The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-11-03
TEMPERANCE ARTICLES.

In the License case at Worcester, Judge
mrnt was rendered against the violators o
the law to some considerable extent In som'
cases the jury did not agree. from failure it
establishing the facts. A singular occurrence
| took place in the trial State vs.. Balloon, FOL
selling contrary 10 law, The defence take,
| The ground of the righi OF the jury tC
judge of the law; hich principle Judge Mer
rick, land we believe Chief Justice Parker
of our own State) has opposed, as inconsis,
'ent' However the Counsel, Gen. Bridge
having commenced his argument, began To
Ivy down the law, when Judge Merrick told
sheriff, that rs the counsel was arguing the
law to the jury, there did not seem 10 be any
occasion-for him he would therefore, leave
The court in his the Sherii's) charge. Thai
he might sit Till l clock, and then adjourn
I'LL 2, Having given this direction, he took
his hat aud retired
In another license case, the Spy says the
Judge charged the jury deliberately on the
law, and that the arguments of the delen-
danrs counsel suffered considerable dam
ager
A great meeting has been held in Fanueil
Hall the first ola series) for considering he
evils Of the liquor traffic in Boston, The
Hall was crowded, and the speakers were
heard with intense interest
A great mass Temperance Meeting has
been holden in the Park, in the city OF New
York. afternoon and evening. Hon. Ogden
Edwards presided. Alter a great number
of speeches from the stand, very spirited
address was adopted TO the Electors of the
City Of New York; We have room only
for The closing paragraph, which explains
the principle object in view -
Electors of New York Your City is alone
excluded from the beneficient operations Of
the New Excise Law. Ii was so excluded
on the false assumption that you are hostile
10 that Law. Ii remains so because you
suffered yourself 10 be represented in the
last Assembly by men hostile TO any such
Law. Are you content 10 be so represented
and so Iegislated for? Shall your next Del
egation 10 Albany, no matter OF what party,
be authorized by you 10 tell the Legislature
that you want no law TO check Intemperanee
and point to your votes whereby they were
elected, as proof of the truth Of their asser-
tion2 Consider wisely and impartially, and
act in the fear of God and the love OF your
fellow men! AT all events we are resolved
that you shall have no excuse for being rec
reant 10 your dutyl
In behalf OF the Temperance Mass Nee
ting.
The Cincinnati Commercial relates the
awful consequences of intoxicaIion, in the
death of young man aged Is, by the hand
of his own father, The wife OF one Edes. al
Warsaw, KY, sent word 10 his brother, MIR
Green, that her life was in danger from the
1buse Of her drunken husband. Mr.. G. sent
his son 10 see he could not paciiy Edes.-I
Failing, Green seized an axe and proceeded
to Edes,' when the son called out 10 him to
beware, as Edes was coming upon him.
Soon after the son met his father TO get away
from Edes, but Green mistaken him for his
drunken brolEeri n-law struck him fatal
blow. The Gazette adds:-
No legal process had been issued for the
arrest Of MIR. Green. and it is thought that
there will be none at the present, at least as
the shock has been so great as almost TO
drive him TO insanity, and doubt, understand
is entertained Of his recovery.
This is but another of the the ten thousand
awful deeds committed through the baleful
and direiuI influence of intemperance. Yet,
intemperance is thus recorded as
:he remote cause, passion. the destroyer Of
has thus directly met IFS full re-
ward, and father has TO mourn over the
idol Of his bosom by an act Of his own hand.
Oh who can conceive the feeling Of that
anguish Of his soul! The aged |
pass from the stale Of existence, Causing but