Our cause is one of philanthropy and love.— Will you throw your sweetly restraining influence round a world sinking into the gulf of intemperance and save it? When your Saviour bowed his head and died, when Peter, the bold, self-confident Peter, forsook his Lord, when the other disciples left him alone, when the infant church wept tears of blood over its expiring Saviour, then to throw a drop of consolation into his cup of wo, you were "last at the cross and first at the tomb." And will you not now reach out your hand, and gently lead from the brink of destruction, almost a whole nation ready to plunge into the sea of intoxication, that rolls its fiery billows below them?

We know the power which you can and do exercise ever the community. Did every female in our country frown upon the ordinary use of ardent spirits in any quantity, there is scarcely a drunkard, however debased he might be, in the United States, but would become ashamed of his cups and forsake them. Female influence begins at the fireside and extends to every corner of our globe. When it is exerted in favor of a good cause, it blesses the world.But when it is enlisted in the promotion of wickedness, (and unhappily it sometimes is,) it throws a withering curse over the human race. Ladies, you know we are engaged in a good cause.

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know that we cannot succeed without you. Will you come forward and help us? Will you give us your pledge in favor of entire abstinence ?— Will you smile on our efforts? Will you frown on our opponents? Will you, heart and hand, engage in this glorious undertaking? The enterprise deserves your notice. Its object is to dry up the fountain of anguish in the broken hearted mother, to wipe the tear from the orphan's eye, to beacon the young man from the drunkard's path, to provide a way of escape for the strong man ensnared, and to snatch the drunkard himself from the brink of hell. To do all this extensively, we need your help; we need it much; without it we cannot accomplish our object.Will you, can you refuse to give us your aid in such an enterprise as this? Whenever benevolence has moved over the world, you have blessed it with your smiles. And shall we now in vain solicit your approbation? May we not expect your cordial co-operation? Some of you are already with us; some of the best too where all are good. But we want you all. We feel your worth. Come then, and as one individual, unite in this glorious work; and then intemperance in every form and degree, will, abashed and out of countenance, move with a quick but reluctant step, out of our country, and out of our world too; nor will it leave behind, as the curse of

the earth, as the death of your bliss, a single DRUNKARD.

XV. To All.

We would now call upon all of every name and of every grade in society, to unite in one irresistible band, and raise an impassable barrier against the tide of intemperance which is destroying every moral excellence with which it meets. Let every man who desires to see his neighbors and friends happy and independent, wholly abandon the making, vending, and using ardent spirits. Let all who would do a very great good with very little exertion, join a temperance society. Reader, when you do this, your influence will be exercised in favor of a good cause.When no person touches the intoxicating cup, how inconceivably rapid will be the increase of our prosperity! Then America will stand as high above other nations in morals and religion, as she now does in civil and religious liberty.Who would not promote the happiness of his country? Is there a person on earth that will not lend a helping hand in the promotion of this cause? Concerning whom shall it be written on the broad face of Heaven, in characters of living light, "He would not when he might, do good by becoming a cold-water-man."

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We call upon all who are not yet drunkards, to come forward and help us, by giving their names, their influence in favor of entire abstinence. We ask not for drunkards. We do not hope for their names, and their influence is nothing. Did we call upon them, our voice would be unheard. We might as well fling music on the tempest to still its rage, as to invite drunkards to unite in favor of any good cause. We might as well smile on the lightning to arrest its course as to attempt to call the drunkard from his cups. But let all who are not sots, unite their efforts for the purpose of destroying the monster intemperance. In view of the misery it has caused, the earth might be clothed in sackcloth and the heavens wear weeds of mourning. Let it then be driven from the face of this earth and from under these heavens.

This is a great work. But let all engage in it, and it will easily be accomplished. We invite the christian, the patriot, the farmer, the merchant, the professional man, the statesman, the mechanic, the laborer, the husband, the wife, the father, the mother, the son, the daughter, the brother, the sister, all, all to enlist in the cold-water army.

We call for volunteers.

None are too elevated

to enter the ranks. None are too low to be admitted. Here all can do good; here, therefore,

all may come. No matter to what party he belongs, no matter by what name he is called, the individual is received here with a cordial welcome. Who, then, will come and engage in this glorious temperance reformation? We ought

rather to ask, where is the man that loves himself, his neighbor, his country or his God, that will refuse? The cause is a blessed one. It will

finally triumph. Already in the United States, 5,000 habitual drunkards have been reclaimed. In rescuing these from the vortex of intemperance, what a sea of misery has been exhausted! What an ocean of tears has been dried! What thousands of broken hearts have been bound up! How many souls have been snatched from the very jaws of that death which "never, never dies!" The all-seeing eye of God, and that only, can discover the whole of the good already accomplished by the temperance reformation.May its benign influence extend. May it soon be felt and its principles be acted on in every corner of our now intemperate world. May cold water, that sovereign remedy for intemperance,soon be substituted every where for intoxicating drinks. To accomplish this grand object, let all men join temperance societies, and so far as distilled liquor is concerned, become in very deed, cold-water-men. Let none taste ardent spirits, except as a medicine,