https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/4ff19e0d35622c426b3bf1f4ff61a1e3.pdf c386698dbd6fa20aa1d71ed81c73f374 PDF Text Text Temperance Advocate. "Prove all things—hold fast that which it good."-/'ou/, Vol. I HONOLULU, OAHU, SANDWICH ISLANDS, JANUARY, 1843 No. 1.. ness. He has published one of the most in- derunge the animal economy and to destroy teresting and scientific essays on that subject life, like other poisons, but to work u still The Temperance Advocate will be issued, whenever which it lias been my fortune to examine. more melancholy ruin in the moral constituthe progress of the cause shall demand its appearance. It is accompanied and illustrated by sonic tion of men. numbers, 12 1-2 cts. Terms. 4 single Yet, for my share, for the very small and splendidly executed drawings, similar to 25 cts. 10 ,r the vari" obscure part I bear in this great moral effort, those exhibited to-night, portraying Copies may be obtained by calling at the Study of ous changes of the lining or coats of the hu- I have seen myself, within a few days, tauntSeamen's Chapel, and at the Printing Office. man stomach, from a state of perfect health ed in a public print as a fanatic. A fanatic cold-water An Address upon the subject of Temperance, to the last stage of gangrenous inflammation, in the cause of temperance! A before the Cong. Temp. Soc., in the City produced by intemperance—imparting to the fanatic strikes upon my ear as something of Washington, D. C., U. S. of America . force of scientific reasoning the startling cer- strange and paradoxical. Be it so, however. tainty of sensible representation. The style Be this or any other title applied to me, so To the Reader, of the essay, as of the lecture, is admirable cold water and temperance go along with it. Socieindeed. The Doctor confines himself entire- The objects and the character of our Society Congressional Temperance The have neither kinship nor alliance with fanatty held a meeting in the Hall of Repre- ly to physical effects. He has demonstrated no organ icism, political or religious. Ours is the substance which that is a alcohol sentatives, City of Washington, Friday the human cause of morals, public and private, irreswith nature has furnished which evening, February 25, 1842. The meetsystem, is of power sufficient to appropriate pective of rank, sect, or party; it.is the cause ing was opened with prayer, by the Rev. as aliment to the body. It undergoes no of peace, of happiness, of virtue. Let me Mr. Tuston, Chaplain of the Senate, and change from the action of the gastric juice, here, sir, put a case for the consideration ofl an address by the President of the Socie- the great solvent provided by nature to con- our colleagues in Congress. Let me suppose ty, Hon. George N. Briggs, of Massachu- vert our food into nourishment for our frames. for u moment that the condition of the world setts'. Resolutions were offered and sup- It goes into the system alcohol; it circulutes were changed; that alcohol was but now in- discovered; that it had not yet commenced ported by the Rev. John Marsh, Corres- through the system alcohol, irritating,deliall the and that career of ravage which has marked its finally gangrening flaming ponding Secretary Am. Temp. Union, and progress. Let me further supin contact, surfaces with which it comes course cate Dr. Thomas Sewall, Prof, in Medical from the coats of the stomach to the mem- pose that the Congress of the United States— College, D. C, Hon. Thomas W. Gilmer, brane of the brain, till it is ejeted with the the representation of the people of this great of Virginia, and Hon. B. Burnell, of Mas- breath, through the pores of the skin, and empire—the sober likeness of a sober nation sachusetts. At an adjourned meeting of with all the secret ions—still aclohol, un- in the case imagined—were just now appristhe Society, Dr. Sewall continued and changed, and retaining its original proper- ed of the discovery; that somo grqnt teacher, concluded his lecture, commenced at the ties. Its effect is always to injure—even in who had penetrated the qualities and effects previous meeting. He accompanied his the smallest quantity, to that extent it is in- of this substance, and its future possible use necessarily and bearing upon the fortunes of the human remarks with drawings, delineating the jurious. Its excessive the appearance and pros- race, should here this night present, for the changes inevitably changes, and exhibiting the effects pro- trates the powers, not only of the stomach, first time, before the mental vision, in long duced upon the human stomach, by the but ofevery part and organ of the human and appalling perspective, all the conseuse of alcoholic drinks,—in the various body. As opposed to food, it is a poison—a quences upon this people which have in fact stages, from that of the temperate drink- poison not found in an original and separate followed its use; that he should fully satisfy er, down to the lowest degree of debauch- state anywhere in nature. Diffused through- every man in this assembly that, poisonous ery and ruin. The Honorable Mr. Mar- out the greater part of the vegetable king- as it is, and ruinous as its effects must be, shall's address followed the lecture of Dr. dom, in another form