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An appeal to the Ghurchc3
YVe have said the churches and their
ministers ought to support the temper
ance cause. We again repeat that
temperance is a Christian virtue, an i
was so treated by the Apostles. 1 etcr
in his 2nd epistle, Ist ch. verses •->• to
7, says: “And besides this, giving an
diligence addle your faint viitue; and
to virtue knowledge; and to knowl
edge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness; and
to godtuess brotherly kindness; and to
brotuerly kindness, charity.”
In the Acts oi the Apostf s we are in
formed that when Baul defended him
self against his enemies, who sought.his
life for having propagated Christianity,
he made his stand upon three of its doc
trines. Two of them were special, to
wit: temperance and judgment to coni ‘.
The other was righteousness, a general
doctrine, embracing the whole of hu
man actions.
In the ’doth v. of the 24th oh. it is
said : “And as he reasoned oi right
eousness, temperance, and judgment to
come, Felix trembled, Oise.”
In the sth chap to the Gal. 22: 2.5.
l’aul says: “The fruit of tile Sj.iiii is
love, j >y, peace, long sulf ring, gentle
ness, goodness, tuilh, meekness, lempei
mice ; against -such lie re is no law,
vivic. ’ We make no comments.
Many, when we recommend temper
mice soef.tics !u then’ support, iiiivii'm
us that they are members ol the church,
and that n is a temperance society of
the highest order. i'ius cannot h
said of any church, which tellowsiiips
its members in the drinking of drams,
tlie only means of making drunkards.
The Quakers, we understand, have al
ways prohibited its members from the
use ot drains, and il so, (and we do not
doubt it,) they have always been tem
perance societies. Some of the other
churches, since the temperance socie
ties have strengthened their arms, have,
we understand, their praise be it
Spoken,) adopted the temperance prin
ciple total abstinence, and others, we
are told, are doing the same thing. As
many of them us have done tins, are
temperance societies, but none others.
It will not do to say that a Church is a
temperance society, whii.-t t fellowships
the drinking of drums, the only means of
making drunkards, and of bringing up
on the world all the evils which the use
of liquor produces. Who has nol seen
church members drink at lourt-houses,
muster grounds, weddings, frolics,
bouse-rnisings,at homo in t >ir families
and abroad before the wmi-i !—all ef
fected by drinking drama, a practice
sanctioned by the churches to which
they belonged.
But we have been told that the chur
ches never fellowship drunkenness;
and it may be as truly said, that no
other class of men, be their habits ever
so bad, has ever pretended to approve
of what they called drunkenness. All
agree to censure it. But many, both in
and out of the church, have encouraged
every body to drink, by offering them
liquor, and often saying, “laKe a little”
—•‘a little want hurt”—-“drams will
hurt no one, if lie does not take too
much.” “Liquor is good in its place,”
which they always showed by their
acts, to bo in the btdly. These and va
rious other forms of enticing men to
drink, have been practiced by church
members, as well as others, setting an
example in the mean time of drinking
drams, net small, nor few, nor far be
tween. The caution not to drink too
much, was always useless, because tit
drinkers never intend’ and io do that. —
They only intended to drink moderate
ly, as ll was called; and, us they
thought saw so n • (t iers, Who--’ Xain
ple t ■.*• v intended to follow. Por other
re.'.-o is i; did no g > and. ll fn• Ln and
no rule ot built, or w-ug u, or at astir--,
by wiiio i one could tell ivoei'e enou.iu
end and, and where too mu. ii com neiioed;
an I consequently, it had no sense in it.
But what do we want, it may be
asked ! \Ve wish reform in the church
es. To this end, We wish the minis
ters ot the Gospel of every denomina
tion to preach the temperance principle,
t>lal abstinence from the use of all in
toxicating drmas. To preach against
drunkenness, while the means of pro
ducing it, is sanctioned by the church
e. is about as wise and consistent, as
to preach that men should not burn
their neighbors houses, weilstthey were
enooura'od to throw lire coals into the
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roofs and rooms of their dwellings.—
That drinking is die greatest evil in
toe laud, we suppose no one will deny.
The churches should therefore bo
warned against their greatest enemy,
and that he makes his mischievous at
tacks through the use of drams.
