Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-07-20

llsh his crown. But the time has fully come for
this glorious performance. Let the Wisconsin
temperance law be enforced sternly and uncom-
promlslngly upon some prominent liquor yender
IN each neighborhood, and the legitimate effects
OF the section of the law now before us will pre-
sent us with an exhibition illustrated in perfec-
ton by the boys in their glee. The ardent love
| OF money cherished by the liquor vender will
induce him to fall over upon his neighbor VEN
der for restitution, like the influence OF the power
OF gravitation on the first brick turned from its
base, causing it to fall upon another. And as
gwen IN the illustration the work of prostration
Will 60 forward until it may be said in one uni
versal and Simultaneous shout, echoing and
re-echolng over our union and round the world,
old klng alcohol is no more, old king alcohol is
no more.
This law, though brief, is full and complete.
There is nothing superfiuous and nothing want
ing. 1t is an instrument competent, we believe,
to gain the high end at which it aims 1t is a
sword emphatically two edged which viii cut
Its way on either hand. And fused soldier-like
cannot fail to gain decisive victory. | ask
then where are the true soldiers in this moral
warfare who will grid on this sword! Is there
one who will desire to be excused?
Our warfare, it is seen by the provisions of
this law, is directed more especially against a
particular department of the enemy But it is
the strong entrenchment, it is their Gibraltar
This taken, they must capituate at once. Yes,
let us by the enforcement of this law only knock
from the trembling hand of the vender the spark
ling decanter and tumbler with which he deals
out the alcoholic beverage to be drank by his
fellow men, and the fountain whence it orioi-
mates will be soon staid, and heathfulness and
vigor will mark the way in which this Ii luid fire
has flown.
fellow-cltlzens, can you ask for motives more
Welghty and important TO quicken you to action
than what are presented to the intellectual eve
on this occasion? On the one hand YOU see the
ten thousand forms of wretchedncss existing as
the fruits OF the runous beverage, and the heart
less doeful gloom which overhangs the scene:
while ON the other, though an army is presented
SCARED and wounded and measureablv discom-
fitted, you see at the same time in the object
which has brought US together on this occasion
what, it brought into requisition by our immedi-
ate and decisive action, may quicken to renewed
bravery every disheartened soul and ensure sue
cess. And can we withhold this action at
time like the present? Could rivers of tears
move our hearts and move the right arm for the
work before us, would we open our eyes on a
world OF sorrow, these rivers may be seen flow
ing from their many tributaries, the ewes of
wives, of widows and mothers, of sisters, and
daughters; and indeed of husbands and fathers.
OF sons and brothers, and all over this devastating
beverage. Were there den of adders hordng
beneath rock nigh unto your house yard We
fathers and mothers, whence your loved ones
were wont to 60, to gambol and sport, would YOU
quietly rest one day, after the fact was known
until all means had been resorted to of water and
fire to drown or scorch them from their DEM
The mere thought of such unnatural criminal
neglect, even INDUCED in the imagination, makes
the heart to palpitate from tender associations
awakened. But ah,--look at yonder groggery,
termed place of honorable and pleasurable re-
sort by many in-these days of indulgence and
you will see what is worse than even the Upas or
the adder's poisonous tooth. Were [ a parent.
would sooner lead my loved children on to the
top OF the very rock under which the adders
hord, for place OF daily sport, and say to them
all is safe, than to take them TO a groggery and
tell them here you may relax and CRAFTY YOUR
selves for all is harmless innocence. The sad
tale has been ten thousand times told in the Bit
terest anguish. | pronounce it a moral AsceL-
dema, the place of the scull. The bleaching
bones of the dead and the dying surround it, ex-
tending in every direction farther than the eye
can reach. Its inmates apply the scorching fire
TO the tender hbres OF the immortal soul, soaring
them for undying anguish. Shall this place,
termed groggery, be suffered to continue its
work of death? Shall we not rather assail it
with the tWo-edged sword of the Wisconsin
temperance law and continue the assault with
untiring watchfulness and vigor, until it shall
cry for quarter, until it shall raise the white FLAG
of Total Abstinence, and down with the flag Of
blood and liquid ruin?
Citizens of Salem You have special rea-
sons for action in the enforcement of this law.
For to you belongs the high honor of having
presented to our Legislature the petition in reply
to which this temperance law of Wisconsin
came forth as the fruit oftheir excellent counsels
whose fame has already gone forth to the farthest
shores of our Republic, whence we have obtain
ed many commendatory echoes in response
Can we slumber and permit the Wisconsin tenn
perance law to become obsolete and powerless
while all the army of the temperate are looking
with almost GREATNESS anxiety for successful ac-
ton in Wisconsin, as an earnest of triumphant
victory in all the field of the Union and the
world?
Bnt while would use all argument to arouse
you to consistent action in enforcing this tenn
perance law upon all vendors of alcoholic poison,
| would by no means have you dispossess your
hearts of all sympathy for these unfortunate
men. | would by some cffectua means induce
them to cease their traffic not merely because of
its bearing upon others, but likewise on account
of the effects produced on themselves and their
loved families. This circle is of all others the
most exposed. For they dwell amidst the fires
and play with its curling, wrathful flames.
RELICS OF THE PASTA skeleton was recent
ly found by some laborers at Lockport, ILL.,, about
foot below the surface ofthe ground. 1t was in
good state of preservation and enveloped in
birch bark Near the head was found various
articles, such as brass crucifx and a number of
beads, articles which are used in Catholic deyo-
tons. 1t was found in one of those mounds
which have always been considered as Indian
sepulchres A tin kettle was also found in the
mound. This would seem to indicate that these
mounds are not of the antiquity which they have
long been supposed to be. This one was proba-
bly, the grave of some Indian converted by the
first discoveries of those regions. MI. Com.
On Friday morning last the extensive circus
and equestrian troupe of Col. Mann crossed tie
Suspension Bridge, ea route to Canada, The
company occupied twenty two-horse teams, head
ed by the large four horse band wagon, together
with their baggage and paraphernala. As little
delaveccurrcd at any Ordinary bridge, nor
was any>fear cvinced BY horses or men, there
being certaihAs, no appearances nor cause for any