and with other quali- (his hitherto unknown evil was approaching ties, it has been extracted, and changed into our shores; that the only antidote was abSewall. a poisonous agent, by chemical process stinence from the first contact; T»nd that, if The above remarks I have thought ne- and the ingenuity of man. Unlike food, we once ventured to taste, nothing could cessary to explain the allusion in the in- it does not satisfy but stimulates the ap- arrest its progress, until it had wrought that troduction of the following address. petite for itself, and leads, from this peculiar entire mass of wretchedness which he had, I would remark that the Essay of Dr. property, necessarily to excess. Although in living colors, pictured to our view. And Sewall, with the accompanying drawings the melancholy observation and experieuce then let us suppose that the proposition kto which the Hon. Gentleman alludes, is of every day satisfy and confirm the experi- were made to Congress, not as a cure, but a measure of prevention—as anticipating 'now upon the table in the Seamen's ments and inductions of pure science, still as this poison is the subject of most extensive the commencement of an illimitable evil—as Reading Room. and every-day consumption among men, seeking to guard and preserve our countryMost respectfully yours, working all the fearful ruin of the mind and men in that glorious and happy state in Samuel C. Damon, which has this night been so impres- which they would be were intoxicating drink health Stamen'i Chaplain. sively painted to our view. unknown—a sober nation—a republican emHonolulu, January 18,1843. Our aim is to banish the use of it as a pire containing seventeen millions ofpeople, The Hon. T. H. Marshall's address. drink from society altogether. We declare free, sober, healthy, and, so far as this proin our Society openly, that we will not take lific parent of miseries was concerned, hapThe world at large is under great and last- into our systems a substance which the God py !—all the disease, all the misery, all the ing obligations to the gentleman who has of nature has rendered the human stomach long catalogue of crimes which bar* sprung favored us with the able lecture to which unfit to receive, and incapable of digesting— from drunkenness, banished—no, not banwe have-just listened, for the inquiries he a substance which has all the properties of ished, but unborn, unknown, unheard of:— has instituted into the pathology of drunken- a poison, the effect of which is not only to Suppose, I say, that with this object in view, PLEASCIRCULATE. �2 TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE. an appeal should be made to these members Wise)—you incur no risk; you make no sac4$ Congress to come forward, each in his rifice; you brave no'painful notoriety: your place, and, as an example to those who had lives are as yet unstained; your good name commissioned them—to those whose image it unscathed. Nor a shade darkens the fair was their duty to reflect—to whom they field of your unsullied escutcheon. There is should be as a mirror, and whose virtue and no room for shame. Nothing but honor to happiness it should be their pride to guard— yourselves and blessings to others can follow a proposition were made to take a solemn your union with us. Ashamed of pure and public pledge that they never would stain perfect temperance! Oh, no! true dignity their lips with the polluting contact of a surrounds her; the diadem ofhonor sparkles which must destroy their on her brow; and the flowing robes of virtue ask, sir, who would pause? Who would encircle and adorn her elastic and graceful refuse? Who would reject a pledge, the im- form. Mine, sir, was a different case. Mr. passable barrier against such an inundation President, we of the "Total Abstinence and misery? I would not, lam sure I would Vigilance Society," in our meetings at the :. So far from considering such a pledge other end of the city, arc so much in the the "surrender of my freedom of action," habit of "telling experiences," that 1 have liould exult in the deed na one by which I myself fallen somewhat into it, and am guilhad secured my own and preserved tho liber- ty occasionally of the egotism of making ties of my country. The friends of the tem- some small confessions—as small as I can perance cause, however, are unhappily not possibly make them. Mine, then, sir, was in the condition, I have supposed. The de- a different case. I had earned a most unenmon has not only approached, but has been viable notoriety by excesses which, though welcomed to our shores. He has already bad enough, did not half reach the reputawrought us an amount of mischicfnnd misery tion they won for me. I never was an haKvhich I am wholly incompetent to describe. bitual drunkard. I was one of your spreeIt is, our object to arrest and expel what we ing gentry. My sprees, however, began to cannot now prevent. We seek to secure in crowd each other; and my best friends feared aid of the most glorious moral and social that they would soon run together. Perhaps foison countrymen: K revolution of which the world has any record, my long intervals ofentire abstinence—persave %nly that which una effected by the haps something peculiar in my from, constiintroduction of