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Murmurs, poor sinner, thou shalt live. I \nd shall I live! <Hi tlod’ how kind— To a tossed mortal on that sea; How could my thoughts have been so blind When thinking on eternity. No good Samaritan [ found, When wounded in life’s thorny way , J’.ut faith and hope tnv spirit crowned, And point to an eternal day. ®eittpe?£ttce THE IHfili r OF A (OM.MOVW EAI.TH TO SFPPRESS | THE I.IQCOB TRAFFIC. The idea of prohibiting a person from going and coming at pleasure, or buying and selling what he pleases, is something at which the Anglo-Saxon free man spontaneously revolts; and which he is ready nd willing to resist. Such,an impulse i- the legiti mate offspring of our free institutions—and a lauda ble principle when curbed by the dictates of reason and judgment. Hut absolute individual liberty is to tally incompatible with any thing like wholesome civil government, experience has proved beyond question, that 10 secure peace and happiness to man ] in his collective capacity, the State must interfere’ with the traffic in many articles productive of a vast; deal ot harm to society. Laws against the coming j of money —against unqualified persons engaging in j the practice of medicines against gaming and coun terfeiting—are examples in which the Slate ha,-, as- , -uiued the right of depriving man of hi- individual j liberty’—of prohibiting him from doing certain j things, that thereby the good of society may he se cured.- ■'inhiK [lo/i'ili xujtruno hi. The question then, whether a people have the. right to suppress the traffic in intoxicating liquors, turns upon its bearing upon the public weal. Any trade, employment, or use of property detrimental to the life, order, or health of the people is, in the eve of the law , a nuisance, and should be abolished. If ibis traffic affects the sources of prosperity and happiness; if il disturbs the peace, order, arid strength of a community, it becomes the peculiar; prerogative of a commonwealth to check or suppress • it. It would lie a woil. of supererogation to dwell hen- upon the baneful effects of spirituous liquors, in a moral, social, anti political pe.nt of i f, w. ‘1 be lapid dissemination of vice and immorality, tin vast deslruction of propetiy , and the speedy hastening of death, enu-.d bv this institution (for -ueh it has h rome> arc too manifest to every one, to call lot . comment. The Traffic is a social evil —a civil crime—antago nistic to the first principle - ot -ociety and govern ment. There is nothing so much to be dreaded nothing so prejudicial to tic* well-being of society nothing which sooner breaks down morality and j justice, and nothing which aim.- s. fatal a blow at the very foundation ot -noial and political prosperity If a business whi h disseminates the seeds of cor-. mption. |ioison- tho peaceol a people, and consumes their substance, be an evil, cert airily humanity never groaned under one so appalling as this. It pervades every ramification of society; the hovels of poverty and the abodes of alHuencc, being alike victims of its deadly sting. Vet those who advocate the prohibition of a traffic , so comprehensive in its ruinous effects are contin-. ually asked: •‘’Why w ill you infringe upon our rights by forbidding that which i- lawful?’ This argu ment we consider weak and easily lefuted. Ihe sanction and protection of law has been -o long given to this trade, that to many it seems to l>o not only legally right, but even morally right; and hence the question above. But its being lawful by no means ScDotfi) lo <Tnnpfrantf, Cittraturr. tfmrral fntdlipcc, anb tbr latest .Rttos. ‘makes it morally right law being nut ah- lute, but I in many instances only rehitive. and illicit grossly perverted. i And why is thi Liquor'Traffic lawful: Simply because it hj hr. Tear avvav this iu> | penetrable -hield which has boon cast around it by j a deluded, infatuated people, and it stand’ out in bold relief a soeia) and political evil; a crime in the sight of law, both human and Divine. Had it been left to meet it’ fate as (be moral sen timent of the people has been gradually corrected and re educated, in all probability it would ban been ! tanked among those nuisances subject to the severi ty of the law. Hut the protection of law ha - stood ! forth the strongest tovver upon that mighty castle : within which this dangerous structure > min and misery has been enclosed, and through which the | ponderous engines of moral suasion have not and ’ cannot make a breach. But admitting that its being j protected by law heretofore, is no valid reason why j it still should be; the opponents of a prohibitory law take a stronger ground, and absolutely deny society (hr right to legislate upon the subject, upon I to-ground that such would be an intolerable invasion ot per-on lal liberty that it Would be depriving the freeborn J i citizen of his natural right. Say they ; ••\V.