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MEssRs. EDITORS: From the commence
ment of your editorial career, have looked
with pride and satisfaction at the prospect of
having at the seat olgovernment paper de-
voted TO the advocacy ybi temperance principles,
and at the same time determined to make war
against all that intoxicates II does appear to
me that the time has now arrived when, to
persist in the use of the intoxicating liquid,
renders the individual doubly guilty than he
would have been few years since. Time was
when the use of the intoxicating cup was moi
only fashionable, but was INDUCED in by al
ranks and conditions Of society, from the cler.
gyman in the pulpit, to the more humble and
less influential member OF society


The excuses that are commonly urged IN ia.
vor Of drinking, and against temperance asso-
Citations, are becoming daily more and more
| weak.


/ The clergyman has thrown aside his tenn
perate drinking, and the more humble lndi-
vidual haying thrown aside bis bottle. and de.
termined to become more useful, and to give
the influence he possesses upon the side o.