Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-05-22


bic to give il this week. We hope soon
to have more room, when we shall not
be compelled to omit such favors. The
reader will understand that Lamington,
in the unpublished letter, took ground
against the new license law.
COrrespondence Of the GslIiPolis Journal.
CINCINNATI, May rs, 81.
} EDS. JOURNAL: In my last partially
gave my views upon the late "license
law" and | am quite willing that my
objections to that law, whatever they
may be. shall ne remembered and laid
up for fu.ure use. don't believe |
shall ever become a convert to such
principles as are made the basis for
stringent laws of that character, Es.1
pecially so, if am 10 be convinced by
such practical arguments as are pre-
sented at every corner and byplace in
this city at the present time. But let
that pass now, il will soon enough be-
come the subject of serious comment by
the people at large. If incendiarism is
an index or sign of the presence of
criminals amongst US, then is our goodly
CITY blessed (cursed) with an uncommon
quantity Just now, for not a single night
passes but we are reused from slumber
at least once an hour by the alarm bells
of fire, and very often are we kept
awake by this constant ringing, for hours
at time, telling of the destruction of
buildings and property in some quarter
OF the town. Pickpockets and thieves
abound, and burgiaries, robberies, as
saults and murders are as common as
song-singing or whistling. Two men
had some words with each other, last
Saturday, on Vine near 9th, about dog,
when one of them named Warnock
drew pistol and shot the other three
times, before he was stopped. The
wounded man "a Mr. O'Hara) died in a
few hours after, but it is thought that
Warnock will escape punishment by
some crook of the law, and be allowed
to shoot whoever he p'eases hereafter. |
Would it not be a good plan for our
judges, in such cases, TO grant the cold
blooded murderer a diploma, certifying
on the margin that the favored indi-
vidual, may have full "license" ever
after to ''maim," shoot, rob or kill
whomsoever he may choose from the
date thereof? Such paper made and
granted would do full as much good in
90 cases out of every 90 as such trials
and decisions as now peculiarly distin-
guish our courts of justice. No won
der thieves abound, and robbers 90 hand
in hand with respectable citizens; no
wonder counterfeiters dwell among US,
impose upon US, and violate the laws
with impunIty; no wonder desperadoes
attack our jais, send prisoners away
beyond the reach of the laws and no
one says na7; no wonder murders are
frequent, and blood marks our pave
ments on every hand. for justice is
warped, judgment prevented, crimes
winked at and even murder screened
from its just punishment by those who
have the high seats in our temples Of JUS
tice, and tie execution of the laws in
their hands.
But day Of reckoning lciH come; and
come in blood and desolation too, un-
less our citizens arouse TO a full sense
of their danger and correct the evil in !,
time. lie who looks over the news from
California shudders as he reads of those
fearful executions of wretched crimi-
mas, by the populace in their wrath
and so will it be here ere long unless
these accursed blood-hounds and viii
aims are driven from our midst. If
those, elected to see our laws executed,
md protect our peace and persons, will P
wink at this violation and destruction,
he people may execute their laws them &
selves, and visi. fearful and Just pun d
shment upon those who thus tamper II
With justice and betray our rights. | 81
;hal speak of this again. The new
constitution begins to be the subject of
good deal ol discussion and inquiry, a
md as the day for its adoption or re-
ection approaches, there is'more and
more of both. am heartily in favor e,
If its adoption although there are seve- Of
al provisions, think, might have been fe
drawn and been an improve a, a
nent on the whole. But even as it is "
prefer it to the old one, and therefore q
go for it. Thus far in life have ever ri
een a Wing OF "the strictest Sect" but % %
lso democratic Wing, and believe in d,
and progress. | have ever fc
eieved and still believe, that the Wing in
lith, is founded upon the great cardinal % %
rinciples of Democracy and progress; g.
ence am willing to adapt, as far as is We
onsistent with our faith and princi. gr
les, our policy to the times in which pa
re live, move and have our being. ~ te
Hence my desire to see the faculties
nd energies OF our race fully devel-
ped, and our own individual and aggre-
ate happiness secured, by such funda.
rental laws as best secure our rights
nd immunities. The apportionment o.
,ction Of the new constitution is clear, to
llpable, Locoioco imposition and rob- o'c
,ry, but it might have been worse by at
r than il is; and the Wings should not da
omplain much on that score, for they oil
light have elected majority of the col
embers Of the convention, if they had ma