New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-03

cite. Four men are signing the DeciaiA'o' "a
I,aooo,d.rce One old woman Is Staging An o.u
doeesyel verse about King George Ill @'iu ~
-, coma refused b drink then IeA- ho"
.n,n,ipg, as we go through the wards, you say
80, ta.sed institution o. and II had
-. % Leave be rand me, know not what sooner
,,onld do than establish m hospital for the In
sane. But what is the matter, Mr.. Aumseuel
YOU look pale Pale why see that maniac staring
at US. How frightful o, he can't hurt US, he is
chained. Let us speak TO him. How do you 90
Do Won sold me rum. Don't you know Joe BIZ
nngs? say you sold me rum Come let US so
on Poor Billings He has been here three yeas
had no idea ne was 90 bad. One night he pushed
his head through pane Of glass in noy store anu
yelled like a madman, and we had the greatest
difficulty in getting bis head back without cutting
his throat terribly with the glass. lie neo 'ne o0
rrium tremens then, and thought he wou'c COME
to this. But you sold him ruml Yesi though DO
often stole it-if / did not sell others Woou' ~
Keener. Row many of the insane have oeeh nv
insane bv Intemperance About oneinhu' '"-
bhsiness Mr.. Rumseller. Yes, own tue business
ia had but IL is licensed it is legal, ana WHAT "
legal must be right
No,r ;f Won nlease we will take walk into
Tho mil and see how these poor fellows are ENJOY
ing themselves, Independence Day. GOOD morn
ing. Mr.. Keeper, suppose you let all your prlso-
pers have their liberty to-day, independence Day
Liberty! Liberty to go the iron CRATES and LOOK
out and see the procession and hear the music
that's all the liberty they will have. Wont you
give them little Of the o be joyfoil' be JOY
full If it was not for the accursed stutf should
have rome of them here. Nearly every man have
here was brought here drunk. And if you could
hear them bewai their folly and curse the liquor
dealers and the rum shops, you would THINK tnoae
men should never be permitted to sell ano'her drop
o not so fast, Mr.. Keeper, one of us follows that
business. One of you7 Then all have 10 say 49,
this is the proper place for you. 1t every hquor
seller was shut up in these cells, he would have bis
due and we should be touble1 with no more prlso
pers. He is an impudent fellow and hard-hearted
az iailors always are but he tells some truths,
does he not Let US look in moment. Mr.. Keep
erl who have you in this cell The man who
killed another last week down at ---- in
drunken spree-I wish the rumseller who sold him
the rum was locked up with him. Well, we have
seen enough here. Let us step moment into
the Orphan Asylum. Good morning, Mrs
Mstron. Good morning. little children, all beauti'
ful and bright, dressed in your best-going out
upon picnic today? Come sing the beautiful
song, MY Country tbs of thee" That is beauti-
ful. Matron! now many Of these children came
: here through the intempersnce and consequent
early death of their parents About onethird.-
One third Of the parents OF these children cut oil
by rum Bad business, Mr. Rumseller So you
may say of whatever killed the other two-thirds.-
Everything is bad that shortens human life. Some
parents hang themselves. Is rope making there
fore bad business Some drown themselves
Is the water to blamel Some cut their Threats.
Is razorselliDg a badtradel o well, Mr. Rum
seller, have nothing to add. Get comfort if you
can. 1t is Independence day. Come, let us SO down
to the tent where the Liberty party are dining Lib
erty, they say, is theirs, to do what they please,
and drink what they please. Well, here is
a real row. Look, there goes over whole
table, bottles, glasses, and an-There' g fight
There one man gouging anoiher-O, what
n Babel! what hell. Wonder whether
the Temperance Festival is over-Let Us go
down there-what do you say to this neighbor
Rumseller-How peaceable! how quiet Crack
ing their jokes and making their speeches over
their white glasses. How neat they all ooA-men
and boys-and ladies, with them, all in their best ::
no ladies' at the Liberty party no place for them
there-but here woman sits at her ease in all her
purity, dignity aud glory. And now, my friend
" hat do you think of the manner in which we have
spent the day Have you received no instruc-
tive lelscnl Have you not come to the conclusion
that you will sell no more of that accursed liquor
which deprives men Of their property, their health
and their reason which file jsils and madhouses
with these wretched victims, and makes the word
Independence, to all who come under its influence,
perfect farce Yes, l have.-And will either
blind my eyes, and stop my ears, and harden my
heart, and sell on and be rich, and defy the VEN
geance of heaven and the whips and stngs of a ST.
fenced conscience or abandon my business for
ever!
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