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VOL. XVIII
IHij TIBiPERAKCE rAKKLR
IS THR
of the Sons of Temperance
AND OK TIIE
State Convention of Oeorsia:
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
RV \ ’in RItA.ITLY.
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tention,
iGNsWrEMPEiOi^r
Pledge of llie Soils of IViupe
rance.—l, without reserve, solemnly pledge
my honor as a man that I will neither make, buy,
sell nor use, as a beverage , any Spirituous or
Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider.
Officers of theOranil Bivinioii,
E. H. Mtkrs, G. W. P. Mocon.
B. Brantly. G. W. A. Penfield.
W. S. Williford, S. Scribe, Macon.
E. C. Giianniss, G. Treas. Macon,
i). P. Joses, G. Chap. Palmetto.
Wm. Woods. G. Con. Madison.
TSM 3i.ood worth,G Sent. Liberty Mill*
CADETS OF TEMPERANCE.
No member shall make, buy, sell or use
as a beverage, any spirituous or malt, liquors
wine or cider.
Officers of the Uraud Section.
J. VV. Henson, G. P. Macon.
B. Burton, G. A. !’. I’ondtown.
L. C. Simson, G. S. &. T. Atlanta,
ltev. J. S. Wilson, G. C. Decatur.
S. M. 11. Byrd, G. G. Oxford.
VV 7 . P Kino, G. VV. Thomasten
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I. O. of l&cchahilc*.
Officers of Georgia Dial. Tent, No. 2H,loca
ited at Washington, Wilkes Go.,Gr.:
John R. Smith, D. P. 0. R. Washington,
■C. R. Banleiter, D. C. R Atlanta,
Rev. (J. (J. Noriuan.L). L). R. Washington
A. H. Sneed, 1) It. 8. ~
K. II O’Neal, D. F. S.
L. F. Carrington, D. T.
C. W. liancocK, D. L. ..
Kechablte’s Pledge.
I hereby declare, tlmt I will abstain from all
Intoxicating liquors,and will 1101 give, nor oiler
them to others, except in religious ordinances,
or when prescribed, in good faith, by h medi
cal practitioner ; I will not engage in the traf
fic of them, and in all suitable ways will dis
countenance the use, sale and manufacture ot
them ; and to the utmost of my power, I will
endeavor to spread the principles of abstinence
from all intoxicating liquors
MORAL AMI ItEUUIOUS.
Sermon on the Maine Law
We make tine following extract from
a sermon preached at Chelsea, Mass.,
on the 18th R., by the Rev. Isaac P.
‘Langworthv, from Ist Timothy, i. 8—
“We know that ike law is a good one if
a man use it lawfully.” It is an able
exposition and defence of the provisions
of the law, as also a clear analysis of the
principle involved in the legal prohibi
tion of the liquor tralße.
“Hitherto our liquor laws seem to
have been enacted for the especial ben
efit of the dealers ; setting them up and
defending them by the strong arm of
law, in the miserable business of scat
tering “arrows, fire-brands and death”
broadcast among us. The rights of the
few, and not of tiie many, have been
chiefly regarded. And though the re
has ever been a confessed evil in this
traffic, laws have always been made to
regulate not to suppress and abolish it;
just as if that which is “evil, and only
evil and that continually,” could be
regulated by law ! Who would think
oi regulating theft, robbery, swindling
or gambling, by statutory enactments !
And then, the “regulating laws” we
had were vague and unsatisfactory,
filled with loop-holes, affording every
advantange of escape to the guilty par
ty; thus rendering conviction next to
impossible. And in the event of a con
viction, an appeal could he easily taken,
and the trial be long delayed; anrl in
the meantime the contraband business
could flourish and swell up a profit of
sufficient amount to pay half a dozen
•-fines, without inconvenience. Besides,
men steeped in ruin, or engaged or in
terested in its traffic, were as likely to
be witnesses and jurors, if not judges,
as those more disinterested and reliable.
