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POTTER
JOURNL .AL, .
An old wrimanlsat by her bright fireside,
minus:mil )11Y t.'.3\v'aying ttionghtfully.to•and fro,
In au alleluia:eh:lir who .se creaky craw
.W.'31..e.t.1..t11NF.11, Proprietor.- Told
.• ~ Told a tale , of long, ago; . . •
v-eri),,oted to the rause of qopliNicanisni, the rot t While down be her side on the kitchen floor
ton-int.( Atirini•it tiro, the advancement of Education, i Stood a basket of Ivorsted balls—a score,
Bad rile heat gocci of Pott , r COW) fy„ flumes I t o ,nid e 1 .
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exceitt that of I'vinciple, it will endeavor to aid in the I
work ;of mord., fully. Froedomizing our (Joon:A T . i Then she spoke of thle limO the basket there
. .1 I Was fi lled to the dery brim,
s.r.tdverti , ementain.erted at. the Ndlowito.: rate•i, I And not) reinalined of tbe goodly pile
exee t tt where 41ertttt leteg,tirOt ,re twolii, A •`;lipiii" ; ,
I but a single pair -for hint;
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is / ) ?in.. of fireeier or s of Nei:Pa , '" LYI" , ,
1 taiyfe, t-miiiirtion ~. 1 I''‘) i Then,wonder,not at kite dinuned.eyelig,ht,
.i. 'we're, '2 ors in _ -- • 2 " ! Th efe . ,.: but one 1.1. i - cof stocking . sto mend to
'.l.:•.dh Koh ooitterit illt , ertiott le. t11:111 13... - . 4 , 0
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.11..'ininiptrator•A fe. Even or. N ot ioo.;______ 3 po
i For etch empty noOk in the basket old,
tii;..ite.d :Vitt E•ttlorttll Notice. per (M 0..- 'lO 1 , . • ._ I,
, . , . by the uearth there s aunt empty seat ;
.3•1; All tr2miielit ielvertiiioniont. inii:t iio paw in ! - •I
advidie,•,:miii 1141 oat ire wilt tte [tittett or adre: tiooteltt- AThl I miss the 'halloo - S frinit oil the wall,
froinl• iii•tatteo unless they aye accompanied by the i A n d het p o t te r o f many. f eet •
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rtii;i4 ... y or satig:ictory r , foronoe„ ; I • dis l'or this that the tyar gathered o'emity sight
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Joh' rk, ~f all kiii7is, exerseted with neat to eSS 1
and .potpltitli. ALtile one Pair ofstoekitis to mend to-night.
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Bi Tc.: r NT - 1,7,„; : i c .NT - I I T rt i 14 . 1 ‘,4 'Tw a s said that farthrongl the forest wild
,_, tis_ AI .L..i , Jl-) -.-I I- , 2 - x-' , - ! -/--J"• , And over,he mountain bold,
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no. iltnwley. . j i . 11. c„„„ .. i.. 111. as ii. land '‘vliost.• rivers apfl darkening. caves
_NA t orney-fit -I,aw. i ' Were gemmed with the ?rarest gold -
p et i,, , , L , sp,i,[ ta l,.,,ihm Then nit first born turned flour the oaken door,
AAT ILLI AMSI'I I try ,
'pt. 0% . 4 . 11 to Cotteetion of I'toittioti,.. to tool! And I knew the shadods were only four.
ria4 ray. :opt all claims aciiiipd tin National mid I , . i
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Sfsto GoVerrittlent ft. Itirt-21:i !
. Two others have gone towards the sun
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l'i .iI.ALIA Td-llfti E. Niq ;;;i - '2 F. , ..1,. AL Slatod : And f:iiry fingers have utken. their ElEire
V A 141,.e' nil son the . 2d. nod 4th `',.iiiii,itayri,oi i,teli -• T nie
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th' ' ll - it'l l, in t he 3d . S t r'rY,,".V!' s ",V i . l : ".. l ,li . : l ,,!!' m e" i Some tlqber basket them gornients fill,
I).t.{. LA lat All Se,St . e.
1— --.- ! iluCiuilie.oh mine is
.etuptier still.
