Newspaper Page Text
VOL. XIX
THE TEMPER AWCE BANNER
IS THE
Organ of the Sons of Temperance
AND OF THE
State Convention of Ceorgia:
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
By Btiiij tiuiu Brautly.
Terms—One Dollar a year, in ad
vance; $1 50, if paid within six months;
and $i 00 at the end of the year. No sub
scription taken for less than a year.
Letters must be Post paid, to receive at
entiou.
j\ Banner Almanack, for 1853.
§ 8 l!|!S I teillUMfS
& * 111 illlfli ft * liiilTlfmi
Njii --i —l—l—l—i i July !—i— —l--| i;-- a
X ; I 5’ -| 3| i| 7i 3 .1 4) 5| 8 7| Sj
X |iti u UiW'H is Mu linn !v] A
NIS 17 Is I'l 9ia 27 17 rl9 20 21 ! 22 23 \
SS|Mii2jr'i2S i at 21. 1 ,27,25: 29 ;Mp(
ja 30131 I I I 1 I'll I Ml!! V
£PS. -I 1! 27, 4! s|.\s- -.112.7 |I, 5| )
A 878|9 WH 12 7 9ll u 11 12 US
S 13 11 I*] 18 17118U9 It IS 16 1< IS 19 2U 3
X 30 31 11133 21 25|28 21 22 2S!2t|2Sj7’* 26 A |
V 27 2-si i| ‘ 1 31; 1 \
~— i 1! fs- 4. s;Sep I—l - ; | | 1 34/
ISO7 I SOIC :i 12 4.16 7SI S,IU
13 Uj Is! IS; .7| ’ Sll9i 11 12 IS 14'IS Ml 17 ?
X 211'2H22.il 24 a 2d! i: l<J 211,21 22 >T!7C!f
*• 27 2i'2V 30.311 j I 23 2ti 27,2- 29’ 3 \
A; til. —— ~ l 1 2put.— 1,2 j 34.5, 7A }
I 4! 5 S’ 7, s9l 7. ‘illl.i’ 111 12.1’., 14 X
‘.111! 11 j 12'13 14 1.1 If! *3! IS IT I S !■_•■ i7l /
17|is : l 20 21 ‘22 23!
21 2*> 27'23.22 30, A*..3l| Mix}
M;\T— 1 2 3 4 S 6 7|NV i~|—| 1 2! 3| 4
s! S.l'llll IS;i:< 11, S. 7’ s’ 0(1.1,11 f,
13 IS, 17. iMI if 211 12! !:>.[| IV I V , I . ■■ V
22123 24 2>|2S 2. St !•*. W I 27 23 24 .1/
29:311,31; ill’ 120.2,■;2'|.3"; V .
5 67! 8 9j mill ! * 4’ 51 7 yj 9x7 !
12 1314 r.'ir..i7'iv !!’’ •.: 12:1:4:11:13 lo N :
19 21 21 i ‘2*2 1 23 21 i’ll 117 I- ill 2o 21 22 23 ,
24'27 2S 29i) 1 |2 23.28 27, As 29 SOX
1 11 \
Krry io:in i j in fc drunkard who is in
the liahit'.fdrinkius; ardent spiriis, y
I. When ko is warm. V 11. Wl.vu he is at work. r*
3. Wlion he is cold. f 12. VV’hen it is idlo. ;'j*
3. When he is wet. / lJefnrc meals. >•';
When he <s dry. 1 1-1. A.fter meals. k
•3 5. When he 5 s dull. \ i.V Wi.en he gets up. V’
tj a. When he is live y. ( When he <ues to bed. M
vi 7. When ho travels. / 17. On hollidays. y
7% . Wlien he is at home. S I". On Pu’-lic occasions. Q
9. When lie is in company f 19. On any day: or
iO. When h*i< alon. / ’i>. On any n ca-ion.
