Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-06-21

sideraGion among people 50 thrifty and saw
ing, as. areein the main. the Tielders Of politiz
cal poweFin this country.
Politieal Reforme move slowly here. Nj.
Hume's motion for Household Suffrage, Vote
BY Ballot Triennial Parlialuents, de-, was de-
MED censiperatiOn, night before last BY The
concerted absence from the House Of nearly
all tie Members-only twenty-cne appearing
when forty tout Of every six hundyed1 are re-
quired to constitute . quorum. So the SUBJ
ject lost its place IS set motion, and prOba-
blyw not come up again this Session The
Ministry opposed its consideration now, prom
ising themselves 70 bring forward measure
for the Extension of the Franchise ners session
when il is very unlikely that they will be IN g
position to bring forward any thing Il seems
| TO me that the current sets strongly against
their continuance in Office. and that, between
the hearty Reformers on one SIDE and the
out spoken CONSERVATIVES on the other, they
must soon surrender their semblanoe Of pow
er. Still, they are skiIlfnl in playing of one
extreme against another, and may thus endure
or be endured year longer but the proba-i
bility is against this To my mind, il seems
clear that their retirement Is essential 10 the.
prosecution of Liberal Reforms. So long as
they remain in power, they will do, L. ssile way
of the Peoples Enfranchisemens; as near
nought as possible. sW
@sla. q Nothing could live
'Twixt that and science
Their successors, the avowed Conservative
will of course do nothing; but they cannot
hold power long in the Britain Of to-day; and
whoever shall succeed them must come in on
a popular tide and on the strength Of pledges
to specific aud comprehensive Reforms u bich
cannot well be evaded Slow work, say you? !?
Well there is no quicker practicable. When
the Tories shall have been in once more and
gone out again, there will be another great
forward movement like the Reform Bill, and I
think not till then, unless the continent skall
meantime be conyulsed by the throes of gen
Ieral Revolution.
should like to see a chance for the defeaE
Of that most absurd Of all Political stupidities.
the Ecclesiastical TILES Asssumpt;on B;lL but
X 4 dOnot Persecution for Faiths sake is most
abhorrent, but sincerity and zeal may render
lit respectable; but This bill has not one re-
Ideeming feature. While il insults the Cath
iolics, il is perfectly certain 70 increase their
\ numbers ond power; and i will do this with
out inhicting on them the least substantial in
Jury. Cardinal Wiseman will be the local
head Of the Catholic. Church IN England
whether he is legally forbidden to be STYLED
Archbishop Of Westminster or not, and SO d
the Irish &atholic Prela.es. The obstacles
which the Ministerial bill attempts to throw il
the way Of bequests to The. Catholic Bishops
4 as such viii be easily evaded; those Bishops
i will exercise every function Of the Episcopate
whether this bill shall pass or fail; md Their
moral power will be greatly increased By its
\ passage. But the Ministry which has found
the general support of the Catholics, aud es.
tpecially Of the Irish Catholic Members yery
iopportune at certain critical junctures. vii
lhencfor:h miss that support Tin fact. il has al
ready been transformed into most viruleni
and deadly hostility. Rural England va.
hostile to the Ministry before, on account D.
Of the depressing effect Of Free Trade on the
4 Agricultural interest and now Ireland is turn.
ed against them by their own act-an aci
! which bellies the professions Of Toleration il
matters of Faith which have given them &
great hold of the sympathies of the best mer
in the country throughout the last half centu.
=
storm which they BY this billhave aroused.
The cause of 1snPerancs--of Total Absti
nence from all that can intoxicate--is hert
about twenty years behind its present position
in the United States. ! think there are no
more absolute drunkards here than inioui
American cities but the habit Of drinking fol
drinks sake is all but universal The Aris
tocTacy drink almost to aman SO do the Mid
die Class so do the Clergy 50 alas do III,
Il lWomeui There is less of Ardent Spirits i'm
bibed than with us; but Wines are mucl
icheaper and in very general use among th,
well-of; while the consumption of Ale, Beer
Porter, DC, (mainly by the poor) is enormous
!; Only think of f5, 600, 600 or Zsoetlty-Jfve MI
iiont Of Dollars, paid into. the Treasury in
single year by the people of these Islands Al
Malt Tax alone. while the other Ingredient
used in The manufacture of Malt Liquors prol
d ably swell the aggregate to Thirty Millions .
) Dollars 1t we suppose this to be lttli
more than one third of the ultimate cost o
these Liquors to the consumers. that cost can
mot be less than Que Hundrtd Millions O
/ Dollars per amman IA sum amply sufficient
if rightly expended. to Danish Pauperism ant
!. Destitntion Tor ever. from the British Isles.
And yet the poor trudge YEARLY on, loadeC
5 to the earth with exactions and burdens o
every kind. yet supplying their brains, empty
Ing their pockets and running their constitu
!, tions with these poisonous. brutalizing liquors
t ! see no hope for them short of system 0
) Popular Education which shall raise then
) mentally above their present low condition
! followed by a few years Of systematic, ener
$ geIic, omnipresent Temperance Agitation.
/ slow work this. but is there any quicker tha
$ will be effective? The Repeal of the Take
/ on knowledge would greatly contribute 10th,
} Education of the poor, but that Reform ha
$ yet to be struggled for,
II OF Social Reform in England. the mos
E satisfactory agency at present Is the Society
/, for improving The Dwellings Of the Poor. Thi
4 Society has the patronage Of the Queen. j
E presided over Il believe( by her husband. ant
E lis literally patronized BY the better portion 0
t the Aristocracy anh the higher. order Of th,
5 Clergy These, aided BY wealthy or philan
f thropic citizens have contributed generoush
and have done good work, even though the!