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love than man's-and who is, besides, in a peculiar sense, degraded and victimized by Intemperance-will neither be indifferent to the claims of the Alliance, nor tardy in offering to it her powerful support. Already have myriads of British females, with admirable propriety, addressed the Sovereign Lady of these realms, and intimated the necessity they feel of having their children and their kindred protected from the licensed temptations to wrong. The suffering is patent to every one; no Maud is required to recal tragedies of domestic cruelty hourly occurring

"When the vitriol-madness flushes up in the ruffian's head,

Till the filthy by-lane rings to the yell of the trampled wife." But there is need that woman, putting aside an over fastidiousness which is not modesty, should know the evils and dangers of her sex, and look them closely in the face, in order to supply the antidote. Can she doubt, then, that her great enemy is the Public-house-the avowed rival of the domestic hearth, as that should be made the rival of the Bar-parlor :-that bar, dangerous alike to her husband, her sons, and her servantsdangerous in its company, its amusements, its attendants, and its concomitants-dangerous, in many ways, to the virtue and purity of her sex. Moreover, the Traffic, in impairing the fine tone of the masculine mind, makes Woman and the household suffer; for by whatever entrenches on the modesty and sobriety of woman, man himself is tainted and lowered. What more demoralizing than the sight, the other day, in the streets of a Northern town, of a Woman, good looking and handsomely attired, so helplessly drunk, that fast as the passers-by lifted her up, she sank upon the pavement, murmuring, with a quaint fitness, the snatch of the old song-"Fall as the leaves fall!" But we have a still more horrible complaint against these publichouses. Many of them directly (as all indirectly) have in their female frequenters, inmates, and hangers on, rivals in another sense. In a pamphlet now lying before us, the writer, a fellow fittingly known as "Baron NICHOLSON of the Coal Hole," shamefully contends for the propriety and privilege of Licensed Victuallers entertaining Prostitutes! The extent of this evil, in connexion with the Traffic, no public statistics accurately indicate and we will here simply adduce a sample of its nature and causes, the blackest disclosures having been already made. A Leeds Surgeon, and a Factory Inspector, has favored us with the following fearful disclosures:

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"Ann C-, committed for trial on a charge of felony, told me that she went astray first in consequence of going to a beerhouse, in street, along with other mill girls, to dance-that failing to attend her work punctually, was turned off; she then commenced an infamous life. Often went with other girls to (another beerhouse. Sometimes from 40 to 60 young men and

girls met there to dance. The mistress kept the keys of the bed-rooms, and demanded one shilling every time the key was requested.

MARTHA P- was the daughter of a widow, at C Came to Bradford as a servant at the beerhouse-the conditions of service proffered her by her mistress were:-food and lodging for her work; but to find her clothes, she must go with friends; and whenever she occupied a room, she would have to pay 1s. for its use. The wretched girl, scarcely comprehending the proposition, remained, and was ruined. Up to that period, she had been a good character.

"MARY K-states that after the death of her mother, she was, one evening at New Leeds Tide, persuaded to go into a beerhouse in street. The mistress being in want of a servant, hired her on the same terms as in the preceding case. On the 11th March, 1854, she was committed on a charge of felony."

In Newcastle-upon-Tyne, June 13th, 1853, 30 out of 40 cases brought before the bench, were discharged, because they could not be punished. Of these 40, not less than 21 were cases of disorderly drunken women. On another occasion, when the gaoler expostulated against the committal of nine loose women to gaol for a month when the gaol was full, Alderman LONGRIDGE remarked-"If they would keep open so many Public-houses, they must expect it." Mrs ROBSON the experienced matron of the Penitentiary, remarks "that Prostitution greatly proceeds from the bad example of parents, arising from intemperance. The drink, and the facilities for drinking, present the greatest difficulties to female reformation."

At a meeting of the Durham County Penitentiary, Mr F. D. JOHNSON, the chairman, said—"Out of the 17 inmates, eight were between 14 and 16 years of age; and 13 under 20. Being, from their youth, quite unable to guide themselves, they were got hold of as servants by the keepers of low public-houses, and by them induced to resort to a profligate life. Out of 11 inmates who had been servants, 6 had been hired by the keepers of Beershops, quite young girls, perfectly ignorant of the peculiar nature of the houses."*

The smiles of Seraphs are less awful far
Than are the tears of this Humanity,
That sound, in dropping, through Eternity-
Heard in God's ear, beyond the farthest star.

