engrossed. What we want of the voice is chiefly to direct in keeping the order of battle good, and sustaining the loud shout upon the air that victory is lowering her flight to perch upon our standards. The real improvement upon which the operators of our Reform have at last hit is indicated by those words of big, inspiring import, Confiscation and Destruction. We said in our Resolution, already passed, that the time has come when our State demands, and will sustain, a law totally inhibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage.— infernal fidelity. Many of the most eminent men were soon immolated upon the bloody altar of the Inquisition; and during the administration of the Duke of Alva, which lasted five years, it is computed that eighteen thousand persons fell by the hands of the executioner. William, Prince of Orange, who governed several of the States by power delegated from the King, fell under the ban of the Inquisition, and was sentenced to death. Not being particularly desirous of meeting the fate thus allotted to him, he raised a large army, set up the battle-cry of "Independence," and proved successful a-Sir, that time has come and gone by. We gainst all the endeavors of Philip. The are passed on beyond inhibitions merely, provinces of the Netherlands were seventeen and are laying violent hands upon the crea in number, but a union of them all was pre- ture we have found ourselves unable to tame vented by particular jealousies, and but seven or chain, to strangle out its very life. I of them asserted their independence. These would that the Resolution had proclaimed seven were Holland, Zealand, Friesland, this, as explicitly as I know it meant it. InUtrecht, Overyssel, Guelderland and Gron-deed, for myself, I would rather have used ingen. William was appointed to the office the popular watch-words, and said that the of chief magistrate, under the title of Stadt- Maine Law is the demand of our State. It holder, and Calvinism was established as the may be jealousy for the honor of my native religion of the State. All the attempts of State, but I feel that our friends in Maine, Philip to bring the seven United Provinces after long and laborious application, have again under his sway proved abortive; and brought out and patented this simple but in order to prevent the other ten provinces admirable improvement in Temperance legfrom following in their footsteps, he adopt-islation, and that their right, and po-sibly ed conciliatory measures towards them, their necessity, calls for explicit acknowwhich, he found by experience, infinitely more efficacious than coercion. (To be concluded in our next.) 1 THE MAINE LAW. Remarks, in substance, of Rev. S. HASKELL, at a meeting in Detroit on the 11th March, prepared for publication by request of the meeting: ledgement. For their encouragement as a noble vanguard bearing before our hosts this standard, which has caused the whole rank and file to take heart again, and for the intimidation of their enemies, I would that the regiments and companies of every State in the Union would send rolling up into these brightened Northern skies the same shouted monotones, LIVE the Maine Law! The principles of this Law, Sir, are those to which progress in the Temperauce ReI dwell with delight, Mr. Chairman, upon form must bring us. If we would not see the reflection that the days of speech-making our wheels clog and come to a stand, we in our cause are being followed by days of have no other resort. I know something of determined hard working. We are past the the necessities of the case in Maine, out of formal haranguing of our forces, and the which this measure has sprung. I know lighter skirmishing of the battle, and find some of the shops and bar-rooms there, ourselves where we have work enough for whose streams of devastation it was found the strong right arm, to keep the attention impossible to dam up, and the cnly escape from which was to drain the reservoir. Pro- Sir, I never read or think of this righteous hibition upon prohibition had been piled judgment which the people of my native before their doors: womanly and orphanly State have meted out to the traffic which has tears had fallen as rain upon their filthy so long been crushing its thousands of helpfloors, as wives and children had stood be-less victims there, without exclaiming, in fore the flint-faced and steel-hearted dealer, mental paraphrase of a sublime exultation and entreated him to withhold from hus- of the Bible, "Rejoice over her, thou Heaven, bands and fathers his maddening poisons; and ye wasted circles of domestic joy and but he stayed not his cruel hand. What hope, for God hath avenged you on her."