The organizer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1849-05-26
EQUAL RIGHTS.


!. all his dry labors relishes a Joke a
= well as another, tells some pleasan
10 stories Of incidents which sometime
D. occur on his country circuits. Anon
to them is one connected with the tenn
% perance cause, which two or tire
\. years ago disturbed the State an,
!. agitated all classes. by reason of th
submission to the ballot-box on tn,
. question whether any licences 10 sci
: liquor should be granted. The Judg,
i was holding court IN the country a
a the time the vote was taken, and fol
: a week or two afterwards, and looked
on with a curious eye to see how the
matter worked. He observed espe.
cially the fact, that the strongest vote
against licences was generally given
in those towns where there was the
most drinking, and that in those towns,
and indeed generally, persons who had
been in the habit Of drinking, now
drank harder thap ever, apparently
out Of spite, and TO show that they
could drink they pleased, and pould,
law or no law. He therefore re.
marked that he never saw so MANY
drunken men in his life. When he
landed from the steamboat, the men
who ferried him over the river were
drunk; when he left the small boat,
the man who took him up into the viii
lage kept his horses on the run, and
drunk as a lord, prided himself on dri-
wing within few inches of the edge
of the road without precipitating his
load, hundred feet down a ravine.
Every body, in short. seemed to be
intoxicated; witnesses and parties
came in court half seas over. One
witness fell in his whole lengh when
leaving the stand, another got asleep
in court, rolled off the bench, and had |
to be carried out Of the room-and
another was so very 'jolly," as they
called it, that he could not give his
testimony in a sober word ut all. One
afternoon Of delightful day, early In
the season, after the court had ad.
jOurned, the Judge was sitting on the
porch of his hotel, with severnI gem
tlemen around him, whose attention
he was calling to the number ofdrnn.
ken men then within sight; and lie
and they were Specializing upon the
effect of the law, and upon the odd ,
sort OF feeling which had produced
such result. when a man came up I
10 them most particularly tipsey. He j
had some business with one Of the par. a
y, and, booty as he was, showed that s
he was smart, shrewd fellow, and |
Vithal fond Of fun. When he had got
trough his business, the Judge said S
o him \
Il suppose, my friend. you didn't !
ole on the mo License side, this I
lection q" a
didn't !, by -P" was the re- Y
'ly; "yes did, though. | tell YOU" !
You didg" inquired the Judge; :
how did that happen2" b
Why, Judge Pll tell you what it s.
i" hiccupPed the fellow, 'Tm pref g
Y likely man, when l let liquor a
lone; its only when I get rum aboard v
me that ! make a fool Of myself" 81
"Well, why don't you let il alone,
rent a.
"Ohl you see Judge, that's easier l.
lid than done. When fmany where's =,
here it is, must have il; so voted \,
} shut 'em all up" n
" It's a great pity" said the Judge, n
for so shrewd and intelligent nan n
you seem 10 be, 70 have acquired Il
lch a habit. What has done IL ~ N
"Oh you see, Judge, was consta- =
e five or six years, and then deputy Z,
Ierif three years. and then sheriff h
rec years, and then constable again. r.,
I've been about good deal among -
e boys, and got 70 drinking, and now ~
can't stop. Judge, III tell you ~
hat be continued, with an appar. A.
& change Of the subject that no one ~
luld account Tor. (" 4 am the univer- ~
horse-doclor down in the High. -
nds, where l live, and IL any body's -
lrse gets sick they come to me.-lrb
he other day a fellow came 10 me =.
d said biz horse was sick. I asked 4,
n what was the mailer with Bic 80
lrsei lie said be wonldn't drink, -
. he asked me, what he could do 70 -.
Ike him drink I told him 10 elect 81 -
p constable, by thunder-he'd drink -.
p fast enough Fd6isd il, you see, -,
q knoWi" ~
EscAFEn.-ME MAndreus, ubol -.
|. recently convicted 81 murder b az.