true principle within his soul; if he has no hold by faith on the Redeemer; there is great reason to fear that he will return again to his cups,-"like the dog to his vomit, and like the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."

2. Another means of arresting the progress of intemperance, is to diffuse intelligence, and give moral power and general improvement, to those portions of the community in which intemperance finds its chief victims.

In proportion as we awaken and invigorate men's faculties, we help them to rise above a brutal life; we take them away from the power of sensual indulgences, enlarge their foresight, give them the means of success in life, open to them sources of innocent pleasure, and prepare them to act well their part on the stage of life.

3. Again, there must be an effort on the part of various classes, and of different departments of the temperance cause, to awaken fresh interest in the work.

The religious and sécular press must again sound the alarm, and show that the enemy is coming in like a flood, and encourage to do battle against this common foe to humanity.

There are, it is true, many papers in our land, which seem to have a correct view of their responsibility, and deserve commendation for the high tone of moral purity which pervades them. But it is true of a portion of the press, that instead. of looking to elevated principles, and aiming to guide public opinion into safe channels, it contents

itself with echoing what it believes to be public opinion. Does it not now resemble the "bow light" of a ship, shifting with its course, more than the Polar Star, which guides toward the desired haven ?

The ministers of our holy religion must again speak out in thunder tones, and come for the redemption of our land from this terrible thraldom.

Let those who were the pioneers in this great work, and who labored amid mighty difficulties to advance the temperance cause, be still courageous and uncompromising in their efforts. Let the zealous and energetic Washingtonians labor on, raising up the fallen and degraded. Let the Sons of Temperance, the Rechabites, and other beneficial societies, be true to their pledges-adhering strictly to the great work of promoting the temperance cause— and not turn aside for separate interests, from their warfare against the common enemy. Let magistrates and civil officers ever be ready to lend their influence and counsel, in plans to suppress intemperance, and to help on the great work.

4. We must have correct and just legislation, to aid in this great moral movement.

By a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, the constitutionality of temperance legislation has been settled. Various states of the Union have been incited, by true philanthropy, to repeal obnoxious laws, and enact such as would protect the temperate from the tyranny of rumsellers. Is the sale of intoxicating liquors a wicked business? Does it corrupt our youth? Does it make a wicked waste of an immense amount of our property? Does it

destroy intellect, impair health, and produce disease and death? Does it corrupt the morals, dry up the fountains of domestic happiness, produce indolence, wretchedness, and woe in the family circle? Does it produce nine-tenths of all the crimes in this land? Does it fill our almshouses with loathsome wretches, our jails with poor criminals, and supply our gibbets with victims? It does all this, and infinitely more. What government, then, can license or protect the traffic, without downright injustice, without absolute oppression? Every subject has a right to demand protection for his property, health, reputation, and life. Experience proves that all are in fearful peril in a land of grog-shops. The right of the Legislature to act in the premises, rests on the broad principle of self-preservation-upon the same foundation on which the whole civil code rests. Legislators! every consideration which impels you to pass laws to protect the health of our citizens, and abate the evils of the community, addresses itself with tenfold power to you, to aid in this work-when you reflect that the sale of ardent spirits not only introduces innumerable diseases into the community, and destroys the health of our citizens, but that it is accompanied with this additional aggravation: that it tends to corrupt the public morals, to subvert the Christian religion, and to destroy our civil liberties! If the statutes which now shield this traffic were repealed, and this business were to rest on its own merits, it I would be indictable at Common Law. We could bring the dealer to justice, on the manifest tendencies of this traffic, as a wanton and felonious trifler with the peace and virtue of society.

EXCUSES REFUTFD.

(1.) You invade our liberties; we have a natural right to deal and drink as we please." Now let us look at this objection. We are in the social state: we are in organized society: and we all have to yield many points of natural liberty, as the price of the protection and security of government. So long as you remain in the organized society of men, you do it by consenting to forego some so-called natural rights, which that society find it necessary to prohibit for the common good. While you remain in that society, you have no right to coin your own money, to fire your own dwelling, or to sell arsenic. All these are as truly natural rights, and quite as defensible, as the sale of alcohol.

Many natural liberties are taken away by legal statute. Have you a right to practise theft? No. But why? It is at war with the social interests of society. It invades another's rights. But trifling is the evil, compared with this traffic, which encourages the commission of every crime.

"In which is felt the fiercer blast

Of the destroying Angel's breath?
Which binds its victim the more fast?
Which aims at him the deadlier death?

Will ye the felon fox restrain,

And yet take off the tiger's chain?

You have your laws to punish the thief, the highwayman, the murderer, the gambler, and the sabbath breaker: yet for selling this poison-which necessa

rily and universally leads to profaneness, sabbathbreaking, and gambling—which incites to the most of our murders, arsons, robberies, and thefts-you have fixed no penalty, but protect it by legal enactments. The community is alarmed if a few cases of hydrophobia are heard of. But to traffic in an article which is doing incalculably more mischief every year, than all mad animals have caused for the last fifty years-that is a right not to be invaded!

(2.) But it is said further, this traffic is not condemned in the Bible, and on this account it should not be restricted. The answer to this is very obvious. The article was then unknown. It was not invented till long after the Bible was completed. Where, I may ask, is piracy, or bigamy, or kidnapping, or duelling directly prohibited in the Bible? And yet will any man say, these are not immoral practices? Will he dare to engage in them, because they are not forbidden in technical language? The truth is, the Bible has laid down great principles of conduct, which on all these subjects can be easily applied; which are applied; and which, under the guidance of equal honesty, may be as easily applied to this traffic.

No man can pursue this business, without coming in conflict with the great principles of the Bible. The whole spirit of the Bible—and a thousand texts of the Bible are pointed against it. And every step the trafficker takes, he infringes on the spirit and bearing of some declaration of God.

(3.) But, says another, "If I should not sell, somebody else would. Men will have it; and why may