- are ; free American citizens ; and the Sun has no right; (to interfere with our private pleasures, or hinder us | I from dealing and drinking as we please.” Personal I liberty, we admit, is a sacred thing- a boon front j God of which we ought to be jealous. Much in this j life depends upon it. The safety and happiness of the family fireside, as well as the glory of a nation, j ■ rest upon it as a corner-stone. But our idea of it j must not he perverted. The assumption that each i individual has a right to use his own property vv ith j out restraint, which forms the major premise of this J argument, is grossly fallacious and untenable. We | are not beasts, but social beings, endowed with the i eleatents of the highest improvement; and as such, j must necessarily surrender a portion of our so called : natural rights, by making a sacrifice and compromise | for the general weal. Natural liberty is necessarily i limited by man’s social condition; and such restric tion the State is compelled to impose, both to ensure protection against evil and to further the ends for which it was organized. A citizen may be in the possession of a lawful weapon; but to indict death or j i injury with it upon his fellows in a w anton, cruel j manner, would he an act of superlative guilt. Lacli j | one has a right to use his own property for the pro- j j motion of his special interest and happiness, so long jas he does not interfere with that of others. And in | a like position must the dealer in intoxicating liquors ; ibe placed. To restrict him in the improper use of I | his dangerous commodity would he iu accordance j i with the end arid aims of government. For what is the object of government? Certainly not to expose its subjects to the outrages < I violence and brutal force. Far from it. Its end is protection—protec-; | tion of the weak against the strong—of the innocent i j against the law less and guilty. But the chief power, I the f/itn non ol protection, is prohibition. Fiver \ statute of the penal code is strictly speaking a pro hibitory law, based upon the presumption that some private righi and interest has been and may lie again invaded. I,aw itself, is nothing more than a shield , with which to protect the weak against the strong, and to secure justice to all. . F.vory reasonable man then, will admit that what j ever seriously disturbs.the quiet and peace of the j community, fads under the jurisdiction of law as ! something to be suppressed if possible. Now is not i tlio Traffic in alcohol an agent calculated to produce | this effect ? it, scarcely calls for even so much as as j serf ion. It will overbalance by the enormity of its ’ evil, the combined effects of theft, arson, and a host :of other ofiences punishable by law . D stands im peached in the name of law and liberty - in the name of virtue and humanity in the nameof all that is ho ly mid sacred, as the great fountain-head whence springeth ali those woes and ill- which human ilcsli is heir to. L : ke a destroying angel, commissioned and deputed hv the law itself, it wings iis way to | ■every palace and hovel in the land, bringing naught ! but ruin and desolation. ! _ ‘ let, while tin- right is granted to prohibit theft, j gaming, counterfeiting, lend houses and the like, we , art- not allowed to oppress a traffic more appalling in its effect- than all these; infiring, a- it doc-, it- , baneful poisons into (very vein of the body politic- Where j- the consistency where i- tin justice wliie the policy of such legislation? The light to legislate in the one ■ ,o< implies die tight to legislate in the other; while the most formi dable atrav of frightful fa- in prove i.’ m < —ity of so doitnr. But as a Ik-i resort, the minsolling ...vdlt-r, anti ihe opponents ol a law so beneficial la ii- (endcurv and benevolent in it- aim, take refuge behind tlic j Constitution of tin I . S. If a prohibitory Inw is on 'constitutional, il become,- -o either by violating some article ol the Constitution ol the Inion, or the Con , sum;ion of the State. H e hear it a—cited that the SlaUrltas no right to interpose the strong arm ot the ” law to suppress this traffic because the runiseller pays a duty upon his good.