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VOL. XIX.
THE TiSItiPfiKAWOE BA.v.^xX
IS TUB
Organ of the Sons of Temperance,
AND C.V THX
State Convention of Ceorgia: ;
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
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SONS OF TEMPERANCE.
pledge of tli Sons of Touipo
raiC.--I, without reserve, solemnly pledge
my honor as a man that I will neither make.buy,
sell nor use, as a beverage , any Spirituous ol
Malt Liquors, Wine or Cider.
Officers of the pa:r. 8 Bivisiosi.
E. H. Mrs us, G. VV. P. Macon.
B. Brantly. G. W, A. • i’eihield.
VV. S. Williford, S. Scribe, M.tcon.
E. C. Granniss, G. I'reas. Macon.
]). P. Jones, G. Chap. Palmetto.
VV.w. Woods. G. Con. Madison.
TSM 3lood\Yortii,G Sent. Liberty Hill.
Fanny 3>lkß.
THE FEMALE HUNTE’.I OF THE WEST.
The father of the singular heroine
we are about to sketch, was a Ken
tucky backwoodsman. Her mother
died while she was an infant, and when
she arrived at the age of lifteen, her
father also died, leaving h-r a ptoi
friendless orphan. It is not sui prising,
that, at this tender age, she married a
Missouri hunter,—-an acquaintance ot
her deceased father—double lur nge
in years, but just her equal in poverty-
Her whole fortune was composed of a
cow, an old feather bed, a rusty frying
pan, a broken set oi teacups and sru
cers, ditto of knives and forks, with
horn handles, two large pewter plates,
and a wooden bowl, of Indian manu
facture. Such was the legacy be.
quoathed by her dec-used parents.
Her husband’s wealth might mate well
enough with such a p >riion (nought
into matrimonial partnership by his
wife.—A biack, uobtailed pony, a
large wolf dog, and a lung heavy rill*,
constituted the sum total ol hts goods
and chatties. 80 far, the mutual con
tract might seem fair, without extrava
gant odds on either side. There were
other considerations, however, which
made the bargain, one might say,
fraudulently unequal. She was a pret
ty, rosy cheeked, ruby lipped, healthy
lass, sky-blue ryes, golden ringlets,
and a cheery laugh, slender in form,
but of a wiry elasticity, and a c in
stitution of the most tenaoi ms vitality.
Vie, on the contrary, was a p ile, lean,
hungry-looking hypochondriac, who
might be supposed, from the wry ficps
he dis i laysd wlic-n tmeed ti bis
limbs in profitable labor, to regard work
an uupardomtbie sin. ‘1 lie entreaties
and example of his young wife, it is
true, did fora while stimulate him to
just sulKcient effort, in the way ol deer
hunting, to keep them from starving.
The couple lhen lived, in Western
Missouri. Fanny, with Iter own deli
cate hand, cleared out and ctMivate.i
n small field, and managed her domes
tic economy with much llirilt, that, not
withstanding the laziness ol Tom, they
began to accumulate slowly.
But an event occurred, in the sixth
year of their wedlock, that changed the
current of affairs, and startled her in
lie r wild schemes. A ‘gte.it i nival,’
under the guidance of the ‘Cumber
land Presbyterians,’ swept over the
West.
******
It seems that on S unlay the Cum
berland# r discussed the passage ol
scripture, ‘Take no thought far the
morrow,’ &c. Tom swallowed the
text, but rejected the comment, uud
misinteipretiug the sentence, literally
came to the deliberate conclusion,
‘that it was sinful to provide lor the
wants of the wicked body;’ and resolv
ed to act accordingly.
libras in vain that til-- industrious
wife debated with li- r theological
spouse. Her tears, arguments and re
monstrances all ended ulike in hi.s
usual spasm of jerking; but as to any
other sort of txertion he would not
budge a peg.