Many people are destroyed in this
world for the lack of knowledge.—
When this happens through the neg
lect of their spiritual guides, they, the
guides, are made responsible for it in
the world to come. Speaking to the
priests, in Hosea 4: G. it is said: “My
people are destroyed for lack of knowl
edge, 1 will also reject thee, that thou
shall be no priest to me, &e.”
In Lzokiel 33. and 6. he says: “If
the watchmen see the sword come, and
blow’ not the trumpet, and the people be
not warned; if the sword come and take
away any person from among them, he
is taken away in his iniquity; but his
blood will l require at the watchman’s
imnl.” £>3o sane doctrine, chap. 3.
verse ly. same book.
We will now notice a different class
of watchmen. In Is iiah chap. 02. ver
ses G. 7. it is said : “l have set watch
men upon tlij’ wall, O Jerusalem, which
shall never Isold their peace day nor
nigln ; ye that make mention of the
Lord, keep not silence; and give him
no rest till iso establish, and till he
make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”
in Ist verse 58th chap, of the same
book, we read: “Cry aloud, spare not,
lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
show my people their transgressions,
and the house of'Jacob their sins.”
In these quotations the duties of
watchmen on the walls of a city, keep
ing a look out for the approach of ail
enemy, are held forth as a figurative
illustration of the position and duiios of;
thoso who o.delates, as ministers to titej
oilmen and -people. They leach that
fahhfdiwatchmennev r I.old iheirpeac
day nor night, and that they who men
tion the Lord, (as teachers is meant,)
are forbidden to be silent. They are
commanded io cr\ aloud, to lilt their
voices like a trump -t, and to warn the
church and people of tin ir sins and
transgressions. i'his ilvy are to do
without ceasing, until the onurch spo
ken of under the iigure of Jerusalem,
shall be established, and made “a praise ‘
in the earth.”
il iw it is, that any preacher of th<-
gospel, knowing as he does, the evils
which are produced to both church and
people, by drinking of drams, can hold
Ii is peace and not preach against their
use, is indeed, very strange; yet then
are some v> ho can,-.ltd do, thus neglect
thou duty. I'hey can see members of
the chinch drinking drams, know ing
that they commence and carry on the
work ot all the degrees of drunkenness,
attended with all the sin anti ruin inci
dent to its progress, until its final eon
suination in wo and death ! They look
upon mothers weeping over fallen sons,
upon wives pale and distressed, with
blasted hopes and broken hearts, upon
children in rugs, suffering with cold,
and affected with hunger—all caused 1
by drams, yet, there they stand in si
lence, and if we may judge of liic tree,
by its fruit, or by its failure to bear 1
fruit, they care for none of titese things, j
f, the} preaches not against tiio well- I
known cause of all these evils.
If they will not do their duty and I
warn the churches and the people, we j
would ask them to listen -sgain to the j
prophet Ezekiel, when he says: “If the j
watchman st-e the sword come, and j
blow not the trumpet, and the people be j
not warned; if the sword come, and j
take any person fiom among them,”;
(the people,) “he is taken away in his!
iniquity; but his blood will 1 require at 1
the watchman’s hand.”—“His blood j
will [ require, &c.,” means that the |
punishment which w aid be due to tin ;
PENFIELD, GA. APRIL 10, 1852.
I person taken away in his iniquity, it
[he had b-a.-n sullicieutly warned, shall
Ibe indicted on him whose duty it was
j to warn himselfof his dang< r.
Some preachers satisfy themselves,
i by preaching against w hat is commonly
! called drunkenness, without saying u
word against the known means of pro
ducing tt. i'his looks in itself sulii
cieutly unwise, though it mav be more
popular than to preach against the use
of drams. It is a kind of preaching
mil of danger and mischief.
II in • Miner of a f.tmilv were to find
that a oornpan) of rut-le-snakes had
made a lodgment in so-no part of his
1 lions , so me ot anion were coe-a-intly
. aliping anil slrioig about over tln-ll >or.
! amusing his children, with the singing
!of their rattles, t.hereby enticing them
io become familiar with them; if,under
loose oiicumstanoes, lie vv re gravely
| to advise them not to h-tthe snake bite
I them, because it would hurt them, and
Lyet adopt no measures for their reinoval
I nor to prev tit iiis children from play
ing with them, lie would act with pre
cisely tin- same Wisdom and fidelity to
his family, that a preacher does to iiis
church and people, who preaches a
gainst drunkenness without warning
against tiie uso of drams, the sure and
well known means ot producing it.—
•Such preaching edifies no one, for eve
j ry body knows and admits drunkenness
|to be wrong. And we are not ap
i prized of any one person, who has been
\ reformed by it.