Another • the dearest—the fa;rest—the best—
Was taken by angels away,
And clad in a garinent that waxeth not old
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In :I. land of conloiumday 7
On ! W•ozider uo tudre at t.l4s ‘I int tncil ere-light..
While I mend the One pairofstockings to-ni,zht
K. A. DILA ;11. ft..
),11 - .S.ICIAN and Stl/tl,l:t.).\'. offer , hit; :4erv1 , ,04.4
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u.tlll o the eillzen, of :WA place tool Yielnity
i IfOr them that he will pr,,mhtty . to :10
C:dits for protle,,joual 0:110, Ntaill.,tr,..;
oveV.Ntanuint(s Jewelry Store: Itt—i , l4•lleo ne.krO,•
pottite the office of the Fox S !to,: E-aate.-1:7
0. T. EI.I.IStON. M. 01.,
CT/ CfNli eutPle . .ntivt l'a
I 4 reApeetfully inform, the it
'vie itity that be wtll protupt!y ro,noa4l to all i , :112.4 for
1,4". • , sion.4l ”tavice.a. °Oleo ou Firat ,treet, tic-s;
Nr..4t of his residence, 17-4 U
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ISAAC BENSON.
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ntteivi to all VIVA. T4l
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tid e. ()di,. on Sve.).,l-t reot,n,ar tl:t• A tlevtly
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rroßs - Ey - _vsi) courx:F,ELLon'.. LAW.
:en:port, Pa., I,i! attend the ;Joel 14. it/ Pet
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ne.tIARNEY.
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l'No Charles, it eanrot l be, As a.friend
shWII respect and esteem feu 3 but I can:
not he lyour wife. Ilave compassion on
iue ana do not pre ~.., s we any; further."
3lar)L qrandville stdod be:lore tue as she
thus spoke, with her bands clasped and
I er liejd bowed, trembling like an aspen,;
::{nd I 'fancied there we're teaks in her eve.-.
' c ihe w 's a b , autif ctrl,ilandl had thoti
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.her as go and iuc as she was beautifu/.1
and further than this. I bau 'believed tbat
'she loved me.
;Sim was au orphan, and had been en-i
'gaged during the past year in leaching!
one - of.oor vitlJzc schools. I Of. her early;
life I knew notf,ling, save that she was]
;bell educated and had moved in good so-ii
I:lP,ty ; andl, had rea , mo to believe that,ati
some time, lier parents had•been wealthy,l
but her father had failed in: business,.and'
it had 'boon told to . ine that:the sad revierse
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killed him. i I had known that Mary was h,,
poor.--that she was dependent Upon her!,
daily labor for sunport--and the thought
that I could offer her &comfortable, home,r
with the advantage of moderate wealth,:,
hod 'given ncrea.c to My:prospective.hap-,
piness. llut this• unexpected answcri:
d ,sh , d all my bright hopes to the groundli
'•Do yo mean; " I 'cried, velLuently,l
"that von thus dismiss we ? AM J castl:
1 "I cannot be tour wire," was the reply
..lij "Then," said I,with more warmth than
a•-• might have betrayed under other cir-
Hrustances, '-I. leave you to yourself. and
while I. strive to shake . off the love that.
!ltt!.i bound me to veu,l will enly hope that
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concludeibefore 'hand whether you
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keep MM.'?
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Sh lodked up into my face with a painful
frightened glance. htit I did not stop to,
hear her :speak further. I turned andlleft•
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I remarked 'that 'under other circurn-•
s:and l es I might havebeen more cool dud
colleetedlin m'y speecih ; and what do
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suppose; clear :readeri , , the attending Cir-,
cumstandbs were ? 'll tell you candidly.T
I was ja,little heatdd with wine. I had'
drank juSt, enough to warm, my blood th.. 11
give my brain an extra impulse, andimyl l
words were not cbe , i.:en. as I would havd
chosen them had the spirit of wine lcet4
absent. As I walked toward my twine C
sought to persuade myself that I hadfor . .
tunately escaped the Isnare of a coquette
and that r might bq the better en4led•
thus to reason, I stopped at the botei ,
where I found a few of my comp:l:l4(ms.
and helped dispose of half a dozen bo i tticS
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of wine.