Fanny’s case was now critical in the
extreme, for strange to say, she still
1 wed her husband with a love that in
spite pf every imaginable damper, con
tmuejFio burn on ardently in her afF.-c
----lionate heart till death. She could
Hot make up Imr mind to leave bi n
Besides, they bad utw liw ohll I : n.
and it was übsoUilt !y t ngo .stale to m, 1
| port a family on the products of their!
paltry, stony farm. In thisemprgeiicy,
that weak woman suddenly developed I
jan energy and invincibility of lofty j
, purpose which the annuls of lhe world ,
j cannot surpass.
With indefatigable patience, she J
’ practised and learned to shoot, till no j
, marksman in all Missouri was her,
; match, and then us a solitary huntress,
took to tin; forest, and soon supplied
her husband and babes with a choice
abundance of meat. It is not recorded
of More tnat he manifested uny aver
sion towards tiie vension feasts which
his better half provided with so much ,
labor, however much lie liud been op ■
post’d to tbo use of such worldly ine-uis
iiimstlf, as the expenditure of'one need- j
ful thought for the morrow.
The wild region of Missouri at last ;
1 settled up. Sunny fields, waving with I
golden grain stood in the place of the .
old green woods which had furnished j
, shelter and sustenance for the abun- :
l daut game. The Bullulo fled further |
off, deeper into the grand prairies, |
nearer to the Rocky Mountains. The j
moonbeams fell broad and bright on •
the open botoms where the brown bears
used to nestle among the malted canes.
The led deer had been scared away by
| the siiarp s >und of Collin’s axe.
It became necessary that Fanny
shoulu move. She sold her ‘slender
improvement’ on the banks of the sil
ver Osage for a curt, u yoke ol oX''il,
j and a small sum of money; and loading.
! the crazy vehicle, with her six cliil- i
dren and ‘jerker* believing Tom, she |
started for Arkansas. In this new j
country, then a territory, she selected j
j a locality fifty miles from any settle- 1
‘ment. Were, wild animals roam -d in
i the gratest plenty, and her rude board
, table groaned beneath (to them)
! heaps of savory luxuries. This vvon
; der ot’ a wife now added rapidly to
their humble property. Her care
worn, wasted figure grew rounder;
her step, as she saddled tho black pony,
more elastic; and the whistle blither
I by which sue summoned her wolf dog
to tin* hunting foray. Even the laugh
! smietiir.es rang out as in the merry
j thoughtless huurs of her early youth
—loud, long and clear as the sweet
j tones of hell-metal.
One thought of a inoit gloomy char
| actor alone disturbed the calm flow of
j her joyous affections. Her children
were growing up with the rapidity of
i liastv summer weeds, and utterly with
jout education, or even the prospect of
an opportunity to obtain it. Tno idea
; haunted her day and night. Siie turn
led it over in her mind in every cori
civable way, but still could find no
solution to the torturing problem. Sue
; bad learned to spell when a child at an
j old field school —tiiat is to say, she had
i gone us far in Lfilworth as three sy 11a
\ hies, which by tho way, w'as nearly \
j the extent of her lame teacher’s ac-
I curate information in the pedagogical
j art. But her memory had long ago.
i lost in tho inverse ratio acquisitions,:
i till she could scarcely he said to know ,
I her letters. Often <;id she bitterly
i regret her iulenvss in the early sulio >1- ;
j house, and exclaim, as she fondly kiss- j
jed her children on returning at night!
from the toilsome hunt—
j *lf 1 had only learned to read, I!
; could now teach you, my dears. ’ Audi
her tears would drop like rain.
At length an incident oecure !, that
. brought with it a suggestion shaping:
; itself into a fixed plan, which enabled I
■ her finally to vanquish the perplexing;
difficulty. The author cannot do bet-!
ter than give the anecdote in her own j
artless words, as related to him in Tex
as, some twelve mouths aga.
