The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Temperance meeting

--The members of Springfield Division, sons of Temperance, with such others as choose to join them, will assemble at their Hall, on Church Hill, to-night, and proceed to the Union Station Methodist Church, where an address will be delivered by the Rev. J. C. Granberry, Chaplain of the University of Virginia. This looks like a revival of the temperance work, and the practice of frequent public meetings in various parts of the city might be followed up with success. At this particular juncture of affairs, a general movement in behalf of temperance would do much towards relieving the effects of the pecuniary pressure, to say nothing of its moral results. We know of some good fellows who had been in the habit of imbibing to excess, but who ‘"swore off"’ about the time the new year came in; and now their finances are in a much better condition than heretofore, when there was no stringency in the money market.

Mr. Granberry is said to be an effective speaker, and we have no doubt of his ability to entertain an audience agreeably, even on a subject that many persons condemn as threadbare. The truth of the matter is, however, that the subjects of intemperance are more threadbare than anything else within the limit of our observation. It may gratify some of our readers to learn, in connection with this matter, that Springfield Division is enjoying a high degree of prosperity, and that the ladies are rallying manfully to its support.