It always did great harm, because it
impliedly admitted the safety and law
fulness of drinking moderately, as it
was called, and so it is now understood;
thereby indirectly encouraging tiie use
of the only means capable of producing
all tbe evils of which we complain.—
For many generations now past and
gone, this was the only preachin; upon
the subject; under its influence, intem
perance,, as it was natural lor it to do,
grew and increased, until like the frogs
oi Egypt, which swarmed through the
king’s diminions, even pouring their
leaping throngs into Phuroah’s bed
chamber, drunkards filled the whole
length and breadth of the land. Many
found their way into the hulls offegis
iafion, and others sat in nodding atti
tudes, with disgusting looks upon the
judicial seats of justice. The church
,es, and sometimes their pulpits, were
infested with staggering occupants, po
iuiing the very sanctuaries of the Most
High ! Infidels, church members, and
debauchees of every sort were often
seen stalking about, staggering objects
of disgust and pity on court-yards, mus
ter-grounds, and at towns, doggeries,
house-raisings, log-rollings, weddings,
irolics, &o.
Ali these evils continual!} grew and
increased under the influence ofpreach
ing against drunkenness, without iuter
i’ ring with its cause, until the evil was
arrested by the temperance societies.
Our fathers are not to be reproached
ior not having a better sort of preaching
upon the subject, because none better
was then known- I'hey honestly re
lied upon that ai I, church discipline, as
the only remedy. They all made the,!
sad mistake supposing that inode rat’
uriuking, as it was called, was lawful.
I'ius iio-vev r, could not be so, for there i
is no enjoyment not-necessary to our
w II being, an i widen, in tli ■ ordinary
curse ol tilings, mty vvora ,*.vi! to our
seiv.s or to- Olliers tii.it can tie riant.
Indeed the only dilien-uce between our
good aud bad actions, in r. iutton to nui
inflow men, is ttint tiie* tunier are con
sistent wi'li the we|fare U -Ai, wiiiist
the latter are, or may be productive of l
evil to ou iso Ives or others.
But whilst iue evil oi intemperance
■•aged, and true Christians mourned ov
er iis ravages. Tiie Most High in ins
mercy, was pleased to move a broad in
the land, tiie soirit ot the temperance
onus.-, and in its progress to make’
known its true, certain, and easy reme
dy, “ Total Abstinence,” —“touch not,
taste not, handle not,” tiie unclean tiling,
the reception given by tiie church and
the World to the spirit of tiie temper
anee cause was not unlike that given
to oui Saviour. “He came to his own,
and ins own received him not,” Tue
spirit of the temperance cause came to
the churches, hut they shut their doors
upon it. It went to tlie people of tlie
world, and they treated it us an enemy. ‘
Y> t it -vent about and worked ; it work
ed among its enemies, aud God was
'ith it, and owned it, and blessed its
labors. Under liis influence and bless
ing, it has arrested the progress of the
dram drinking destroyer; arid if it has
not entirely driven him from the lan i,
it holds him in check; and by the con
tinuance ol heaven’s blessing, it will
continue to hold him iu as much check
and disgrace, as law and religion has
been able to hold any other destroyer.
Then vve entreat ministers of tlie gos
pel to come to tlie aid of their Masters
cause, and preach “ Total Abstinence.”
But some say that they are opposed
to mixing up religion and temperance
together. Such language is lamenta
ble, especially, when coming from those I
who profess to teach tho ioctrinrs of■
Christianity. If they would only give
i iin-miscives the trouble to learn what
jom istianity is, they would find it to
j c insist in love to find, iaitli in ui.s Son,
i: ‘1 love to man —all carried into tlie
’ various acituns anti business ot praoti
| cal hie.
hi these three departments, viz: love
) God, faith in iiis Son, and love to
| man, Christianity performs ail ils works,
i and makes all its demands, it is only
! iu them that it is to bo found, and it is
(only lit a muon of I‘veir la oofs . that it
1 <; ii bo fully understood, h is only
; practical religion that is of any value.
,'ivtl spirits may believe and tremble,
I . , u.td (lieu may do the same and ,;c
----knoivmdge tlie obligaiiuiio of social or
moral duty, and }et their faith be dead.
See the 2nd chap, of tlie apostle James.