‘fused to cry about it every night,’
she said, ‘oefore going to sleep, and
, tiieii 1 would dream it ail over again,
for indeed it was sad to think of. 1
knew that by hard work we would,
after a while, be well enough oil’ lo
move into the settlements, where de
cent people live; and then I thought
! fiow shocking it would seem for my
!_\oungones to have no more learning
than the wild Indians. Tho boys were
! getting more than half as tall as their
father, and Peggy’s pretty!* head was
■ even as high as any shoulders. It was
j enough to make a fond mother cry.
‘1 was then in tho habit of going
every two or three nnmlis lo Liuie
Rock with a pack of peliib’.s, to bay
salt and other tilings tout we could not
get along without. Ouetim; i brought
back some bunches of raisins for my
baby. They were wrapped up in a
large newspaper, which contained a
number of curious pictures. The
sheet was gazed at with ‘ r by the
foor creatures, who ha. >. .ver seen
ueh an uiticle in their lives. Lillie
Tommy asked with sparkling eyes, if
ii were not a bird. 1 tried to explain
the milter to him; I *o!d him what it
was; tkat it contained u tale about the
whole world, and that when persons
learned to reed it, they could know all
atlalios which were going on across
t ie blue in nmlaiiis, and lit ■ Itij rivers,
an t u>vu* over till* tea,. w -II a , the
PENFIELD, GA. JUNE 1, 1853.
i sights they saw every day before their
own doors.
i ‘O, ma, won’t you teach us how to
j read, so wo can hear from our old
i play-places in Missouri'?’ said Peggy,
| vv iio was then almost a lonian,
j ‘The question like to have broken \
my heart. I remembered how lazy 1 j
: hud been when a girl, and the idea was
! a sharp shooting pain, splitting my j
side into my very soul. 1 wept like a;
child, until even my own children
‘tried to comfort me. However, my j
tears did the good. Tears always re-!
lieve tun heart; they commonly clear;
; tho head ul-o. A sudden thought;
Ist ruck .me —a groat plan l might say.
a holy purpose, ll seemed impossible,
. but 1 resolved to try it.
* L'ii t uiuiii 1 hurried the youngj
I folks o.flo beJ, and having kindled a j
good pine knot light, picked up the
newspaper, and sat down to s go if 1
! could make out anything in it. 1 j
j smiled with unspeakable delight on j
jdisooveiing that 1 still know tlie letters!
| except tiie capitals. But 1 soon had
j cause to w eep again; for, after doing j
liny b.'si, and sitting up till daylight, |
every line remained a riddle. 1 could
uoi spoil out the meaning of a single
sentence.
•About sunrise anew notion entered
my head. 1 determined to go again
siioiUy to Little Rock and purchase
some primers and spelling-books, which
1 aftervvaris did. 1 then began to
! learn iu earnest, it was very hard
fora while; nut 1 sat up lute, after
j i’om and toe children were all asleep,
; and took my primer along with me
; vvlieti i went to hunt, i could study
;it as 1 rode, especially where the
I woods wore open, before i got within
reach of game; and then, when 1 was
resting, after lilting a deer upon the
pony, or walking up a sleep hill, I
I I *v ou;d pull ii out of a pocket which
( I had prepared on purpose in the side
ot my dress, and run over the pages
, 1 till 1 at lust could almost repeat the
• wuole Irom memory. I then commeu
; j oed on my large spelling-book, and
i! mastered that in the same way. All
• ! mo w inie 1 wauled to bt; teaching the
t children, but was afraid of teaching
1 1 them wrong, intending first to make
jurvseit ported, because 1 thought it
.! was House lo know anyihiug at all,
|j unless one could know u right,
i ‘While thus engaged, a lost hunter
I'; stopped a lew bays at our eaoin, and
.: discovering my studies, kindly offered
[■ i> assist me. 1 then found that 1 had
, | done well in not beginning to instruct
i the boys and Peggy sooner, i had to
! Unlearn the pronunciation of a great
many of my words, that sounded
frightfully when compared with the
correct moJe.
i ‘Alter I got straight, 1 bought a
primer for each one of the children,
; and collecting them together one Sun
day in lining- told, them that 1 was go
ing to teach them how to read. It
would have done your heart good to
’ have seen them. They appeared lo
be, running mad witli joy, lbr they still!