And the penalities, in the event of a
conviction, have always been such, that
a profitable liquor business would
scarcely be impeded at all, by incur
ring one every week. Thus the diffi
cullies of arrest and presentation of ob
taining witnesses that would testify
truly, ofjurors that would be honest,
together with the great delays in bring
ing cases to an issue, and the slight
penalties which could he inflicted, nave
made our former liquor laws t he great
est of all legal bum 1 ’ tg- *■ m “a : ‘■ -
But the law now to be enforced was
enacted upon a widely different basis,
and, in its provision, marches straight
forward to its object. In ibis the rights
jof the many are considered, and their
, welfare is placed above the wicked cu
pidity of the few. And then, in Read
| of attempting the “regulation” of the
j nefarious truffe in intoxicating liquors
:as a leverage, it aims at once so sup
; press and abolish it, —to throw it out of
the pale ot legal protection, and make
| the article itself contraband. The liq
l uor, and the implements of sale, are
j prima facie evidence against their pos
i sessor. This changes the burden ol
I proof from the iujured to the injurer,
; where it belongs, iis penalties, in
i lines, imprisoment, and confiscation ol
| the liquor, have some relation lo the
| enormity of the offense. The right of
j search, seizure and demolition, are
j new features in our liquor laws, but are
j absolutely essential to make them
worth a place on our statute hooks.—
The provisions of the twelfth section,
against manufacturers and common sel
lers without license, are stringent, and
; must be effectual if executed. Penal
.ties may be inflicted by a single pro
! cess, and at the same trial, to the full
| number of clearly proved violations;
!so that three or ten offences, well au
thenticated in a single indictment, itn
| poses three or ten penalties, as the case
| may be. Add to this, the right ofseiz
ing and destroying the poison when
found in circumstances where the law
I does not protect it, the heavy bonds de
] inanded in ease of appeal, the difficulty
jof impeaching or bribing the witness
found in the liquor itself, and the sim
! plicitv, celerity and efficiency of trie
! whole legal process when once corn
menc and, and l think we are safe in say.
: ing that the provisions of this law are
good, —good tor the end designed, viz :
i the breaking up, and putting an end to
die most pernicious traffic that over
cursed the world.”
J U VKNI LE J)EI'AIiTMENT.
ANSWER
To Students’ Enigma in No. 44: Lib
erty Academy.—No letter suited to 11.
ENIGMA.
I am composed of 17 letters.
My 7 15 8 14, is a large creek in Miss.
~ 7 16 11 2, a river in Sweden.
„ 2 12 15, a county in Illinois.
„ 17 7 15 15, any thing branched out.
„ 15 4 10 15 6 7, isa word which means
to impart
„ 14 12 7, a large sea in Asia.
„ 13 16 14 9 5 14 7, a county in Ky.
„ 12 4 8 10 8 0, a small town in Rhode
Island.
„ 11 8 5 9 7, a country in Georgia.
„ 10 16 2 2 5 7 15 13 I,i • a county in
Alabama.
„ 1 9 14 1 9 1 10, a mountain in Europe.
„ 8 6 1 3 2 1 6 7, is a county under a
monarchal government.
„ 2 1 13 14 5 6 13 3, is a town in Ga.
My whole is one of the Grecian Generals,
whose persoiila authority, bravery and good
fortune, can scarcely be doubted; was sec
oned to none. No. conqueror was ever
more fortunate than ho; no hero more
brave; no monaach more splendid. And
his life was terminated in 33d year o? his
age.
To the Students of Pickens’ Dist., S. C.
W. W. It
Lannahassee, Ga., Nov. 3d, 1528.
Ihe Art o Tliinking.
One of the best modes of improving
the at t of thinking, says Sidney Smith, i
is lo think, over some subject before
you read upon it, and t en observe af
ter what maun’ r it has occured to tiie:
mind of some great master; you will j
then observe whether you nave been
too rash or too timid; what you have
omitted and what you have exceeded;
and by this process you will insensibly
catch tiie manner in which a great
mind views a great question. It is
right to study; not only to think when :
any extraordinary incident provokes j
you to think, but from time to time
to review what lias passed, to dwell
upon it, and to see what trains of j
thought voluntarily present themselves
to your mind. It is a most superior
habit in some minds to refer all tiie
particular truths which strike them
to other truths more general, sA that
their knowledge is beautifully methodi
zed, and a particular truth at once leads
to the general truth. This kit .of un
derstanding has an immense and de
cided superiority over those confused
heads in which one fact is piled upon
another without any attempt at classi
fication or arrngement. Some men
read with a pen in their hand, and com
mit to paper any new thought which,
strikes them; others trust to chance
for its appearance. Which of those is;
the best method in the conduct of the’
understanding, must, 1 suppose, depend
a good deal upon the understanding:
in question. Some men can do nothing
without preparation —others, little with
it; some are fountains; others, reser
viors.