On :the 'following morning I fv.to'4.2.
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with a licact.actie, and when I. called io
imittd the events of the preceeding eve.niog
I. It as a rythinq !but happy: I began t ( I I
i irealize' low mush I had loved Mary Gran-,
vil e. l here was an aching void in me:
be. rt, h d I fairly wept as I contemplated"
m lost It was my. first love, and it
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in uetice hatlpenetrated every fibre of my ,.
be,nm. The beaMtiful girl had. become;
more dear to me,l than I could txII, and I:
, •.n!lancdin bitte i 4 an , uish-when I thought .
that she was lost. :Pierer. I had resolved
IMBIZIEME
that I would fe I very angry and indig
nalnt, but wihen the sweet face was called ;
up to n,eutlul vi , w such feelinzs melted
away, leavin;g nie sad and dc...solato., .
o.i the i i l oilowin4 ; - •abbatit,4 - attended
church.; nil re I.saw:Vl.t.i.4--v. once wore.--
She pialyed the Otgatl,aS she had done for'
th,e past year, aactl as her fin ,, ers swept
over the keys, I ponied that I could de
tect a trealuk,ustiess which I had never,
uuticed bolo4l. Was it only iutagiu:ltiou'
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lichee() fo 14e, of li-tie, iLn - oothloil, 09 SIN Wi3sel - qiiiqtioq of Tlio, l isftli•4!, itelatgha Ifl3
) COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., TUESDAY WARCH 13, 1866.
or was it really a plaintiveness—a sadness
in the expression of her Music.
To me it seemed at times as though th e
organ moaned and wept. i It was like the
wailing of the daughters! of Zion by the
rivers of Babylon.
When the services were over and we
went out from the ehutch I saw Mary's
face. • It was pale and wan as though she
had been sick. What could it be ? Was
she suffering as I had suffered ? The
thoughtlashediupon me that some one
might have told her Something,-to my dis
'advantage. I had enemies who envied
me because I had inherited some wealth
—aud I flincied enemies who envied me
ithe love of Mary Granville. •
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Another week passed and I becanp more
sad and lonesome. My businessas irk- 1
some to Me:, and my books and papers af
forded' me no respite. In fact rcduld not.
read, for, wy Mind was never upon the ,
page before me. Another Sabbath at
church I saw Mary again. She was paler
than before, and her eyes looked as the'
• she had been weeping.
During the succeeding week I received
a visit from 114 old college chum, Jack
Stant omi who had just opened a law office
in Berryville. After supper, as we sat in
the cosy parlor smoking our cigars,l
I , rested that a bottle of wine, would not be
.amiss. Jack shook his head.
"No, Charlie," he said, "well leave the
wine for those who need it."
"You used to drink it. Jack."
"Yes, but it never dune we any gond!"
"And du you think it ever did you any
harm
"As to that I wii! not say it naver
shall do me harm. I know it lies harmed
others; who wzis stroup, as I am. 13nt by
the way, Charlie, isn't Jlary. Granville
here ?"
"Yes," said I.
"Do col know her r'
1 turned away my face and pretended
to have heard isomething a, the wiudosv.
"I have seen her," I replied, when I
had, compo 7 ed myself.
."She plays the
organ in the church."
' She and I were Schoolmates," pursued
Stanton, and speaking of wine brings
to my wind. Do yOu know anything of
her : early lifer
"Nothing," I answered.
"Poor Mary ! I never think of her
without feeling myresclution of total ab
stinence grow stroo!!er. When we were
school children toAether' her father was
the wealthiest man in Berryville, and she
and her brother were among the happiest
of the happy.
"Mr. Granville was jin the habit of
drinking wine, and the }habit grew upon
him until he felt he could not live with•
out his brandy.
"Ile was of a social dispo.ition, and in
time it came to pass Ojai he was often
grossly intoxicated. Of course, under
Nuch circumstances one bf two thing must
happen—the Man mustireform or he must
sin. •Mr. Granville didl not refortn, and
ere many years he died ai l drunkard's death
leaving his family in poverty andsuffertug.