S Every fri-nd to Temperance
Gsiiould take the ‘iVmpC'v.nce Banner:y
S“lf Temp.’ranee men v.ii! -not support X
N;.he Temperance Press, who will y
U ‘,KZX*’.'*iXAXXXX*
iH
SOKSOiA'EMfiiIiANCii.
<f tils; ?**>* -f
ranc."l> without reserve, solemnly pledge
ty honor as & man that I w ill neither make,buy,
sail nor use r as a beverage , auy Spirituous or
Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider.
©flsttrvr* t>! ti!<‘ li run t SiivisioM.
K. H. Mveiis, G. W. H. Macon.
11. Hit an rr.v. <*• v - A. f’enfield.
W. S. Williford, S. Seri bo, Macon.
E-. C. Granniss, G. i reas. Macon.
D. P. Jones, G. Chap. Palmetto. ;
Wm. Woods. G. Con. Madison. j
TS M 3lood\vkth,G Sent. Liberty Hill ;
Now is the time!
To encourage our Agents anti friends,
jy renewed and increased exertions to ex
tend the circulation of the Banned, and to ,
collect past dues, we olfcr the following
VALUABLE PREMIUMS! !
Any Agent forwarding Fifty Dollars, fori
New Subscribers, or collections tor past
dues, shall be entitled to the Queen* of;
England; a large and elegant Gift Hook.;
with magnificent steel engravings of the j
English Queens, with Lives. By]
A ones Strickland. Generally aeknowl- ]
ed'gcd the most elegant Gilt Book yet ]
produced in this country. Brice SlO 00 j
Forty Dollars, as above, Webster's Diction- 1
iify , quarto, substantially bound in ,
Russia Calf; or tbe Book of the Heart,]
embellished with elegant steel engra- ]
vino; or The Homes of American An- ;
thors, the most natural and truly beau'i- j
ful Gift Book of the Season. Either;
worth, ou .
Thirty Dollars, as above. The Sons ot;
Temperance Offering—beautifully illus-j
trated, and aa appropriate for !
a Son of Temperance —-worth 63; Lucy
Books, for a sett ol’ 0; and other Ju- ]
venilcs, worth 8L o( }.|
Twenty-five Dollars, as abov—Gems ol ,
Bcautv, with very fine plates; or I lie
Gem of the Season, fully equal to its
competitor- for popular favor. Either of
which is worth, ~
Twenty Dollars, for new Sub-cr.be,s or
collections of past dues, Records of V\ o
men by Mrs. Humans. with numerous
fine engravings. (Jilt Cioth. 5* ,J| J
Ten Dollors, as above,—Juveniles in cb.m j
and more elegant bindings, from 35 cents
j _ J vu
The above amounts to be forward,-d to
ns free of Hostage. The Premiums will
be forwarded to Agent* by Mail, free of
* °c-£r Should agents prefer the Money to
Books, the amounts may be retained from
monel's collected. . ,
Our friends who have net received
1 prospectus ot the Banner for 1853, and
whoaredisposed to aid in its circulation,
can procure a Prospectus by application. .
Friends of the Temperance cause in
’ cS*: let the Banner have a circulation
of TmThovsasd copies, before the close
#f ms.
MUKAL AND RELIGIOUS.
j IM| m i : mim iim
t Contentment—A Parable from
the Lehman. —lt happened once, on it
iiot summer’s day, that 1 was stand
ing near a wall, w hen a little bird flew
down seeking water. There was, in
deed, a large trough near the well, but
it was empty, and I grieved for a mo
ment to think that the little creature
must go away thirsty; but it settled upon
the edge of the trough, bent its little J
bead downwards, then raised it again, j
spread its wings and soared away sing- j
ing; its thirst was appeased. 1 walk- j
o up to tiie trough, and there in |
th ‘ stone, work, I sow a little lvde !
about the size of a wren’s egg. The
water held tin-re had been a source o’
revival and refreshment; it had fined
■ooiigh for ihr’ present and desired no
more. This is contentment.