-; and therefore has a right to sell, superior to Ihe power of tin Slate to forbid bis so doing. But the (,'biel .lustices of the .Supreme Court have more than once decided that a prohibi , lory law is strictly in accordance with tin- ( oust it it . tion. A .State lias the power to regulate its ow o trade. Chief Justice Taney declared : ‘Leery 5t.,!,. may regulate it- own internal traffic accotding to its own judgment, and upon its own views •( the inteient arid w ell-being -d it- citizens If any .State deems the retail and internal tiaflie in ardent spirit- injuri ous to its citizens, and calculate, to produce idle ; ness, vice, or debauchery, I see nothing in the Con- re\FBB, liEIIMIi UTCBBAI, Jl-LI 21, R. stitntion ot the I nited States, to prevent it IVm reg ulating mid restraining the traffic, or from prohibit-1 ing it altogetlior, ififc thinks proper.” And such ha.- ‘ been the declared opinion of many of the .lustices and Associate Judge.-. This, too, is the policy pur stud by every State in (be Ftiion iti other articles, and why not in this? Docs not South Carolina say to her citizens: Aon shall he allowed to traffic in slaves within the hunters of the State, -while New A ork denies the same privilege to lier citizens':’ And will any reasonable mail, who isnl all versed m the charactei ol our government, in candor sav that a comiiiuiiHy or State has no right to abolish a nuisance? Should any man or number of men, im port and engage in the (rutile of an article which all know and feel to he destructive of the lu st interest of the people, who will say, (hat from the fact that such an aiiicle is not specifically denounced hv the ( oust itut ion, therefore we have no povv er to suppress it? Never could our ancestors -characterized as they were by wisdom and forecast - have been capa ble ot framing and adopting a Constitution so im provident and tyrannical. A’ (in as the Slate is concerned, the question has 1 long since been decided. If lias, by tin- adoption of, the license system boldly asserted its rigid to regie | late it ii'/ /ilnttini. “The light to take ten pounds! implies the right to take a thousand. '’ So the State i is the only umpire as to how fnr its interference shall extend. ‘I he license system is prohibition in the strictest sense of the term. It is reselling the traffic from the hands of the many’ and confining it to the few. it is saying to \. li. and <you may be allowed ! to sell; while to all others it refuses the same privil- 1 ego. We are thus led to eotiehtdo that n State has a per fect right to suppress this mischievous husiness. As to the expediency, we will here sav nothing; only i that it is our humble opinion that no greater blessing I could be bestowed upon our beloved Slate, than by ‘ the immediate enactment of a prohibitory law; vve have little doubt that it would work satis far tori I v ami redound to our social prosperity.—V fl'm). Trait. 1 SHOFI.It THE 1.101 OR TRAFFIC HE I'UOHliilT’Ell ? Why not? Is (here any reason for its continu ance? Does it i-otdribute in the smallest measure, or in any sense to the welfare of society’ Does it benefit a single individual in the State, except so far as il tends lo the pecuniary profit of the parties cn- 1 gaged in carrying it on: The time was when argu ment and fact were neri s-.-u v lo solve this question; for men w ere .once mis educated into the belief that intoxicating liquors were essential lo health, endu rance, and the true enjoyment of life. Happy, that belief no longer beguiles the intelligent portion of J community Physiology ami experience have dem onstrated, beyond the possibility of successful con j j tradiction, that alcoholic I leverages are in no case i j necessary to health, physical development, intellect j ; ual vigor, or social happines As /n'rrrntji) i, they ; j are utterly useless Why, then, should traffic in! I them in- permitted? But they are not merely ./.*,• they are abso j lately hurtful to all who use them. Physiological I \ science has shown, by ineontestible proofs, that they ! are hurtful to every pail of the human svstem; that j they tend to create disease in the organ of sense, in the nervous system, in the dige live functions, in the organs ol respiration and circulation, and tot shorten life. IninitnertlMe facts and unquestionable statistics prove them to he the cause of a very large proportion of the poverty, disease and crime, which disfigure the beauty and distract society . Their in fluence i.