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broad day, no need Of subscribing to VI;
whole streets may witness the infirmity Of
which you are SO conscious, that you fear
to be suspected, should you put your name
TO the Tempennce pledge. Vain suspicion
Your sin has found you out. The mark OF
the beast is upon your brow-your blushing
nose attests it; don't subscribe to your in
trinity John.9 The,documenta which bears
evidence~of its truth upon its face, it is un-
necessary to subscribe. But deny, that in
signing pledge Of total abstinence, you ac-
knowledge any infrmity, or surrender any
liberty; on the contrary, by so doing, you
proclaim to the world, that you can with
stand the ,tempter, that you are moi infirm Of
purpose; you prove that you haze resolu-
ton, that your appetite is under your con-
troll, and that your qoillto do SO, is all that
|is necessary to accomplish the end. II by
no means follows, that because a man puts
his name to the pledge he has been drunk
ard. IT Thousands have subscribed the pledge
who never drank ardent spirits in any shape.
They did not conceive they were conslgn-
ing themselves to infamy, although their
names were registered among a host Of
drnnkards, whose signatures proclaimed their
future freedom, and exonerated them from
the disgrace Of the past. The total, absti-
ncnce pledge is declaration Of moral inde-
spcndence- whose signatures are append
ed thereto arc upon equal terms All who
wish 70 share the advantages Of this declara-
ton Of rights; are, in duty bound to support,
by their influence and example, the truth, Of
the principles which govern them, and to
assist in making this truth manifest to all
mankind, that all may have an opportunity
Of participating therein, to the end, that the
principle may become universal. The drunk
ard who has resolution to abstain from drink,
will hasten to enrol his name upon this in





strument; the moderate drinker will follow
his example; for though he never intends to
become a drunkard, yet drinking moderately
is not the way to insure his never becoming
SO = he has just heard the drunkard's con-
fession; he was once moderate drinker, and
had no more idea Of sinking into drunkard
than the formef-yet he did become


cradle drunkard; ;-and he who has never
been contaminated by the taste Of alcohol,
will join the cold water army, to the end
that he may remain pure and undefled
The miserable, wretched outcast, the drunk
ard who has NOT the moral courage to abb
stain, does well to refrain from signing away
his lberty--for he would indeed, acknowl-
edge his infrmity, and make public confes-
sion of his infamy. Poor man! he is dig
ging his own grave---soon he will fill this
companions in misery will follow him; and
then, hurrah for universal freedom