Again I stood bv a lovely sweet
smelling flower, and there came a bee
humming and sucking; and it chose the
flower for its field of sweets. But the
(lower had no honey. This 1 knew, |
for it hud no nectary. — What then,!
thought I, will the bee do? It cun |
“'Z/.ing out of the cup to take a forth t|
flight; but as it come up it spied the!
stamens full of golden farina, good for
! making the wax, and it rolled iu legs!
; against them till they looked like yel- !
;io.v h sen, ms tilts bee.keepers say:
J and then thus heavily ludc-m, flew a win j
| home. Tjien I said: thou came eam
iestlv seekitg honev, and finding none,]
j hast been satisfied with wax, and hath I
| stored it for thy house that thy labor
1 might not he in vuiu. Thou likewis j
i shall he tome a lesson of contentment.
The night is far spent-—the dark
i night oftroubie—tnat sometimes threat
‘ eiied to close around us, but the day is
lat hand, and even in the night there
! were stars, and 1 have looked on them
: and been comfi-rted; for as one set 1
i could always see another rise, and each
was as a lamp showing me somewhat
jot the depth of the riches both of
: the wisdom and the knowledge of God.
°
Lay by a good store of patience, but
Ibe sura and put it where you can
! find it.
j From Wild Dick-ortho Rumseller’* Victim.
The Refermed Rumseller.
BY J. n. CtJRNVN.
i •‘•Mi! steep can tel! how nard it is to climb
j The atur, where w ines red temple shines
wiio
; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime
Has felt the influence of lluit malignant star,
! And waned with virtue an eternal war.”
I
I “i have been in the business,” said
! a reformed rumsvller. “In the best but
]in ver in the worst places, and ! know
; what it i, and to what it tends, not-
I withstanding tiio eloquent pleadings of
■ its apologists. I know what it is in the
j capital* of the largest Stains in the
j Union, and in the capitol of the a
---] tion.”
i “Will w hat do you think of it?” said
a less than half persuaded philanthro
pist, who found it impossible to satis
fy himself that ruin was not among the
necessaries of life. “I think sir, said
lie, ‘‘that it is degrading to him who
engages in it, and that of all other em
pioMiients, it is the most iijuriouw to
the community in which it is carried
on.”
“Do you think.” inquired the hesita
ling philanthropist, “that there is any
probability of duing away with it?”
“Oh yes, sir; of this I have no
doubt.”
“In what way do you propose to do
it?”
“By wise legislation, sir; and this is ]
the only way in which it can be done.” I
“Well, well, sir, but hasn’t our leg
islation been wise heretofore?”
“1 think not sir. The true, effec j
[live course would be to give it no!
quarter, to strike it from existence at]
once and forever.”
“But can this he legally done.?”
“1 think so, clearly. We certainly !
have a right to suppress any traffic, any ]
business, the only tendency of which
is to injure community; and as the sell-;
ingot rum, to be drank, has tinselled!
and no other, the right of the people to;
protect themselves from ils elf els is, ]
I think, beyond reasonable question.;
The stale erv of illigalily, uncnnslilution
a/ity, &e., has lost its torce, and is no]
longer in the way of proper legal res
trictions.”
“Do you seriously think that leg'sla. |
tors will risk the venture?—that they;
will be willing to go for so stringent a;
law as von propose, and run the hay, i
ards of losing the votes of uli those who,
are opposed to the nrieasuie? If you.
do, vou have greater coi.fi fence in thierj
uprightness and courage than 1 have.;
The law you propose strikes at a busi
ness ill which capital is now employed,]
both in the manifacture and sale of ah]
eoholic drink-. Hundreds of limns
imds depend upon it fir support. Tne
great interest of agriculture furnishes';
tfie raw material, arid annually draws
fr > n it o ‘ amount ol if? receipts.
PENFIELD, GA. APRIL IG, 1853.
I All this you propose, at once, to anni j
hilate, —a work, sir, which 1 think you
will find easier to talk about than prac
tically to execute.”