"Thomas, die son tva l 4 four years older
than Mary, became dilpated and at the:
age of eirrhteen wh killed In a street tight,
iu New York. Mrs. Granville survived:
her son but a ft.x months—absolutely dy-•
ing, the jdoctojt said, of a broken heart. ,!
"Poor Mary, thus left, fatherless and,
motherless, without brOther and sister, at
the age of fifteen, was forced to earn the.
bread which She ate--mad nobly has she,
done it. If you know her, Charlie, you'
know one of the noblest women that ever
lived. Bat—what's the matter ? Why;
bless me, you look as pale as a ghost." 11
I strug;zled with myself, and told Jack'
I had swallowed a lot of cigar stuolte.
rose and opened one of the ea , :ctuents,,
stepped out on the balcony l where the
fresh air restor, d me,
At a late hour Jack d'eparted far the
hotel,and when I had retired to my
bar I paced to and fro until long after mid
night. I could nolonger misuudetstand
the motives which had actuated Mary in
rejecting my hand. She knew that I was,
in the habit of using wine and on that,
evening when last we wet she must have
(UseoverA that- I- had drank enough to,
bring a false - flush to my cheek.
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my God l" T ejaculate:Last sank
into a ehair,-I wonder-not that she refused
tolplace her future life in .my keeping.--=
...be has. suffered enough from the reeursed.
mdp. The (Ight of sorrow and dessolation
h: is been long enough upon her. She:
uld be worse than mad to take a bus-J
b- - ,ind whose opening path of life led - to-I,
witrds the pit into which the loved ones
et; other days bad fallen. •1
I "But . ' I asked myself."why did she not
tell 113 e, the whole truth ?"
1 found no difficulty in answering the
question. She had shrunk from wounding
rap feelings I knew how sensitive . she
was, amid I knew that she was afraid of
offending toe. Perhaps she thought me
rout' and headstrong enough to resent
such liberty on her part, and perhaps she
imalined I might. look upon her part as
thu otteriiut her( hand iu eouz:i‘l%-:tatiou
Id my renouncing the wine-cup, and that
I might spurn her offer.
On Friday Jack Stanton left: mo, and
on Saturday evening I Called at Mary'i,
boarding house. Mary herself answered
my summons. She started when sheiiaw
me,and I saw her right hand move quickly
towards her heart.
"Mary," said I, speaking celmly,for I
bad a mighty strength of will to support
wie,"l have not come to distress you, I have
come as a friend, and I humbly ask that
you will give me an audience for a few
moments:"
She went into the parlot andl followed
her,closinll, , the door behind me; and when
we were alone she Eat-the lamp upon the
table and motioned me:to a seat. r
"No," said I, "I will not sit:down yet.
Give we your hand, 3lary."
Mechanically she put forth her hand
and I took them in my own'. Thdre was
a wondering idol: in her eyes,and aslight
flush had come to her pale cheeks.
"Mary," I continued, speaking slowly
and'softly, and I knew that a moisture
was gathering in I my eyes, "You must
answer.one question. Answer it as you
please and take my solemn assurance that
I ask it only for your own: good, Tel
' we, do you loge me ? No i no.—do uo
take yOur hands away yet. ! Answer rn
if you can. Fear not-o,fear not ; I ha,
rather go into endless night.. than do yoa
wrong. Tell me, Marys do yOu love me,Fl'
"I eannotspeak falsely," she tretublinglY
' whispered. For my own peace, perhaps
i love you too well."
' "Listen to we one monzent," I added,
drawing her near to me; when I haie
told you what I have to tell, you shall be
the judge."
. She did not strive to free her hands.
but looked up eargerly into my face, and
her eyes beamed with a 'hopeful light.
"You know John Stanton ?" I asked,
"Yes," she replied.
"Ile was my best .friend when we were
at College, and my friendship bas not
grown less. lie came -to see me and told
me the story of the trials and sufferings of
one of the schoolmates of his earlier days
Oh, Mary,l know Well-why my hand was
refused and I blame you not, It may be
that our paths be different I through,
life, but shall at leaSt know that he whom
you loved will so live that he shall not be
unworthy of your kindest remembrance
I know that. I have . bithero wandered
into the path of danger, but henceforth I
am free, from thealrend snare. Under the
new tight that has dawned 'upon we I
hold the wine-cup to - be a fearful enemy
and I will shun it as' I would shun a
shameful life and a,clorided death-bed. For
My own sake will T do this, so that my
sainted mother, if she can look upon her
boy can smile approvingly upon-the course
he has chosen. . .
