The Ohio Organ, of the Temperance Reform, 1853-03-18

volume i ; : : : : r ; The Qrog-Seller'i Dreanu ; ' " ; ' " 8t 8W). BDLMQa. ' ' ' Th n.nlUi t by hit bu-rwa Hw -, .t With hit fcrt M high h hit Iraad nd higher J ' Watohiof th .(nok u h ourlcd it on . . 1 r! That la spiral oolumni onrltd about, Vailing hit fcoa with it flaaoy flood,' ' ' ' ' Aalaxiljropfromhialipa It rolled) , I Whila a dolafal scant and a diimal gloom ' Waif (iowljr gathering to fill the room, t ' To their dronken lnmber one br one, Fooliah and fhddlad hit friandt had tone To wake in the morn to tha dronkard'i name, With a bUmdihot ere and a whirling brain, ; Drawiiljr rang tha watchman1! ery, .n , 1 i 'Pait two o'olook and a oloudjr tkr." i Yet the kert ut watshfbl still, and hook 1 ' ' 1 Bit head and winked with a knowing look. v And ha winked agala with a knowing look Aifrom hit cigar tha aihea abook t , . ,. .,, , He 1 be I the ranken are In my net, ' 1 bae them tafa and 1'U Sees them yet ; ' There's Brown, what a jolly dog U he t . He twelli the way 1 like to tee ' Let him go on at thit aame rate, And bii taint it mine as una at fata, . ' ., . , Ha! hot tald ha, with a ohaekllng Una, ' I know tha way tha tnlng It dona Twiea five are tan, and another V. 1 "' Two onaa, two two', and a ranged three, , ' ' v Make twenty-four for my well tilled fob He I ha I it it rather a good aight'a job .' Tha fbola hare gill I led my brandy aad wine, Muoh good may it do them the oath it mine. i. u-r.-n --mu-: 'i . " I hare a noitgagt now on Tompkla'i lot, ! , . ; What a fool be waa lot booominf t tot i ' ' But tit kicky br ma, for in a month or to, 1 shall foreclose, and tha to amp matt go, : . j Zonndt 1 wont hit wife have a takinc on ' When the heart thalhar hoota and lot are gonel v '-How she will blander, and tob and lizh, Jjju4btiiast hminati, b4 whataaroil .. And Cilnon haa merdered hie child, tbay lay, Ha wat drank at a foul but yaaterday I ' And I gave him s hint, and want to All ' .-..(,., Hit jog, but the brut wonld have hit will I ... And Uit folk blame ma, ok blest their giitar4a, ' If 1 dldnt tell be would go to Imrdtl ,. I have a right to engage in a lawful trade, ' t ' 1 And take my ohaaoa where eatb't to be mad. 7 , . If men get drank to go bom to turn Their wives oat of doora, 'tit their own oocon -' But I hat to hay woman mm to m , ,.,t With their loodie dnm and their toodl dee, With their awooinyt and haggwdlookt, i . And tpeeehet learned from temperance books With their pale, lean children, the Wimpering liiok. . ! . '' ''. 5 : . I Why oan't ther go to the public sohooli 1 .. ) iVi. :! Mil ! ' l" ' ' ''I' 7 Lt the hoillo mind their own affair, ' : ; , For never have I interlerred with their' I will nvrtorn aenstomor away, ' 11 Who it willing to buy, and able to pay ( For business it satinets, he I he I he I b 1 And he rubbed his bands la his chuckling (1 ; Many a lark l'v oanght in my net, , , . I hav thm ufe, and I'll fleece thm yt. , a :,. .ii :v ': i:;i-: m : ' ' '' : H, h, I twa an ohoJ wand, - ... ; ,. i.nil the ro seller looked around! This tid and that, through the imoke peered ho, Bat nought tav th obairt could tbt grog-teller m. Ha, he, ho ho I with a gutteral not It teamed to com flora an iron throat, ; ; i ' ' And bit knees they shook while his hair 'gan to xis And bo opened his mouth and strained his eye, v And lot In a corner dirk and dim, V .'' Blood an anoouth form, with an aspect grim ' From bit gritxly head, through bis snaky hair, , ; , Spronted of hard, roagh horns a pair i . , . And rdly kit thaggy browa below, Like tnluhnront smoke did hit small eyes glow , And bit lip curled with a sinister imil . And imoa belched foitU rom.hit mouth the wkil. Inhinndhborlfahandlt'wa Whose finger were shaped Ilk avalture'a claws,) A thr tind fork, and its prongs to dull, ,: Through th sockeu were thrust a grinning tkull. Like a tpeotr ho waved it to aad fro, At he softly chuckled he bt, ho, bo, . And all th while wr hit eyes that bomed . ' L)k aulpburom smoke on the grogtellei turned. . , i.A AiAik haiiaatil (hat look t " '" How kia jaw fell down and be shivered and shook, And quiveraa and qaaxon in ovary urno , , . At if an age fit had bold of bim I And bis eves to the monster grim were glued, , ; And hiion(ru waaat etifTatabilletoFwoodi , Aad th head laughed ont ho, bo, he he, , AndwhikdhiataiHahiaqniet(l. nUl j Why . what do yo fear, my bund," hi laid, ' And nodded bis horns of bis grixily head "You're aa ally of mlBe, and 1 love yoa welU In a very warm country that man eaU h (. , I hold my eoart, and am glad to lay ' ',,,,.! l'v not a mora failhml servant In nay ' 11 " ' Than yea, dearth-, for a work of evil, , ' Mayhap you don't know m i I'm called th d n' ,ii j id "J il"l;.. .'I ,'fVllijo Mi lji' LikagalvaaldofB,opaiaa4waj,:i) - ',