“The time was when ihese objeo
lions influenced legislation, and were!
so controling that the laws enacted j
were a nulity.—That time has now j
passed. Three, fourths of the electors]
in a large section, of the Union, are
decidedly in favor of the measure, j
i They are also determined that those !
i to whom they give their sutfrages shall, ]
j on this question at least, no longer mis-
I represent them. They know their
rights, and they also know their powers,
i They have deliberately, yet decidedly, ’
concluded to exercise the other; and
mere demagogues and tuna servers
will be driven into merited retirement,
while their places will be supplied by
men with whom principle will be para,
mount to poliev. A few years since,
in a certain State, when the school
question was befire the Legislature,
; there was quite an excitement. There j
wercinvn whose constituents had spell- ]
ed their *•kno skoo!!'’ and every body
! knew how they weald go. It was]
j said that they would echo the kno skool
jof their constituency; aid so they did. I
] But one ol the most intelligent and j
prosperous districts in the State had i
] sent to the Legislature a man who was i
] utterly unlike themselves. At length;
jthe school law was taken up, nil I the ]
| fidelity of their representations was of]
course tube tested. At this time, one ;
iof the constituents, a very intelligent
j friend of the school law, happened to
! ue >ui a visit to the capital, and his cu- ]
j riosity led him to the Legislature. H i
was just in time to hear one of the most]
eloq lent speeches of the session and
was of course delighted with it. But
when the vote was taken, he w is much
disappointed to find the representative
from his own district vote ‘-kno skoo
!In answer to the question, how so in
lelligent a district as his happened to
be represented by so stupid a block
bead as lud just voted, lie said that lie
I was a rum represanta'tves, sent up
j there to protect that interest; and that
] he should vote ugainst popular instruc
tions was not, after all, so surprising.
Hr siid he was comrartively little
! know n to .-lectors—had by agreement
with Ilia rum supporters, pledged him
self to the friends of temperance, and
r. their votes, —and was elected
by tins ruse by a largr majority. This
method of deceiving the electors cannot
now be successfully practised. The
trick is understood anl guarded a
gainst.”
“But how ean you guard against this;
pledges, you s .y, are not regarded.”
“ There are men whose past lives and
conduct furnish a curtain guaranty tiiai
they will act as they talk, its these
that we should elect.”
“ t hen you do not believe in political
calechUms ! ’
I
] “1 do not. The best assurance of
fidelity, I repeat, is the recorded con
duct of men, of whom we have now an
ample supply in all localities; and he
that at this day, is not publicly known
us an uncompromising friend of tem
pi ranee, should not he entrusted with
the responsible duties of legislation.
Elect such men, —arid that we shall,
is new no longer doubtful, —and the
‘Maine Law’ follows as a matter of
course.”
‘ Why did you quit the rumsellino
business?”
“For three reasons, sir. The first
was on account ol my family. A bar
room is a bad place in which to educate
a child, exposed, as it is, not to the
j temptations of rum, and the filthy ami
; loathsome conversations which rum
produces, but the worst of all possible
examples. In the second place, on
my own account. I felt its demoral
izing effect upon me, even while en
gaged in it, uud so does (very one
similarly situated. I knew almost cor- i
tuiuly, that it my life were spared, I
should be doomed to reap the conse- I
quences of rumselling,—liuh, respected
by the good, and uncured for by any.!
In the third place, on account of the!
evil consequences which 1 saw re-j
suiting to others. I could never be- j
lieve. hard as 1 have tried, that mosey !
w-us to be gained, no matter by what!
means; yet it does seem that this is
the only rn <xtm on which the rumsel
h r can, at tins day, justify himself. I
saw one*, in my own house, such a
feai ful exhibition of the evils of rum-’
selling, that I quit it at once and f;, r .
ever. Prom my own bar was lh<-;
rum given which sent a generous soul. 1
ed young man onward in the pith of
degradation and misery.”
“Did you do this yourself, sir?”
