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the minds and hearts Of all true lovers OF
our union. GA private interest must be
sacrificed to public good,'' is always first
in the affections of true American.


Do you deal in the article? You are a
a merchant--you sell ardent spirits-you
make money by the trafic--you find 1t
profitable. Many good men, good patriots,
have done so before you. But, consider,
that was done in the days Of darkness; but
now the true light shineth--the temperance
light, the light Of truth. So, under the dark
dispensation, God winked at their follies !;
but NOW he commander all men, every
where, to repent. ] heard merchant say,
only few days since, that he formerly sold
Intoxicating drinks, but did not then con-
slider the evil Of the practice. 81 would
not sell it now to save my life.'' Times
and circumstances and manners change.


We are fully persuaded that every true
lover Of his country will become friend to
the Temperance cause, if he will only be-
come thoughtful and seriously consider the
great evil Of Intemperance, and the absolute
impossibility Of mans patriotism and rum
ism living together. He must give up one
or the other, they are incompatibles. Can a
man be "a "real lover Of his country and
consent to make money by trafiicing in an
article that fills our risons and penitentiaries
with criminals, olr alms-houses with pau
pers, our hospitals with maniacs, that multi
plies widows and sorphans, that brings pre-
mature disease and death, and costs the ma
ton more than sum sufficient to pay the
expenses Of earring on the great and efficient
operations Of this mighty Government !?
When will our countrymen wake up out of
their sleep1


Thank God many are nowawake and alive
to the interests Of our free and independent
nation. We are grieved that soem are so
slow to rise up in their might against the
dark and damning demon, that has SO long
waved his black flag in triumph over the
wasted peace and happiness Of many of our
fair countrymeu. Truth will-mus prevail.


LEWIS.