"And now, Mar:, if, at some future
time you, should feel that you can trust
your happiness in my Ireepinft,, you will
give me some token thereof, and I will
come and ash:you again for your hand . '
and should it be my blessed lot to receive
it,[ will devote everylenerry in my being
to make your life a joyous and peaceful
one."
I let go her hands, and bottled my head. providing 'goo Men (if the thing were
to wipe away a tear. I turned towards possible) testi erintend theta. The truth ;
the door really intending to depart and is, our license aws are butt a tissue 'of de.'
'Five her time for reflection, when she. ception, answe ing none of the purposes!
pronounced my name. I looked back and intended, and, evincing only the short-I
her hands were stretched out towards me. ! sightedness oft the Legislature that first
I 'Not now," I whispered. "I will not enacted them, and in our opinion' theyl
ask, your answer yet. Watch me—prove; win continue to be the reproach, of all
me, Only give me to know that I have' succeedirm ones that allow them •to re-I
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your love and good will." main untepealed.
I stopped speaking,for Mary's head had We have surely made a full arid faiH
been pilluwed upon my bosom, and she trial of such laws, and they have signally_
was weeping like a child.. • i failed, as might have been expected. We
"Now : now 1" she uttered, as I wond'd nA . ;sce stow legal enactments made
my arms about her. "Oh, Charles,' never with a view to to the proper regulation
doubted your truth. I know you cannot of a vied, are ever to restrain, much less
deceive me. God bless 'your noble reso- to suppress it. The principle is unsound..
lotion ;.• and let we help you- to keep it '.- 1 It iS notorious that all such attempt's have
I cannot tell how long I stopped that don'e more to sanction the evil than to'
evening. I can only tell that I was very .heck it. Our present laws aim at n0...1-:
happy, and that My prospect of the cow- ing more than moderatioic ia the use
lag year was bright and glorious, of liquor; and such moderation (even if!
Ott' the - following (1 1 4 y—a Sabbath, nall 2 )!deJirable.), we are confident, is . absolutely
and pleasant—the organ gave forth a new unattainable under any license law that
strain. The daughters of lion . were. D 6 the ino.enuity'of man can devise. Absti
longer in a strange Idod. They had taken uence is natural and easy, but moderation
their harpy dowd froln the willows, and is. always difficult, and with many persons
within the' chatn l bers.lof the new Temple ; ' impossible.
more resplendent Par than the old, :they
. 1 In the first place, we doubt the Cen- ,
sang the songs
'their
made joy- ktitiaio•nab.'tyofall siaeli laws. If the liquor
ous the city of God. All marked truffle is. right, they are wrong, because
the grandeur of the music
_that sprang they debar ninety-Dine out of a hundred.
into life beneath the touc.i of the fair or- .of our citizens from engaging` in it ;•and
ganist on that beautiful Sabbath morning if the traffic itself is wrong, they are scat:r
and all seemed Moved by the inspiration.' dalous, because they give a legal sanction
To use it was like the holy outpourings of to a fruitful source of vice and crime: So
a redeemed 'soul, and with bowed head that whether intended as a restraint on a
and folded hands I gave myself up to trade which all men hay . e.c. natural and
the sublime influence. As Mary turned iwpresdrioteble right to. Participate in. or
from the instrument I caught her eye.— as' ale-Sal authorization or a 'business that -
Mine were dim with moisture, but hers destroys. life, ?safety and .happineSs, ttey
were bright,gle.aming• with . seraphic light are equally re ) pa,tiant to the fund:uncut:Ll
Ere many weeks - had passed, another principle-3 of oar Govorinnenc. be
hand pressed the. keys of th e organ for lieve that - ithe State might as well set up
Mary was not in the choir. She i.uealt schools f o r instruction in gambling,awn
before the altar—by my 4ideL-and over , terfeitin , and licCutiousness.', as to license
114 both the aged elorgymanstretehed 1.::‘5,11. 1 .1,-)r selling tavern=. -
hands with prayer and blessing. 1 The right to trade in useful
And we went outlfrom the church to
gether-Diary and ~t—out in the new life
—bound heat, to heart; and handle band
to love, honor, and cherish forever more.
