckan-
mess and beauty, which most efTectuallv attest the
errible power and mark tho wrecks with which
he demon strews his path—it is the overthrow of
^he mo'al principle, the extinction of conscience,
sensibility' to what is right and wrong, charity do-
mestic afiection, ail, all that makes as men, the ui-
worldC^^r'' hold tho
1 ? u entire implication of the
\eak and the nmocent, the mother, the wife, the in
fan in sufftring ior crimes of which they are the
most wretched, yet the guiltless victims' These
are the proudest trophies, the most splendid fruits of
the victories of the wine cup. Other vices, other
crime.s, leave the physical, the intellectual, the mor-
al man capable of repentance, of amendment, and
of action; but this destroys him throughout, body,
wretch survii:
and^ some of the thrilling confe'sions
Zi nf n as..ocia-
he-ird h a distant part of the city'could be
heard by this audience, as I have heard them—the
narratives of men whom the indefa-
A» “Vigilant Society of
npf has rescued from the very ken-
nel. 1 hey are not your stately, refined, educated
gentlemen who quajT their rich and costly Madei
ra o.d and mild and fragrant and sparldingand re-
dolen of the true flavor of the cork-nectar, fit for
gods to sip taken down bottle after bottle, from day
to uay till their complexions are purple as the
crushed grapes whose juice they drain—till their
n -^1 . °u conduct unspilfed the
fluid to their lips—till Uieir feet are swollen and
agonizal with gout, w'hile untold horrors fill the re
gion whose ruin has been to-night laid open to our
view and yet they are no drunkards' Oh no
no, no, no. D.'-'mkards? Not they! It is’ not
frort' suut. pen that we hear in our ward
meetings. No. They are thc oncc Avretched but
now rescued victims of what, in our Western world
is called white faced whiskey’’—children of the
lowest intemperance who there appear. This ty
rant alcohol, like him of whom it is no unapt rep
resentative, can suit its temptations to men of every
grade of fortune, and to every diversity' of human
condition. He holds out an appropriate liire to ev
ery taste, and draws within his fatal snare the higli
and the low, the learned and the unlearned, the vul
gar and the refined. It is to the story of the hum
ble and the poorer who have been reformed by means
ofthat society, with which I was first connected, that
I have listened with keenest interest.
It does appear to me that, if the loftiest amonrr
the lofty spirits which move and act from day to
day in this Hal!—the proudest, the most gifted, the
most fastidious here—could hear the talcs I have
neard, and see the men I have seen, restored, by a
thing so simple as this temperance pledge, from a
state of the most abject outcast, w^retchedness, to in
dustry, health, comfort, and in their own emphatic
language to peace, he could not withhold his coun
tenance and support from a cause fraughtwith such
actual blessings to mankind. I have heard unlet
tered men trace their own history on this subject
through all its stages, describe the progress of their
ruin and its consequences, paint without the least
disguise the utmost extent of degradation and sufler-
ing, and the power of appetite, by facts which as
tonished me—an appetite which triumphed over ev
ery human principle, affection, and motive, yet yiel
ded instantly and forever before the simple charm
of this temperance pledge. It is a thing of interest
lo me to sec and to hear a free, bold, strong armed,
hard-fiited mechanic relate, in his own nervous and
natural language, the history of his fall and his re-
coverj'^. And I have heard him relate how the
young man was brought up to labor, and expecting
by patient toil to support himself and a rising fami
ly, had taken to his bosom in his youth the woman '
whom he loved—how he was tempted to quit her
side,and forsake her society, for the dramshop,the
frolic, the midnight brawl-^how he had resolved,
and broken his resolutions, till his business forsook
him, his friends deserted him, his furniture seized for
debt, his clothing pawned for drink, his w'ife broken
hearted, his children starving, his home a desert,
and his heart a hell. And then, in language true
to nature, they will exultingly recount the wonders
w'rought in their condition b\^ this same pledge.
My friends have come back—I have good clothes
on—I am at w'ork again—I am giving food and
providmg comforts for my children—I am free, I
am a man—-I am at peace here. My children no
longer shrink cowering and huddling together in
corners, or under the bed for protection from the
face of their own father. When I return at nic-ht
they bound into my arms and nestle in my bosom.
My wife no longer with a throbbing heart'and an-o.
nized ear counts my steps before she sees me to cfis-
cover w’hether I am drunk or sober—I find her
now singing and at work ” What a simple but
exquisite illustration of a w'oman’s love, anxiety*,
and suflering! 7’he fine instinct of a wife’s car de
tecting from the intervals of his footfal, before lie
had yet reached his door, whether it was the drunk
en DT the s*jber step, whether shewn^tn rr>i*oivf' hrr
^ number 62.
liusb.uiu Ol an iiitnriatid monster in his likeness
‘'''"t'f’“•crtst, a mighty
iM wh * ‘‘“"I noteniii tly bi
(I I'Cfj.iid ol [he proudest statesman here.
m' H I am-(aud n„
ConTreis*-^'^^'^r\ r'^ ‘■•^'^^niission)—mrniber of
wer° V this pledge, it
humnn 1
wlm hi ?'^''' 1-q’l'U.css tind viMu.«,'no matt-r
wnat inb lauk or (•(jadition r.-c-i'I tU ^ c >
and trust and l„vo ro ^ i , 1- '
a'T.j.n nil' . ^ot one wife us she
Ji,a.n j)ii)(jweJ u in srifetv rv i , r '
unon and cuiifiuencc
tu'ral '■cclainud and na-
arins f ' l boiuidaig lo the
eXi„ ? '’"T'’ "T 'Inn.kenn.-ss had
ridicnln, “ I I of all tho
Ilud^not t.ved in va,:,. AuJ, si, I have had that
Air. President, it is really a^tonisi.in- what a
prodigiously great man a ir.emher of
m the estwnat.on of some peo,.V. Now, suppose
all those merri^bers who are thems.lves temperate
m-rrT*""! • -’lauk lhave nan
m Cl whelming majority in both House>--woul 1
by common consent become mr-mbers'of this
Congress.ona temperance Soci. tv. u hu. so.?