. remembered what Iliad said about tiie’
; newspaper, and ha J teased me much!
I upon Me subject. Night after night I
j they would sit up till twelve, studying
jiu their primers and spelling books,
; and all day oil the Sabbath they tried
more industriously than ever 1 hud done
in ilia school-room, until at last they
! were through both books. But I was
| sin! ahead of them—for loug before
I then 1 bud obtained a Testament and
! tiie Life of Marion, and had gone over
| both several times. In ibis way I
taught my dear young ones to read,
’ having of all taught myself.’
For the literal historical accuracy of
; tho foregoing extraordinary facts, we
: refer to M rs. Holley’s Book on Texas,
! w]i ie sho ref rs to Mrs. More, al
though iu her narrative she only sets
! down the initials of her name.
And may we not well be permitted
1 to and milt wiiiither the annuls of the globe,
and all the ages of lime, present a par
allel to tui# almost miraculous case?
. i tie biographies of the self educated
teem, to be sure, among the softer as
among the stronger sex. But did any
one ever before, either man or wo.
man, go through tiie palient, painful
proc -ss of voluntary seif-culiuie, wi.li
the same definite, settled obj’-et.
O.in rs have struggled with the lorri- i
hie (iioi'f.'in of unaided mental (level.
’ opulent from the desire of hope of glory,;
bui sue that huntress of the back weeds,
Loin purer, loftier motives, from an
inli iite, tended, holy, imteriial love,
arid vviiii the sole view of fitting her
self to be the teacher of her offspring,
cut oil ai they were Lv the insuperable
circumstances from every other means!
!of instruction. It makes one belter,
to read of such circumstances of exal- ’
led devotion to oonsicius duty, and
thus to know cud feel, although the
race of mortal heroes appears lobe’
nearly or quite extinct, that of domestic
heroines never can wholly perish, |
while on-'*-mother shall be hit to linger’
on earl It with a Iniglit-e'ed bat"? nest
ling ad jot her bosom.”
Death of a Drunkard.
••Uncle Harris lias the delirium tre
mens,” said Mrs T. to me one morning
us I was piling to my daily labors;
“did you know it?”
“I did not,” vv as the reply. “How
did that happen?’’
“Why, you lu.ovv that since Mr.
A.’s license lias been taken away, lie
has thrown open his bar, and allowed
every one to drink us much as be
pleases. Uncle Harris lias been ly
ing there dead drunk for several days,
and now is as crazy as lie cun be. The
doctor said this morning it was the de
liriuip tremens.”
At noon, as 1 returned, I found that
my kind hostess had taken “Uncle
Harris” into her own house, and was
doing all in her power to comfort and
cure him, but to no purpose. The
worm that never dies Imd fastened upon
his heart, to feed upon it for ever !
Tiie fires never to be quenched wore
lighted up in his soul, to burn brighter
and bightor evermore. Ho was perfectly
rational on all common subjects, recog
nised fils friends, and was fully con
scious ol his approaching end. When
entreated lo seek Hie mercy of the!
Blessed One, who is not willing that any
should perish, lie would replv, “Too |
late ! They will have me ! They j
wait for me !”
To his imagination, the air was filled 1
with bring ofu tohusand different forms, •
each striving in every possibles manner;
to torment him. “They,” as ho ul- j
ways styled thus.; creatures of his dis
tempered brian—or rather, we should
say, ol liis awakened conscience—were
on every side of” lum, above, beneath,
and around. To escape them, lie
would sometimes dart to one corner
of the ioo.n, sometimes cover himself
conclusively beneath his bedclothes,
and again would entreat us to stand
close urouud his couch, so that they
could not got at hi n. “Closer! closer!”
lie would still scream until we had
completely surrounded his bedside, and
then he would groan, “They’ve got in;
They are there! over me! over me!”