Vuloar Words.— There is as much
connection between tiie words and tiie
though** a* there is between ‘he 1
PENFIELD, (iA. NOVEMBER 27, 1852.
thoughts and the Words; the latter are
not only the expression of the former,
hut they have power to re-act. upon the
soul and leave the stain of corruption
there. A young man, who allows
himself to use one profane or vulgar
word, has not only shiwn that there is
a foul spot ott his mind, hut by the ut
terance of that word ho extends that
>pot and inflames it, till by indulgence
it will soon pollute and ruin the whole
soul. Be careful of your words, as
well as your thoughts. If you can
control the tongue, that no improper
words are pronounced by it, you will
I soon be a l, lu to control the mind and
save it from corruption. You e.xtin-i
gui.sh the fire by smothering it, or
prevent bad thoughts bursting out in
language. Never utter a word any
where, which you would he ashamed
to speak in the pres ttce of the most re
ligious man. Fry this practice a little,
and you will soon have command of
yourself.
Lumpkin, Nov. 4th, 1852.
Brother Clarks, Dear Sir: —The under*
j signed were appointed a committed at the
; last regular meeting of Howcliitkit Division,
No. 58, S. of TANARUS., to solicit from you, for
publication, a copy of the fTssay read by
you before tho Division u few evenings
siaee.
Yours in L P. At P.
E F. RICKSEY, i
C. S. GAULDEN, v
C. A. EVANS.
J A3S6B Clarks, Esq.
Lumpkin, Nov. sth, 1852.
Brethren :—Your letter under date of 4th
inst. is received and your request noted.—
The Essay, a copy of which is solicited, is
herewith placed at your disposal. Bo
pleased to accept of my highest respects,
and believe me in “Love, Parity and Fideli
ty,” your brother.
JAMES CLARKE.
E. F. Rickset, 1
C. 8. Gaulden, ‘Committee.
i C. A. Evans. )
j James Clarke on the Liquor Law.—Pre
pared at the request of Howcliitka Divis
ion, No. 58, S. of T.
The subject now proposed to be dis
oussed bespeaks its own importance.—
It is engrossing much of public atten
tion and enquiry in every State of this
Union ; and is destined, at no distance
day, to became tire great battle field,
j upon which the final conflict between
j the friends and enemies of inteinper
| atice is to he fought. The most intelli
j gent and patriotic men, in every coun
ity of our State, are freely interchang
i ing opinions in favor of an effective
legislative interposition; whilst the
Grand Juries throughout our country,
jas well us the most enlightened and
‘powerful temperance organization, are
j sending forth to the world their bold and
j stirring condemnation of the traffic, and
thus a voice is heard which echoes from
the mountain to the seaboard, calling
loudly for tho strong arm ol the Law to
put it down. And at this day, with the
“signs of the times” fully spread out
before Us, it is the duty of ail who hope
for, and hail the triumph of total absti
nence to aid in that preparation, that
marshalling ofthe forces for this migh
ty conti st, which is now going forward
in tho length and breadth ofthe land.
Is there any thing in the nature of
this traffic or in the rights which exist
under it, which should oppose legisla
tion against it ? In other words, would
legislation on this subject he such an
interference in private rights and priv
ileges as to amount to a social wrong
or an unjustifiable oppression ?
Now it is admitted that dealing in in
toxicatmg drinks, has been, and mav he
u gainful business. It may, if diligent
ly prosecuted, and if the person, -,vho
is engaged in it escapes its usual con
taminations, lie the means of greatly
advancing ones pecuniary interest. But
that it should have the protection, and
ne exempted from the restrictions of the
law making power, it is no t sufficient,
alone, that the‘-liquor trade” should be j
a lucrative business. /Art employment I
may be gainful, and yet it may he a !
series of Hie most flagrant aggressions!
on me welfare and prosperity of socie
ty. The argument that it is’ my bust
ness, my living, and should be therefore
let alone, might he made with equal
propriety, so far as principle is concern
ed, with regard to some employments,
that all mankind admit, should, iri all
civilized communities, he lirmesitatirm.
ly interdicted by the government.——
Piracy, is frequently a prolific source
of individual prosperity, and yet the pi.
rate is by all Christian nations pro
scribed as an enemy of tho human
race. Though his business is a good
on <3for him, yet. as it is in conflict
witli the honest commerce ofthe world
the governments of all nations declare
a common woir against it. So with the
adventurer on the high wav. Blood
shed and violence are his daily business,
and his interest is frequently greatli
promoted. Many a rich purse is se.
cured by the strenght and energy of his
own right arm, And yet, where is the
nation or Kingdom where the high-way
robber is not punisued as the most out. j
rsgoujs criminal An 7 the same prirt.
ciple will justify the legislation winch
has taken place against gambling and
lotteries. There is naturally, amongst
men, a strong passion for games of
chance. To permit indiscriminate ga
ming and lotteries is, at once, an open
ing on society a flood-gate of demorali
zing influences, ft is true, indeed, that
many a skillful gambler, or fortunate
adventurer in lotteries, if let alone,
miirht be enriched, and each one en.
o-aged in these avocations, might say.