- ihuHshown to Iw <-it, only nit, and n ilron- j I tinon/lj /. They arc slreiuus of fire, -eorching and ;destioying everything they touch Before ihern whatever is beautiful in person, lovely in character, glorious in intellect, and attractive in piety, are i ili lessly -wept away lo destruction. Were these ficrv streams permitted to increase in number, breadth, and depth, unchecked hy law or religion, they would ■ utterly will and destroy every thing that gives dig nity to the human race Hey would change our cities into waste places, and-pread desolation, dreary a- death, over the face of the land. Why, then, , should riot all traffic excepting for medicinal arid mechanical u-es in such h'rtj’at liquors be most i effectually prohibited” It il be not within the true province of law to am ■ nihilatc such a social nuisapcc as the liquor traffic, ‘ we very seriously misunderstand the natun and j purpose of law. VAliat i- law ‘ God has Implanted , a sentiment ol justice in every human mind. Law’j is that idea iii.-titutionaliz< and. AA hat jilstiei requires, law enjoins: what it prohibits, law punishes. AA'liat,; then, is its work, but to prohibit and to punish in j the individual, whatever ig” i'-ty discover* to be un just ancl hurtful to it welfare? AA hnl its end, if not 1 to fay its strong and in e.-istiMe arm on every tnau ’ who seeks bis own weal by sacrificing the interests ! and happiness of otheis ? Mn-h being the object of right law, the trafficker hi liqiioi is fairly aiiiennhh toils jurisdiction. His business is mi injustice. He trample- on the right of society to demand of each of it-members a due regard to tin common inier’- t. lie -a< riliees the interests of others to promote his own. lie utterly despises the welfare of the many. The ea-tern na ’ tion* believe in an ideal demon called a ghoul, w hich, the myth says, feed* on human bodies. The liquor trafficker i- more than a realization of this ideal de mon; for he actually feed* on the “tiro is, jmverty, and ruin of men. Is not this tank injustice ? It is: and law should smite it mercilessly to the dust. But, it is pleaded, tin /njUtn of the dealer should be respe ted. AA'bat r ights? Whence did he obtain the right to live by a traffic w hich is o full of terri ble power in ritlc men oi tlu-u ioone\', wii reason, : affection, happiness, ami lit • N , -ueb right exists, or can cxisi 1 1 In- miiv prey on s*a. iet v li-r bi.sow-n i profit, why not e 1 1 • - ambler, do eounn i feiti'i-, die pander, r, the lliiel? 110 dillv-rema- between him and diem is one ot mode only l’be\ all agrto in ibis, dial they live by pre\ inc on do means or hap piness ol other- \\ ini respect to iliein, there i< no dream of thcii > oAf |o live by such mean -no ties ifancy in providin', lor (heir restraint and punish ment. There should be non, with regard to him. He is like a man .setting lire to bis neighbor's dwell ing, that In may see to walk across lii.s fields by its blaze; or, lo borrow an illostmtioti, lie boros down his neighbor's house, 11 ini In may roast liis pointer in die ashes. s,|,q, l M .jng the sellisli mid unjust na ture ot his husiness, he has no moral ritfht to carry il on; and there fore it may he legally prohibited with out injustice. Nay, jnstice itself demands its probi bilion. — Ziv;f* tin, 111. Wiefcellftttco'Uo’ clL'ettoito', THAXSPAREMIES. ■ When tho mother of a large family of grown-up daughter-; pays a good deal of court to a rich young j Ilian, who is not y, t blessed w itb a wife, lu-r conduct becomes so ridiculously transparent, tlmt all her fe male friends openly laugh at her for it. When a candidate plays with tho children <>!’ an elector, and stnils them with oranges and sugar plums, and pays compliments to the wife, and liegs jlo hold the baby whilst “she gets her good man's j dinner ready,'’il does not require tho sight of a j ■ lynx, or a conjurer to see through a miserable trails j ■ parenev like tlmt. , When a friend drops in after dinner and brings a t ■ bag ot filberts with him, the transparency assumes ! immediately the rich glow of n bottle of w ine When a medical man is called out. of church regu ■ larly every Sunday, lie iimsi Halter himself exceed ! ingly il he limeies no one secs through a trick so ex- I ccHsivdy transparent as tlmt. M hell ii promt, extravagant family breaks upil.xi ! establishment in town and country, sells oil every thing It has, and goes to liv. on Ihe continent tortile! purpose ot “giving the children tin- bc-( continental! education, we doubt il there