-shall be done? Shall friends of suffering, And my hope re-kindles, that wrongs as outraged innocence and helplessness stand cruel shall elsewhere be avenged, just in prostill and see a work go on that bruises off portion as I am encouraged to expect that every starting sympathy that has roots the Law of Maine shall be elsewhere enas within them, and keeps their hearts smitten ted and executed. and sick unceasingly? No Sir; it is not in The same necessity drives to this resort in men, who have the hearts of men, to keep Michigan as in Maine. The same character their hands off from such a destroyer and in the dealer compels us here, as there, either scourge of their kind. What wonder that to stand quietly by and see work go on that the heart of humanity wrought anxiously cuts our hearts to the quick, or else enter the and earnestly at the problem, whose solu- haunts of the traffic, and take out and destion was to bring relief to these sufferers. It troy the implements of its terrible work. is said that while the friends of Temperance What sort of men are they who are engaged in Maine thus wrought and writhed under in this traffic among us? Let me show you the clinging curse that was upon the State, a specimen. We have in Detroit a citizen they were assembled on one occasion by by the name of Isaac Truckey, if I do not thousands in the city of Portland. They mistake the Christian part of his name. He marched the streets in procession, and the is in the employ of our Board of Aldermen, flowers of summer were showered in bles- turning out work for their Overseer of the sing upon their ranks, many of them doubt- Poor, City Physician, Marshall and Constaless from hands blanched with wiping the bles, Police Courts, Jail, Almshouse and hot tears which intemperance causes to flow. Sexton. For the privilege of furnishing In the evening, before a vast concourse, one these supplies to the city, he pays its governwho was participating in that celebration, ment, and is an honorable man. He has a arose and exhibited in his hand a slip of neighbor who has fallen fatally under the paper, which some little girl had wrapped power of the appetite for drink. Friends of around a bunch of flowers and thrown into the fallen man have tried every means to his carriage, as the procession was moving. restore him to himself, his family and society. Upon it was written the affecting plea, "Re- He seems to have tried every means to remember the inebriate's daughter." As it store himself, except the effectual means. was read, the vast audience instinctly and To his ruinous appetite, our Mr. Truckey is solemnly raised their hands, as the hand of found to be most willing to minister.one man to Heaven, and swore that they While the unhappy man can reel to his would “Remember the inebriate's daughter." counter, he is liberally supplied there.They meant that they would stand between When he can no longer leave his home, Mr her and her ruthless oppressor, till they had T. finds means of eluding the closest vig broken his arm. Thanks to God, that arm lance, and insinuating his maddening poi now hangs broken before them, and the in-sons into the dwelling, which they are filling ebriate's child has bounded from the clutch- with heart-crushing sorrows. In one ines of the trafficker in the inebriate's drink. stance, a benevolent friend who had vainly tried every other means of arresting this foul work, employed a faithful man at daily wages to stand at the intemperate person's door, and guard it against the entrance of the source of mischief. The sentinel was at his post eight days, and yet not a day passed without the subtle serpent's stealing by him and stinging to fury the victim within.Some errand boy, claiming to have come from some temperance friend in the town, begs to see the intemperate man, and smuggles the viper into his breast. On another occasion, when that dwelling had become the scene of midnight alarms and midday gloom and fear that could no longer be borne, the wife and mother flies from her home, and, in circumstances of health that appeal not in vain to the sympathies of the brute, wends her way, through ice and mud, and against a bleak, February storm, a weary mile, to sue for friendly protection against her maniac husband. While she is gone, there is stripped from her ill-fed cow a scanty pint of the family's remaining sustenance, and the precious libation finds its way to Mr. Truckey's counter. Mr. Truckey exchanges it for whisky, and when the wretched wife returns, that whisky had added fiercer rage to the reception she meets from him who had sworn to love and protect her. Mr. President, here is a specimen of our hundreds of liquor-dealers. What are we going to do with them? Our law has its prohibition upon that man already, and to its prohibition, outraged citizens and friends have added theirs, again and again. He has been prohibited and inhibited, and The Law of Maine we must have. here he is exhibited, and yet his work goes how shall we get it? Just as Maine got it: straight on. Must we bear it? Sir, does Not at the petitioner's stool, but at the not even nature itself teach us to beat a cru- Freeman's Ballot