Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1850-05-28
A wistness for Tempsrepce from a bsYs
Quarter.

Al the close of the last lectur. of e..
Gary in the Presbyterian churcb-a lectnrs
against the iicence system, and In which ha
had severely excoriated the people of De, ro;,
over The shoulders of the Mayor and I,;tv
Councils for their recent legalization Of tha
iiquor traffic-Mr. Ladue, the Mayor of the
city, rose and claimed the attention of tha
audience for few moments. Having ga
cured attention. he proceeded to saw that the
arguments OF the speaker against the traffic.
ana against intemperance, were strong and
conclusive; but that since his elevation to
the chief magistracy of the city, he had been
compelled to listen, daily, to arguments and
appeals still more powerful and CONVINCING.
since his election, he had scarcely sat
aown 10 meal in which he had not been
interrupted oy persons applying for relief
mho we're reduced to the lowest verge Of
wie'cheaness and want. At all hours ofthe
aay' ana frequently in the night, he was com
Pellod to witness the most heart renJ;ne
scenes OF deprivation and suffering, ara 70
listen to the most piteous appeals Fo1 fsi;nf
which no was unable to afford--tbere heinz
no public funds for that purpose. and his nr;s.
vate means being entirely inadeouate to The
reiief Of 1.-THE Of the applicants. Inouiry
mad satisfied him that ten out of everv twelve
Oh those thus reduced to beggarv and want
owed their misery. directly or ind,rect,v IN
ihtemperance. Ten twelfths of the palmer.
ISM OF the city. he repeated, was attributable
70 =, ihtemperance; and whilst knowledge of
ehis iact made most powerfully painful i'm
preston upon his mind, as it must upon the
n'no OF every one endowed with common bu
nanity, ne was required by the law under
which he acted, and which he was hound m
respect daily to attach his signature to doc
nments by which he knew this pauner;sm
wretchedness and suffering must be a1omen'
nented and increased. Many thus reduces.
falling OF frelief by other means. will seek II
N crime; thus addin infamy and degrads.
'ion to misfortune ana misery, and endSnont-
ng the lives and proF srty of citizens. W6ilst
MS fearful current 4 as rolling and boilino
Ike river of hell, j our very midst. aeop;.
ing increased strs igth and volume every
lay, no effort put 8 rth by the Sons, who. he
vas sorry to So. were almost despised bv
ne gre-so. portion of the citizens for the zeal
Vhich they manifested in behalf ofthe unfor
uhate ineorlate,. and the hostility displayed
gainst the traffic in alcohol. In the name OF
engion and humanity, in view of their own
aiety, he appealed to the citizens of Detroit.
hasmuch as they had evinced their pleasure
oat the traif1c should be sustained, to pro-
lde some means which should relieve its
apless and innocent victims from waEt, star
alton, shame and crime.
MI Ladue is not identified with the or
anizatlon OF the Sons, not TO our kowledgo.
'ith any other temperance organization of
le city or state. His testimony, therefore,
lust be regarded as disinterested; and that
was candid, all who heard him must admit.
hat fearful picture of the evils of inteir,
erance docs 1t present! Ifit be true land
no will dare to deny itD that ten -tweifths
the puauperism of the city is ocoasioned
iatemPerance, is not that fact a suffieien.
stlfcat!on for the immediate, and tif neces-
Try iorciole suppression OF the trafic2 Why
louid society sustain a trade which poisons
ID pollutes the atmosphere, and which
.ings to Its members only suffering, disease,
lame and ddeathl-[Peninsular Freeman.