“No, sir, buts saw it immediately
aftr it was and me, and l never think of
it without shuddering. About nine’
o’clock one evening, while keeping a
public house in the village of B , a
young man w ith whom I was well ac
acquuinted entered mv bar room and
sealed himself quietly. Usually he]
was cheerful; but now lie spoke to no :
one. In a short tirnv a negro man
I came in with his trunk and us it was
I placed on the floor, he said :
“All! companion of my misfortune,
we must go again, and we cannot hope
to keep together long. Ths Severities
ot life will separate us.
“I knew that his hopes were in ruins,
and 1 vainly endeavored to assist him
iu regathering them.”
“That Mr. Jacobs is impossible,”
said he; “it would be us easy to gather
the cliatf which was driven off bv the
madness of thu whilwiinj. My hopes
are gone.”
“1 tried to ascertain what determin
ation lie had in view; but this was im
possiole; he did not secon to know. He
took from his trunk a package of let-1
less, then closing it. 11,s feelings’
were intense as ho glanced over the |
letters in a nurried manner; and then !
putting them together again, he j
ejaculated:
“My mother! My mother! your cup
of misery is full!”
“I left the room for a moment and
on returning to my surprise 1 saw him]
standing at the bar, with a deo.inter in
his hand. 1 would have prevented it,
but at that mament Judge L , and
liult'a dozen young moil entered the
bar-room. —Tne.se were the persons
who had prepared him tor the rumsul
ler, —the persons who had driven him
there, ami loi a moment they quailed
betore him. The Judge immediately
approached tiie bar, and sail, with a
hypocritical smile
“Gum*, cone, Mr. Wilson, don’t
take this mutter too much to heart; it
] vviil all be right in a short time. 1
: am glad to see you at the bar. I have
J m >re hope lor you now than 1 have had.
] vVe will drink together and be social,
; its the life tf the law to he social. Let
I us drink nd make merry !”
*• Puis young man took off his hat
and held it m uis hand, and his whole
uppeurance indicate.! ins utter despair.
Judge L. handed him a glass, saying
“Now Mr. Wilson, give us a senti
ment and matters will lie all right.”
“For an instant lie loikod into the
faces of those who were determined to
crown his ruin, and then looked into the
glass, as if to measure its wasting
curses, with a look of phrensy, he
I drank! Oil, bitter draught! I had
known his early fondness for drink,
and the great struggle which lie had to
resist the importunities of a per
nicious appetite. Yet I had supposed
! him secure in his own firm purpose to
resist. But when 1 saw him yield
1 knew that all was lost! Hence for
ward 1 feared he would boa passive
victim in the tempter’s snare, is the
usual, the aim >st invariable result. I
fell that il there had been no rumseller,
to have taken or given tbe advantage
to others, at that moment, that young
man would have been comparatively
[safe, lie would have recovered from
his disappointment; the storm would
have swept by, an J his sun would have
shone brightly agiin.—B it as it was
tliesun rose no more.—Rum perpetu
ally eclipsed it!”
“Did you ever learn what became of
this young man ?”
“Yes, sir; after wandering about from
place to place for sometime, ho enlis
ted in the service of Mexico and it j
has been reported that ho was killed at -
the battle ot Monterey. This, I think,
was not true, as lie has been seen in :
the United Sates.
“Did you ever hear anything about j
his situation ?”
“Yes sir. and it was had enough,
(le was a complete wreck.”
“And this example, Mr. Jacobs, led ,
you to quit the business?”
“Il did sir, and every honorable man ]
who has any respect for himstdf, tor
his family, and the peace of the com
munity will, I hope, do the same thing
soon; and those who have no honor to
move them, who care nothing fir them
selves, their fatniles, or for the peace
of the community, ought to bo forced
to give it up at once. Now, sir, this is
what must be done by legislation.
Heretofore, the people have been un
conseiously strengthening the bands
of the rumseller. From them has he
obtained his power to mock the pleas of
the drunkard’s wife and child. I think
•sir, if you will examine this matter
carefully, that you will agree with me,
that strong legislation only can cor
rect ii.”
“Indeed, Mr. Jacobs, I tlUuik you are
about right, and if legislation is tne
only thing that can correct it, we had
b itter have it at once.”
