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Patriotism, or the love of Country, is a principle deeply rooted in the human mind. In every clime, and in every age, its hold on the heart of man, has been displayed. Connecting itself [to] at one time with the love of renown, and at another with benevolent feelings, it has laid the foundation of mighty schemes, prosecuted dazling enterprizes, and crowned with success varst undertings. Actuated by this, the Father of his country undertook the mighty resposibility, of conducting the miletary concerns of revolutionary America.; By the same, his copatriots readily endured

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the privation of campagns, the devastations of battles, and subjected themselves to pecunary embaresment. For the love, that they bore their country, the statesman of ’76 pledged their “life, their fortune, and their sacred honour”, to maintain the liberty and independency of America. Nor were the Mothers, and the Daughters of those that time, lacking in the feeling of Patriotism. They gave up to their country, their husbands, their sons, and their brothers; they submitted to hunger; ministered to the sick and dieing;

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and were even found at the port of danger, for the sake of d their home.

My respected friends, ye are the children of these heroes and heroeins. You boast, that they are your fathers and your mothers. Be it so. I take it for granted, that the love of country glows in your breast; nor would you be willing to say esert, that, it was not connected with the love of fame, or with the feeling of benevolence.

Let us suppose a case. That some powerful foe, were invading the land. That with his fleet + army, he had blockaded our

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Ports + laid seige to our cities; yea, that some of our strong places had already been captured, by his victorious army; many of our able munch public and private property was destroyed; many of our leading men, among whom, were our most distinguished Generals, Statesmans, Lawyers, Physicians, Ministers, Farmers, Mechanics, were prisoners, bound in chains and designed for death; that through the deteriorating influence of his soldiery, the morals of multitude, in the captured places, were sunk in baseness and degradation, to such a degree, that most of the crimes committed in the land, and for which men were sentenced to the states prison, or

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the gallows, were directly, or indirectly through their Agency. At the same time, unoffending females and helpless children, were left in widowhood, and orphanage; distressed with povity, brocken hearted with grief, and mortified with shame.

To add to the calamity of the case this powerful foe, had, scatered through the land, emisaries, who proclaimed the need of his presence, the harmlessness of his power, the sufficiency of individual strength, singly, to resist his encroachment, without the need of united efforts.

In such a case, what think you

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would be the feeling of every bosom, where patriotism glowed, where Philanthropy was sitted, and where benevolence held and empire? Would not all such minds rise in the might of their strenght, to repel the potent foe?, to recover the last places?, to secure property from future; loses? to deliver our le captives, or protect those of us, who had not fallen in the grasp of the enimy? Would not religion and Philosophy, put forth their united strenght to repair the morals of the degraded, and thus prevent the crimes, which had come in their train? And the repeatition of the misfortune

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that had brought thousands to widowhood, to orphanage, to poverty, to grief, to shame? Would there not exist a general indignation among the virtuous, against the emisaries, who were in any way giving support to the enimy? To these enqui ries, your patriotic and benevolent feelings answer, yes. Every heart would be awaked, and every hand would be directed against the foe. Property if required; prospect of gain; time; inclination would all be sacrificed for our country’s good. Nor would we cease our efforts, till the foe was repelled, or death put an end to our mortal existence.

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The case supposed, is not a production, merely, of the imagination; it has its sequel in real life.

There is such a foe. Who is powerful; whose invasion of our land is true; whose devastation of property, of morals, of reputation, of prospects, is great; who has filled the land with criminals; and multiplied living widows of living husband[s] and the number of helpless children[.] Whose supporters are numerous.

His name is ALCOHOL in name chemical science; in plain terms a rank poison, extracted from liquors, that have undergone the vinous fermentation. Existing in greater, or less quantity in strong beer, porter, ale, cider; but

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having its prenciple mischiefs under the fictitious names of brandy, rum, wine, and the like. In reality a poison deadly to the body and ruinous to the soul.

It is no error to call Alcohol, with al its train of ardent spirits, a foe, a deadly foe. For upon even an imperfect view, even of the enormities done by it, we must agree, that it is distructive to the temporal, and eternal good interest man. That this enimy hath invaded the land, entered many of our strong places, and distroyed munch property, are facts [too] notorious, to be dwelt upon. It was estimated at the commencement of temperance reformation