TEM PER ANC E.
Mr. Mann presented a petition of the
Grand Lodge of Good Templara of the
State, rcpresentiag seven thousand mem
bers, asking fur an act to prevent the
sale of intoxicating drinks.
The petition was read as follows:
To the Senate and house of Representa•
fives of tie sS'late of Pennsylvania :
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars,
in and for the State of Pennsylvania, in 1
annual sossiou,j at Lewistown, Mifflin '
connty, June 14, ISGS, speaking the sen
tiMents and wishes of a'large poi!tion . ofi
their fellow-citizens of this Cotnmon•
wealth, do most respectfully represent
That our license system is an intoler
able triianee l from the evils of which !
r
we ask to be. d,divered. In our opinion'
these evils do, not arise from any lack of
vigor in'the enforcement of, presetit laws,
but essentially. from the character , of
those laws themselves, and the practices
and habits that:., are s l auctioned and fostered
by them. Inteuiperance, with all its
concomitant crimes, prevails to an alarm
ing extent in our -Comtuonwe.llth, not
withstanding'our west strenuous exertions
to suppress-it. After a long and toilsome,
though not lain contest With. effects,.at
tendants and consequences, we find 'this
demon of society So safely (entrenched
behind a citadel of statute le r , that we
are forced to petition your honorable bod
ies to break up his hiding place and
cease to screen the monster' II lest we be
. .
reluctantly compelled toanaodou an en:
tmTrise-the most important and beneficent
the' world has ever known.
Permit us, Oen, to glance 'briefly nt
some of the prominent features of our
license regulations. U l i3der them the re
tailing Of spiritous liCitters is forbidden to
all, but a few favored individuals (who,
anomalous as it , may appear,* are com
p Led) to furni , h ' certificates of moral
character), to whom a special license is
n•ranted.' Why is t is 7 if the business
..,
is a useful and moratone, why should the
law interfere with it? • Why attempt to
rt. : plate orl restkain that which is neces
sary and proper.? • NT:iy attempt to pro
vide good nOnts i to carry it,on 7 Will the
character of the' dealer change the nature
or modify the effects of the article in which
he deals ? Can he 'make pAson_whole
seme food and .drink, ' Why not forbid
all but moral men from selling flour and
meat ? : Why not carry out the principle
and forbid all bad men doing any good
thing- I
A ,, ain, ift
' and traffic is immoral in, its
r e
nature udemcy, why require moral
_ _ •
non
men to conduct it If a brand is applied
to one of wr dwellings, will nut the fire
burn and 'spread, regardless of
-the moral
!character o the individual who applied
it Can gcod men dispense that which•
is beroiciou. an crune eng,ende . ring, wit h•
out injury to 1-aciety ? As well might
we license g.aoling-houses and brothels,
and attempt tol counteract their evils by
&
TERMS.- -$1.50 PER ANNI/DI.