" Cincinnati, fribay, Up started iattantly that horror struck mant . And he turned op th white of hit goggle-evei With .loot of hall terror and half larprite; : -And hit tongue wat looted, bat hit wordt were fw. Th dvil yon donV-ye, fklth I do," interrupted oh) Nick. "iJ K.r.'. ik mrt ' I Just twig my tail, my hand and my hoof." "Haying eorm from a warmer oountry below, I :.. To chat with a friend for an boar or so, . And the night being somewhat chill, I hoM think' ' Yon might ask an old crony to Uke a drink. , , V, S. How let it be warm, the clear pare stuff, , Sweetened with brimstone-- quart ii enough f " Stir np th mate in na Iron eup, . . . . And heat by th flr till it bubble! dp." ' ' ' mr " '!' ..' '. ."i , ' ,' . A.- AtbdwiIbad,grogi.ll.rdld, . ', , Filling a Sagos with gin to th lid ; And when it boiled and bubbled o', H i ; 4! Th fiery draught to his guest he bore. , Nick in a Jifr to liquor did quaff ' " ' ' And thanked hi host with a gntUrat langk 1 1 But few and faint were the smile I ween That on th grogaeller'a face were teen. Fora mortal Irearwat on him then ' ' -. ',' AndbodeemedtbewaytoriWingmen '' '' ' He wonid tread ao mora that hit hour bad com, , ; And hi matler, loo, tec til him home. Hit thought! want back to th darkened peat, '' ' An I ihrleka were heard en the wintry blaat i Aad gliding before him pale and dim,. . , ," Werejibbenng needs and spectres grim. , . i- r ;u r. .-,,; . ,i , ,.-; '..1-.-. .' "Ho, hoi" said Nick, "'tis a weloomeookl , . Yoa giva to a friend eotru aad old, . ' ' Who a been for years in your employ . tanning about liKe an errand boy ' Bat well not mil oat, tor I plainly see ' . . ., You're rather afraid Us strange, of me, '"' Uoyonthinklhaveeome foryouf never ftar,; , , You can't be tpared for a long time here." " . i , , j;.. - ,-, ; I r. !.r i 'Thar an heartt to braak and tonlt to win, Froroth way of peace to th paths ef tin There are hornet to be rendered deiolate, . There it UbMtmg love to be turned to hate t :' '' 1 here are hundrerfer what aianler meet crlmtea rd mere are oes to be crushed, there i blight to be ipread ,t j v . ' !. , . Over the voueg, the pure and fair, ' ." t Till thttr lives are crushed with th fiend detpalr. 'l . !"' '. , IVllf.'ii ' ' Thltitthe woik yoahtre donato well, .' ," Cursing the earth and peopling hell; ' Ouenching tha light of th inner tbrine Of the human soul till you make it mine , ,,,'. Want aad narrow, disease and shame. ' ' ' ' Anderimea that even I shudder to name, .;!:', Dance and howl in their hellish giee, Around tha spl rim you have marked for me. ; "Oh, telling of grog it a good device, , , To make hell of faradiiei ' ' "' Wherever may roll the gory Hood, ' r,';; 'TIs swoolen with tears and stained with blood ; And the vole that was heard before In prayer ' ,..mi .. r. j ";'i ) " t1 ; . ;:'ilj iiu itt muttercQ ourtet ttirt tno air , -v' While the hand that shielded the wife from 111. . la its drunken wrath is raited to kill. . - I , 'I . -r - ':-. : "Hold on your court, yoa are filling up With the win of the wrath of tiod, your cap ' 1 And the fiends emit in their hornet below, At yon deepen the pangt of human woe. Long will tt be, tf 1 have my way, ' Kre the night of death ihallcloae your day, , , rer to pamper your roit ror the glittering pelf, you rival in mischief U devil himself.1 !' No more said the fiend, for dear and high ' Kong out on the air w watchman' ery j With acboakingtob anda bill-formed acream. . The grogieller woke, It wat all a dream. ' Hiigritjly gneat with hi hornt had flown, The lamp wat out and the Are had