“Well, this is what we intend to
have; hut we shall meet opposition the
most strenuous and untiring. While
the friends of the measure are prompt
ed to effort by a regard ibr the public
welfare, its enemies are simulated by
the const derations of ieif-intores’. Jhe
former can employ only the arguments,
of truth, arid can appeal only to the in-i
telligence of those v iotn they hope;
to move. The latter wn! no doubt, as]
they have heretofore done, employ the
most unscrupulous of means. —Gold,;
their only idol, will be freely om love);
in the preliminary ea vass, til Hie bti ;
lop box, and in the halls of legislation.
But it will not now prevail. Mon,
above all price, will occupy the seats
too long held Gy tlio merit sycophant;
and when the question comes up,
‘Shall the Maine Luw puss?’ men with
strong nerves and stout hearts will be
feudy, with a linn and oliecring ‘aye’
which sliuli dissipate all doubts, and
gladden alike the hearts of tiie philan
thropist and tiie Christian.”
Ckpar Town, March 31M , 1853.
Mr. Brandy :—You will oblige us very
much by publishing the enclosed Temper
ance address, as delivered before the Cedar
Town Union Temperance Society, by the
Rev. J. M. Wood. We make this request
from the conviction that it will bo produc
tive ot much good ill ll(e advancement of tile
good causa.
Very respectfully,
G. I). HARMON, >
W. t. VVK.KINB, V Cora
J. R SEALS. )
I*. S. VVedoomud it unnecessary to note j
tli* tone ol application, compliance, ifco.
Respected Audience :
I'nu speaker would have greatly pre
ferred listening to others, than to address
the audience ul this lime; if for no other’
reason In.m because of the frequency of his
appearance betore the public upon other’
subjects. Ifut ths committee appointed to
procure speakers tor thu occasion, having
tailed to secure the services of others, he
yields this prctcrcncu and offers his mite iu
support ot the grave questions involved iu
tiie temperance cause.
Wo wish the mind of hearers directed to
one distinct proposition, accoinpani.-d with
arguments an i sub arguments tending to
demonstrate iis trutlifiluess and itnpor
tanoe: “ I’ne L gi -datura of (Georgia uui'lit
to regulate the traffic in spirituals lii/uors,
by the einctmenl of heller laws than at
present exist.”
First. Because it is clearly a legislative
subject. In tne formation of government,
individuals arw brought log liter m compact,
by certain stipulated regulations, called
laws, iu which Ilia interests of all parties are
supposed to bo regarded, ‘j lies’* laws, if
founded in wisdom and justice, protect the
property, character, conscience and life of
each one of the general comp let, To se
cure these ends tliere are individual conces
sions, of certain inherent rights, without
which there would be endless conflict and
the object of government defeated; aud
these concessions nro supposed to be vol
untary and mutual. Voluntary as he who
determines to be libertine, should cast,
himself upon tho wilds of thu world anil
reap the reward of his choice. Mutual as
it would be unsafe and unjust for one to
make them and another not. But upon
these concession there proceeds tho maxim,
“that whatever tends to the public good
should lie encouraged, and whatever to
public injury should bo prohibited.” Upon
this maxim governments, iu all civilized
countries, have acted from lime immemorial
j and upon the same principle, national and
i international laws exist.
It therefore, the traffic in ardent spirits be
! productive of harm to a majority of persons
affected by it—it productive of evil, dread
ful, alarming, and of curses too iiiftnerouh
to tell, the legislature ought to prohibit the
ruinous business: nor in doing which,
; would the republican doctrine, “that all ab
j struct and primary rights exist with the
| people,” be violated. Tout the people are
sovereign cannot be questioned, and tins
j legislature would but bo acting in good
! faith to take the required action. Thus, a
j man has complicated estates—property ol
I various kinds scattered over a large extent
! of country-incident to disaster or prosperity,
■ depending upon the in fnugeinont of agents
j whom he may employ. 110, as owner and
! sovereign Ol his own estate, employs agents
jin high and subordinate spheres,and swears
] them to carry out his will—gives specific
directions in regard to many tilings and a
power of attorney to transact his business,
j requiring them to encourage “whatever
j tends to the prosperity of bis affairs, and to
] prohibit whatever derogates.*’ These o
\genls,acting in good faith, when convinced
I that a destroying evil was spreading over
] the interest in question, would not hesitate
about, what was duty, and could not safely
wait to refer to the proprietor every question
which might arise in the management of a
complicated business; nor would they
think of being charged with assuming the
personal right of control in carrying out!
