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constant practice Of sending their child, an
interesting little girl, about six years of age,
to grocer, on 49, street, for the whiskey
or rum they are daily in the habit Of drink
ing. The child, recently, while sent on the
srrand for liquor, in small tin pail, unlor-
tunately fell down and broke her arm, and
returned home to her drunken parents in
that piiable condition, when both were in
such situation as to be unable to render
her any relief. Her arm was subsequently
set; and such is the degradation of her
parents, that suffering from its effects, she is
daily in the habit of being sent in that con-
dition to the same grocery for the intoxica-
ting liquor, and the grocer, with the palpabe
effects Of the cause Of her suffering, daily
takes the money from her for the liquor.


While, Sirs, you are endeavoring to stay
the tide of misery that flows from the in
diligence of this desolating habit, think it
your duty to press into your service all
facts that tend to show the miserable effects
of rum selling. While you would respect
the person who for paltry pelf, deluges our
citizens with misery, and baptizes our com
munity with blood, as has been the case re-
Gently, it is no less the duty of the press to
cry aloud and spare not.


| see with great pleasure that press is
established in our community that is to take
a decided stand in carrying ont the princi-
Piles of the Temperance reformaton-to
speak out in bold, but respectful terms, on
the awful effects Of rum. There has been,
too great laxity Of principle manifested to
those whose occupation is to vend the arti-
Gle Of intoxicating liquor-too much re-
spect has been paid to their station in life,
and their pecuniary means, and too little re-
gard for the welfare of those who are their
victims-numerous instances can be cited.