Christianity—to enlist in this tution, or complexion may have prevented cause the countenance and support, and to the physical indications so usual, of that throw around it all the dignity and inllucnce, terrible disease, which, till temperance sociwhich necessarily attach to the movements eties arose, was deemed incurable and resistof those eonnectcd with the Government. less. Perhaps I had nourished the vanity to We nie«sometimes (for our cause, like believe that nature had endowed me with a every thing'else that is great and good, has versatility which enabled me to throw down its difficultiesand its enemies) that the pledge and take up at pleasure any pursuit, and 1 proposed subjects necessarily the man who chose to sport with the gift. If so, I was takes it to the implied admission that he is brought to the very verge of a fearful punhimselflaboring under the evil in question, ishment. Physicians tell us that intemperand flies to this as a means of escape from it. ance at last becomes, of itself, not a habit This is a grossly unjust view of the mutter, voluntarily indulged, but a disease which its and as injurious to our cause as it is untrue. victim cannot resist. I had not become fully It* is to the sober we here appeal. We call tlie subject of that fiendish thirst, that horriupon them to rally to the standard of sobri- ble yearning after the distillation, "from the ety; we invite the temperate to guard the alembic of hell," which is said to scorch in cause oftemperance. Shall shame interpose the throat, and consume the vitals of the here? Canine man who loathes the bottle, confirmed drunkard with fires kindled for and shrinks appalled from all the degrada- eternity. I did become alarmed, and for the tion to which the bottle leads, blush to pro- first time, no matter from what cause, lest fess openly the honorable principles which the demon's fangs were fastening upon me, he practises' You, who are temperate, how and I was approaching that line which sepcan you withhold your aid from us—the aid, arates the man who frolics, and can quit, simply of your name and countenance? from the lost inebriate whose appetite is disTemperate men refusing to join a temper- ease, and whose will is dead. J joined the ance society!—withholding their name and society on my own account, and felt that I influence!—nay, throwing, by their refusal, must encounter the title of "reformed the weight of both against us! It is unnatu- drunkard," annoying enough to me, I assure ral, it is unintelligible, it is cruel, it is most you. I judged from the cruel publicity givcruel in those untainted by this destroying en through the press to my frolics, what 1 vice to cast the whole weight of their cause had to bear and brave. , upon its wretched victims, writhing and But 1 did brave it-all; and I would have struggling with the chain which darkly binds dared any thing to break the chain which 1 their strength, nor stretch out the arm, free at last discovered was riveting on my soul, and unparalized by its weibht, to aid in rend- to unclasp the folds of that serpent-habit, ing'its links asunder. YotT (Mr. M. here whose full embrace is death. Letters from looked steadfastly and earnestly at Mr. people I never bad heard of, newspaperpar- (Jan, agraphs from 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 that I enjoyed all over the Republic the delectable reputation of a sot with one foot in the grave, and an understanding almost totally overthrown. I doubt not, sir, that the societies who have invited me to address them at different places in the Union, will expect to find me with-an unhealed carbuncle on my nose, and my body of (he graceful and manly shape and proportions of a demijohn. 1 have dared all these annoyances, and all this celebrity. I have not shrunk from being a text for temperance preachers, and a case for the outpouring of the sympathies of people who have more philanthropy than politeness, more temperance than taste. 1 signed the pledge on my own account* sir, and my heart leaped to find that I was free. The chain has fallen from my frccborn limbs; not a link or fragment remains to tell 1 ever wore the budge of servitude. Mr. President, the temperate members of Congress are exposed, as I have said, to no shame or annoyance from the act to which we invite tlicin. It is to rescue others, that we summon them. To rescue ay, sir, and to place themselves beyond the reach of a danger from which none are exempt. There are men of a stamp which secures them absolutely from every thing which can degrade, save only this one vice. There is no danger that a man of lofty mind, a highspirited, well-educated gentleman, will stoop to other vices which sink and degrade humanity. He will not lie; he cannot steal; he is incapable of dishonor; death itself cannot drive him to the perpetration ofbaseness. Poverty, want, starvation may assail him, he is proof against them all. This alone can drag his virtue down; and against it what genius can guard, what magnanimity shield us? Who has not seen the most towering, the most majestic, sink vanquished beneath its powers? Who has not seen genius prostrnte, courage disarmed, manhood withered, before the march of this fell destrcyer or all that is great, and bright and beautiful? It