The manner of tneir torments was
as various as the shapes of the tormen
tors. Forked longues hissed him, fiery
eyes darted cl him, venomed stings
pierced him, and red hands snatched
him. Once the furies were above him,
sifting hot sand upon hishead, and he
entreated to be carried into the attic,
so as to bo out of their reach; but no
sooner had we taken him there than iie
exclaimed, “They got here first!”
For several hays and nights lie en
dured this untold misery. He refused
all food. No opiate calmed him.
Bleep never visited him. His groans
and shrieks of agony were enough to
melt tiie coldest heart.
I was in my roam, inusing upon his
awful state, when Mrs. T. tapped at
my door.
“Uncle Harris i dying!”
Never shall 1 forgot that death-scone.
There stood the couch of the dying
man. His glassy eye was turned to
one corner of the room, where it would
seem that something unutterably terri
ble was fixing his gaze; his whole frame
was writhing in agony;- unearthly
groans came with every breath. Ilis
countenance c mnot be described; the
glazed eyeballs, starting from their
sockets, still fixed upon that terrible
something in tiie corner; the quivering
lip, contorted by agony; the brow, from
which thin, white hairs, stiff with the
damp of death, stood up, formed a pic
ture which isas complete to my mental
vision us a sight of yesterday, yet
which no language could portray, no
nencil paint. With wasting strength
he still struggled to escape Ins invinci
ble foes, and raised Ins feeble hand to
ward off hiss pursuer?; then, with super
human force, sank upon his bed, as if
lie would bury himself beneath it
—and died.
Iu vain the fancy strives to paint
The moment alter death.”
Yet, ii ever “hell from beneath” was
moved lo meet the sinner at his coming,
was it not so at iliis time ? No one
could stand by that death-bed, and not
feel that the poer wretch was already
“suffering the vengeance of eternal
fire,” tiiat even on earth lie was tsur
rourided by those inmates of the world
of woe towards which lie had been so
long time tending, who were to part
from their victim never more.
A fearful load of guilt rests some
where about this business. Not all on
the maker, wiio gives the delicate flavor;
nor oil the v oider, who displays his
templing array of decanters; nor on the
moderate drinker, who makes drink
ing reso-ctahle: nor on the mother who
forms trie drunkard's appetite in the
babe still sleeping at lier bosom; nor
on the poor victim himself, who strug.
gles to break iiis bonds; nor yet on the
Christian community, who sleep as
they have long slept over this giant
evil. No, the guilt rests not all on one,
but some upon all. Who dare usium ■
even tue sunllet.par. of tins load ?
E. L. B. ,
For tho Temperance Banner.
The Anti-Liqusi Law.
NUMliEll ELEVEN-
It i v the duty of government to prohibit .
the Liquor Traffic.
In the course of this discussion, the
following propositions have been ad- 1
vaneed, and however feeble may have j
been the elforts of their defender, their
truth must be sufficiently evident.
1. Moral Suasion is not sufficient to
complete the Temperance reformation.
■J. h is not unconstitutional to legis
late against the Liquor traffic.
3. It is tho duty of government to
protect society from every public evil,
as far as it can.
4. The Liquor traffic is a public evil.
5. Prohibitory legislation could be 1
made efficacious in materially dimin
ishing this evil.
All that remains to bo done is to’
draw the conclusion from these premi-1
ses. Can any man doubt what that :
conclusion is ? If the above proposi
tions lie admitted, the inference is in- j
I evitable; so plum, that “a way luring :
man, though a fool, need not err there
in.”
ll the Liquor traffic be a great pub- I
lie evil, 8 iciety is bound, by the law of j
! s dt-protection, to abolish it. This cun-j
not lie ejected, but in one of two ways: |
i either by moral suasion or by prohibito- 1
iry legislation, it appears, upon exam
ination, that moral suasion alone is in
; competent to this great work, it fol
lows, then, that society must cither em-1
ploy prohibitory legislation, or contin- j
ue to groan under the weight of this
enormous evil. When reduced to ibis
dilemma, we inquire, bus society the
right to use legislative uutbority, to pro
tect herself from ibis ingury * We
liud nothing in the constitution of the
United Stutes, nor in ihut el Georgia,
which, in any way, denies Ibis right.
