For the Columbian Fountain.
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MEssRs. EDIToRs: Perhaps you will
allow stranger to you, but not TO your
cause, to drop thought or two, occasion
ally, into your Fountain, to mingle with the
great stream OF truth, which is destined to
wash away every refuge of lies which the
advorates of rum can builJ.


Baing much through the country, and
always inquring for the prosperity Of the
Temperance reform, ! propose, if it meet
your appreciation, to give you the result ci
whatever observations such opportunities
may enable me to make All ask in re-
turn is that the friends of the cause will
duly consider the facts presented and ACT in
accordance. My example may induce others
to volunteer as occasional correspondents,
and aid in giving to the public an accurate
idea of the condition Of the cause.


S, far as my Investigations have yet been
carried, have found throughout the coun-
tIy, in every quarter, universal apathy pre-
yailng; and nothing can be more evident
than that some step is necessary to revive
and resusciiate the efforts Of its friends. Is it
not also apparent, that while the sentinels
slumbcr at their posts, the enemy is strength
ening himself in his entreachments'


/ Yours, respectfully, HOWARD.
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