For the Columbian Fountain.
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For the Columbian Fountain.
/ Messrs. Editors, s,-Permit me TO say, as
one Of your subscribers, by way Of encour-
agement, that am more than ever pleased
with your paper; and for one, would be
ready to welcome it to my door every morn
ing, Believing that it is destined TO give
mighty impetus to the cause il advocates,
can but wish it the greatest success 1t
must succeed. All opposition will be una
vailing. You had as well try to confne the
winds to the cave Of Eolus, or prevent the
mornings dawn, as try to cause Its over
throw, so long as its friends stand together.
AS the small rivulet from the mountains
side, which lends its aid in swelling the
stream that winds its onward course to the
deep; as one ray of the rising sun joins IT.
self with another's in driving back the dark
ness that had just oyerspread the natural
world as one beam after another from the
silver-laced moon throws upon the other
wise dark and cheerless earth its benign in
auence, so may your valuable little Foun-
tain be influential in enlarging and widening
the stream Of Temperance, in driving back
the gloom that would otherwise encompass
many cheerless fireside, and in introducing
to the world day Of millenial glory. Not
in the entire range Of my imagination can ]
behold any place where the Fountain Of the
"water of life'' is more requisite than in
this District:-- lala4 @ 9b


:" Here Luxury lies in thought, supne and low,
Unmindful of the source from whence all bless


ings flow; a'istas


Here brute intoxication often reels, ts''


Regardless Of the pang another feels;
Here mirth and folly often dance along,


And Dissipation rules the giddy throng."


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Washington, Dec IL, 1S45.