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was, nevertheless, one of the most masterly, timely, and effective blows ever inflicted upon the liquor traffic. The ladies of Salem, who felt that Mr. Cheever had championed the cause of their homes and their most precious earthly interests, carpeted his room in the jail, sent him, day by day, choice dinners, and regaled him as though a royal prisoner.

The fact was chronicled by the press throughout the country, that a learned and popular clergyman in Salem was in jail for writing an ingenious and caustic article, exposing the character and influence of the liquor business. Great was the curiosity every-where to see the production which had aroused such an ebullition of rum-wrath, and "Deacon Giles' Distillery" was reproduced all over the country in the columns of the public journals. Thus its truths went every-where. The result was that so far from the press being muzzled in the interest of liquor, it was more widely opened.

On his liberation, in nowise daunted, Mr. Cheever's attention was turned to a brewery, and published a squib-" Deacon Jones' Brewery; or, the Distiller Turned Brewer." Demons were represented as dancing around the boiling caldron, and casting in the most noxious and poisonous drugs:

"Round about the caldron go,

In the poisoned entrails throw;
Drugs that in the coldest veins
Shoot incessant pains;

Herbs that, brought from hell's back door,

Do their business slow and sure."

LUCIUS M. SARGENT, ESQ.

Another temperance champion of those days, whose influence was very widely extended through the press, was Lucius M. Sargent, Esq., author of the celebrated "Temperance Tales." Inheriting wealth, receiving a collegiate and a legal education, he never practiced law, but was led by his tastes to the department of literature. He was deeply enlisted in the Temperance Reform, and employed his facile pen in a way

that carried temperance principles, in the form of attractive stories, into numerous social circles. His "John Hodges, the

Blacksmith," "Grog

gery Harbor," "Fritz Hazel," "My Mother's Gold Ring," and other delightful tales, are temperance classics. The last was translated into German as early as 1837, and published by the Hamburg Tract Society. Thousands, prior to 1840, had been converted to the practice of abstinence by the perusal of his writings. The stories were all genuine histories embellished. Not only in the composition of temperance tales, but in many other ways, did he, by pen and tongue, serve this great cause.

REV. EDWARD T. TAYLOR.

Another notable champion of the reform, for some thirty years after 1826, was Rev. Edward T. Taylor, pastor of the Mariner's Church of Boston. A man of strange idiosyncracies, of vivid imagination, and often of entrancing power over his audiences-an announcement that he would speak always drew a large congregation. His philippics against the rum traffic were terrific, and his wit was of the keenest. His sudden descents from the sublime were sometimes strangely apt and telling, as on the following occasion:

The ladies of Charlestown, Mass., had invited him to speak at a temperance gathering, almost under the very shadow of

the Bunker Hill Monument. In the midst of a powerful appeal, he said:

Your poor-houses are full, and your courts and prisons are filled with victims of this infernal rum traffic, and your houses are full of sorrow, and the hearts of your wives and mothers; and yet the system is tol

erated. Yes! and when we ask some men what is to be done about it, they tell you, you can't stop it! No, you can't stop it! and yet [darting across the platform, and pointing in the direction of the monument, he exclaimed in a voice that pierced one's ears like a trumpet] there is Bunker Hill! and you say you can't stop it-and up yonder is Lexington and Concord, where your fathers fought for the right and bled and died

and you look on those monuments, and boast of the heroism of your fathers, and then tell us we must submit to be taxed and tortured by the rum business, and we can't stop it! No! and yet, [drawing himself up to his full height, and expanding his naturally broad chest, as though the words he would utter had blocked up the usual avenues of speech, and were about to force their way out by an explosion, he exclaimed in a sort of whispered scream,] your fathers-your patriotic fathers-could make a cup of tea for his Britannic Majesty out of a whole cargo-and you can't cork up a gin-jug! Ha!

Mr. Taylor was a mariner in early life, and, for nearly a half century, was incessantly employed in labors for sailors in the port of Boston. He was emphatically the sailors' friend; and,

on account of his rare genius and beneficent labors, one of Boston's most honored ministers. Through his influence many mariners were saved from the snares of insinuating land pirates.

HON. REUBEN H. WALWORTH, LL.D., Chancellor of the State of New York, as early as 1829, took a deep interest in the Temperance Reformation, and heartily discharged his duties as President of the New York State

Society. While his home was in Albany, he did not allow himself to be absent from any meeting of the society, and gave all the weight of his knowledge, example, and position to the cause. He regarded it as vital in its influence. upon every department of human welfare. His addresses at the public temperance meetings were very eloquent, and won to the cause many of the most intelligent men of the State of New York. Without hesitancy he pronounced the traffic in ardent spirits "a traffic in the souls and bodies of men." In his third annual address, in 1831, he said: "The time will come, if the efforts of the temperance societies are continued, when reflecting men will no more think of making and vending ardent spirits, or of erecting and renting grog-shops, as a means of gain, than they would now think of poisoning a well from which a neighbor obtains water for his family; or of arming a maniac to destroy his own life, or the lives of those around him."

At the second National Convention, held at Saratoga Springs in 1836, he presided, as he had previously, in 1833, in Philadelphia, "with a dignity and urbanity, a promptness and energy, almost without a parallel, rendering himself greatly respected and beloved by a large body of clergymen and temperance men attending those conventions." He took a great interest in adopting, at that time, the pledge of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors, and in the organization of the American Temperance Union. In the latter, in 1843, he succeeded Gen. John H. Cocke, of Virginia, who had resigned as president, willing, he said, "to aid, as much as in him lay, in carrying the blessings of temperance to the palaces of princes and the splendid dwellings of the wealthy, as well as the humble habitations of the poor." This office he held twelve years. In his high judicial duties as Chancellor of the State, and in his personal and relations, he was a true Christian gentleman and a ropist.