Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1845-02-01
I AN APPEAL TO LAWYERS,

AHAINsT THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.
nEAR BRErHREN.-Looking over m.
|fce box the other day, was wonder
btricken thai three hiths ofmy profits ha'
bprung f-om-what, think you?-W Why
from That delicious beverage. which th'
|ren1oe rance folks would Danish from use
Nary all my latest fees have been u
ases that grew out Of liquor. Every
|uis icr divorce, and for separate main
enance, that | have ever been concerned
u, hRlt the actions of Islander, nIne-ten;hs
The assault and battery cases; and
|1ar-iiiths of those most Interesting and
I'M paid conlroycrsies-criminal prose
alions, have come from that source.
hen those delicate jars arise, which The
|alrar deem discords, between man and
lla, growing al length TO such a pitch
lat nolhlng but two pairs OF Lawyers
NJ Chancellor can regulate them; and
hsn, out OF those discords,. each lawyer,
i'll " lizard skill, has evoke harmony
4 iDost delightful in hs cara tune O.:
M four, or five hundred dollars; to what
AL owing' Ungrateiul dog, il he
pubts, or iorgets ii! lie owes il all 10
ink! The husband would have ploided
thfoogh life, lnsipidy loving his wife
|a9oing his duties, (of TO use 10 lawyer,
NH or sherlff,) but Tor the timely inter
|ption Of our friend, the bottle. THIS
kae him generous 10 those who had no
llss on HIM, at tho expense OF those
|a0had claims. This made him negli
|nkand dashlng. in gentemanIy ways
|lighl!ul to his tavern companies, though
N and then rough to his wife; made
|nlcont:act debts, he knew not how;
NM his house and farm to get out OF or
r;his family to be i'll supplied: The wo
nb heart to throb strangely, and cheek
gFow thin aud pale; Executions would
dls; the scenes, on his Midnight return
buld wax richer in incident-lnore and
pfe striking, a punster would say-tiII
|eeoud bear them no longer, and NC
NH called in. Then the ices!
snow an Attorney for the Common
til who swears that he has been con.
|raed in dozen cases or more, Of wives
ing surety of the peace against their
sbands; and that in all of these, save
Nj the wives declared on oath that the
Fence they had suffered was only when
Al lords were in liquor. Now all these
Ia are grist Of OUR mill.
ven the palmer, collecting business
ions OF debt, and open accounts-we
emostly to our ally, Mr.. Barleycorn.
meng, usury, bad bargains, i'll thrift, /,
Understandings about contracts, I'M
Fcelved decays Of fortune, and MANY
ier causes Of difficult law suits. arise
n the soup Of Kindness When the
|ner lets his store account run on. IN
N, for so many years that the mer.
M has to sue; ten 10 one [if that &C
pr is not chiefly for liquor the farmer
large liquor account somewh here
he liquor sellers themselves--what
stlmable customers THEY are 10 law !
Is! How vast proportion Of the !
u.s. notes, and accounts, annually pu, :
putt, come from the desks of those no,
patrons of science and of art! pa,
OF law, and its kindred scie noes y of
''lation and its affiliated arts! Phys. ID
paper making, the coffin manufactur. /
prison building, gallows-maklng, and 8
KINDS Of Penitenliary work, not to I
nIon transport navigation, and the i
''0rlng OF new countries, Botany Bay,
eon' &C, are lew OF the arts tha,
I've oy means Of liquor dealers. What {
yer would dare 10 offend them, or v
l'a wlshlo spoil their business? Are $
Sn'y chlliren 10 quarrel viii h our d
az and butter? The loss ol~heir d. p
custom would lose me hundreds a .
and their direct agency makes 4
re Than half my fortune. D
as man milks the COW and works G.
OK while they live, and eats them 81
:" 'ney dle, SO the good those noble b
on' DO US lawyers il their fall, is well "
oqua, 70 me good they ca US while G.
sand. For great New York a
se' much quoted by the Temperance b.
says, that "of the tavern Keepers d.
retailers Of ardent spirits in that 3
uuflng the last. forty years, more n
Mo''hlrds have become drunkards ts
'0'uced thsir'iamilisS 10 pOvsrty."-- h