INTEMPERANCE.
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The following is the most graphic de!ine- ation of the miseries and effects of intem- perance that we have ever seen. It is from the arguments advanced by certain citizens of Portage county, Ohio, in memorial to the Legislature of that State on the subject

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 "And yet its march of ruin is onward still. It reaches to others, invadcs the fam lily and social circle, and spreads woe and sorrow all around. It cuts down youth in it's vigor, manhood in it's strength, and age in its weakness. It breaks the fathers heart, bereaves the doating mother, extin- guishes natural affection, erases conjugal love, blots out filial attachment, blights pa- rental hope, and brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces health; death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, and all of them paupers and beggars. It inhales levers, it feeds rheumatisms, nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites cholera, lmparts, pcstilence, and embraces consump- tlons. It covers the land with idleness, poverty, disease and crime. It fills your jails, supplies your alms-houses, and de- mands your asylums. Itengenders contro- versies, fosters quarrels and cherishes riots. 1t contemns law, spurns order, and loves mobs. 1t crowds your penitentiaries, and furnishes the victims for your scaffolds., It is the life blood of tho gambler, the aliment of the counterteiter, the prop of the high wayman, and the support of the. midnight incendiary. ..' d.'i7'

 It conferences the liar, respects the thief, and esteems the blasphemer. It vio- lates obligations, reverences fraud, and honors intamy. It incites the father to butcher his offspring, helps the husband to massacre his wife, and aids the child to grind the paracidal axe. It burns man, consumes women, detests life, curses God, and despises Heaven. "' "

 It suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, cor rupts elections, pollutes our institutions and endangers our government. It degrades the citizen, debases the legislator, dishon- ors the statesman, and disarms the patriot. It brings shame, not honor; terror, not safety; despair. not hope misery, not hap piness And now, as with the malevolence of tiend, it calmly surveys it's frightful desolations; and insatiate with havoc, it poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, blights confidence, stays reputation, and wipes out national honor, then curses the world and laughs at it's ruin."