Jeffersonian Republican

TEMPERANCE

Start not, reader! we are not going to give you a lecture on this subject, we leave that to abler and wiser heads, to whom our columns are ever open, but wish merely to call your attention to a corroboration in another column, of the wonderful temperance news from Ireland, published by us last week. We entertained some doubts of the extent of the reformation as there pictured out, but from the facts to-day presented, we feel assured of its truth. What effect this reformation may have on the prosperity of the Emerald Isle, remains yet to be seen ; but certainly its good effects on the people in a moral point of view, cannot be estimated. No country has suffered more from the vice of intemperance than Ireland, and if anything can be done to ameliorate the wretched condition of her citizens, and make them better and wiser, or tend to dispel the thick mists of ignorance and prejudice which have so long hung like a dark pall over that ill-fated land, we think every philanthropist will rejoice at the thought, and wish God speed to the undertaking.