Love, or good will to men, disposes
its possessor to do them good, when
practicable, in all the relations of soci
ty, and in all cases to be careful to do
no act, which may have the etl’ect of
injuring them. A man who does this,
is a good citizen in any country; but
ihe who tools no concern for tlie wel
fare of Ins neighbor, is a dangerous
and bad man, wherever be may be.—
S file man who practices on tlie doctrine,
let every eim lauo care of himself, can
no more he a Christian than lio who de
nies the being of bis Creator. Mali
was made for society ; .therefore, men
(come into the world in families, and
; families in tlie neighborhood of eacli
j other, all mutually . dependant, one on
| another, and all reciprocally bound to
|do each other good. To this end, they
> are commanded to love eacli other.—
j See John’s Ist epistle, 3. 10 and 4. 20.
i and many other passages.
All social duty, is a part, (though not
j all) of Christian duty, connected with
i the Christian department ofloye to man.
The temperance cause, for the sake
;of relieving tire world from all the ev
ils with which the drinking of liquor
has caused our race, enjoins upon iis
members, total abstinence from the use
of ail intoxicating drinks. In this view,
members ot temperance societies arej
patriots and supporters of good morals,
beccause they are making an effort to
do away the most producing source of j
bad morals in the world, and eucourai r -’
° i
mg brotherly love among men.
j As good morals, and social duty be-j
iong to one of tlie departments of ciiris-1
; tianity; and as dram drinking is known j
|to cause man to transgress every law,’
j human and divine, and to disregard ev-1
jury principle of social, moral, and re- j
I iigious duty; and to corrupt the State,;
; t he church and society in general, tiiere- j
: by filing the world with vice and crime, \
land human misery; us of which the;
j gospel labors to do away, and from
i which the temperance cause is strug-,
gling to free the world, —is it nos
strange, very strange, indeed, to hear
any professor of Christianity, and espe
cially, any one professing to teach its
doctrines, refusing to support the tem
perance cause on tite ground, us they
pretend, that it would boa mixing up
! of.temperance with religion! All the
| morals enjoined by the temperance
; cause, arc taught and required by the
j gospel. Tnough these objectors have
a great horror of mixing, us they call
j ii, of religion and temperance; yet they
Mii'iii quite eomfortaole, when they see
tut; mixture of religion and liquor.
fliose who see so much dilfereuce be
! tween.the morals taught by the bible,
til I the verv same moral wneu required
.iy the temperance cause, that they c.m
----n it prea'ch total abstinence, are at the
same ti ne . uuaiile to see any ditl'• r
ence between the bumble sell-dent ing
religion of, (Jurist, ami tire hauglih
• Ira ii-swijtlo.ving religion of tiie jug
pr if :ss irs.
Some of our objectors are ministers
of the gospel, placed as watchmen on
the Wails til Z hi, to warn I lie church
and p ople against every evil practice;
sill! they told,up tluir anus, and look
wiih c mposure upon ihe gre it destroy
er. Drams, already in the fortresses
and strong holds of many of Uie church-,
es, with his liquor legions prowling all.
around; yet strange as it may seem,
they give no warning uguiust him. —
i’iioy do not so much as point him
and call attention to tils mischief. — j
Notwithstanding, they see his walks
and works belore their eyes, in Ihe,
churches, neighborhoods and families,
vet they say not u word against him.
i’hey sometimes speak against die el-;
feet of his work, drunkenness; but not 1
a word against him us the cause.
Whilst all this is lamentably true, il !
is equally as true, that many of -our
most talented and useful ministers, us j
well us many of their weaker hut wor
thy brothers, a ; in the temperance
field, and others arosiill coining. The
preachers of the gospel are the natural;
guardians of good morals, as well as of,
the true doctrines of Christianity. The
question at issue is between religion and
morals on the one side, and religion and
liquor on the other. With the friends,
ofthe former, in supporting their cause,;
goad men ofevery order are lo be found;
•Si with the friends of the hitler, in their j
opposition, bad men ofevery class havej
I ttiken their stand. In tliis contest, Sa
tan is not an indifferent spectator. He
rallies liis friends to tlie vigorous sup
port of liis government and throne. On
winch side of this contest lie has taken
! liis stand, we leave to tlie judgment of
! those, who have such a horror of bring
ing religion and temperance into the
neighborhood of each other, that thev
! can give no support to the latter. They
J however would do well to exanfine the
company they are in, and to ascertain
j which party receives the help of Satan.
