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We extract the following from the address
of Hon. F. S. Cary, Of Ohio, delivered at the
great Mass meeting of Teetotalers held in the
Park, New York city, on Monday evening Of
last week, as reported in the N. Y. Organ:


He said, "Shall we continue to furnish an
army of 100000 drunkards, to be curse to
themselves and the race2 Humanity forbid it !!
Shall we continue longer to make thousands
of worse than widowed wives, and more than
orphaned children2 Philanthropy forbid it!
Shall the examples of the Christian Churches
continue to people hell? God and religion for
bid it! The Church should take more ele-
waited stand on the temperance question. The
Christian should cling 10 this cause with the
desperation of undyiug hope! The world has
been awfully deluded on this subject He
could remember when a good pious father
prayed every morning to be delivered from all
temptation, and Immediately after prayer in.
duced the whole family to drink littly tanzy
bitters; it was thought to be good for worms.
The cause of temperance must advance-it
must not stop. 1t cannot be stopped. Tear
from the diadsm of night the stars that twinkle
there, as well as to stop this mercifnl cause.
Aye, you might as we'll dam up the cataract
of Niagara with pitchfork. 1t is said the
higher classes look upon this temperance
movement as low--as something vulgar-as
beneath them. God forbid that he should SO
misuse language as to call the wealthy the
higher classes. He regarded every man labor
ing to promote the general happiness of man.
kind, as belonging to the highest class on earth.
He did not war with the fashions of the day.
He cared not if the ladies of fashion wore all
the cotton that is raised in Louisiana on their
backs, if the heart is in the right place. The
upper crust of society has not yet been broken
up on the temperance question. He had no
ticed in morning paper that some obscure
female had been punished for selling liquor;
but it is the fashionable places-the genteel
holels-where the dandes, all strapped down,
and the well dressed young men suck mint.
iuleps through straw, that the great mass of
drunkards are made. A dozen three cent
groggeries are not as bad as fashionable ho-
tel. It is here that the drunkards are made,
although they 60 afterwards to the small
groggeries to finish their education and gradu-
ate. They tried in Cincinnati TO suppress the
small places, and not disturb the large esta-
blishments; but they found wherever there
was pole-cats there would be pole-kittens.