New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-28

THE APPEAL.
From the bills OF mortality which nave oeeh Aep'
10 different places, it apPeare that IN single year
twenty deaths were occasioned in Portsmouth, N.
a. by the use of intoxicating liquors; twenty one IN
Salem, Mass thirty lone in New Haven. CT; tn,r.y
in New-Brunswick, n. j.; and seven hupcieu II"
Philadelphia, Pa By examinations MADE II mas
been shown tina, of eight hundred and eighty mani
acs In our asyluras four hundred owe theit 'os' VI
ao.o, 10 Tho nae Of intoxicating liquors; that sew
a,osr, IN ndned out OF nineteen hundred paupers In
onr moor houses owe their pauperlsn and tnel. oe-
s2ation TO the same cause; that forty out OF forty
our murders were committed under the influence Vi
alcoholic stimulans; that sixtyseven out OF seven
tyseyen found dead died of drunkenness; and tnat
four hundred out Of six hundred and ninety juvenile
celinqueDts either drank themselves of oe'o"Seu ~
families that drank.
al have shown" says that interchangeable agent,
Samuel Chapman, Esq. who visited all the prisons
and poor houses of our State-"l have shown oe-
yond the power of contradiction, that more Than
three ourths of all the pauperism is occasoned oy
ntemperance and that more than -sixths OF all
those committed for crime are themselves lntemper-
ate. In no Door. house that have visited have
failed to find the wife or the widow or the chlloren
of the drunkard In one out OF one hundred ana
ninety persons relieved the preceding year were
nineteen wives of drunken husbands and seventy
~ jail were husbands confined TOR whipping their
wives or otherwise abusing their households
1.-THE annual destruction of human LIE In 'hese
United States occasioned by the use OF strong drink
is said to be at least fifty thousand
Mr.. Chapman found that 20 per cent OF the deaths
of male adults in one large town which ne vlsited'
were occasioned by the use Of intoxicating liquors
and the physicians of Annapolis have given II as
their opinion that ne.half CT the over lS years
of age in that city brought prematurey TO their
end in the same In view OF these facts, Is II
worth while for the citizens of this free State to
authorize by their the licensing OF these moral
Gslgothas in it's several towns and hamlets and
neigbborhoods7
The avenues to death are sufficiently numerous
wthou. opening and legalzing new ones. From
these licensed Accidents disease and death are not
only sent abroad but every other form OF evil there
oil that Is noble in the character of man is debased
all that is groveng and vile quickened into life, and
one generation of vagabonds after another trained up
not only to annoy and disgrace their families and
friends. but 10 prey upon community. And 1t Tor
you, Electors, 10 say at the coming decisive hour,
whether these rendezvous of crime and sources OF
misery shall continue, or whether they shall be
closed and community spared the expense and the
disgrace Of sustaining them. BY one decisive act
you can pronounce the doom Of the corruptors OF our
youth, of the plunderers of our poor, and shut up
the dens where they have been corrupted and plum
dered.
Will you perform that act on the coming Election,
and save your families and your country from i'm
pending ruin? No LICEHsE.