If British Women would wipe out this stain and suffering from their sex and country, they must help the Men of Britain to close the Nurseries of it.

* Vide Newcastle as it is. That existing associations are inadequate to cope with the wide spread evil, is painfully apparent. A county penitentiary with 17 inmates!

The Woman's cause is Man's: they rise or sink
Together, dwarft or godlike, bond or free:
For she that, out of Lethè, scales with man
The shining steps of Nature, shares with man
His nights, his days, moves with him to one goal-
Stays all the fair young planet in her hands.

But while we urge the duty man owes to woman, he must not forget that which woman owes to her offspring. Let British Mothers but discharge the duty, not merely of nurture, but of social protection,—and both Man and Woman, in the immediate future, shall have room for hope, for purity, and for progress. And so those twain, upon the skirts of Time,

Sit side by side, full summ'd in all their powers,
Dispensing harvest, sowing the To BE.

In advocating prohibition, be it remembered, we are pleading for the injured wife and the helpless children of the victim: a million of such kneel and pray, Deliver him from temptation, and you ransom us from worse than death." Let us take heed to this cry of human suffering; so shall we 'sleep in blessings,' and our tomb be kept white by the grateful tears of children wept upon them.

$170. From Christian Ministers, above all men, the Alliance may justly expect cordial and constant assistance. They who are set apart to illustrate by their learning and eloquence "the beauty of holiness" and the "exceeding sinfulness of Sin"-who are called to minister in 'holy things' should, in their practice and influence, manifest the least tolerance for the Sensuality and Vice, Disorder, Blasphemy, and Uncleanness, which constitute the vital blood of the Traffic. Which of you, we ask, ever gave to the weakest disciple of your blessed Master, or to the most perfected Chistian, this advice?"Go to the Public-house." What communion hath the Church of Christ with the Temple of Bacchus ?* What bond can unite together Comus and Christianity? The places, the spirit, the works, are not commonnot even subsidiary, the lower to the higher-they are, as we have proved by the evidence and facts of this volume, essentially

*Sometimes, indeed, a strange conjunction occurs between the Temporalities of a Church and the Traffic, which first corrupts the people, and then everything else of course. Take the following evidence of the low state of the masses under the training of the Traffic:

"HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, JULY 8. 1856.-The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in moving the second reading of the Advowsons Bill, said that its object was to facilitate the sale of advowsons that were at present in the hands of many owners. The election to such presentations was attended by the most disgraceful proceedings, and the greatest scandal to the Church, and this Bill had for its object the sale of these livings, and the application of the purchase money to the benefit of the parish and the parishioners. The noble earl proceeded to read a letter which he had lately received from Bilston, which described the scenes of rioting and drunkenness that prevailed. All the public-houses were open, and drunkenness prevailed to a direful extent; in fact, the whole proceedings were most disgraceful. Some time ago an election occurred in the populous parish of Clerkenwell. He was almost afraid to repeat what then took place, so indecent and utterly blasphemous were the whole proceedings."