gone : Aad tad and silent hit bed he taught, And long on tne wonderlul vision thought. . . , Iiiaes bna Keg of Brandy. , ; "Within these prirwa walls repose) , ; The chattering tongue, the horrid oath;' ' The fis. for fighting nothlog loth ' The passion quick no words can tame, . That bursts like sulphur into flame ; ' The nose with rubies glowing red, . . ' The bloated eye, the broken head I ; Forever fastened be this dot I T'' Confined .within, a thousand mora ' DeHtructive fiends of human shape, Even now. are plotting an escape. , , Here, only by a cork restrained, 'y : , , In slender walls of wood contained , "' In all their dirt of death reside ; i- , m Revenge that ne'er was satisfied ; ... , The tree that bears the deadly fruit ' Of murder, maiming and dispute ; ' : i Assault that innocence asaads, .f nui Tt. i Lnm nlnnm. Soil , ; . . ... ' The giddy thought ou mischief bent, . 1 ne mianignt nour id iouy spent ; All these within this cask appear, ,' . And Jack, the hangman in the rear, : l;u. General Santa Anna tUriTedi tt. Yen Cruz on the 1st . .vtuDK.il ii o!

Address to the People of .Virginia. We have received from our esteemed friepd, LuoiAir'. Minor, Esq.,' of Vir ginia, a pamphlet copy of an , address to his countrymen, entitled, f 'Reasons for abolishing the liquor traffic." '. ! We hare read it with great interest and profit, and shall, as we cannot publish it entire, gire some extracts., , Our readers want facts and argu merits, and the Organ is the principal medium through which they are ,to obtain them ; hence, they will not complain of us, if we give them a con considerable - siderable considerable of a good thing. In regard to the magnitude of the evil, as con contrasted - trasted contrasted with others which have agi tated the world, Bro.' Minor says : ;, Now dance at the records of The Past ; and see a few of the instances in which ills immeasurably smaller than those you enduie from the Liquor Liquor-Traffic, - Traffic, Liquor-Traffic, have caused rulers to be de detested, - tested, detested, put to death or banished, or have convulsed nations with civil war. ' 1 s History has branded the'Bloody Mary." of -England, with everlasting infamy, for her butcheries of thostj who could not agree with her in religious belief. Yet the martyrs whom she butchered, in her reign of four years, were but 280. Not one-fifth so many as die in Virginia every year, by the Liquor-Traffic ! . And each one of these deaths, it is safe to say, was pre ceded and attended by more than ten times the misery that Queen Mary's exulting martyrs and their friends en endured. - dured. endured. ;. ! : n . i ' - 2. A century afterwards, King Charles the First was warred against, dethroned, and beheaded by his peo ple, for 'oppressions which produced but a single unlawful death, before the sword was openly drawn in civiT war ; and which involved pecuniary exactions to the amount, probably, of not half a million of dollars : not a tenth of the tax which the makers and vender of strong drink levy upon you every year I ' '-- ' 3. The English Revolution of 1688, was occasioned by tyrannical acts of Charles' son, James the Second, which tended, ' indeed, ! towards despotism, and involved many judicial murders, as well as intolerable fetters upon reli religious - gious religious freedom. But the murders ex exceeded. - ceeded. exceeded. not four or five hundred ; and the restraints- upon .Religion had not practically carried wretchedness into any great number of English families 4. i Out owm Revolution had for its cause not one drop of blood spilled, nor any large amount of moneyed exac exactions.'. - tions.'. exactions.'. Till, the fight at Lexington, which began the war, not one Ameri American - can American had perished illegally by the hands of George the Third, or his myrmi myrmidons., - dons., myrmidons., And, the unconstitutional tax taxation - ation taxation which, his Parliament practised, or attempted, was in itself very trivial: meriting, and meeting resistance only because of the principle it involved; the Ami that was the aeata of Sir Joha Elliott, a leader af th Oppoasttoa la rrlimat, wtw at4 wUiaIawfally lntprlodlaOi.Tow? i ... .'

