Mr.. COUGH IN WASHINGTON.
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Most crowded audiences listened 10 this
distinguished Temperance lecturer last Sat
urday night, and on Sunday P. NJ. in this
city. At both he chained his hearers for
one or two hours and the large addition
to the signers Of the pledge, told, in part.
how good was the effect.


His illustrations Of the bitter sufferings
and deaths Of children by means Of drum
ken parents, were most affecting. IT'S hor-
rid that heather nations throw their chill
1 dren to the crocodiles in the East; but
drunken parents, made 50 by legalized rum
selling, in Christian land, may. CRUSH
theirs into the deepest woes Of misery and
vice, and early graves, and the fact be lit
tie noticed or cared for.


His argument against the rum seller, from
his own case, was most powerful. If such
is the fell appetite eugendered by strong
drink, that it could overpower the immense
motives urging him to remain firm to the
pledge, and cause him to fall, (as nine-tenths
Of the rum sellers believe,) what is abomi-
nable and black with most damning guilt,
If that act is not, which puts the bottle to
the mouth of the reformed man, or to any
onei


Yet this is the very work of the rum
seller. This they did to him, as they be-
lieve


Mr.. G. left this city on Monday morning
for the South, on tour in the cause OF
Temperance, and is expected to be here
again after month.