(hat he has a valuable chance for lu
crative results, which is Ins right and
with which legislative powers may not
interfere; hut as he is engaged in a bus
iness ruinous to others, ami opposed to
the best good of his country, every one
will say, that he ought to be, he must be,
restrained. Private interest must, in all
these oases, give place to considerations
ot public good. Buying counterfeit
money to circulate, might, perhaps, he
a good speculation, but no man has a
right to use his capital in that way.—
A wholesale powder mill, or a slaugh-
I ter pen, in the midst of a city, might be
| a profitable business; hut the danger and
j injury would render it the duty of the
city government to protect and defend
its citizens —or its outraged citizens
would protect and defend themselves.—
The very nature of social rights and
duties requires, that each member ol
society should pursue hit own interest
liu that manner and measure only, us
i not to interfere with the lawful inter
1 cst and welfare of his neighbor, or of the
community. This is the great conserva
tive principle, without which societies
eon Li not live a day.
Opium eating in the Empire of Chi
na, has obtained an extensive preva
lence. The Ernpetor, at one time—
considering its ruinous influenoes on
the intellect and energies and lives of
his people, interdicted opium eating,
and prohibited the opium trade. The
means of indulging this ruinous appe
tite were furnished by England from
! her East India possessions, and was a
most lucrative branch of commerce.—
So strong was the selfish and wicked
devotion of Great 13riti.in to the interest
of her people, that she trampled under
foot the wise policy of the Chinese
government, and enforced this ruinous
traffic at the mouth of her cannon.—
But the moral sense of the Christian
world was outraged, and tills conduct
of one of i he greatest and most enlight
ened nations of the earth, was con
demned throughout Chr.stendom, as a
most flagrant and bight-handed invasion
of the rigiitsof nations and of humanity.
Who ever doubted, for one moment,
that it was the right and the duty of tho
| Chinese government to prohibit opium
; eating and the opium trude ? And
who ever justified England for that
wicked exerciseof her power, by which,
for the sake of gain, she violated the in
dependence of China, and doomed mil
lions of her people to stupidity, idiocy,
and wretchedness l
1 again then repeat, that the mere
fact, that the liquor ttuffiu is a gainful
employment, is not sufficient to entitle
it to ttie peotectiou of the laws, or to an
immunity from legal penalities. The
honest legislators, anxious for the best
good of the greatest number, will nat
urally enquire, What is the moral in
fluence of the business? What is its
I effects on neighborhoods and communi
| ties ? What has it todo with the health
| and wealth, with the peace and Intel-
I leut, the happiness and good order of
! society ? It he find that, iri all and
I each one of these particulars, its effect
is‘evil & only < vil continually,’ how can
lie refrain, as a faithful servant of the
people, to give his voice against it ?
Social injuries arid Wrongs are the prop
er subjects of legislation, il there bn a
cause in a community, which produces
daily mischief, either corrupting the
morals, or t“e health, or destroying the
intellects and lives; or hazzarding the
private rights arid personal safety of the
people ; or imposing heavy and unnec
essary expenses and burthens on the
country, either a case is made out for
legislative action, orlhere never shetrfd
be any legislative action at ail. Hence,
if a contagious disease invade the coun
try, whose tendency is to spread far
and wide, all the resources ot legislu- j
tion should be employed to stop its i
progress. If an insurrection should
break out amongs a vicious and discon i
ted fragment of the people, by which i
the peace is endangered, the constituted 1
authorities should at once put it down.,
If our country should be invaded by aj
public enemy who is carrying are arid j
sword into the peaceful homes of our
citizens, the mischief must lie met and!
exterminated by the law-making pow.
ers and by the energies ofa brave peo- 1
pie. To doubt the truth of either of!
these statements would be considered !
an evidence of insanity.
Let us enquire tor one moment’
whether the trade in intoxicating drinks
and its free use by the people, is in any
sense ari evil analogous to any of these;
above mentioned, and such tin evil
society as calls for legislation ?
