Show LINCOLN ON tn that the temperance question is 13 an old one in the united unit d states ib attested edby by the following taken from a speech of the immortal lincoln delivered by him himon on birthday in 1842 in which he points out the ultimate destruction of the liquor traffic the demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking fucking the blood of genius and generosity what one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than his fellows who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity 7 ile he ever seems to have gone forth like the egyptian angel of death commissioned to slay if not the first the fairest born of every family shall he now be arrested in his desolating career careers in that arrest all can aid that will and who shall be excused that can and will not far around as human breath has ever blown he be keeps our fathers our brothers our sons and our frienda prostrate in the chains of moral death to all the living everywhere we come pound the moral trump that these mav rise and stand am an exceedingly great army come irom the four winds minds 0 breath and breathe upon these slain anat they may llie if the re relative latic grandeur of revolutions shall be estimated by the greit great amount of human misery they alleviate and the small amount they inflict then indeed will this be the grandt grandest the world shall ever have havo seen of our politic il revolution in 1776 we e are all justly proud it it ina is given us a dezree of political freedom far exceeding that of any other maion of the earth airth in it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem as to the capability of min man m in to govern himself in it was the germ which has vegetated and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind min kind but with all these glorious results past present and to come it b hid bid id its evils too In ItI breathed forth famine swam in blood and rode in fire and long ion ong after the cr and the widows wiil uail continued to break the sad silence that ensued these were the price pric ethe the j inevitable price for the blessings it brought turn now to thel thea temperance i evolution in it we fb shill ill find a stronger bondage broken a viler sian cry manumitted a greater tyrant deposed in it more of want supplied more aisea disease e healed more sorrow assuaged by it no orphana starving no widows weeping b it none wounded in feeling none injured in interest even the dram maler maker and dram seller will have glided into other occupations so gradually as never felt the change and v will ill stand to join all others in the universal sung song of gladness and what hat a noble illy this to the c cause tuse of political freedom with such in aid its march cannot fall fail to be on and on till aery bon of earth shall drink in rich fruition the sorrow quenching draughts of perfect liberty I 1 happy day when ill all appetites controlled all passions subdued all matter subjugated mind all conquering mind shall ine and move the monarch of the world I 1 glonora consummation 1 hail flail fall of fury I 1 reign of reason all hill hail I 1 and when the N shill shall bo be complete when there shill shall be rief neither ther a slave nor a drunkard drun kird on the earth how hov proud the land which may truly claim to be the birthplace birth and the cradle of both those resolutions that shall ha hao c ended in that bictory how nobly distinguished that people who shall have hake planted and nurtured to maturity both the political and moral freedom of the species |