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are used, there follow in train, most of the evils Avhich 

 pollute and afflict society : pauperism, mental debase- 

 ment, moral degradation, a total prostration of every 

 domestic virtue and comfort ; crime, premature death — 

 and the loss of the soul ! And when the sea shall give 

 up her dead, and disclose the losses, sufferings and hor- 

 rors, on this element, occasioned by ardent spirits; a 

 still more apalling account shall be rendered. 



The expense, too, is overwhelming. It was compu- 

 ted, fine years ago, before the temperance reform be- 

 gan; that ardent spirits, with attendant losses and sac- 

 rifices, cost the United States, annually^ one hundred mil- 

 lions ; and thirty thousand lives ; besides a larger num- 

 ber, by their use, predisposed to disease. 



But there is a redeeming spirit. More than three 

 thousand societies, on the plan of entire abstinence, are 

 in operation, in the United States. Of this number, 

 nineteen are State Societies. These number three hun- 

 dred thousand members ; and are exerting a salutary in- 

 fluence over a vastly greater number. Similar associa- 

 tions are formed in the other quarters of the globe. 

 The desolation begins to be stayed ; and where stayed 

 is every where followed, by the spirit of God. 



2. In promoting the interests of society, the husband- 

 man ought to regard the expenditures of government. 



In the language of our Bill of Rights, " government is 

 instituted for the common good ; and not for the profit, 

 honour, or private interests, of any man, family, or class 

 of men." The emoluments of office ought, therefore, 

 to be ample ; yet, in proportion to services rendered. If 

 too great, extravagance is the consequence ; the public 

 mind, also, becomes the more disturbed and agitated in 

 the greater struggles for office. 