Lour preachers would all unite in
: the work ot warning tueir elm relies find
j people against the natural tendencies
j and danger of using drams as beverages,
they u;i flit all bo brought to the sue
port of total abstinence. Why should
net they all do this! Its great, principle
is taught by all the gospel doctrines of
the cross and self-denial. It is re
quired by tlie 31. un i 32. verses of the
23 chap, of i’rov. “Look not upon the
wino when it is red, wiien it givctli its
color in tlie cup, when it inoveth itself
i aright, ’ (that is after it moves itself in
fermentation,) “at the last it bitetli like
a serpent and slingeth like an adder.”
iu the 4di and stn of the 31st chap.
; same book, it is said : “It is not for
i kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to
j drink wine, lest they drink and forget
: the law, Ajc.” In Hab. 2: 15. it is
said: “Wo unto him that giveth his
1 neighbor drink, that putest'tliy bottle
|to him.” All of which teaches total
i abstinence.
The temperance cause requires ils
; members to deny themselves the dun
j gerous gratifications of lliat carnal and
i perverted appetite for spirituous liquors.
; For the sake of relieving the world
: iron) all the sms and miseries, with
which the use oi liquor has affected i
! sutiering humanity, it enjoins total ab
: stinence from the use of all drinks that
i can intoxicate. It requires a man to
be of good moral character, before he
j can be admitted into u Division of the
‘Sons; excepting the vice ofdrinking,
and it takes the pledge against that. It re
quires the practice of brotherly love ge
nerally, and esptc.ally to the members
ol the brotherhood, providing specially
ior the relief ol its afliicted inembeis.
These are the great principles and
leading measures ci the temperance
cause, all oi which are enjoined hv
Christianity, and cannot be separated
from it. It acts beyond the narrow
boundaries of self; and sets thousands
of inebriates on their feet again, resto
ing them to their families, friends and
country, it dries up the teurs of thous
ands of mothers, weeping over fallen
sorts, and the heads of as many wives
with broken hearts, it raises to look up
on better prospects. Ves, and little
children too—liie unfortunate oilspring
of reformed inebriates, when finding
them cold and naked, and hungry, tem
perance, like an angel of mercy, basin
many instances provided tor their
wants.
Tho temperance cause with the Sons,
has its pass-words, ceremonies, uni
tbrins of doing business, which are used
ias helps iu carrying into effect tlie ob
jects vve have mentioned. Tiie princi
pal duties requited by tiie temperance
cause, are all required by thu biblu.—
j it employs no measure, pass-word or
ceremony, which is inconsistentwith
tnu purity of religion, or of doubtful
! morality. Uioiiierly love is its soul,
and tiie relief of suffering humanity,
; the spirit us animation.
Ills not an arena where uspirents
contend ior office or iairie; nor iu it a
market or place of commerce, where
avarice grinds tor property or wealth.
Lis an humble self-denying spirit of
mercy, taxing ltsell lor the purpose ol
! carrying on is works of benevolence.
I'iie world is its homo and the iheutrcr
of us action—the great held of its lull—
& tiie relief of suff ring humanity, the;
; object of its labor and love.
If the preachers would all unite and
preach total abstinence'; the liquor traf
fic in must places would soon become
unprofitable and go down. The
churches and the uioruls of tiio people
generally would bo greatly reformed, i
l! such a union of labor were none into i
the world would soon bo relieved from
half its sins and woes. What u itood
moral reformation aud improevmenl in
tlie condition oi men this would be ! and
how easy this work would be done, if
all preachers would do their duty. Aud :
their duly it certainly is.
As lbr preaching against what is
commonly called drunkenness, without
preaching against the use of drains, its
cause, we honestly believe, does more
harm than would bo done by preaching
body in its favor; because the former
encourages men iu moderate drinking,
as it is called, and deceives men into
habits of drunkenaess; aud all expe
rience shows that where that sort of I
preaching and drinking has prevailed,
drunkards have been produced by
thousands. Tue drinking of liquor liusj
been a very deep rooted and popular
evil. There are but few of us, who!
have not erred more or less in its use. j
But as vve now have light which was
not (i-joyed in former wars, let us sun-!
port total abstinence, and thereby, in
relation to tho use of liquor, “abstain
from all appearance of evil.” Ist
Thesssalonians, 5. and 32.