In tho absence, then, of any, “Tims
saitli the Lord,” wo have no other way
to determine the propriety or improprie
ty of legislating against the liquor traf
fic, except by comparing the good re
sults of such ii measure with the had
results. If the good produced predomi
nate over the evil, it is obviously prop
er to use the proposed means; bui if
the bad prcmonderaie, it is wrong to use
prohibitory legislation. If any bad re
sult flows from enacting a law against
the sale of ardent spirits, it must be
this:—the restriction of the liberty ofu
few individuals, and the preventing
them from making gain by u trade
which injures others. The good eb
fuels ot sueli un enactment defy enu
meration. In a word, all the enormous,
untold und indescribable evils of intern
perunoe would bo greatly diminished
almost entirely swept from existence.
Can there be any hesitation in deciding
whether tho good iu tiiis case, is more
important than the evil? *,Surely then
the use of legislative prohibition is |
right. In feed, one might utmost ex- ;
poet the very brute creation to reproach
him with folly, if upon comparing the
effects of such legislation, lie should
pronounce it injurious and wrung to
legislale against this direful public
evil.
But we will state our whole argu
ment logically, so that even the most
simple cannot fail to see its conclusive-!
ness.
1. ft is tin; duty of government (i. e.
Society,) to protect society from'eoery
’ public evil, as tar as it can.
H. The sale of urdem spirils us a
I beverage is a public evil.
3. Therefore, it is the duty of gov
ernment to protect society from “the
, sale of ardent, spirits as a beverage, so
Jar as it caa.” j
a—ls, then, a prohibitory law can j
materially diminish “die sule of ardent!
spirits as a beverage,” without produ- !
oing a greater or uu equal evil, “it is
the duly of government” to enact such
a law.
I)—A prohibitory law can “material
ly diminish Me sale of ardent spirits as
, a beverage, without producing a greut
! er or an equal evil.”
e —Therefore, “it is the duly of gov
ernment to enact u law prohibiting the
sale of ardent spirits a-u beverage,” or
j (to use the words with which we set !
out,) “It is the duly of government to
prohibit the liquor traffic.”
Horace, confident of the immortality
lof his genius, said of his own works,
“exegi iiioriuiiientum are perennius.”
Let me not be accused of similar but
ill-founded boasting, when 1 say, that
the argument mi tins subject is, in my
opinion, absolutely invincible. It is the
truth, v. hieli 1 would extoll, and not its
unworthy advocate. 11 any fallacy has
bee'i employed in this discussion, “the
error must be charged to the iiea i
rutin r than to the heart ;” arid the wrh'?
ter will be truly thankful ha any per.
! sou, who will he kind enough to point it
! out, that it may la; corrected.
Some apology may seem necessary,
far the apparently indirect course,
which Inis Cecil followed in these urn
; oles. Tiie ordinary, concise iing
lon this subject—addict,eng itself to the
j plain common •••use ol ilie roadei—e.
| sulliciemly satisfactory to a large rrra
jjoriiy of r. u lers. But there are a few,
who never feel fully satisfied an any
(question, without they can see elearl/
■ ihe connection between their oonclu--
I sion und first principles. For the sat
isfaction ol such persons in particular,-
! und that all might see the firm founda
tion, upon which our doctrine is built,
j ‘ vu have preferred to start at first, gen
oral principles, and proceed logically
and systematically to the conclusion.
The present temperance movemenf
in Georgia, that which was set ou foot
by tin; Atlanta Convention, seems pe
culiarly uduptud to the present condi
tion ot ilia Biute. Surely no reasona
ble man can honestly question the pro
priety of tiie legislature giving to the
people of the several Counties, the au
thority over the liquor traffic. If the
man, who epposses it, would lay his
hand on his heart, und speuk forlh l
what is there, no doubt lie would be
compelled to confess, iu tho
of Ovid, * 6
“Video uioliora proboquu,
Detoriora Sequoe.”
