THE POTATO ROT.
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We hear great deal about the potato rot, and
read Of heartrending aPprehensions of starva-
ton in generous old Irelaud. We feel alarmed
for our transatlantic brethren. But while we
have sympathy on this account, can we for
bear to express our fear that drunkenness eve
rywhere is performing more deadly work !?
Betterthe body die for want Of aliment, and
no disgrace entailed, than kind hearted wives
made widows, ard helpless children orphans,
BY the effects Of drunkenness. In one case the
result may be irrisistable, and in the other
wanton, ,wilful. Come, fathers. brothers, fellow


cilizens, pledge us to stay the,curIent of intem-
perance, and open wide the avenue through
which temperance may flow in all its purity.