what they were pai l arid sworn to do. On ‘
the other hand would be doomed as traitors,
il they Hid not do it, and would bo turned
out of cilice. The action of pul legisla
tures concedes the principle involved In this
homely illustration ; and the whole question
io debate shows that the traffic his been I
coming within the scope of legislative pow
er and action; nor lias it been deemed nee
ess iry to call a popular vote before action
could be taken. Why has not the legisla
ture required parties to give bond and so
eurity to do an orderly business, and to pay
aline fnrthu privilege of selling corn, cot
ton, wheat, rye, &c. ? Because” these are
prop r articles to be sol I, and the prosperi
ty of the p mple is involved in them. But
why has the legislature required this of the
sell- r of spirits, and placed the traffic in the
‘Tiiniii il atlilu le implied io the regulation*
thrown around it? Bcause the good of the
people called for uciion. Any child, or
common tool, knows, however, that, though
Bn- I -gislailire has on- far > noiigli to con
cede all .the right m claim, yet its former
laws upon the subject are the in-rest farce,
while the people’s rights, property, wive*,
children and lives remain exposed to this
monster evil. But for the present, we
close this argument with the little expan
sion we have given it, and the speaker ar-1
gnes:
Secondly, That the people of Georgia!
audibly renews the and -rnand,ami the legisls-!
Jure ought, therefore, to regulate thr tralfie.!
We say renews, because the people have
always admitted the maxim in regard to the j
general good, and have always expectitd
their servants to carry out the instruction*
appended to’ the power of attorney, con
ferred iu the formation of government as is
impliid in thu illustration of a previous ar
gument YVe say, audibly, because Con
ventions are called—State, comity and Dis
trict meetings are held,—because Grand
Juries, iu various counties, atting umirr
oath as tho guardians of the people and ths
expanen* of their will—have passed resolu
tions—formed organizations—made jm.
sentun iits, and have called upon protecthc
legislators to harken! Audibly, beasilsa
thousands make loud mid bitter complnii t
against the nefarious business, and again; t
tne unwiso and useless statutes now exist
ing Thu cry of crime, theft, blood,
murder, is upon every breeze, rising from
every neighborhood, village, hamlet, oily—
from the good and bid—from saint
sinner —the drunken and sober.
If tho right to prohibit lias boon trail*,
furred to agents, and that right has slum
bored si lo ig in the t >r.u of a niixitn, s
that tho people, thu proprietors of a large
and sacred estate, can bear the evils of bud
regulations no longer; and if ths forms of
government are such as to n ake it necessa
ry fur agents to act under delegated right
to prevent outbreaks aud mobs among tun
uia-ises to secure per-oual protection, tba
legislature would do well to respect tba
voice, of a sovereign people. The sacred
interests are not of so little importance as
that the people will put up with ingenious
evasion. They consist in character, iu in
tellect—the right of quiet, in health, pros
perity— mothers—v\ ives—ixAdrun, —tb*
blood of freemen.
No one questions that sill theso arc In
volved aud claim protection against the iruf
liv. in ardent spirits, but it will bo remem
bered that the prusout movement does not
require public agents to do the dreadod
work of taking all the responsibility of do
ing right, of doing the very best for the court
try that could be done, but only requires the
legislative form to carryout the unit of tli*
sovereign people, who- propose to deter
mine aud make effective a law by a majoiity
vole, by counties or districts. That such a
movement wou and bo strictly republican, a fool
would not do ly, and that it is auli-Amaricau
or anti-Georgian, no wise man will assert.