In conclusion, 1 take pleasure in re- -
turning my sincere thunks to the Edi
tor, for tbo patient respect which he
lias shown me, bv publishing these ur
tides iii bis paper. My readers let us,-
one and all, unite our hearts and our
bunds in the glorious cause of Tem
perance. Hoping iliut we may at some
future lime, renew the acquaintance,
which we have formed through tho
columns of tho Banner, ullow me, tor
: the present, to bid you a heartfelt, fare--
well !
ALBERT ALONSO.
For tho Temperance Banner.
It is passingly strange to me, that us!
ter a mischievous ami ruinous trallio
has been fastened upon the people by
unwise legislation, it should then bo
come u political and religious heresy
to request the legislature to allow tho
sovereign people to judge and act for
themselves. Now if it were right for
tho legislature to legalize it, believing
it be a harmless trulfic, when it demon
strated its mischievous tendencies, it
Wouhl certainly he proper for the same
legislative authority U lessen, as fur as
practicable, those evils. If the legisla.
lure should believe that the passage of
a law on any subject woulU bb prod'UO.
tive of good, it is their duty to puss such
a law. But it after its passage, its teu.
deucy is found to be evil and that own
initially, and that no good accrues from’
it, it is undoubtedly tho right aud tho
duly of the people to call upon their
legislators to ultor or übolisii such a 1
law entirely. Ann the man whe would
deny u free people this right, is green
beyond description.
Now it is well known to every re-’
1 fleeting man that the liquor traffic has
I never been any advantage to this or
| any other country, but lias bdert a con
tinual source of innumerable evils.—
A'nd in muiiy counties u largo majority
of ibo people not only do not want uny
retuil shops, but they would not have
them if the law did not put it info the pow
er of such us ure willing to do such
tilings, to force it upon therm Five
men car, force live doggeries upon as
i many thousand people against their
j will, and there is no ohance of relief
1 from the mighty tulij of corruption and
pollution, which those fife-monsters in’
numun shape cun impose upon the sons’
and slaves ot the five thousand innocent 1
persons, who urn deprived of their rights’
hy the strong arm of the law. No cm.
treaties that can ho urged will induce
those doggery.keepers to stop tht) iiefa
! nous trullio. The widow’s wuil ami
the .orphan's cries Inis no etfect upon
| him, he has paid the license fee, und the
work oi destructionmust go on—a free
1 government exists for the gold peo
ple, and, as such, is bound to puss such
i laws js will secure the greatest amount
of good to the largest number of people'*
and nothing is more unreasonable ilnm
for legislatures to legaii/.a a trnflic
which only pro-luces beggary, crime,
heart-i,leaking, degradation, pauperism
and death. But under the present sys
tem outraged majorities may protest,
ilie people, moved hy humanity, may
beg and persuade, helpless women uud’ 1
| children muy cry for bread ; but alas,
for us, the doggery.keeper has puid the
license lee, and tln-re is no remedy for
tho siili ring multitude. But what is
to he done # lit my opinion, all that is
necessary lo he dune, is to place tins
tiling fairly uud or the control of the
people, where K ought to he. ’ism
truliic having been legislated b&ynrtil 1
| tlie control of the majority, it remain*
tor the people to have it legislated back
under that coniml. Let therm eermodi
**fte the lionise Jaw, tout each district
may decide liv vote, whether any dug.
genes snail he licensed in that district. .
W hat objection can any- man-have to
t/iis ! It is all lair ami I'ght, perfectly
lOpubljcun. Where a• majority want
cJra.n shops let them have them ; se
waul the people to title in-tllfs mailer,,
and wlienr ii iiuipirity- v<>t I’oi the dog-‘
gery swein It Is the‘l lintel tU io*’.sß
oeoaosc ft is never
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