The Columbian fountain., 1846-10-26
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Rev ]. I. WARD. AssistantEditOr
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a man, ashamed Of their work Their bu-
siness is nothing but evil; their traffic never
did any thing but mischief; and will you nol
remove III Does brawl occur, is mid
night robber abroad, is the incendiary about
Tor the burglar prowling around, the rum
sellers rum is with them all, urging them
on. Shall not this magnificent city be. re-
deemed We make the laws, and, if they
are bad, we can change them, and make
good laws, and we will do it. We have
right to say, by our votes, that this Internal
rum influence shall cease; and if rumsellers
VIII persist in the traffic, they must be
swept away with it. @
| Phe Resolutions were again read and a
dtpted by acclamation. sa 1ts
Rev. John Poisal, remarked that the pre-
sent occasion was one of the deepest ia-
lterest to the city, and The principle we had
met promote, one of the most unparal-
led'moment to the country and the world
Our doings here well in England, Ireland,
and Scotland yes to the ends Of the earth
Temperance men are comparatively asleep.
The churches are not sufficiently awake on
the subject. Shall the rest Of our State free
themselves from the rum traffic, while this
city is turned over to the tender mercies of
rumsellers No no Let us resolve to
vote for no nan who will not pledge him
sell to GO the whole creature for temper
ance reform, and we shall be successful.
Col. E, l.. Snow, asked all men, without
distinction Of party, if il is not democra-
tic principle, that the majority shall govern
and not the minority2 What objection can
there be to test the question Of License or
No License in this city? IF the majority
say grogshops, will submit. have been
long connected with the police depart
ment, and can say that if it were not for
the grogshops we should hardly need a po-
| lice.
| Arnold Buffum, esq, addressed the la
boring classes. Let the laborers vote for
the right men. and they will thereby anne.
lorate their own condition; they will have
better employment, and become more inde-
(pendent, respectable and moral fit must be
that some men must have license to get
la living by means inconsistent with the
general good, letit be something else than
rumseller. Rather let the thief be licen-
sed to take my sons money, than the rum
relling, who not only takes that, but, in
addition, sends him to drunkard's grave
John Cochran, Esq, was the late spea-
ker. He said he esteemed it a privilege
to- speak against the king Of terrors--King
Alcohol. Standing on the porch of justice
shall we not do justice' When the alarm Of
fire sounds in our ears, veal rush forward
to save one mans property from destruc-
ton, Yet we have an ever-burning, ever
consuming fire pervading all our city, and
destroying the lives of thousands Whois
il that entails this ruin upon il' Who is
it that, when wives plead, and children be-
seech, to have their husbands and fathers
saved from the destroyer, arrays himself
against their prayers and entreaties, and
says, &C Itshall not be'" 1t is the rumsel-
Ter. The dealer, by his sign-board, de-
clares himself opposed to the reformation
Of the man who would restrain, but finds
it difficult to resist the temptation before
him. Were it not for the rumseller, the
drunkard's efforts to extricate himself would
always be successful. This city has be-
come, by partial legislation, the impregna-
BILE fortress of the rumsellers. Even the
temples of the living God are cemented,
stone by stone, with the tears Of the widow
and the orphan The rumselers of this
city declare, with bottle in one hand, that
we shall not have excise law extended to
this CITY, We say, we will. What have
we done !, Are we such malefactors that
we must be disfranchsed / The country
has declared it will not be ruled by this OIL
igarchy Of rumsellers Shall we not saw
the same2 know there is virtue still ex-
tant in the people of this city. The rum
influence has not been shaken in the coun-
try. II we can PROSTATE it in the city, we
can, as corps Of reserve, consummate the
glorious work, We can then say---'Stand
up, deserted mothers! Rejoice, ye down
trodden wives Spread our your arms, ye
drunkards' families The reserved corps
of the great teetotal army has perfected your
dehverancen' lfyou are guilty of no crimes
BY which you oughtto be denied the common
rights Of citizens, then say, like freemen,
"we will no longer submit Like ireemen
let US act.n
The meeting adjourned, at eight O'Clock,
after an announcement that the next grand
demonstration in favor of the excise law,
,,o,,Id ho bald nj the Broadway Tabernacle