seems, indeed, as if with the cunning malice of tyranny, and the ambitious policy of a conqueror, this grim king selects the loftiest victims, and from those who otherwise are formed to be the ornament and strength of their hind and-racc. Certain it is, that po- J litical ambition or elevation is of itself no" safeguard I have been told that the last ghastly spectacle exhibited to us to-night, the ruined stomach 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 the frame of a distinguished statesman and member ofthis House, a man of genius and eloquence, whose mind led once the counsels ofhis own State, and whose voice has often resounded through this hall, while listening thousands hung with rapture upon its accents. Look on that pic. , �1843.) TEMPEUAXCE ADTOCATE. ture, and imagine, if you .can, the horrors humbler and the poorer who have been rewhich must have preceded a fate like that. formed by means of that society with which But, sir, this poison stops not with physical I was connected; tluit 1 have listened with destruction; it is over the intellectual and keenest interest. It does appear to me, that if the loftiest moral man that it achieves its greatest triumphs. The erect form, the musculnr among the lofty spirits which move and act limb, the taper waist, O how they change from day to day in this hall, the proudest, the under the transforming touch ofthis monster most gifted, the most fastidious here, could magician! But it is not the trembling limb, hear the tales I have heard, and see the men the bloated body, the bleared and dimmed I have seen, restored by the influence of so eye, the sluggish ear, the blotched and ul- simple a thing as this temperance pledge, cerated skin, the poisoned breath, the de- from a state of the most abject, outcast struction of strength, and cleanliness and wretchedness to industry, health, comfort; beauty, which most effectually attest the and in their own emphatic language, to terrible power, and mark the wreck with peace, he could not withhold his countenance which the demon strews his path. It is and support from a cause fraught with such the overthrow of the moral principle, the ex- actual blessings to mankind. 1 have heard tinction of conscience, sensibility to what is unlettered men trace their own history on right and wrong, charity, domestic affection, this subject through all its stages, describe all, all that makes us men, the utter disper- the progress of their ruin, and its consequension of the moral elements which hold the ces, paint, without the least disguise, the world together, and the entire implication of utmost extent of degradation and suffering, the weak and the innocent, the mother, the and the power of anpetitc, by facts which wife, the infant, in suffering for crimes of astonished me, an appetite which triumphed which they are the most wretched, yet the over every human principle, affection and gnitless victims. These are the proudest motive, yet yielded instantly and for ever trophies, the most splendid fruits of the vic- before the simple charm of this tcinpcrnnce tories of the wine-cup. Other vices, other pledge. It is a thing of interest to me to hear crimes, leaves the physical, the intellectual, a froo, bold, strong-armed, hard-listed methe moral man capable of repentance, of chanic relate, in his own nervous and natural amendment, and of action, but this destroys language, the histroy of his full and his rehim throughout, body, mind and conscience, covery. And I have heard him relate how the young man was brought up to labor, and yet leaves the wretch survivor of himself. Would, sir, that some of the thrilling con- expecting by patient toil to support himself fessions and narratives disclosed in those and a rising family, had taken to his bosom homely associations of ours in a distant part in his youth the woman whom he loved, l»ow of the city could be heard by this audience, he was tempted to quit her side, and forsake as I have heard them, the confessions and her society for the dram-shop, the frolic, the narratives of men whom the indefatigable midnight brawl, how he had resolved, and benevolence of the "Vigilant Society of broken his resolutions, till his business forTotal Abstinence" has rescued from the sook him, his friends deserted him, his furnivery kennel. They are not your stately, ture seized for debt, his clothing pawned for refined, educated gentlemen, who quaff their drink, his wife broken-hearted, his children rich and costly Madeira, old, and piild, and starving, his home a desert, and his heart a sparkling, and redolent of the true flavor of hell. And then, in language true to nature, the cork, nectar fit for the gods to sip, taken they will cxultingly recount the wonders down, bottle after bottle, from day to day, wrought in tljeir condition by this same till their complexions are purple as the grape pledge. *My friends have come back, I whose juice they drain, till their trembling have good clothes on, I am at work again, I hands can scarce conduct unspilled the fluid am giving food and providing comforts for to their lips, till their feet are swollen and my children, I am free, I am a man. I am at agonized with gout, while untold horrors peace here. My children no longer shrink fill the region