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innm ' rr ' " AX ADDRESS Delivered before the Sons, Daughter? and ! Cadets of Temperance, at the Methodist Church in Plymouth. Marshall county, lad., March 1st, 1853, BY MRS. C. M. D. BARNETT. (Published by request.) Sons, Daaghlcrs, and Cadets of Temperance: IrJies and Gentlemen: I I have been politely invited to address t,iä meelig 0l the pjbject of temper ance a subject ol tlie ueeptsi lniere&i iu iMvrv in Ii vi 111 ll: and ffOIll II ...... i . . . . . lofduty. l have concluded to surmount i the inherent timidity ol my sex, and my üwn constitutional nervousness, ana ac cpt the invitation. My auditors will, tjat ! am llo licensee of course, understand I lecturer, sent ubroid by a particular school, to advance certain dozxias, to the consequent destruction of "all antagontetical ones. Therefore, what 1 rnuy sy on this occasion, that may sevm out of pUce. harsh or heterodox, is to be attributed to me alone, and uot charid us the sentiment of any sect, 2 class, society or organizition whatever. ' I will meet the kind invitation that has placed me before you this afternoon, will a few remarks of a strictly practical character. To my brothers and sisters in the orders, no apology, Irom my pi si 1 .j, ,v " lion, is r.etvssarv, and to the wor nut nmif I in confident is due. We s ; Diughters of TVmnerance, have taken one ; step forward in reform, and we are happy i that we are permitted to act in this great work. We do not come here as mere ! -..I.,-. II..-,,.. ..,.(! nf tliis f vllVÜl' I voicelei-s i lie ornaments of tliis festivity. otu as lPiio'A-un'Jitis the causti of ear here fully eqdippsd, taking part in the line of parade without fear of giving offence to anv. When the bule founds . . cyer f " iu our -..-.-.v, ............ . ..I ...... ... nil . ii IT 11 I II II I 1 a IC I'ICIVI- III kiuv One . 1 I to our principal topicour m jttoea as ! enarate or-aniz itions: 1 Oa this subject, I am not awa that any- ! th.,, .vor li-M-n n..h'i,!.e:L- but from I o 1 ' . , ; i justlv styled the founder of our Ordr ! Ferlin" tlerply on the subject of temper v , , . 1 . t !ii.in freat. v desirous ol u more : am.r, ..... or . ,1 . , r 11 r jfiliectne moue u, l4UU"'S , u r , usefulness, she conferred with her friends who were m?mo:rs y - Sons and br their aid. drew up the form ij . . , , . 1 I I , . f of Constitulin. Dv-laws and ceremonies f,,r the firs L Union of the Daughters of Temperance. This Union was oranied by her and known by ihe name of Franklin Union, No. 1, 1). of T., and locat-d in the city of New York. From this smill beginning has originated all the Unions in our happy land for though there are other branches than that of which she and ourselves are members, yet they all sprang from the same root Franklin Union No. 1. When the. scheme of a female order analagous to that of the Sons of Temper auce, was first offered, it had to meet with all the usual obstacles of a great ntic idea. The public mind, despite all itsenriching an l culture, is a sort of cold. clavev. stubborn soil, in which the ten der plants ol fancv, noveltv. sentiment anything but the coarse grains of old fdsh ioned usage, take root and sprout forth with difficulty. Happily however, even in this rugged field, there are some warm and genial spo ts, where the delicate exotic, combining grac and beauty with utility the flower with the fruit, the refinements of taste and imagination engrafted on the stock of practical good, is quickly adopted. In these rare conservatories, the strange illusions of the philanthropist rejected by the coldness of thti general mind are enabled to unfold themsvlrcs. And so it was with the scheme of a sister order to the Sons of tempf ranee. F.xcept by a few bold far-seeing spirits, head and shoulders taller than the mass, who saw the true destiny of woman, as a social agent, not by the miserable standard of prejadice and custom, but by a wis? estimate of her natural power, except by these I say, the plan was scouted and ridiculed without merat Iirst, but a trigid welcome some, es pecially those who were somewhat de pendent 01 their lessor halves for good cheer at home, were nervous a3 tö housekeeping, cookery and the children they feared that Union matters would take up too much time, which they owned in fee simple, and they rather mistrusted, moreover, that the kitchen and nursery allowing perhaps an occasional furlough, for a quiet tea party, composed "woman's true province,' as the phrase goes, and that we were not calculated as men are, to do good br rstem; that charters, constitulions and by-laws were male prerogatives m - decidedly, and above all, that the organ of secrettvene8tn female heads was rated by all phrenologists at a desperately

