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fermented drink agai Shall T conics i 1 My only re- 1849.
Bbrainin feeling wou’? be that it would compel a singularity Zr. 45.
of habits in social life. Not that this would, I trust, be an
"NSurmoantable obstacle, if paramount motives of usefulness
“god me to the step.”
In connexion with the same subject, he wrote to Mr.
Ashworth, mildly protesting against a political banquet,
“0d pointing out the superior courage of the Americans in
thor way of making war on this particular temptation to
®Xceszive self-indulgence 1—
“ Dec. 13.—1I am nob quite sare that dinner-parties are the
best tactics for our party to fall into in Manchester. Our
Strength lies with the shopocracy, and I think the members
for Manchester are turning their backs upon the main army
of reformers when they leave the Free Trade Hall for a
Woeting of any kind in a smaller room. Public dinners are
Bood for our opponents, but I have more faith in teetotalism
than bumper glusses, so far as the interests of the demo-Cracy
 are concerned. The moral force of the masses lies
1 the temperance movement, and I confess 1 have no faith
‘0 anything apart from that movement for the elevation of
the working class. We do mot sufficiently estimate the
8mount of crime, vice, poverty, ignorance, and destitution,
Which springs from the drinking habits of the people. The
Americans have a clearer perception of the evils of drunken.
fess upon the political and material prospects of the people,
nd their leading men met an exzmple of temperance on
all public occasions, I lately read an account of a great
Political meeting in New Hampshire, ab which Daniel
Webster presided, when fifteen hundred persons sat down
to dinner, at which not a drop of wine, spirits, or boer was
drank, Depend on it, they were more than a match for
‘our times their number of wine-bibbers. You will wondor
Why I preach this homily to you. But it is wproves of the