are mam persons, even ol the most benevolent, turn of mind, who give much faith to a story so tiunspaicul. When government talk- veil atiei year ol the “public accounts being, Irnuicd with the strictest re gard to economy, ’ we wonder how mam persons are taken inky the transparency AA lien a young swell puts dow ii bis horse, and vol untarily gives up Ins dogcart became be ••has l en ordered to take exercise,” the only elb el , ijeli II j transparency can have on Uio eye and minds of bis | friends is lo make Iliein cxchamic look , of comical! incredulity and smile. I AA lien a servant wislie- for u liolmliin “lo go ami j I see her niutlici on Fasti: Monday, or a clerk asks) ’ for a “din ‘s leave, it convenient, for Ihe purpose ol I ! visiting Ins aunt in the country, who is very poorly,” j ‘outlie Derby day, though tile requests in both in-1 ’ stance- may be acceded to, still we suspect that the! j masters, in granting them, kindly shut their eye.s to i j the extreme transparency ot tho excuse I’norli. i A CHEAT MAN'S I'IIEFEKEVt'E, I envy no qualify of mind or intellect in olio r.— j riot genius, power, wit anil fancy; but if 1 could j ‘choose what Would be inn,-I delightful, and I believe j j most useful to me, I should prefei a linn religious j belief to every other Messing, for if makes lip a di,- teipline of goodne- -, erenli new hopes when (till cutli i !ly hopes vanish, and throws ovci tho decay, tiieidc • HtmetiOli of exi -l etiee, the most got gi-oijs of nil liglrts, awaken- lili- even in death; ami li out curniplifm anti decay, calls up beauty and divinity; make .'an in strurnent ol torture and of hano Hie ladder *tf Hs-_j <enl to paradise, and tar above all combination of ■ earthly hopes, tills up tin tno-l delight lid vi ions, ’ palm and Mnnraiiths, the gardens ol tin ble.- ;ed; ; the -ccnrity of evcrla.-ting joy*, when; llo: sell.’ tialist , and sceptic vii w only gloom, decay,.-uoi itiuiihilntion. ‘->// //. JJO 111. FLORIDA IM.A'THER -TO If A. , The Inst Alligator Adverti-er i-ontaina tio- follow ! ing (,'olttrnhin I’anther ton t tnc night, last week it the li'iidenei ot Robert j AVilkin.-on. Ksq. two y.ntn men wen -hoping in hi* I pia/./a. andll tilth-be!'l! da Ice and tie “, v.eci nioit ed j frofn their'slilmhcr* by tin- noi of tin dog in the I front yard ‘I bey immcdiatclr ar.ee from theii bed, ami looked ill CV'-I V direction so the cbum; of the j disturbance hut could see nothin,;. Finally ont of, i them, who was landing m-ar the outc-i edge ol the piazza, happening to loot do v'nw ard, di -coveted, a large I’antliei, -landing with his foie fool upon the 1 ipiazza, and within about i m im hc of If own feet ‘liis I’anl.hei-hip eenied to be quite indifferent to j wtutl was going’ fm around him. Our friend, whose feet -food iu o clo.-. proximity to his niajusty'- , paw-, being uoarmed, uttered a ha-tv shriek, aid l immediately sought nis doid.lt -barrel, but upon draw ing trigger at in- Pantheialiip the cap explod- j ed without bring the gun, ami the second barriT tteing Irteil, ditl likewise, another double-barrel v.ax iu the meaiitiiiie produced, and, provoking to think, 1 both the treacherous percusooi.,- on thi- gun also failed, hi:-. l’anthei.-:hip -’ill standing with his feet: , upon the piazza, quietly witm -'ing the futile at-, tempts of liis affrighted :u -ailanls to lake his lifo ;’ about this time however hi- majt dy concluded to lak. a wider survey of the piemi- -, and desccnd . ing from the piazza, lie deliberately strtsle alioul the; yard for a short time, micHSimuilv slapping over a dog which might qh&nce to ohtriule too near his VOt m-MIMBB 28. majesty’s person, and then returned to the piazza and resumed his former position; again coolly facing his assailants, who, having taken advantage of the true* afforded by his majesty's brief absence, had replenished their pun tubes with fresh caps, and upon hi - return renewed the assault; fortunately for mir friends their gun fired this time, and his majes. tv was slain ; he proved to boa male, and one of the larcreet over seen in these parts. THE sTdIT oT AliE. AA o have just stumbled upon the following pretiy piece of mosaic, lying amid a moltiude of those less attractive. “No s, *Ow kills lighter than (he snow of age; but none is heavier, for it never melts ’’ The figure is by- no means novel, but the closing pin of the sentence is new as well as emphatic. The Scriptures represent ago by the almond tree, which hears blossoms of the purest white. “The al mol'd tree shall flourish,'’ the head shall be lioary.