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! personal arquaintnnr-es. 1 have gathered ! a few it-ir.2 Mis L"cy Graves of New and hunger and want, the happiest houseiYork citv, who has for years been the j hold of earth. ami blasted the fairest buds ! i:- c..,:h: ..r,vv a r.r.nd Union, is of cradle infancy, that the moment it is

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LONG MAY IT WAVE. OER Plymouth, Marshall County, rrr- i -v T" low figure. I know not how many other dashes of cold water were made at the project no matter, Tiie whole thing vras brought to a focus in a twinkling by that most infallible cure for the doubis of husbands iroman's will. In spite of polite ridicule and gentle badinge, in spite of earnest friendly remonstrance, in spite of the stern expostulations of religious prejudice both stubborn and blind, and stubborn precise ly in the ratio that it was blind the scheme was realized. A specimen Union ivas actually formed. This quickly multiplied itself into others, and finally they have spread throughout the whole land We have reason to be devoutly thankful that our institution has outlived the reproach that was thrown upon it, when we first assumed the post an I badge of social reformers. A plightstepin the progress of time has brought us to a station not merely of rest not merely of stability, nor yet merely of utility but of honor also. The imputation of indelicacy which we had to encounter at the outset has recoiled upon our stigmatizers in all its bii'.erness. They have been compelled to admit that we hare thus far been kept in the narrow way betwixt uselessness of life, and forwardness of manners, and have bei?n enabled to bear with acknowledged force upon the empire of j intemperance, without impairing j (lislinc'ive qualifications which those have been bestowed noon us. iu order that we inav discharge veculiar moral duties in the human fa mil v. a 1 J It is now acceded to us, and wc think justly, that we have not el out or ilie province assi igae d us bv ! I " "1 Creative wis lorn, but h ve rather now i first occupied it. in assuming the office an I classificaiion by which we are I known. Go on then, my sisters cast off all the shackles of false opinion and custom esreml nana m imuiwii.i tnese our uruuiers, uuu me arena 01 cumuia; itaru hf possible, to employ, sometimes in pub.Inn.,.,.-.- !c c f fn if ' i. 1 in... b.i'ivi.iil.v. ,lllt-is u lu.t 1 I a r e t j ci w a 11 u C 1 r '1 f 0 I 1 lu hilf ll lint continue to give the invaluable aid which ! tI,e verr o( your organization exerts i r -. r . 1 .. .1. ii.. . - " ''f" tautB. n,,u onfrs 01 nusnana, sou, latner, orom-r permitted you lo take your due position in society as an active independent minnut vi iriuiiii. juii nut iiui uu iw iini- . :. J .. . ! t... si C wif 1 r m r t ... .11 iinl rll t e I". 1 r shall ai your energies all the preroga lives of sex, of beautr, of grace and accomplishment your smiles that gladden like the sunshine, vour Irowns that wither ,-. . .1 ' like a curse: in battlearray aiust them. Sons of Temperance our brothers: there is too much of oneness in our pur poss and in our views on this subject to permit us to adopt rules and customs for the rigor.ius separations of our different institutions. For mutual convenience and benefit this is our general principle, but at most the difference of the orders is but trilling, and merely nominal and in the widest sense we belong to the same great fraterniiy the temperance army. We have taken up arms in the conllict between right and wrong, in the. war which the appetites arc ever waging against the holier and more rxalted principles of our nature. We have raised our Banner in the cause of humanity asainst a mighty scourge, and it is for us ' 10 u'me(l aui d, bl1tlle ,na',fullv or desert the cuuse and go over to ihe en emy. There is no neutral ground. We are cither for or against temperance our influence is either on one side or the other. He who stands not on the side of the down trodden, the oppressed, the beggared the side of justice and of right, is certainly in the rauks of the great army cf wrong a wrong that is spreading desolation, orrow, suffering and death far and wide, everywhere. We have adopted mottos differing and ytt similar. Yours, Love, Purity and Fidelity; ou'i, Virtue, (which implies purity,) Love and Temperance. Whatever might have been the original idea of this meeting, is it not a fitting occasion for us lo dwell for a Qw moments upon these beautiful motros? By adopting them we pledge ourselves, do we not, to adhere to all they imply both directly and indirectly? As we pass along let us compare our lives with our profession, and inquire within ourselves if in all things our principles and practice coincide. Eich word expresses a sentiment and involves a principle, and if strictly observed would form an important lessou for each days study and consideration. Ti; first word in yours is common- to both orders, and is the embodiment of th new commandment given by our Saviour to his disciples: Love is declared to be the fulfilling of the law. It is this principle which, rising in the vource of all good, flows down to his creatures to that which was his image, and recogizes in m.m (although so dreadfully de1 ... filed and disguised by sin) 111 any and in all circumstances, a redeemable, because a redeemed being, an integral member of th- Creator' family; and in hi lowest