Die united testimony of tne most;
experienced a- I able ph> “ an’, ‘boss
whose auditions have been the m >st
fully and anxiously directed to this sub
ject, tell us that intoxicating drinks are,
to the human system, virulent poisons,
and that either directly or indirectly,
they destroy more livesMmii “even pes
tilence and famine.”
The records of the asylums for tho
insane in the various rotates, inform us,
that they destroy more intellect from
year to year in our country than all
other causes combined.
The annual sum paid by the consu
mers for intoxicating drinks is compu
ted at fifty millions ol dollars. This is
abstracted from tho active capital ofthe
Country, und is as effectually lost as if
annually sunk in the depths ot the
ocean. But this is not half. Tho idle
ness, diseuso, destruction of iniud, the
mortality, pauperism and crime; and
the general derangement of tiffins pro
duced by the use of intoxicating drinks,
amount to an additional waste of wealth,
which no mind can estimate or compre
hend.
And the influence of intoxicating
drinks over tho moral and religious in
terest of the people, is most blighting
and ruinious. The intemperute man
is equally estranged from chinches,
and all the appliances of moral influ
ence or religious instruction. His
moial nature becomes a dark waste of
depraved propensities and disordered
passions, which render him, in the mor
al world, a miserable and an unsightly
wreicli, a curse to himself, a curse to
his family and to his country.
And the influence of ufooholio drinks
over the sum of human happiness and
comfort, is equally disastrous and de
plorable, and will never be compre
hended until “that day when ihe secrets
of all hearts ahull he made known.”
Could'we behold the thousands, and
thousands of families in this extended
country, which have Deeu biought to
poverty and wretchedness by drunken
husbands and fathers, something of this
great moral Golgotha would be seen—
enough to fill the soul with indigna
tion and horror.
To which you will permit me to add,
that the most experienced judges and
lawyers have testified, again and again,
that of all the crimes which have be
come the subjects of judicial investiga
tion, iri the courts ofour country, nmo.
tenths owe their commission either di
rectly or indirectly to the use of intoxi
cating drinks,
i bus we perceivo that every great
interest, every imporlai t and vital con
cern ol our people is seen, by the use
of those drinks, to suffer dully, the most
inconceivable and and -plorahlo loss. And
lor all this dark catalogue of ruin, liter*
is nothing to benefit, nothing to mitigate,
nothing that amounts tn the h-ast con
ceivable intermixture of good, with the
mischief and tho desolation that is rol
led, like a pestilential flood over the
land.
After taking this rapid survey of the
evils of intemperance, who can say that
there is any principle of right or reason
that can forbid legislative action ?
The law-making power is frumed “to i
secure life, liberty and the pursuit of j
happiness.” This is its great and fun
damental duty, an imperious claim
which the people have upon it. If it
do not adopt measures, and the most
l stringent and effectual, to protect those
j great interests which are so deeply
| liompromilted by the use of intoxicating
drinks, and which so vitally affect the
happiness, prosperity, and best goo I of
i our country, its duties and trusts ure
! most outrageously neglected,
i 1 would ask what any intelligent
j tnan who might be introduced to tins
country, arid to this great evil, for the
first time would think on this question ?
Such au one would possess an unpreju
diced mind his opinions would be fresh
i and truthful. What, 1 repeut, would I
lie his opinion ori this subject ? He
| would at once say that legislative uc
! tion was demanded by the most impe
j nous considerations of public good and
\ by the strongest dictates of self proser
i vation. Nay ! lie would be astounded
i that there could be found, under the
i whole heavens, a people, o victimized
i by an evil, as wo are by this evil, arid
not adopt the most powerful means of
■ protection and defense.
And the reason why every govern
ment in every Stale in this Union, does
not at once put down the nefarious
traffic, is that it is a long standing evil,
it tias existed from ago to age ; our
forefathers, ourselves, and our children
have viewed it, arid familiarized cur- ,
selves with it, until we have ceased to,
be startled and effected at its enormity. :
Were it anew evil, with its existence, I
arid its ravages, and its dark mysteries j
of iniquity just opened before us for
the first time in all their intensity and j
extent, our people would be affected as \
the fieartofone man, and all the re
sources of the law-making power, and;
the sanctions and co-operation of an en- ;
lightened sentiment, would combine to
exterminate an evil which would ex-j
hibitin its train such complicated atroo
ity.
f?o far then as respects ‘h righ’ to;
legislate on this subject, there can be
no doubt, it results with irresistible
force, from tho magnitude ofthe social
evils and wrongs, perpetrated on our
people by this most unrighteous busi
ness.