- Dickens says of one of his characters whoso hair was turning grey, that if looked as if Time had lightly plashed his snows upon it in passing. “It never melts —no, never. Age is inoxorabli its wheels must move onward, they know not any retrograde movement. Tho okl man mav sit and sing “I would 1 wore a boy again,” but lie grows older as lie sings. He may read of the elixir ofyouth, but he cannot find it; ho may sigh for the secrets of that alchemy which is able to make biin young again, but sighing brings it not.—- He may gaze backward with an eye of longing upon l lie ratty schemes ol early years, butasone who gazes j mi his home from the deck of a departing ship, every | moment carrying him further and further away.— Boor old man! he has little more to do than din. ‘‘lt never melts.” The snow of winter comes and j sheds its white blessings upon valley and mountain, but soon the sweet spring follows, and smiles it ali away. Not so with that upon the Inw of tho totter ! ing veteran ; there is no spring whose warmth can j penetrate its eternal frost It canto to stay; its sin | gle (lakes fell unnoticed ; and now it is drilled there. 1 AAV shall see it increase until wo lay tho old man m Itis grave; there it shall be absorbed hy the eternal darkness, for there is no age in heaven. Actw by speak of age in a mournful strain ? It is beautiful, honorable, ami eloquent Should we sigh at the proximity of death, when life and the world are so full of emptiness? Let the old exult because they are old; if any must, weep, let it bo the young, at the long succession of cares that ut before tfieni [ ‘A ( Iconic the snow; for it is the emblem of peace and of I'ohL. It is but ii temporal crown, which shall fall af flic gates of paradise, to be replaced hy a brighter and il better A HI CM JOKE. •i gentleman played oil’ a rich joke on his better half th .other day. Being something of an epicure, he (ook.il >j!.tn hi head that he should like to have n first rote dinnor So ho addressed her a note, pn litely informing hot ilw “n gentleman of her ac quaintance- an old and true friend, would dine with her that day.” As soon as she received it all hand went to work to get everything in order, i’reciscly at twelve o'clock, sin- was prepared to receive her guest. The house was as clean us anew pin—a i sumptuous dinner was on the table, and she was ar* rayed in h-r best attire A gentle knock was heard, I and she started with n. palpitating heart to the door. | She thought it must he an old friend—perhaps ! hrother from the place whence they once moved. On I opening the door she saw her husband with a siui | ling countenance. “Why. inv dear,” says she in an anxious tone, “where is the gentleman of whom you spoke in • yowr note''” •“Why,” replied her husband, complacently, “here 1 lie is.*’ j “You said a gentleman of my acquaintance art old and true friend, would dine with us to-dav.” “Well,” said he, good-humoredly, “am I not a gentleman of your acquaintance, an old and true friend?” “Oh!” she cried, disfrossingly, “ja there nobody | but you?” “Vo.” ‘ Well, 1 dei larff thi ia. too bad,” said his wile, in an angry tone. The husband laughed immoderately-dris better half mid she felt like giving him a tongue-lashing— but finally they sat. down cosily- together, and for once he had a good dinner without having company i-P-iliO late Chancellor Kent was one of those men whose innate dignity enabled him to take in good pari familiarity the result of ignorance and accident, lie was exceedingly fond of martial mu sic ; and hearing the drums of a recruiting party who had taken a station at the comer of the street, beat a point of war, ho w alked out to listen to it, nearer Insensibly he was whistling the bunion of the tune, I when the man of war accosted him thus : “You are fond of such music, then, ray tine fellow ?” “Yes,” i was the reply. “Well, then,” said Sergeant Kite, “why not join us? Good quarters- good bounty— large bounty! Besides, our captain is a glorious fel- I low-. Why don’t you, now ? You can’t do better.” “Well,” said the Chancellor, “I have one pretty strong objection.” “What is it?” asked the ser , geanL “Why, just now I happen to have a better trade.” “What trade is it ?” said the inquisitor “I am Chancellor of the State of New York.”— “Whew I” muttered the sergeant, “Strike up!—quick :; time!- forward, march!” Off tramped the military i man without looking behind him, leaving the Chan i cellor to enjoy his laugh at the adventure. JAMES T. BLAIN, PRINTER.