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The daily papers ofthis city have announced
the death of WILLIAM CLEMENTsoN. This un-
fortunate man committed suicide by taking
laudanum, on Monday last. He aoas poor
drunkard. For years past he has been the slave
of this vice. There was time when it was
otherwise. We knew him-a sprightly and
active boy--when he gave promise to parents
and friends, of future usefulness and honor.
But he became moderate drinker,-and like
hundreds and thousands of others, he passed
on from stage to stage, until he became mis-
erable sot, bringing sorrow and broken-heart-
edness to an amiable wife, poverty and tears
to destitute chldren,-grief to the bosom OF
friends, land, finally, ending his career mis-
erable suicide.


Thus poverty, and destitunon, and crime,
all follow in the train of intemperance!


Can nothing be done to awaken proper
concern in this community, upon this subject
Must the work Of arresting these evils be still
left with few men, while the great mass Of
the community satisfy themselves with merely
wishing them :" God speed?"


The cases which we place on record to-day,
are not peculiar. Every day, in some part Of
the country or other. similar outrages are oc.
curring,-similar melancholy events are trans.
piring, and all traceable 10 the one grea,
cause.-The use Of intoxicating drinks. Ii is
no time for apathy,-none for the folding oi
hands. Next to the success of the gospel
ought we TO regard the triumph Of the tempe.
rance cause.