Box, we shall get this sade, and march in our majesty to such in- Law. Mr. Dow, the apostle of the movecurable plague spots and cleanse them out, ment in Maine, tells us that they became pouring their contents into the sewers which tired of petitioning a legislature, made by we have built to convey away from us such the rum interest. Once they had carried death-breeding things. For myself, if I the present Law through the legislature, but were ever tempted to act without the sanc-it lodged in the Governor's pocket. Then, tions of human law, it would be in a case Jeroboam-like, the command was givenlike this, and if ever our laws should place "To your tents, O Israel!" Back to his their Ægis between me and an adversary of home every temperance freeman went,threw society, it should be when I go forth to such a work of mercy as the destruction of intoxicating drinks. Sir, Destruction of the article is our instinctive resort. How many a poor boy has applied the Maine Law to unburden his heart and his home, scores of years before that Law had a name. So long as that jug, in the side-board, the wood-shed, or be neath the hay, stood wrong end up, he knew there was no relief from intolerable woes. He waited till deep sleep came up. on the besotted father, and then he quietly righted that jug, and let the earth drink its contents. It is the only treatment which the appetite for drink, in most instances, will yield to. The motion of instinct, our highest reason seconds it, and our whole experience sustains it. The best conscience approves it, and the best heart bounds swiftest to embrace it. No right of the individual, or of society, forbids it. What right have the Sandwich Islands been violating these years past, in thrusting back into the sea the cargoes of French brandy which have been shipped to their shores? Who does not stigmatize the conduct of the French nation in attempting, under cover of their caunon, to force the article upon those emancipated shores, as just of a piece with their propping up falling tyrannies and cobbling up fallen ones, elsewhere? Let thei keep at their despicable work, and let the Rumarchy of our country come under their flag, if it please, but Freemen will hate oppression, and hunt it from their soil. But THE COUNSEL OF WOMAN. Dr. Boardman, in his admirable work, "Hints on Domestic Happiness,” inculcates this doctrine, which every man who is not of the class of "little minds," will cordially endorse: away his petitions, laid off his coat, and wrought till he had clarified the Ballot Box, and through it sent to their balls of State a legislature and a Governor that knew what they were there for. This, sir, is the work now upon our hands. I rejoice that we are marshalling for it. I wish we had openly broken ground in it at our recent Charter Election; that, if we must live another year under the rum tyranny, we might have the consolation that we tore to shreds the network of Party, and put our full temperance strength to the task to throw off the vam pire that has sucked the blood of our corporation almost to fainting already, and, more than all things else, sickens us of living in our otherwise lovely home. Not that we need a new Temperance party in politics, but we need Temperance politics in the par-known them to decide questions on the inties we have. A sentiment that will hold the Liquor Traffic as foremost of the evils which levastate our fair Peninsular, and its suppression the greatest good that legisla tion can achieve; and that will strike from any ticket a name that does not promise fidelity to this cause; rather that will see that no ticket comes before the people bearing such a name. Sir, may the day that is in the East, soon be high over the West, when Prohibition, Confiscation and Destruction, shall banish the sale of intoxicating drinks as a beverage from a realm that will then be all budding with glorious promise. Till then, let us remember, the victims of this terrible foe have no shrine of human protection to which they can flee. Even Religion's Altars shield not from the ruthless pursuer.O, how many, and how fresh, are the trials that lead off from our holiest and sweetest shrines to the drunkard's grave! and fast as present victims are being dragged away, future ones are being prepared by this horrible traffic. I repeat, we have no resort, but to come boldly up in the name of our God, and, as one has said, "strike the Devil between the eyes," and cause him to stagger back from this work of death. Be kind to those who err thro' weakness. "In a conversation I once held with an eminent minister of our church, he made this fine observation: We will say nothing of the manner in which that sex usually conduct an argument; but the intuitive judgments of woman are often more to be relied upon than the conclusions which we reach by an elaborate reasoning. No man that has an intelligent wife, or who is accustomed to the