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Indiana, Thursday, March 10, state of degradation and wretchedness, a brother to the humanity of our Redeemer. In applying i. to ourselves, what is to be understood? Is it not that as brothers yu are required to ssek each other's good guard each other's reputation, reprove kindly where reproof is necessary, and bear Ions with each other's weaknesses

and infirmities; and as Daughters of Terri- j There are walks of usefulness which it than either of the kindred orders properance, that we cherish for each other was specially designed by Providence that ' hibiting the use of the filthy weed to-

that sisterly affection that characterizes every well instructed family; and that we exercise towards each other as kindred associations, that love or charity that thinketh no evil, is not easily provoked.

but hopethall things, enduretliall things?! 11. The peculiar provir.ee of wo:nen j Porhans in no nni .-a r ti r nl a r. dn we so!:., rfnrm,yo the. world, is to draw neonle i

ofteu forget the. obligations resting upon ! us as in this. We do uot remember that the fault of our brother or sister may be one that we ourselves are guilty of; and instead of viewing them with that spirit of love that never faileth, we at once condemn. The Scottish bard has beautifully said: "Oh, would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as ithers see us.' And thus teach us to show that mercy, that consideration and tenderness towards the erring, that we would hope for at their hands. When we fully carry out this principle of our motto, such will bt our course of conduct. We should by no means, confine the ex ?rcise of this principle to the members t j- 1 1 1 . 1. ol our associations; out we snouiu in me ! fullness of this spirit, seek the fallen, the vicious, the depraved, the degraded of whatever r ink n hatever condition. Il it never be said with truth, tint our in-1 . . .... .. . .. , stitutious confine witinn tliemselves tne benevolence that helunss to all our fel-1 low-creatures. This objection is absurd ; on its face, and were this the ti-ie and j plice to answer the legion of argument?' that are brought against us, this so pre-j posterous, would scarcely demand a pas- ' sing notice. lt proceeds from the con ce.i 1 e nun, - 1 - ! ceit that the human heart, like a pint ' ooiiie, iiouis a certain measure ui hiuuness, and no more; and if this be expen ded on a pirticuiar fraternity, the world at large goes without a taste. I think, on the contrary, that it is like the widow's cruise of oil, that failed not on its freest bestowment. But the first object of our association is the promotion of temperance; therefore we should especially seek the inebriate and endeavor to win him back to a life of virtue and purity principles involved iu oar first term and the second of vonr expressive motto. This is not an external purity of reputation msrelv, but a purity of character, of action, of thought and of intention. This j purity constitutes true virtue; therefore the terms are synonymous. Let individuals, no matter how deeply fallen they may have been; or however much defiled by the filth of intemperance, unite with either of our orders, (for alas! there are women as well as men who resort to the maddening bowl,) we have learned to look upon them as having taken the first step towards moral purification. If he continues faithful, we soon see excellencies of character that we hfd never before discovered. We had been accustomed to look upon him as a loithsome, brutal and disgusting im ige of human nature.

Brutal did I say? I beg the pardon of j laughing stock to some, a subject ol abuse the brutes for never yet has the lowest for others, and a byeword to all. order of the brute creation so far depart- No, no, it is no mark of affection for a cd from the laws of their nature, as to wife to yield hercomforts, and thehappipartake of ibis unnatural stimulous, and ness an I safety of her family to gratify ihe thus become the nemy, the destroyer of fiendish appetite of him whosh'Jtild feel