whose ruin has been to-night cowering and huddling together in croncrs, laid open to our view, and yet they are no or under the bed, for protection from the drunkards! O, no, no, no. Drunkards! Not face of their own father. When I return at they! It is not from such men that we hear night, they bound into my arms and nestle in our humble ward-meetings. No. They in my bosom. My wife no longer with a are the once wretched, but now rescued vic- throbbing heart and agonized ear, counts my tims of what in our western world is called steps before she sees me, to discover whether 'white-faced whisky," children of the lowest I am drunk or sober; I find her now singing intemperance, who there appear. This ty- and at work.' What a simple but exquisite rant alcohol, like him of whom it is no unapt illustration of woman's love, anxiety and representative, can suit its' temptations to suffering! The fine instinct of a wife's oar men of every grade of fortune, and to every detecting from the intervals of his footfall, diversity of human condition. He holds out before he had yet reached the door, whether an appropriate lure to every taste, and draws it was the drunken or the sober step, whether within his fatal snare the high and the low, she was to--receive her husband or an inthe learned and the unlearned, the vulgar furiated monster in his likeness. I say, sir, and the refined. It is to the story of the these things have an interest, a mighty in- 3 terest for me;' and 1 deem them not entirely beneath the regard of the proudest statesmen here. On my conscience, sir, I speak the truth when I say that, member of Congress as 1 am (and no man h prouder of his commission), if, by taking this pledge, it were even probable that it would bring back one human being to happiness and virtue, no matter what Lis rank or* condition; recall the smile of hope, and trust, and love, to the chuck of one wife, as she again pillowed it in safety, peace and confidence upon the ransomed bosom of her reclaimed and natural protector; send one rosy child bounding to the arms of a parent, from whence drunkenness had exiled it long, I would dure all the ridicule of all the ridiculous people in the world, and thank God that I had not lived in vain. And, sir, I have had that pleasure. Mr. President, it is really astonishing what a prodigiously great man a member of Congress is in the estimation of some people. Now, suppose all those members who ore themselves temperate men, and they constitute, thank heaven, nn overwhelming majority in both Houses, would, by common consent, become members of this Congressional Temperance Society, what sort of influence do you suppose it would have both within and without these walls? They would make no sacrifice in doing this, it costs them nothing, and if they would only do it, I aver that, before the close of this present session, we should not have a single drinking character left in either branch of the National Legislature. They never could stand out against it, 1 know they could not. I was myself about as bold, and as open, and as hardy a soul as ever swallowed a julep. 1 did not care who saw me drink; and though, as I have already admitted, I joined the temperance society because I <fas scared on my account, and not for the sake of influencing others, or under the influence of others, yet sure I am, that if all my fellow-members who are temperate, had joined this association, (for they constitute a majority for greater than is necessary to suspend the rules of the House or to reverse a Presidential veto), I should have found myself left in so very small and lean a minority, as the drunkard's corps would have amounted to when the line was once drawn between the parties; that I never could have stood the shame. Why, it would be the weakest, meanest, poorest, most contemptible, powerless little faction that ever did appear in Congress. What a figure would half a dozen drunkards cut against the whole body of both Houses! Why, there would not be enough to guard the obsequies, to from a decent funeral procession for king alcohol, they would be ashamed to attend the remains of their dead master from the Capitol. No, sir; they would have to stop drinking in more self-defence. Sir, if there be within this hall an individual man who thinks that his vast dignity and importance would be lowered, the laurels which he has heretofore won be tainstbed, �4 TfcMPfcUANCE hii glowing and all-conquering popularity at home be lessened, by ah act designed to redeem any protion of his colleagues of fellowmen from ruin and shame, all I can say is, that he and I put a very different estimate upon the matter. I should say, sir, that the act was not only the most benevolent, but, in the present state of opinion, the most politic, the most popular (looking down at .Mr. Wise, who sat just under the clerk's stand, Mr. M. added with a smile,) the very wisest thing he ever did in his life. Think not, sir, (said Mr. M., still regarding Mr. W., with great earnestness,) that I feel myself in a ridiculous situation, and, like the fox in the fable, wish to divide it with others by converting deformity into fashion. Not so, by my honor as a gentleman, not so. I was not what I was represented to be. I had and I have shown that I had