this. Times without number you must have society of educated women, will dispute stant, and with unerring accuracy, which you have pored over for hours, perhaps, with no other result than to find yourself getting deeper and deeper into the tangled maze of It were hardly doubts and difficulties. How she got there, however, is of little moment. If the conclusions a woman has reached are sound, that is all that concerns us. And that they are very apt to be sound on the practical matters of domestic and secular life, nothing but prejudice and self-conceit can prevent us from acknowledging.The inference, however, therefore is unavoidable, that the man who thinks it beneath his dignity to take counsel with an intelligent wife, stands in his own light, and be trays the lack of judgment which he tacitly attributes to her." WIN all to right, by love and meekness. From the Musical World. EMMA GILLINGHAM BOSTWICK fied respect and confidence of a circle of friends so extensive as to embrace nearly all the intelligence and respectability of our community. No species of Biography can be more aEmma Gillingham Bostwick was the fourth greeable or instructive than truthful sketches of eminent individuals who, by the efforts of daughter of George Gillingham, the celebratgenius, or the impulses of philanthropy, ex-ed leader of the orchestra of the old Park cite our admiration and afford examples wor- Theater, in its palmy days, under the suc thy of imitation. There is much to be gain- cessful management of Price and Simpson, ed in contemplating the character of one and also of the orchestras at Philadelphia whose life, amidst laborious professional and Baltimore. She was born in Philadel pursuits, is spent in acts of public and pri- phia, and in early life gave evidence of exvate good, performed without any view to traordinary musical precocity. When worldly advantage or future fame. mere infant she could sing various songs, and her earliest recollections are said to have been of those songs, and many simple bal the gratification of the friends of the family and of strangers that called to hear the wonderful performances of the young musica phenomenon. She always accompanied her voice, even at that early age, on the pianoforte, which she played with remarkable skill, considering her tender years. a Foreigners, who visit our country to study the character of its inhabitants, are struck with nothing so much as with the vast a-lads, which she was accustomed to sing for mount of money, labor and time which are so readily bestowed upon those whose ambiguous characters as artists oblige them to live in comparative idleness and dependence on the patronage of the public; having no other voucher for their reception and support than the mere passport of professional celebrity. It may be a question, whether the frequency of such examples has not caused many amongst us to be overlooked, and their claims to public confidence in many instances entirely disregarded. In view of such a supposition, we hazard no conjecture, but unhesitatingly assert that there are native and resident artists in the United States, who, all things considered, are far more worthy of patronage and liberal support than any that have ever been imported from abroad.* When Emma was but six years of age, her mother died, and to that sad bereavement was shortly added the demise of her father. She was thus left an orphan in the very morning of her life. This, it is natural to consider as a great misfortune, but who can say that that early sorrow was not the foundation of the orphan's future fame. But few poets or singers that have ever achieved imperishable renown, have escaped heart-rending trials and deep afflictions. Indeed, it would seem that sorrow is the shadow of genius, and that the deepness of the former is ever in exact proportion to the brilliancy of the latter. The lady whose name appears at the head of this brief sketch, furnishes a most prominent and gratifying illustration of the truth fulness of the position above taken; and it After the death of her parents, Emma's elis with no ordinary pleasure that we record der sister, (now Mrs. Terry, of Detroit, Mich.) some slight memorials of one who has so who possessed great energy of character, im long and so deservedly enjoyed the unquali-pelled by those sympathies characteristic of Whenever we speak of foreign artists we wish her sex, immediately set about devising It distinctly understood that Jenny Lind is excepted. means to provide for the support of herself She is too far above her cotemporaries, artistically and orphan sisters. After consulting with considered, to be classed with them at all; while her friends, she determined to give a concert, although the encouragement she receiv ed at the outset was not very flattering her admirable character as a woman must ever com mand the respect of all who can appreciate trans. endant work and angelic goodness. |