their own race. But sunk as he has been, below the brute, and closely as he may have res-embled the man described in the Scripture, who was possessed of a legion of Devils, we soon see him clothed, and in his right mind. Why this change? It is because the unclean ardent spirit has gone out of him, and he has adopted the motto of love and puiity; the purity of our fallen nature it is true, but once brought from his insanity, he is in a condition to receive the truths of the gospel, and thus become prepared for the purity of the saints in light. If duty calls us even to the lowest, foulest haunts of vice and impurity, let us go, but with us our mottos standing out iu bold relief, I would, that as in ancient times, they were even engraven upon the bells of the horses, and worn forever upon the forehead as an unmistakable intimation of the character of our mission with them. We cannot be excusable in refusing to discharge such duties, painful though they may be. All our influence should be txerted to bring the deluded, wretched victim of intemperance into this fold of love and purity: but let it be. done with fidelity. If we seek their society for our own amasement or frequent their resorts as a passtime, or from any motive but to reclaim the waudcer, or punish the offender who will not be reclaimed, we debase our-J selves instead of elevating them. Not only should we strive with true fidelity to win back our err'ng brother, but we should guard the young, and instill into their minds such principles as will ba to them a rock of defence. A? Djughteu of Temperance, this woik ea-

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Foreign and Domestic .ews, 1853. cecially derives upon us. though I would bv no msans confine this rork to th mem bers of the union. Here is a wide field so vast that to altern pt to cover it in an address like this, would be to fail. We can but glance at this part of the great work, in which we are all professedly engaged.

women should occupy. It is not so mucn uacco. lnis is as it snouiu ue. inc uuherxclusire protince to eradicate the jgusting habit of using tobacco in any form words of error and vice, as to prevent the j once acquired, is hard to overcome, and seedbeing sown. It is not so appropriate ; frequently leads young men from the so-

to her to raise the fallen asio prevent the t0 virtue. Man's especial office iu this

respect, is to drive them from evil. Aj tobaco with strict temperance pnnnpies. certain writer has remarked, that woman ; In Art. 6. Sec. 4. I fi&d that in order to must represent the gospel of reform, while i obtain or retain a standing in thi6 Assouian imoersonates the law. These ele-! ciation, the candidate must be decorous

ments, he remarks, are not antagonistical in the moral world, but lTke repulsion and attraction in the natural, they constitute not opposing principles, but cooperative qualities together producing riht action. It is true, that in tht temperance reform, we have examples where women have resonea to pnysicai mignt to accomplish what man should have done i with bis own right aran. We have read of females actually teariu? down a grogshop demolishing a distillery, whipping an incorrigible :umseller sewing up in a sack, a walking rumcask in the shape of a husband, and sobering hirr by an elfectual dose ot tne on 01 nichory. ana manr other acts of coercion. incse 8mi? outrages cannot of course be .. . .. . !.. justified, except in extreme cases, jjji if it be true, that the liquor traCic is! dealing out death, e.tercal death through j our land destroying fathers, hasbands. j brothers, sons, the dearest objects of her J soul's affectious, and men rtfuse. or what j amounts to the same thing, delay to put I away the evil trom our midst, wiu sue sot ba justified, acting as she does in j selfdefence in resorting to any instru-, mentality in her power! i Much has been wiilten, and much ! more will be written upcu the kindness 1 . 1 i due from the wife to a sottish husband. (The praise of gentle woman who tamely! ! submits tc the indignities of a bloated, loathsome relic of a man, because he was once her husband, her ioy. her pride, has been sung and applauded in every part of our enlightened country. But for my own part, I must dissent from any such filse notions of the duties of the wife, and re- j pudiate all such encomiums. Love and kindness, persuasions, entreaties, faithful and affectionate should be tried, and tried till every hope of reform in that direction fails, then if he rxZ not forsake his cups, or in other words if he cannot, (for in such instances, the spirit is willing but the flesh weak) and he perst3t in his barbarous practices, lei her resolve herself into a committee of the whole, and enforce such laws as in her own judgment, and with her own experience she shall deem most salutary and effectual. A wife better fulfills her marriage vow when she kinJly and affectionately incarcerates her husband who cannot take care of himself, than by tenderly and lovingly, suffering him to roam at large from grogshop to grog-hop, a I . . tm I it his pleasure as well as duly to provide for her and supply the wants of his household. Neither do I consider it an indi cation of uncommon good sense. Who calls it kindness to let an insane mm toy with fire-arms, or cxreriment upon his throat with edged tools? No one-breathes not that person so demented: and yet fire-arms, bowie knives, dirks and razors, are harmless in the hands of the lunatic, compared with the middening, soul destroying bowl in the hand of the inebriate. But I have wandered somewhat from our proposed subject, for which I make no apology. I am so heartily sick of the croaking of many persons as to the duties of wives to drunken, worthless, abusive husbands, that I am loath to let an apportunity pass of promulgating what I deem more wholesome doctrine, lo return then to our mottos. Temperance bappy would it be for the world, if this were the motto of every man, woman and child. Would to Heaven it were and happy would it b for hundreds, if all who once adopted it had adhered to it with fidelity. But alas! alas! how many have fallen, who were once enrolled under the banner of total abstinence, and did run well for a season. There are those who hve come up out of the gutter, signed the pledge and become and continued men temperance men. But if the whole number of thoroughly reformed drunkards were told, I am disposed to think, that many would be startled by the smallness of the sum, I am confident the case is a very rare one, where a confirmed sot, becomes a confirmed, etntistcnt, temperance man. It ia therefore with arryhigh degree

