Holly Springs gazette., 1846-02-07

with profound sorrow the ruin and infst
uiiion OF :hIs portion of their fellow oiti
zens. might yet look on in silence Blu
that ply steal law of our Nature which i'm
poses sympathy and suffering upon all the
members of The body when one suffers
| pertains also to communities. Your Memo
rialis,s are compelled constantly TO bear
witness to the application of this law, in the
violation of their domestic repose; in the
diminished security of their personal rights
IN the pernlciOus and detestabe inf renee
OF these tpplng houses. and the example
o. those who frequent them; and in the
nerous taxation imposed for the purpose of
providing and sustaining judicial macbin,
cry for the conviction, and j1iIs and penis
tentiaries for the correction and safe keeps
ing OF tie graduates ofthese licensed cs,ab-
lishments
Your Memorialists are advised tha: they
make no exaggerated statement when they
attribute four fifihs of the offences which
swell our Stale docket, and occupy ihe time
OF our Courts at vast expense 10 the pub
lie treasury. directly or indirectly 10 these
retailing houses. and thus a large proper
ZION OF the taxes contributed by your Me-
mofallsis, in common with other tax pay
ers, IN the State. is swallowed up by expen.
dltures consequent upon everything vice
gated by those acting under The sane
ton of the law.
Your Memorialists thinl; it but rig ght that
the people themselves. in heir primary ca
pacity. stovd have some voice in determl
ming how far they are wiling to go in sus
tanning system which imposes upon them
burdens so numerous and 50 onerous,
which scatter the seeds of vice in all its
forms broad cast over the land. anil which
annually hur,ies their fellow citizens by
thousands througf. the successive stages of
disgrace, poverty, disease, insanity and
death.
If this power were vested IN the people
TO the extent aud un Ter the restrictions de-
sired by your Memorialis,s, while they can
not appiehend any ossible evil which can
result from il, they re fain TO believe that,
in the present slate Of pubic feeling, they
can discern the sure omen that a speedy
and efectual check will De given to the
vice of Intemperance. and that this most
formidable scourge will, al no very distant
day, have no other existence among Us than
as fearful historical recollection. At all
events. The responsib lily Of permi; ing, (not
To say of paironizing) it. will be shifted
from the law m ker 10 his constituent, and
the blooi OF the drunkard will De upon
them and their children
Your Memorialis,s repeat that they do
not seek the repeal Of the existing laws reg.
ulating the grant of:icenscs TO retail spirit.
uous liquors, but they pray that an add
tional law may be passed at the present
session, which shall provide that at each
general or State election, or at such time
and place as may by the wisdom of the
Legis atu-e be deemed most expedient, the
vote shall be taken in each civil beat or
district 10 the State for and ago inst the le-
failing of intoxicating drinks a beverage
in such civil beat, and if majority of votes
shall be poled against the licensing of re.
failing establishments. no license shall be
granted for the opening of any house for
that purpose in such civil district, By the
Board of Police Of the County in which
the same is situated.
And as in duty bound. your Memorial
lists will ever pray SC.