ites is a natural right, which go:verde:tent
may regulate, but can neither prohibit id
times of peace, nor limit to a faineredfeWe
But if men have a natural right to Tea
alcoholic liquors td be used as a beverage,
from what source do governments derive
their powerg,to say; how many and whet
kind of men shall engage in the bush:tent
We admit the authority of government W
tax . the traffieer in such liquors, on the
same priuciple that it taxes the agrieutv
turist,t he tnerobant and the manufacturer,
But has it the power to compel the feigner'
to go annually to acme public fill:tains/
and take out a license for his ocenpatiort
!before he, ie 'privileged to plow his grounds 1
sow his seed and harvest his crop? Hall
lit the right to say that none 'lntl "wed
lof good repute for bouesty and tampers
ance" shall follow the _business of tilling
the earth ? Has it the right to prevent
the merchant from• trading in useful ciome
wodities unless he shall first obtain a legiti
!permit to do so ? Has it the right to say
I who shall be a merchant, and that no mord
than a specified number of. Stores shell be
allowed 'to a given amount of population I
We are aware that our storekeepers are
!made to pay what is called al "license" for
!vending foreign and domesile tnerehande
Ilse. but they are not forced obtain such
license before they can eminence business,
I nor are l they liable to fine or imprisonment
I for going on in their business Withottt it:
it amounts to nothing mare than a taxi
which is levied avd collected like other
I taxes on professions and trades. Elai the
!Logielatore the power to prohibit-the
manufacture of shoes by all except such
las have a statute license to follow the
I business ?- And has it the right to pr: ,
scribe the character and number of eh*
makers in a town, borough, or City? ! it
lit has not the right to interfere with ! arid
;arrest human industry in every case where
it is:not presented under speial govern:
menial , permission, on what authority of
1 pric j oiple dues it limit the number of re'
tailers of intoxicating drinks, and force
leach one to procure a license for his hasie
ness before he engages in it I' Are not
these legal distinctions between the calls
lug of the spirit-vedder and that of other
people,made on the ground that his permit
to traffie:in liquors rests on no natural/ _
1 moral or l lpolitical right, but exclusively
on special ley tWatt ve favor—a fent
which we think has been Wrongfully and
lun { constidtioriafy granted, and wined
!ought to be immediately, withdrawn add
1 1.
forever rohibited to all, as it is now pre ,
i bibited o ninety-nine out of a hundred
lof our citizens. The right to forbid shill
class of our people to pursue the bueinessi
carries frith it the right to prohibit l t
1 altoeeth,,r. The danger of opening the
traffic td, all, shim the danger'and absurd&
icy of.intrt , isting it to any.
Whatfwe complain of is that the Mallet'
of intoxicating drinks enjoys special priv-
I ileges, Under cover of which he seeks hie
I own private emolument, to the manifest
i injury of the publiewelfare. Unlike otbef
1
1 citizens, he can inflict incalculable du:owe
I upon society, without being held respell.;
I sible. He tuakes money by dealing des:
trUetion around him, and the statute giver
I him an exclusive right to the work of ruin
iq his. neighborhood. This we regard u
la sad perversien of the powers of gOTOTIV
went. By his law-authorized occupation,
' be can instigate men to the commission
of the Most horrid outrages and the moat
, diabolical enormities. lie can make via=
1 ows, and orphans, and paupers, and felonry
1 with impunity. He can make rieh Inset(
I destitute, wise men fools, respectableireet
I leafers, good men bad, and bad omelt
I worse, without check or hindrance. ; Hd
can levy a rum.paeiper tax, and compel
people who never drink ruin to pay it lid
!can levy :a rum e eriminal tax and,' feted
'sober men and women tetbear this innate
oral and cruel burden. He is permitted
by law to take money for a poisonous and
debaelog article, while for a much less'
offence, the provision dealer is indicted__
anti punished. For sordid gain he sUay
infusiate hie customers with drink, until;
, I, 1
' they commit assault and hatteries.lareemes
!and murders ; but unlike other crimiaall
he escapee, while the law inflicts its veil.; ;
eeante on the poor dune of his gtfilti;
traffic. This we tegard las a flagraitetti
wrong and a glaring absurdity.; it is °rep,
1
looking a ealese. and striking a cowardly"!
and useless blow at an erect ; it is letting
the principal go, and punishee. the agent.
I It not unfrequently happens that the
rum -seller himself is called to sit ligoti aid
very jury which is empandelied to try and
:of his own viarrns fOT a clime Committed
under the maddening. influence of hid
liquor. What a scene tc be enacted id
the sacred name of justice ! In our:
opinion there would be little violation 4. r
riediteoue principle itt copening such
juror to c:eange places, wrh the eriminel
at the bar. But what renders stichltria ,4
a still grew er farce, is Oe reroltio fa 't
that the same court who sits in judgment
On the wretched rum-made culprit, l'a.tZ.l
a license to the rum-seller to purene Iris'
demoralizin- vocation. Can such Thing
be and not excite our special weetkeri
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