TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

INTEMPERANCE.
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The melancholy death OF the late Mr.. Me
Connell, is a lamentable evidence that alter all
The exertions Of the friends of humanity, the
demon of Inlemperance is still at work 10 high
lplaces. as well as in the low and abandoned
walks of life. Here we find an Individual in
/ the prime of life, best with education and good
natural abiliiies,--a husband and father
honored by the confidence of his fellow men,


nromoted by the free ssufrages Of his friends
and neighbors TO one OF the highest political
stations that men can aspire to,-naturally


possessing noble heart, which was animated


by kind and generous emotions, wickedly,
blindly, insanely prostituting his talents, and
his time TO the debauchery Of the lowest grog


shop revels drinking deeper and deeper of the
poisonous cup-sinking lower and lower down
the gulf Of impending ruin,-forgetting the
dignity OF his character as father, a husband,
man, Representative of the American peo.
pie; forgetting his holy obligations TO his wife
and children, bis duty to his country, his con-
stituents, himself, and his God-paralyzing
his mind, and finally after disgracing himself
and the House Of which he might have been
an ornament, reducing himself to state Of
criminal insanity, and as fitting finish TO the
dark and gloomy picture, committing self.
murder, in the most brutal and inhuman man
ner When such scenes are exhibited in the


highest walks OF. life, where present fame, poi
litical ambition, official station, and future


prospects are not all sufficient to rescue the


victim from the jaws Of the monster, with how


much charity and forbearance should we look


upon the conduct of those, who from infancy
10 age, have been left the victims Of bad ex-


ample, and dangerous associations who have
been denied an ordinary education, and whose
constant companions have beea toll, misery
and want. s0 ,sx


But Nc Connell is not alone guilty for his
early and lamentable fate. The man who
places knife in the hands of maniac is re-
sponsble for the consequences and the Mem
bers of the House Of Representatives, by en-
couraging the use of dcntspirits, even to the
permission Of loathsome grog shop within
the portals Of the Capitol, are, to a certain
extent, guilty Of causing this mans death. Let
the fatal termination of Me Connell's brief
career, but stimulate the friends of Temperance
throughout the Union, to renewed and more
powerful exertions in the glorious cause, until


drunkenness shall no longer disgrace the halls
of Legislation, or pollute the walks Of private
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