full power over myself. But the pledge I have taken renders me secure forever from a fate inevitably following habits like mine, a fate more terrible than death. That pledge, though confined to myself alone, and with reference to its only effect upon me, my mind, my heart, my body, I would not exchange for all earth holds of brightest and of best. No, no sir; let the banner of this temperance cause go forward or go backward, let the world be rescued from its degrading and ruinous bondage to alcohol, or not, I for one shall never repent what I have done. I have often said this and I feel it every moment of my existence, waking or sleeping. Sir, I would not exchange the physical sensations, the mere, sense ofanimal being which belongs to a man who totally refrains from all that can intoxicate his brain or derange his nervous structure, the elasticity with which he bounds from his couch in the morning, the sweet repose it yields him at night, the feeling with which he drinks in through his clear eyes the beauty and grandeur of surrounding 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 beat healthful music, the bounding vivacity with which the lile blood courses its exulting way through every fibre of my frame, the communion high which my healthful ear a,nd eye now hold with all the gorgeous universe ofGod, the splendors ofthe morning, the softness of the evening sky, the bloom, the beauty, the verdure of the earth, the music of the air and the waters, with all the grand associations of external nature, reopened to the fine avenue of sense; no, sir, though scorn pointed its slow finger at mc ns I passed, though want and destitution, and every element of earthly misery, save only crime, met my waking eye from day to day; not for the brightest and the noblest wreath 'that ever encircled a statesman's brow, not, if sime angel commissioned by heaven, or or some demon rather, sent fresh from hell, to test the resisting strength of virtuous resolution should tempt me back, with all the wealth and all the honors which a world can (Jan. ADYOCATfc. bestow; not for all that earth can give, would I cast from me this precious pledge of a liberated mind, this talisman against temptation, and plunge again into the dungers and the terrors which once beset my path: So help me heaven; sir, I would spurn beneath my very feet all the gifts the universe could oiler, uud live and die as I am, poor but sober. The following sketch, taken from an American paper, describes a scene which occurred in the city of Baltimore. You cannot think, said Mr. Vickers, how soon a man's circumstances become changed when once he has signed the pledge. I will tell you of a man whom I knew in Baltimore. He was not worth a cent a day, and his, family was supported by his hard working wife. He had heard of the Washington Society, and had determined to join—But how should he get a quoitcr of a dollar, which was required for initiation fee. He went to his wife and told her he wanted a quarter of a dollar. "What for?" "No matter," said he, "I want it, and must have it;" She gave it to him, knowing it would bcofnouseto withhold it, and supposing he meant to buy rum with it. He went to the Washington Society on Monday night and joined—The next day he went to work at his trade, which was a good one, and he could make money fust. He came home sober every night, and <;n Saturday received liis wages, and bought a barrel of flour, a ham, some groceries, and so on, got them on a drny and sent them home. The drayman dro-vc up to the door, and told the wife that the barrel of flour and the groceries were for her. She told the drayman there was some mistake about it—it did not belong there, for she had never had a barrel since they had been married—always had to buy their flour by the sixpence worth, or shillings worth, and the flour certainly could not be for her. While they were talking the husband came up, and said she, -'husband, here is a mHn who says these groceries are for us." "So they arc, and 1 have bought all with the twenty-five cents you gave me last Monday night. 1 joined the Washington Temperance Society with* that twenty-five cents. We shall have flour by the barrel after this, instead of the sixpence worth, or the eleven penny bit's worth." POETRY. Temperance! tell the listening world What thine advocates hive done; Hearken, now the tyrant's hurled From his high, despotic throne. Temperance—shall it bear the sway, Shinoo'er earth in splendour bright? Listen! for a brilliant day Drives away the gloomy night. Temperance! will thy beams alone Gild the spot that gave thee birth? Other climes thy sway shall ewn: See, it bursts o'er all the earth. Temperance! are thy sons to fight, Like hosts of earth, to fix thy laws? O no; for love and truth unite, To achieve thy holy cause. Temperance! then I*4l be thy child, For I love thy sacred name: Yes, thy voice and influence mild Can the wildest passion tame. Temperance! we shall shout thy praise; We no more will leave thy band; Joyful now our anthems raise, In every clime, in every land. L. li. Sigourney. fALMoNrC,1843. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1843) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1843.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1843.01