Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-06-30

| nan were from the oldtc Ol NEW otk.-
The Emancipa;or appears to have been
conducted at loss during the year, of over
| $4,000. OF the expenditures, $lS,7Sl SO
went to Secretaries, Editor and Agent, for
saIcries and expences.
Governor Bcuhanan, of Liberia, has
done more for the colored man in one
month, than the Abolition Society from It's
commencement, which, to be sure, is not
saying much, if it is considered, as it ge-
morally is, that the latter has done more
hurt than good. But dropping the attempt
to compare plus with minus quantity,
Governor Buchanan, in the course of
few weeks prior to the date Of our last ac-
counts from the Colony, had concluded
| treaties with eleven native Kings, in nine
| Of which treaties was embodied provision
for the Suppression Of the Slare Trade.
This, as far as it goes, is cutting up the
evil by the root. ". Y. Mer.
FOURTH OF JULY.-A committee of the
N. Y City Temperance Society, in behalf
Of 1876, 359, members, have petitioned the
Common Council against the sale Of l:q-
uors on the public grounds at the ensuing
anniversary our National independence.
They do not oppose the erection of booths,
but ask that the license to erect them may
be so worded or explained, as not to imply
a permission to sell liquors. The request
is reasonable, right, proper, and just; and
we hope that it will be granted. In Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, if we are
correctly informed, the nuisance Of groge-
ries on the public grounds is no longer per-
/ l. r., h. =
should be here
If people must have grog, there are over
$500 places in the city duly licensed, where
1t can be obtained. But what is the use of
grog, when for less money Ole can get le-
monade, ice-watcr, small beer, mead; and
Il dozen other varieties Of innocent and re-
freshng drinks? The following arc ex
tracts from the petiton:-
After deliberate consideration Of the
subject, your petitioners are unable 10 dis
cover a single valid plea in defence Of the
evil in question. They are aware that the
permit to erect booths, is not in form,
whatever it may be in fact, a license to
sell intoxicating liquors. If it were law
ful license, one important objection to
vending liquors at these places would be
removed. as it then would be done accord
ing to law. But as now managed, the evil
is not only done, but is done in direct vio-
lation of tie law The law inAicts pen
atty Of twenty-five dollars on the person
who sells strong liquors without license.
let here are some two or three hundred
persons who set the laws at defiance, by
selling liquor without a license-who
trample on the laws with impunity, and
are encouraged to these unlawful acts Ivy
the connivance Of the very officials who
with them receive the gains, and whose
| duty it is to see that the laws arc respected.
Such being the information of your petit
TONERS on the subject, they earnestly de-
sire that the Honorable Mayor and Com
mon Council will no longer sanction SO
dangerous precedent. 1t is with defer
| cncc submitted, whether by tolerating these
wholesale acts OF characterization, they do
not in fact and effect become party there
to, and make themselves responsible for q
violation Of the laws which they are bound
by the most important public considerations
! and their oaths Of office to observe invio-
late themselves, and to enforce upon 9TH
ers. Let not this be regarded as light
|
is always worse for rulers and men in off
cal stations to disregard them than for
others; because the mischief is augmented
in proportion to their legal elevation and
| personal influence.
The plan Of preventing the recurrence
Of the grievance complained Of, is so obvi-
vious, that your petitioners will! not reflect
upon your wisdom by dwelling upon it,
And yet, if your councils might be aided
by their deliberations, they would with de-
ference, suggest, that in their judgment an
adequate remedy will be found by simply
enforcing the existing laws against all Of
tenders on the Fourth of July, as on other
days. In other words, let suitable persons
receive permits to erect booths under the
usual restrictions, on the payment of the
smallest sum that will indemnify the city
| against pecuniary Disappointed the APP
| plicants for such permits give sufficient Sc
curty for the prompt recovery of the legal
penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and
every violation Of the present license laws,
and let each and every person or persons
receiving permit, be forewarned, that if
he or they introduce intoxicating liquors on
the public grounds; either TO give them
away, or to furnish them TO be drank, or
in any manner evade the law, they shall
| forthwith be proceeded against, as provi
ded by the statute for the abatement of
| common nuisances.
The last YankeeiSm.-A Yankee some
two or three years ago contrived way of
making covered buttons, by lust compress