And if the authority of precedents
und names can add weight to the argu
irtetit in favor of legislation by the
Slates on f bis subject, we have them in
abundance, and of most imposing
strength and influence. The Supreme
Court ot ilie United States has given
tiie full sanction of its elevated charac
ter and authority to the propriety and
constitutionality of State lagblatiort
down to tiie point of a total exterinina'.
I tion of the traffic; whilst tiie Slates of
Maine, Massachusetts, ami Rhode Is
land, where civilization and intelligence
and a just knowledge of tiie piivileger
ot tiie people, und of tiie rights of trade,
exist, to as high a degree as in any por
tion of the world, have legislated against
this traffic witli most potent sti ingency,
and are now in the full tide ot success,
ful experiment.
Bill it may lie asked, wherefore log.
isluie on this subject since “moral sua
sion” and associated action can do that
work ? Now, I admit, that these agen
cies have done much, and are doing
much toerilighten the public mind, and
to correct the habits ofour people. But
tlieio isu limit to these eflbris—there is
a point beyond which wo cannot go.—
There is a barrier, that stops us as a
wuil of iron. The grog shop influenca,
in its widtst sense, including all the
drinking and inerehanlile establish
ments in tiie land, who are interested,
in the traffic, and their friends and re
tainers, is proof against all our efforts.
Their power is formidable, and they
are in a stato of determined ttnd relent
iess war against us unU otrr cause.—■
They present to us a front, so wholly an
tagonistic, and of such inveterate oppo
sition tliat our efforts serve only to sin*
hitter their enmity, and to consolidate
their power. Within this scattered
and blighted territory of mischief, we
have no influence and never oaii have,
for we are sternly barred from all kind
ol aocess. Wo muy labor onward for
years, and these impregnable fortifica
tions ol misuhief and iniquity never eau
he reached ; but they will continue te
grow and strengthen, and overshadow
and defy us. It is very true, that out*
I associations can recruit und tally, and
unite the friends of temperance, and
upon neutral ground, and at all assaila
ble. points, we can send forth and do send
forth u great influence tor good.—
Within this sphere we are now doing a
work, and we still tiuve a great work to
do do. Wo are giving vuluublo tone
to public sentiment, whilst tiie aggros
j moim uflho enemy are prevented, und
ihe ground we now occupy successful
ly defended hiiiJ maintained. Beyond
ttiis), without tin; co.operation of the
strong Hrin of the law, we cannot go. lu
order that this greut reformation shall
bo consummated, the voioe of legists-
| lion must oe heard; uml the time is
rapidly hastening, if it tins not already
j arrived, when this work will come to a
| dead stund, without the co-operation and
, aid of the governments of the country
for the removal of obstacles unrl diliioul
! ties that can be removed in no othor
; way. And in the meantime, the main
and greatest field of usefulness, that
loan now bo occupied by tbo friends of
j temperance is, to use all prudent,
j and laudable means, to prepare iha
j public mind lor a policy, so indispensu-
I ble to the final success of our causlt
would bo folly to legislate against the
■ opinions of uuy largo portions of the
people ; it would bo unwise lo legislate
! over large minorities. The execution
of the law would be orumpod and em
barrassed, so as wholly to destroy itsef
; fioiency. The main body of the peo
pin must ho brought to see and teel its
necessity and co oporate fully in the
, measures which may be adopted, or
i legislation would be a dead letter. If
the time ever comes, and 1 believe it ia
j rapidly approaching, when no other in
j ‘.crestsand no other portions of the peo
ple shall oppose legislation but those
who me interested in the trade and
their minions and patrons, then I shall
believe that the time has fully arrived
f>r final action; every thing will be
ripeund prepared for this last great
movement, that must ultimately take
place before the country can be re
iieved (torn this great scourge of her
people. The writer hails the approach
of the time as an auspicious day for the
j temperance reformation ; and he says,
; let it come ! Again he says let it come !
The Southern Kmigration-— We
| learn that the emmigrants on the south-
I errr route have had much difficulty with
the Indians, and several have been
killed. There was much suffering
among ihe immigrant®, and parties had
gouge out from Yreka and Jacksonville
to relieve them, arid protect them from
the hostilities of the Indians. —Oregon
Statesmen.
Mr. Webster’s last words •'ere—/ti
s’dl live ”
NO. 48.