The Temperance Movement Address of Senator Yates of Illinois Before the Congr
The Temperance Movement Address of Senator Yates of Illinois Before the Congr
Richard Yates
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[Applause. ] If all you, gentlemen, would do the same thing, you would lose nothing in mind, body, or estate. [Laughter. ] Fellow-citizens : It may seem strange, but I would, as 1 feel now, as soon drink fire from hell itself as whiskey, for it is hell and damnation too. It de- stroys the health, and mars the beauty of the body; it can bow dowu to earth the most giant intellect, and make it weak as that of a child : it de- moralizes and it annihilates the immortal soul. It makes a man forget hi...s children or the wife of his bosom, and treat them with harsh unkindness and barbarity, and even murder them. Unaffected by intemperanee he would peril his life for that wife of his love ; hei would dive into the ocean's depths, face the cannon's mouth, or peril his life amid the flames of the burning dwelling to snatch from death his darling babe. I do not suppose at all that I am superior to anybody else in intellect, I certainly have no special claims to consideration from birth or fortuue; but there is one thing I do claim, and that is, that God has endowed m'e with nobility of soul, with warm and generous impulses — a heart as unfathom- able in its affections as the ocean, and as broad as the area of humanity, and I appeal to you, Mr.
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