Tnat Home counties or districts, under tha
blindness of prejudice, induced by the evil’
itself, might retain the traffic, is Very prob* •
tile, in doing which they would only entaH
and perpetuate misery upon thxcaselvet,
and be marked as self- destroyers and as
w,thdrawers from sale principles of govern
ment , yet this would ne a poor reason for
perpetuating this blackest of curses, upon
other sections. That demagogues wouU
tremble lo lose this engine of promotin aud
favor, is very natural, but that patriots and’
s atesinen should dluad to touch it, is ab
surd in the extreme. If, then, the legisla
ture, because of its petition and obsrocUr,
per se, and because tiie people audibly require
i , slmul i act for the good of the cnuulry ;
and ifihe legisltture h u conceded the traf
fic to bn injurious, by putting a tux upon
it, and by making it criminal to engage in
tiie business without bond and security,
who could deny thu right of the sune body
to act upon the aatll-j subject, and who
could oppose such un action as would make
effective a law to prohibit or restrain ths
evil, and this law subject to tho vote of the
people, from whom all legislative power is
derived f Surely no one.
Toirdly. The legislature oeght to Lika
action, because not to do it would be op
pressive in the uxtrohie. ‘l’lia employer
siys to the agent, “in transacting my busi
ness, and in the m magorn mt of my largs
and extensive estates,you are to use a prop
er portion of luy wealth to pay your faro
ami expenses, ami llio expenses of high and
subordinate officers an 1 enough also to psy
stipulated wages This you may denoini
n ilc tax and you shall have power to raise
it in any proper way, mid all parlies in
good faith shall he bound to bear with their
portion. Hut taha'care you do not discrimi
nate unfairly, urid above all, be careful riot
to’ abuse tlie prosperity of my os'.ate, by
raising funds from the wagon of iuiqArlty,
for I profess to bo honest and upright.—
Take special care that, by neglecting the
general good, you do not so order it last
disaster amt rum should toll >w unwise regu
lations, and thereby I should sulfur double
taxation, and onu abundant field bu morn
than consumed by this death of another.—
R‘member that a crop may not only become
blighted, but may send out infectious dis
ease to the destruction of those to whose
lives and comfort it was donigned to
minister. Rnueinber tlmt the agent ou {at
not so to net as to oppress the employer.’’
Who denies the application to Georgians,
relative to the influences of the liquor traf
fic mid tile license laws of the Slate? Af
ford protection, by law, by requiring the
payment of a nominal sum, is too ridiculous
to deserve respect, it is but putting a price
upon thistles to ho sown in the people’s’
field—upon gall to sweeten their coffee—-
upon ti eto p.-s.-r-o tuoir cotton jpoa
wicked profanity to render their language
chaste It is to offer a rewir.l to perjury
and debauchery, to make men truthful and
sober—to poverty, to make the suffering
and miserable, rich and happy—to lunacy
and ignorance to elevate intellect—tocriinea
lo heighten morals. Lis to bid for the
sc dps of widows mi 1 orphans to raise their
proper protectors from thu drunkard's
grave—tins drunkard’* hell; —it is putting
pray upon withering, bleeding shame to give
| character us'd respectability—upon blood
and murder to secure the live* of the Minn.-
cent ami dead! Surely the huavons blush,
an i Gt-orgi i trembles under the shameful
mistake, “(due field consumes another, did
ive say !” It were safe to-*ay fifty. Con
sume them how? By the license system;
the treasury gets fifty doll *s, am) then thu
people pay all 1 lie costs of criminal suit*—
Jailor’s t- e*—-the time and labor of officers
lost—pays for pauperism—lose the time of
many citizens induced to di-*iputiou—sus
tain die degradation of their son* and daugh
ters—-the evils of lir/uur-drinking gambler*-
tli-s petty thefts induced by drunki-nnoss
th* itifor. of negroes, arsd often the Is-s o!
NO. 10.