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Whole Number 54 of pleasure that I look upon this youthful band of co-Iabarcrs in this noble cause. the cause of God and all mankind. In ' point of meri t. 1 think both Sons end t Daughters must 3 ild the palm te the Cadets in a few particulars which I will j briefly notice. Their pledge is more comprehensive ciety of the refined and delicate, to mil.gle with those who are coarse m their manners, and dissolute in their morals: I hardly know how to reconcile the use of iu his manners, chast-. in his conversation, and free from the crime of gambling, a sin that is ruining its thousands in our land; intemperance almost invariably follows in its wake, and thus the poor victim is doubly wretched, doubly guilty. How beautiful, how lovely the sight to behold the young trained up in the way tV.sy should go. It has been happily Sjid, that the minds cf the youth ars like wax to receive, but like iron to retain impressions. How nei-ssary then that they should be rightly instructed, educated" ot only mentally, but morally, religiously. Anl here the fi?ld of labor which I before glanced at again opens up before me. To whom is this moral and religious training almost exclusively f ntrusted? The answer hangs on every li; lo wonan. 5ne oenus tne iwi", and as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined, Oh woman, great is thy responsibility, Then while he power is yours, to make these youth what you would wish to see ihnn when they are men, c.tert it be n With the first dawning of inquiry to direct thf-ir minds to the pur? end holy J leach them by r ecopt and example to shun the company of those who would lead them from the pnth of rectitude, bring them into this section of Cadets, and tinJ der every influence that win sump upon their tender minds an abhorrence of vice of every form, especially that of mtemperanee. Who will be our Legislators, our Congressmen and Senators, our Judges, Justices and Jurors, thirty, forty, or fif ty years hence? The answer is ready: the children of t!i present day the infant now hushed on it's mother's breast, "pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw." The whining fchoo'lo tnul;. ing unwillingly to school, scarcely realizing that thejuni verse contains a bein wiser or more powerful than Iiis mother, I say then while you have such almost unbounded influence, use it. an 1 u?e it effectually, that when these children, these lads, these Cadets come to be rulers, they may rule wisely live temperately, tlie happy, and in the day for which all other davs were made they may rise upsnd ! call vou blessed. What tongue can tell the misery and suffering, the ignorance and degradation that intemperance is pouring out upon families upon c ommunities, upon nations. Well were it for us if we fully appreciated that this is a matter in which we arc every one interested, and with which our happiness is somewhere interwoven, and that effects us either in our own houses, or through our friends, or our neighbors; and the public weal the prosperity of oc.' own happy country, with her villages and cities, her schools and colleges her enterprize and commerce, is no small item to be taken into ihe account. If there is any form of government devised by man, that above all others demands that all its citizens should be educated and enlightened, that government is our own. Our whole suecess and happiness as a nation, and the perpetuity of our institutions depend upon the state of geueral knowledge and the moral character of the whole people. Monarchies and aristocracies are grounded iu ignorance and superstition, but cur beloved Republic derives it's vitality from the intelligence and the integrity of the many. Let us then, actuated by lore to our fellow man, with purity of purpose, discharge wih fidelity those duties we owe uot only to ourselves, and to Him from whom we derive our existenc. but to society and to our country, and miy our efforts to advance the cause of "Truth, Virtue and Temperance," soon uher in thatday when it shall 110 longer be said that "Man's inhumanity toman, Mikes countless thousands mourn." OCT" If sPrinS Puts forth no blossoms, in summer there will be ho beauty, and in autumn no fruit. So if youth be tri--fled away without improvement, riper years will be contemptible, and old age miserable. CQ" There is a voice of warning in the following, to which the young especially, should give earnest heed: 'But one false step, one loose principle may wreck all your prospects, and all the hops of thos who love you,'