Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-02-20
TcmperaNce.-Th new Inv,

Inc temperance Meeting on last night week wa
crowded. The ladies were very properly compli
mented for their voluntary and success sfu labo.s in
circulating the pledge throughout the city. E:sh.
teen ont Of the twenty districts had been visit
ed in whole or in part, and between twelve ant
thirteen hundred signatures were reported Us the
result oftheir efforts. This quiet and unobtrusive
way Of doing up the business, merits the applause
Of the friends Of temperance every where, and as
these efforts Of the ladies may be continued, we
hope they may be seconded by willingness on the
part o: all our citizens to sign the pledge, as may
be presented by the fair hands of the wives and
daughters of this community. An effective public
sentiment may thus be formed that will eventuate
in the removal of temptations Of the worst kind
character of many of our youth, and confirm the
downward course Of the inebrate.
We learn that several eloquent addresses were
delivered by Messrs Salter, Dennis, Child and Tenn
pie. We have no. heard the resul, of the meeting
Of last evening.
! This SUBJECTS interesting to all. The character
Of our city demands that the new law, which is to
go into effect the LIST OF July. and which prohibits
the traffic in intoxicating drinks, should be carried
out in good faith. There are already whisperings
that 1t will be evaded. Some of the very men who
recently took an active part in the maintenance OF
certain law, and very properly denounced all
who should nullfy resist it, are already implics-
ted as being willing to connive at the virtual multi
ncation Of the new Temperance Law OF the State.
We hope we have been misinformed. The object
aimed at and its results are too important and too
beneficial 10 be marked by such incon stency, not
to say treason. No man should be countenanced
as \ candidate for Office under city government
who will not pledge himself to carry out The re-
quirements Of this law good faith and to the full
extent thereof This is a matter that ccnce. ms
our character Is law aiding city.
The law is good one. II the fugitive slave law
is TO he binding so should this lie. The first con-
templates the restoration ola Slave to !s master,
only to be still a slave. The latter would NOT only
reclaim the slave from the most CALLING bondage
but aims to restore and make him sharer in all
the moral, social and political privileges awarded
to the proudest sons offreedom. II would do thi 5
by breaking the chains that bound him. II would
do this etfectualy by extinguishing the fires and
closing the shops where these chains are forged
and rivcted. Who would be so cruel as to add fuel
TO such fires, and thus perpetuate individual and
domestic misery, by either evaaing or nulf,ing
such a benecent law ? Ifany, such a man deserves
not the sutirases of free people.
We commend this subject not to temperance
men, as SUCH but to all who are in favor of laws
that are calculated to benefit the community. There
are many among us who have not identified them
selves with any organized tempe rance movement,
who nevertheless look upon groceries as dens OF
vice and manufactures Of crime, and would vote
| for no man who would either evade or nuilify the
law for their ahrogaion. For the sake Of this class
of our feow-citizens, we would av old, in select
ing city officers, mixing up the abstract question OF
Temperance in the approac hing election. Our re.
pnation as city demands, however, that no man
should be elected who will not carry out the OBJ
| ject and intent of the law, whatever may be his
own personal views of its expedency or propriety,