"From  peak  to  peak  the  rattling  crags  among,

Leaps  the  live  thunder — not  from  one  lone  cloud,
But  every  mountain  now  hath  found  a  tongue ;
And  Jm:a  answers  from  her  misty  shroud —
Back  to  the  joyous  Alps  that  call  to  her  aloud."


CHAPTER   y.
Fourth  of  July  in  Boston — Fifteen  Gallon  Law  of  Massacliusetts — Youth's
Temperance  Advocate  established — Mr.  Delavan's  correspondence  in
Europe — London  procession — Dr.  Baird's  letter  from  Russia — India
— Sandwich  Islands — Bacchus  and  Anti-Bacchus — Character  of  Scrip-
ture wines.
The  Fourth  of  July,  the  glorious  day  of  American
Independence,  began  early  to  attract  attention  from  the
friends  of  temperance.  This  had  long  been  the  great
harvest  season  for  the  rum  power.  All  men  felt  that
they  must,  on  that  day,  be  joyful  as  joyful  could  be  ;  and
that,  to  increase  the  glorification,  it  was  right  and  proper
to  use  stimulants  to  almost  any  excess.  On  that  day
more  men  went  home  in  a  state  of  intoxication,  more
hearts  were  broken,  and  more  children  and  youth  com-
menced the  downward  path  to  the  drunkard's  end,  than  on
any  other.  But  less  and  less  interest  was  beginning  to  be
felt  in  that  occasion  ;  and  as  hostility  to  Britain  had  passed
away,  and  there  was  nothing  in  the  minds  of  men  to
kindle  enthusiasm  or  cause  the  day  as  a  holiday  to  be
profitably  spent,  the  temperance  men  began  to  claim  the
day  as  their  own,  as  an  Independence  day  from  King
Alcohol,  who  had  long  triumphed  and  slain  his  thousands.
