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VOICE OF FREEDOM.PUBLISHED WEEKLY) AT BRANDON, VERMONT.TERMS,Commencing with Volume VI, No. 27.Cm Dollar and twenty -five cents Cath and itriet-ly in advance.One Dollar and fifty cents within four months.Owe Dollar and seventy-fire cents after four, and within eight months ; and Two Dollars after eight months and within the year from the comtnencemen. •f subscription.Such pay as Messrs Waltons of Montpelier, or Solomon I’arker of Middlebury will take in payment for paper, and give their receipts, will be received. Also, most kinds of produce at cash value, paid to the subscriber.AGENTS will be allowed 25 cents on each subscriber they obtain and forward the pay for a year.Those supplied by private conveyance, must pay the transportation of the papers, in addition to the above.Those who forward names and pay on the above terms will understand that they must do it without expense tu mo.t*l Postmasters will forward names and money without charge.Mot-Will not some friend in each town make a gratuitous effort immediately, that a good list of new subset ibcrs may be obtained at the lowest price by forwarding the cash in advance 1 Gratuitous labors for the benefit of the subscribers. J Holcomb.BONG.—The Drunkard’s Wife.BY MISS a E. CHADWICK.’Twas a woman’s dying bed,And a fair child bent, with a teaiful eye,With an aching heart and heavy sigh,To raise that drooping head.Look again, daughter, through the dteary dark! Hutb! is it net my husband’s step? Oh hark! oh hark!With noiseless foot she crept,And sadly looked through the broken pane; Hut she naught could see, for the driving rain,-And she turned sway and wept.“Look again, daughter,” c.“I shall soon rest with the dead—Now,! think of the past with its happy hours, When my brow was tmalhed • with its bridal flowers,Of the tiire when we were wed.Look again, daughter, $-c,he bend o’er his wine cup now? Will he yield,to its mad'mng, dead’niug'power? Will he leave me thus in this dreary hour, fTith the death damp on my brow?Look again, daughter, c.“It is still! they have all passed by!He, in whose grief i have borne my part;I He, that I loved with a changless heart,He hath left me alone to die!Come away, daughter! raise my drooping head, Come, for my dying dream of hope has fled.The trimmings of the Banners were all appropriate and creditable lo the ladies who prepared them. The procession pass* ed through Hammond St., over Kendus-keag Bridge, and through State street to the First Parish Church. The members were saluted with cheering remarks as they passed, by the spectators.After arriving at the First Parish Church, the meeting was called to order by Henry Call, Esq., who addressed them with some heart-stirring remarks. A committee was then appointed to nominate officers foi the Army, who reported the following list:HENRY E. CALL, President. JAMES F. HESSELTINE, Secretary. John Strickland, 1 J. Evarts Pond, I Win. Strickland, ^ Co!nmittee.From the Bangor Gazette.Organization of the Cold Water Army.The meeting of the childrenjon Wednesday was one of unusual interest; and such an one as was never before witnessed in Bangor. About a thousand children, of all ages from four to fourteen, assembled at the Vestry of Hammond St. Church, at two o’clock, in the afternoon, and there formed into procession in the following order:Mr. Valentine’s School. (Boy’s) with Banner: Motto Wine is a Mocker.”Mr. Eowler’sSchool,(Boy’s) with Banner: Motto, “Wo unto them that are mighty to drink Wine.”Mr. Worcester’s High School, (Boy’s) with Banner. Motto, “ Destruction to the Monster,” and a representation of a lad heating with a hammer the head of a Dragon which is seen coming from one of several liquor casks that are lying around him.Miss Thayer’s School, with Banner; Motto “ Large Streams from Little Fountains flow.”Miss Wilson’s School, with Banner; Motto, “Total Ab3tinence.”.Miss Quimby’s School, with Banner; Motto, Wo pity the Poor Drunkard.” Miss Norcross’ School with Banner; Motto, “ We are Soldiers of the Water King.Miss Fisher’s School, with Banner: Motto, “ True to the Pledge.”Miss Lowder’s School, with Banner : Motto. “ Bo not among Wine Bibbers.” Miss Herring’s School, with Banner : Motto, “ The Tetoiallers are coming.” Miss Hoskin’s School, with Binner: Motto, •’ Beware of the Frist Drop.”Miss Godfrey’s School, with Banner: Motto, “ Touch not, taste not, handleGeo. Paiks,Charles Stetson, j «Robert Hatch, J And they were chosen officers of the Army for the current year.The Army then joined in a song, after which they repeated in unison, “ Who hath redness of eyes,” c.—Prov. 23, 29 33.An appropriate prayer was then offered by Rev. Mr. Chaplin.The sweet song, *‘ Long, Long ago, was sung very prettily by Mr. Littlefield’s School. Af er which the Army sung •Sparkling and bright. The Pledge was then repeated.Some very happy remarks were made by John S. Sayward, Esq.Song by the Army, “The Teetotallers are coming.Recitation in unison, Isaiah 5, 11.Master George W. Jefferds recited ’Tis but a drop,” very prettily.Song by the Army, “Friends of Freedom.Remarks were made by Charles Godfrey, E-q., in which the audieuce appeared to be highly interested.Song by Mr. Littlefield’s School, “Raise your Banner.”Recitation in unison, Prov, 23,20.Hymn repealed, “ Don’t I love Water?Song by the Army, “Our youthful hearts with Temperance burn.”Recitation in unison, Prov. 21,17,Song by the Army.A brief and happy address was made to the officers by H. Call, Esq., and Mr. S. Souther made some very cheering remarks.Recitation of Prov. 20, 21.Sung by the Army, Cheer up my lively lads.”After the Pledge was again repeated, the meeting adjourned.The little folks appeared to be highly pleased throughout the performances, and the older persons were greatly delighted.Mr. E. F. Duren, Mrs. Ingraham, arid others, who interested themselves in getting up this tneeiing deserve the thanks of ull our citizens. They have awakened an interest in the cause of Temperance among a class of our population which heretofore have been too much disregarded in ihe Temperance reform, and which will in due lime “bring forth good fruit,”THE SMALL MISSIONARY SOCIETIESThe Religious Herald, a Congrega-Miss Snow's School, with Banner: Motto, “ We pledge perpetual hate to nil that can intoxicate.Miss Bradley’s School, with Banner: Motto, “ Don’t I love Water, clear, spark-l.ng and brigh1?”Miss Merrill’s School, with Banner: Motto, •• Look not upon the wine when it is red.Miss Hovey’s School, with Banner: Motto,*- May no evil eVr betide as, To aever or divide us,With the Cold VVatkr I’lKDOE.Miss Brown’s School, with Banner: Motto, “ King Alcohol shall sorely die.’ Miss Yallalee’s, Miss Huichin’s (Asy turn) and Miss Stewart’s with Banner M (to. Strong Drink is raging.”
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Brandon Voice of Freedom
Brandon, Vermont, US
Thu, Dec 19, 1844
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