O, spare the moderate drinker! His case is not yet hopeless. It is true, he is on the way to drunkenness. The gulf of dissipation is before him. He is rapidly approaching it. His present course leads to the drunkard's grave. Into this he will soon enter unless he turns. Do not then, we entreat you, entice him forward in that road which leads directly to intemperance. Do not give another drop, no not for worlds, to the temperate drinker. We plead for him. In the name of mercy, O, spare him! Lead him not into the quicksands of dissipation from which so few were ever delivered. If you must have a victim, take a drunkard, one who is almost, if not altogether lost. But do not lead to destruction, one who, if your spell be not thrown over him, may yet be saved.

II. Of Drunkards.

1. The man who knows he is a drunkard, who intends to continue his intemperate habits, but who wishes something to justify or at least, to excuse his vile practice, declares, "I may as well get drunk on rum as on fermented liquors.”. The insinuation contained in this declaration is, that cold-water-men become intoxicated on wine, beer, cider, &c. Every one acquainted with temperance men, knows that this insinuation is generally, if not universally, false. But if this

were the fact, we all know that it would not palliate in the least, the drunkard's crime of intoxication. One man becoming a drunkard does not justify another's intemperance, any more than one man becoming a thief justifies another in stealing. But is it true that to get drunk on distilled liquor is no worse than to get drunk on that which is fermented? In ardent spirit there is no redeeming quality. It has in it nothing nourishing or refreshing to strengthen or revive its victim; nor even tartness to neutralize its alcohol in the least. The system therefore of him who gets drunk on alcohol, is deranged and racked and thrown into a diseased state, while it receives nothing to neutralize the poison; nor is it at all nourished or refreshed by the article. He who becomes intoxicated on fermented liquor, uses immoderately, that which has in it both nourishment and refreshment, and whose acidity neutralizes, in a measure, the destructive power of the liquor. The system is strengthened and refreshed in a degree, by that which produces the intoxication. Hence, to become inebriated on ardent spirits is more injurious to the body than it would be to become equally so on fermented liquors. The example of him who gets drunk on this nefarious poison, is the more dangerous and therefore the more injurious. As to the appetite for alcohol or the disease of drunkenness,

distilled liquor and that only, will usually produce it. It is therefore evident that, though to become intoxicated on any article, is an exceeding aggravated moral evil, yet to become intoxicated on ardent spirits, injures the drunkard and the community much more than to become intoxicated on fermented liquors, and is therefore much the greater evil.

2. But the drunkard when he becomes mellow, or "hot" as he would say, presents himself with another objection against the movements of these cold-water-men. He, while his neck almost refuses to sustain the weight of his head, and his legs that of his body, advances.Staggering and reeling, he extends one leg to the right as a brace for his body, and before he has it fairly planted on the ground and has steadied himself, he sags to the left where the other in its turn reluctantly performs the same office. When, by often repeating these movements, he finds himself as he supposes, within hearing, he with a rum-created hiccough, stammers out; "Here- -me." These hiccough-cold -water-men-are---not- -temperate. -Temperate- men- -take-a- little -like me." We would not have noticed the drunkard's speech, had not some men who have not yet become complete sots, occasionally quoted it as an excuse for drinking a little, and in

order to throw a veil over the minds of the unwary. And we only mention it now to show to what miserable shifts those men are driven, who oppose the temperance cause. Who ever saw the man drunk, tipsy, fuddled, or mellow, that did not taste intoxicating liquors ? Such a one cannot be intemperate in the use of ardent spirits. But will the drunkard tell us how much, in his estimation, a man must drink in order to become temperate? To do this would make him stagger as effectually as if he had drank a quart of the "good creature." Into what despicable absurdities those men will run, who are determined, right or wrong, that the fatal monster intemperance, shall live! We would say to every man of sense; forsake that cause which will hang a hope of self-defence on such a hook as this. If it stands at all, it stands on a foundation of which men of sense ought to be ashamed. Flee from it then, and take a fearless stand on the side of entire abstinence.

III. Of Moderate Drinkers.

1. One who loves a little, with a soothing smile and graceful bow, presents himself and his bottle, with-"A little, my dear sir, will do you no harm." No harm! no harm! a little will do you no harm! Why, that is a singular recom. mendation. Men of sense take what will do

them some good. If I will be none the better for taking it, then the time spent in using it will be wasted, and the trouble of drinking will be labor in vain. The liquor, too, will be wasted, and its disagreeable taste will be endured for nothing. No harm! no harm! But is it, in fact, such an innocent article that a little will do no harm? A little of it makes some persons drunk, and does that little do no harm? A little drank by a healthy person whose system is not already deranged with its influence, may be felt passing like electricity, through the various parts of the body, or flying at once to the brain, there to turn reason into an idiot, and thence to throw a palsied weakness over the whole man, to unnerve his strength, and to render him incapable of powerful, persevering action. And does that little do a person in health, no harm? A little predisposes to, and causes a multitude of diseases of the most incurable type. And does this little do no harm? Every drop which a persons suffers to pass his lips, unless it be useful as a medicine, is injurious. The declaration then, that a little will do us no harm, is, unfortunately for those who love a little, not true. For a little, even a single drop will do harm to a person in health. A little taken occasionally, forms in time, the drunkard's appetite. And who will say there is no harm in this? Let no one then ever again