of influence do you snppoie it v.x.r.i 1 have bo»h
within and without these wall..' They woul I
make no sacrifice m doing thi?. it co-?(s Ju;h m n
no. ling and if they v.-ould onlv ^lo it, { r ti.j f
before the ciose ot this prts. ni stM-m we shn-'i
no. have a single drinking characu-r M'. i'„ \Z' -
branch of the National L. giskiure. 'n L
eould stand out against it, 1 'V, '
I was myself about as b,! 1 . v: '
hardy a soul as ever swaiiowt.c' :i ii^'irj.’
care who saw me drink; und iho-rWi ‘?,s
ready admitted, I joined the t*. : -
cause I was scared on my account, and u.
purpose of influencing other.% or und^ r ti.,- u... ..
cnee of others, yet sure 1 am, that if all mv r, :i',/v'
tTon"ffo7th ? •>‘>1 joined this'associa
tion, (lor the} constitute a majouty lar great, r th
!o rZrseTp” House o"
mvseirif, ''•">.) i ^'i'ould hare found
the ,1 Lf T. "-'iowilV. as
the drunkard s corps would lia' eariiountixl to when
the line w-as once drawn be:w, en tiie pani j thai I
be^ne utakest, meanest, pooresi. most conlefpniioie
powerless litile faction that ever did appear iri'coi.-
gress. W hat a figure would half a dU..„ druuk.
vVii} there w'ould not be entnigh to fTHiir.i ,i
puies to form a decent laneral ^r; sion
king alcohol .-they would be ashai!,.,! .ujnj
the remains of their dead master from the Can-tol
self.drfe’nce."^'
Sir, i^f there be within this Hall an in ]ivid-ril
man who thinks that his vast dignity and imnor-
tancc vvould be lowered, iiie laurels which he *ha^
heretofore won be tarnished, his glowin-r and hIT
conquering popularity i,t home be lessened, bv an
act ^'-sigucd lo ^redeem any porlion of his coiieiues
or lellow-men from ruin and shame, all I can 'say
is, tnat he and i piii r] very dili'^r>.iit esiiurUe 'jnoii
the matter. 1 should say, sir, that liie act v/as'noi
only the most bcnovoir'nt, but, in t|]c
1 f li-l :«s
i til l not
h-tv.' »•:-
. , — 1 ....... ..,,,0 ot
opinion, t.ic most politic, the mo?t popular, (looking
down at Mr. Wise who sat just uuuer the Clerk’s
stand, Mr. M. added with a smiie.) the vt ry
thing he ever did in his life. Think not,
Mr. .'\I,, still regarding Mr. W. with great tarn\.t-
ness.) thnik not that I feel my.'^uf in a ridlcuiiju:5
situation, and, like the fox in the lable, vv'isfi to ui-
vide^ it with others by converting defnmit'^ inia
fashion. Not so; by iny honr.r as a gentleman, not
so. I was not what I was n presented to Le' I
had and 1 have shown that 1 had fi.’!] power'ov* r
m^seli. Lut the plt:dge I havij taken rcndt. is mo
secure forever from a fate inevitably following hab
its like mine—a fate more leiTihl.* than TUalh.
fhat pledge, though confined to mvseli alone and
with reference to its only eflects upon me, my
mind, my heart, my body, 1 would not cxchan^f*
for all earth holds of brightest and of best. No. no!
sir; let the banner of this temperance cause go for-
wa.d 01 go backward—let the world be rescu( i
from its degrading and ruinous bondage to alcohol
or not 1 for one shall never repent what 1
have done. I have often said this, and I feel it
every moment of my existence, waking or sleeping.
Sir, 1 would not exchpgo the physical sensations
the mere sense of animal being w'hich belon^s to
a man who totally lefiains Irom all that can intoxi
cate his brain or derange his nervous structure the
elasticity with which he bounds from his couch in
the morning—the sweet repose it yit Ids him at
night—the feeling with which he drinks in through
his clear ey'cs the beauty and tho grandeur of sur
rounding nature ;—I say, sir, I would not exchange
my conscious being, as a strictly temperate man
the sense of renovated youth—^the glad play with
which my pulses now “beat healthful music—lh'
bounding vivacity with which the life-blood courses
its exuking way through every fibre of my frame
—the communion high which my heahhful ear and
eye now hold with all the gorgeous universe of
Cjod—the splendors ot the morning, the sofmess of
the evening sky—the bloom, the beauty, the ver
dure of earth, the music of the air and the waters—
with all the grand associations of external nature,
reopened to the tine avenues of sense;—no, sir,
though poverty dogged me—though scorn pointed
its slow finger at me as I passed—though want and
destitution, and every element of earthly misery
save only crime, met my waking eye from day tu
day not for tho brightest and the noblest wreath
that ever encircled a statesman’s brow—not if some
angel commissioned by heaven, or some demou
rather sent fresh from bell, tu’tesL the resisting--
strength of virtuous resolution, should tempt me
back, with all the wealth and all the honors which
a world can bestow;—not fur all that thno and all
that earth can give, would 1 cast from m*^ this pre
cious pledge of a liberated mind, this tulismun
agamst temptatiorr, and plunge again into tlie dan
gers and the terrors which once beset my path- —
So help me heaven, sir, I would spuin beneath
my very feet all the gilts tiie universe ca'ih! iller,
iivo jfhd .•fm^ pr>o" h;it