certain, or nearly so, that another such .; catastrophe with all its deaths and hor-i rors, would ensue in, every following-; year I , Would , not , the Legislature have been forced, by a resistless Pub; lie Opinion, to forbid the re-erection ? Yes: and under penalties that would-1 have made the prohibition mos effec- tual ! , Why, without any antic pationi of another such fire, and without any '.f legal prohibition, the mere awe which,' i that tragedy imprinted on the j public; mind prevented the appearan e of a new Theatre in Richmond for nearly nine years I , , Now, you cannot doubts that among the twenty-time eev niy an-:l nual Virginian victims to the jiquor-i ' Traffic, there are more thun eventy i as much to be mourned for as hevio- , tims of that , burning .Tbeatr- werek Kemember how commonly th( demon" of Strong-Drink makes the :b st men t his prey : then consider . how : lany of , those annual victims have ben the! loved and honored centres; of circles,;) humble or exalted, where true ind Jot- 1 ing hearts, rested, upon them hrough, long years, even after subje :tion to. their enemy had begun ; and, as that , subjection grwjfrbm, month 1 1 months , more hbsolute, while the mak was be ' coming a brute, how much." m sery he inflieted upbii 'those loving hfearts'Tn, his mad hours, and 'upon hithself in ' the! dreadful collapses of his hilf-$ober ' Intervals j-ftjid consider: thk those t BaMW'-Clritta ftMareks'la Kodottaa:

no. -whole no. 61, precedent it would haye set, of taxing us without right. But because it did. involve that germ of tyranny,' bur an?, cestors. rose and shook off the jBritiuh, yoke by a war of seven years. It is worth remembering here, thaj, In each year of that war, there perished by, the sword, by prison-ships, ' and by camp-fevers, all combined, le?s than half so many of p'ur countrymen' a nowjperish every year by the JUquor- 5. Humanity has long been shocked bv the human sacrifices of , India; where, on the festive days of their deity, while his hideous and gigantic image moves along in a towering car, drawn iy multitudes ot men, nis de deluded - luded deluded votaries prostrates .themselves before its wheel, to be crushed by them : deeming that an acceptable of-. tenng to the god. The Hindoos have recently diminished much, if not abol abolished, - ished, abolished, the barbarity." But when it was

at its worst, an intelligent explorert, mentions less than one hundred and. fifty lives as annually immolated to Juggernaut. Not one tenth of the (often more precious) lives yearly sac-., rifiCed in Virginia to our Moloch who , here well maintains his ancient cha cha-, - , cha-, raer of T , .,..y-;v-y.( r.v. horrid kin?, besmeared with blood V '" Ol linmu taorlfice, and pareau' tea; !" ' ' Many of you remember the shudder that thrilled, through our State when, by the burning of the Richmond Thea-! tre, in 1811,' seventy! Virginians Jper-' ished. Among them were the brave, the accomplished, the fair, and the lovely.; A cry of mourning echoed along our streets, and woods, and hills.; Suppose it had been then proposed to: re-build the Theatre ; and it had been