time, nor the merifice of ded to them. We are earne

What is the enterprise? It i
been driven to it by facts w
dreadful malignity, submitti
y and crime. To prove this l
perate use of ardent spirits (u

of them is the severest sc
moderate use of them. A
ent spirit makes paupers; an
happiness: ardent spirit ens
r criminal courts, jails, and a
re: ardent spirit unfits thous
m of the next. All these char
our eduntry and in Europe,
half their practice would ce
e-fourths of our criminals, is
docking cases of murder have
lewise. Those guilty of burgla
their moral sensibilities and e
That every man loses his cha
the father, the mother; that it w
mes; for duty to man, and w
we lave ever seen its operation
weis, is now the pout which

ensisting of gentlemen chose
the intemperance of that sectio
places where ardent spirits we
rmers $56,875. In this wa
every nine families. The en
domestic spirits, when sold by
remaining wards consume in
ous sum of $284,355. In car
cay; but when it is consid
ld each one sell only $ per
e into consideration the
diminishedby it;
y private charity;
emperance;

thesond dellars; a tax whic
table monster. Now suppose
xon the very individuals who
meet the tax; and would at
eng the laboring classes who
his the cost, and such the quant
How many families a