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antagonistic and irreconcilable. With Paul, to be filled with "wine, wherein is excess," was the antithesis of being filled with the spirit of peace and joy. The work of the Church is worship and thanksgiving; the service of the Tavern is revelry and riot, blasphemy and blows. In one, Humanity is consecrated; in the other desecrated; in both elevated,' it is true— but in how opposite senses ! What is the occasion, at once, of so much sin and suffering, dishonor and defilement, as the Traffic? In proportion, therefore, to your reverence of God should be your reprobation of it-and in the ratio of your love of Man should be your hatred to this destructive and degrading Trade! What system creates obstacles so inveterate to the influence of Divine truth, and all the kindred agencies of instruction, charity, and love? It is an agency which not only darkens earth, but casts its shadows and consequences into the dread future. In a national conflict with the 'works of darkness,' Christian pastors should, therefore, occupy no equivocal position. § 171. Prohibition, as we have seen, has special claims on both sexes, and on every honest class and party but it has supreme claims on the common heart. We are all here for a purpose; a purpose inextricably connected with the development of ourselves and the welfare of the world; a purpose whose formula of action is, Each for all, and All for each. When that purpose is concerned, or that law is in question-we must know nothing of sect, or party, or class. There is but one platform for us-the broad platform of Humanity; but one interest to consider that of our common Brotherhood. In this cause, then, we must be ready to lay down our egoisms and prejudices, recollecting that words are but symbols, while conditions are necessities. * Duty is full of sacrifices and limitations of which true moral and social laws are the expression. The development of Human Nature gives rise to three Institutions: the Family, the State, and the Church. These, as springing out of the Infantile, the Disciplinary, and the Spiritual conditions of Man, will have their corresponding institutions in the world. Thus from considering Social Life in its several steps and connected departments, we may gather some useful hints of our duty.

The FAMILY first receives us to its bosom on our entrance into life; cradled in love, and protected from premature and mistaken action, the young heart is excited to grateful emotions. But while the Mother elicits our feelings, the Father's authority and

*The contest in the United States has illustrated this. Men, for long, legis. lated against the issues of the Liquor Traffic, and failed, because they did not touch its body. "That was property," cried Conventionalism, and even some Reformers, for awhile, sanctioned the delusion. It was a prejudice which selfishness fostered, and it was utterly false. No man has, or can have, a right to property which, in exchanging it, inflicts injury upon me or mine. "Common Law," says BLACKSTONE, declares that no man has a right to use his property to the injury of another, and that the consent of the party injured, is no mitigation of the offence."

masculine discipline habituate us to obedience to order and law. In other words, the highest rational and moral power, sustained by coequal force, checks, regulates, and trains the inferior impulses and imperfect faculties of childhood. The Household, however, would fall asunder by the mere gravity of ignorance, or turn outward in violent and selfish commotions, were it not encircled by another and larger Society. Watch the well educated youth going forth into life at the yesty age of passion. How prone, but for social restraints and conventions, to follow headlong the stormy impulses of self-love, and become, either a stranded wreck, or a destructive influence! The highest sphere of all is the moral or religious, developed in the family and general society, but spreading and operating beyond by a species of spiritual Freemasonry; aggregating its scattered elements, by a divine affinity, into the Temple of the living CHURCH, for the interchange of love and faith. Into this, the profane and the violent must not enter. It is at this point we perceive the need of some mediating sphere, interposing between the Family and the Church. Accordingly the State is constituted to restrain the action of gross passion, to set outward limits to the encroachments of Egoism, and thus to allow opportunity for higher influences to exert their sway. The enforcing power is not the spirit of the law-rather must we regard it as the frame and canvass of the picture, which the Moral Suasionist, the Apostle of Truth and Faith, has to fill with the beauteous forms and glorious coloring of life. Civil government is maintained by the Judicial Tribunal, which becomes its symbol; and, as a symbol, a Teacher. The idea of Equity to our fellows-the doctrine of social equality-and all the kindred principles are derived, because engendered, in this way. If my neighbour seeks to injure me by transgressing the limits of law, the flaming sword of Justice stands across his path, and while the innocent are protected, the criminal is constrained to order and habituated to obedience, and some outward respect for the sanctity of right.

Now, we have shown by facts that the Traffic essentially antagonizes these great purposes of life and society-the final ends of the Household, the State, and the Church. Every duty we owe to each, therefore, implies an obligation to remove the hindrance and rout the enemy. The sacredness of home, the honor of woman, the innocence of youth, the dignity of manhood, invoke us to destroy that which soils, disturbs, and debases the Household. The renown of our country, its industry and order, its enlightenment, peace, and happines,-bid us banish that which degrades its people, tramples on its law, and blots its fame. Above all, Religion, 'pure and undefiled,' commands us to annihilate that which, beyond all other influences, counteracts its agencies, contemns its claims, pollutes its professors, and retards its consummation.

§ 172. Lastly, we would ask the reader mentally to sum up

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