LEWIS RENEA.IT.
Mor&an Cos., March 24th, 1852.
l>ro. Brant///,—Over the signature
of F.dw. If. Myers, in'vour paper ot
the 13th March, I see a proposed plan
ot legislation upon the liquor traffic. I
am glad to see atten'ion called to this
subject through the columns of your
, widely circulated Banner. That some,
thing should he done upon it, we think
1 1 >' 1 intelligent Christian, patriot, or friend
}of his country can doubt. The plan,
however submitted bv Mr. Myers, is
vve think, subject to many very strong
objections, which wo will hero mention.
ft proposes to continue the liquor
traffic, with its drain selling depart
ment by license as heretofore; but
seems to be mainly anxious to elevate
the reputation of those who have hearts
and felling fitted for tho black business
ofthat trade, and tbe diabolical work of
the dramshops to a level with, if not
above, the character of honest men.—
That this elevation may he made sure,
the license is to issue to none but
such as can obtain a certifiicate from
“property hinders,” that the applicant
“is an American citizen of good general
character, who, it. is believed, will not
sell liquor to minors or negroes, fee.” —
The next round in the ladder to be as
cended, is to bo reached bv carrying
the certificate to the Grand Jury, who,
if they ‘ are satisfied with this represen
tation,” {of the property holders) “it
shall have the option to recommend by
public presentment to the Judge of the
Superior Court, that said applicant be
allowed tor clad liquor within the district
named, &lc.” “ Thereupon the Judge
shall order the Clerk to issue the license.
&c.”
i All this preparatory work, operates
a forcing pump to elevate from a low
and deep place, the character of a man,
whose soul, if he has one, is only fitted
for doggeryism, with all its work of
corruption, crime, ruin and death, to
an equal standing with respectable men.
The high elevation and mock dignity,
which our friend Myers proposes to
have impressed upon the surface, front
and brow of liquor sellers, and their
business, constitutes the worst objec
tion to his plan. It is the respectabili
ty given to doggeryism by legislation,
which has enabled it and its business,
so long to bear up in defiance of the
; moral feelings and judgment of all good
1 and intelligent men. It is the bolster
| ing and proping up of the character of
; the doggeries, their dogs and business,
by the means of legislation, which has
enabled them to destroy our kindred
j and neighbors, and to corrupt, plunder
| and ruin our people. Many of those
j who have heats and stomachs fitted to
feed and feast, and faten upon the cor
: ruptions and miseries, which they them
selves produce, are now sinking and
j withering under the moral influence of
the country, tlioir support and rnonopo
ilv bv the law notwithstanding. To all
.such, the legislation proposed by our
j author would he a much needod and a
[ very acceptable relief. In addition to
j the legal sanction and monopoly now
| enjoyed by liquor sellers, those to bo
spawned forth upon the country under
the influence of Myers’ plan, would, be
sides their license, hold in their hand
the order of the Judge—the recom
mendation ofthe Grand Jury—anti the
certificate of the “ property holders—
not a certificate of poor men or vaga
bonds, but of real “ property holders ,”
all going to show that the high and now-
J ly created dignatary, though full of dog
gery feelings and preparations, is real
ly a man of high respetahilily, and of
‘good general character too.” Now just
think of all this being said and done
for a liquor seller, either by the whole
sale or retail.
But speaking of his plan, the author
| says: “it is democratic,” —ah, very
“ democratic,” —“il leaves the matter to
the people,” he says. This seems to us
a very sad mistake, for they do not ap
pear to have any thing to do with it.
But let that piss. Wo regard the au
thor as being more desirous that the
subject should be agitated, and that af
ter investigation something should ho
done to arrest the evils of intemper
ance, than lie is that the plan sugges
ted should bo adopted. Considering
that tbo laws have long operated to the
benefit of liquor traders, regardless of
the interest of any and nil other people,
we propose a change in their enact,
merits.
Our plan is, let the next legislature,
authorize the holding of an election in
every justice’s district, to ascertain by
a vote of its people, whether the major,
ity of the voters are for or against hav
irig liquor shops in their district. If a
ma jority he in favor of them, let every
man he authorized by the law to sell,
if be choses to do so. Let there be no
monopoly—no pampered classes or
privileged orders of aristocrats, as we
now have, authorized by law to make
all the money which is to be made off
NO. 15.