Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1852-09-29

second SZVV ano costs or four months Imprisonment;
LOT tne thlrG eno every succeeding one with a fine
OF ezoO ana louf months imprisonment.
Z. ANY three Voters in a town or city may make
oath before q Magistrate that they believe that Ii
quofs are kepeIof sale, contrary to law, in any store,
snop, &c. = ne magistrate shall issue a search
warrant Tor tnen- 3. The Sheriff or Constable shall
search the PIenisa de-, not a dwelling house, IN
less sale has pee made there. 4. The owner shall
ne umnoaNEnea and if he cannot prove that
the liquors sfes foreign product, brought in accor-
DING to the laws OF the United States, that they are
in original packages, &c, they shall be destroyed.
&. Chemists, artists aid manufacturers aEho use
liquors N then buslneSs;sFe exempt from proseeu-
ticn.
Q. Liquors kept or sold at any public place, shall
'be destroyed and the owner Imprisoned thirty DAYS.
10. All bargains, notes, &c, in respect to liquors
Illegally sold, are void.
IL. No liquor dealer can sit on the jury in any
trial touching this question. Liquor cases have pre-
cedence in court over all others, except pressing
criminal cases.
This is a brief synopsis of the Maine Law. Ttmay
not be entirely correct, in that it may leave out some
minor points; nevertheless it will give your readers
a general view of what the law is.
Is THIS LAW CoSsTIfUTIoNAL ?-Chief Justice
Tany, says: IF any State deems the retail and in
ternal. traffic in ardent spirits injurious to its citi-
Zens, l see nothing in the Constitution to prevent it
from regulating and restraining the traffic, or from
prohibiting it altogether"
sumo II1e SIN 81 dn dcC0n OF repleFln was COM
menced for eight Barrels of liquor, seized by an Off
GER. The case was carried by demurrer to the 81
perior Court. Judge Howard, after hearing the
evidence, Immediately ordered a non-suit, on the
ground that no action can be maintained for the re-
covery of liquor upder the liquor law, sustaining
both the legality ct the act of seizure and destruc-
ton Of the,fs@eGen constitptionality Of the law.
Gov. Hubbard, gho signed the bill to make it a law,
and all the ableA men in the State, believe it to be
constitutional, al free from tyranny as any other
prohibitory law, and throw all the weight Of their
character, pogitah and influence in favor Of its
maintenance.
The EFFECTS, Or PRACTICAL OPERATION OF THE
LAw.-The first place of note at which | stopped in
the State, was Portland. This city has a popula-
ton of $4,000, is a seaport of considerable trade,
and therefore IN constant communication with New
York and other Sodoms of Alcohol. l stopped at
the American Hotel, rightin the center Of the places
There was no liquor there-no drunkenness, no
smell of liquor. Though on Friday, there was the
c~almness, peace and ~quietude Of the Sabbath. I
walked the streets by day and by night, visited the
Wharves, rail roads depots, saw no spirits, saw 10
drunkenness, could hear of none. Before the law
went into operation, there were over 100 shops that
sold Alcohol; now there are none which do it open
y. Before, the house of correction, the Jail, aims
house We're full Of wretched inmates now there is
but occasionally one in the former and but few in
the latter. The author of the law, Neal Dow, re
sides here; the people love him and many speak'oi
1919 hAu " bCAb CA4As v Iu1
look like it is an unconstitutional lew !? that, in the
language of the Post, it is tyrannical?" Do not
wealthy people, the intelligent sons and daughters
OF Portland, knoYjas well, at least, as the litera1a
Post, whether tEe Law IS tyranical or no?
Bangor, from which I now write and in which
have been staying some days, is the second city il
the State, having q population Of $4,000. It is a!
large as Wilmington and Raleigh put together.
have become acquainted with a number of inteIli
gent gentlemen, lawyers, judges, ministers, mer
chants, &C., who say that the law has worked well
done an immense amount Of good and will be sus
tanned. It has been sustained in all the city cleo
tons here and generally throughout the State. No
one fourth of the Inhabitants would vote to repea
the law and that fourth is made up Of foreigners
degraded rumsellers and miserable drunkards.-
low Goes the literary Post like such company !? fo
on such it layishes its sympathies. In one quartz
before the law went into effect there were 10 com
mitnents to the county jail, the first quarter after s
The costs of commitments to the city watch, hoHs
In the quarter preceding the law, was S25S,SC; til
last quarter, S75. There is q reduction of over 5
per cent in the out door expenses of the pauper es
adjustment; 81 per cent. in the expense Of Aim
House of Y per cent. in the cost of the house Q
correction. In one month, before the law went int
operation, there were 40 commitments to the waite
now h6Wsf none5 It isssa5ht' fpaa1bIficflyy f Known. k9Gf aTntaf Ct Is df f5dT
me-, that in the Sd story Of a suspicious house Their
is an iron door bolted with iron bars, behind whicl
it is supposed the serpent is carefully kept A fey
old juicers and low 1rishmen enter this cage and en-
4joy the glorious liberty of getting drunk, and the
of going to the watch house have Just learned
however, and l wish to state things as they are
that there are several dark rooms in which nobod
keeps it, but where it may be found, to which tn
tGao-toring ~ creep and crawl to get q little an
one house sells it openly, bidding defiance t
the law. But, mine host who gave me this informa
ton, says further, the law" thatnow has some de
fects, " will be made to reach them" The cry no,
is make it more stringent" Thousands who al
not Sons-indeed there are comparatively few Son
: ~here-Temperance Law-clubs, are doing the worl
thousands 60 for perfeeting the law, and will max
+ it so that it viii be crushed. The more I talk Wit
all parties the more | am convinced Of this. But
am running out this con8cise statement too far, to
long, must close.
From Rocklanl, q seaport Of some size from Al
gusta, the c~apitalof the State from Lewistown, Cs
O. lais, Belfast, Trey, S~earsport, Charleston, Lovel
O Frankfort, Brunswick, Bath, PASSPORT, Camden
Orono, and all eyer the State, from every part, sin
> liar effects Of the law reach US
Z are before me. It has done an almost infinite
n mount of good. It has worked well for new M
chinery, despite the opposition it has met from tt
interested, the low and the vile.
:. WHATWILLB BE THETATE BE- THIS Law ?-It Will
. sustained. Temperance Convention has just eli
sed its sessions at this place-composed OF thr'
hundred men, good and true-lawyers, doctor
ministers, merchants, mechanics, farmers, &C., fro
u every part Of the State, who resolved, irrespe
i've OF party, 70 sustain lAe law; anu WHO La
gone home to carry out this resolution. 1t VIII
e sustained, strengthened, perfected and Maine W
\ be free. The rummies however, will put forth
J mighty effort, ard by thousands Of dollars, wet wi
~ widows and orphans tears, sent here by the iqu
Y. dealers in Boston and New York, to repeal the Ia
n They viii fail. In them the remark Of Vespasi
is has its representatives Lucri bonus est od0r &c
q~uoltbet.
Of In conclusion, permit me to say, that we have
Il great battle to fight in North Carolina a battle I
~ on the issues of which depend the peace and pr
II perity and eternal happiness Of hundreds Of thol
We ands. Shall lawess intemperance prevail, with
en- thousand Attendant evils or shall Temperance
umph? This QUESTION must be next. What are
IT. weapons! Moro suasion and legislation. The
ter only viii entirely remove the evil. Shall we
for this? [ unhssitatingly, distinctly, emphatica
answer-YES4- C.P. JONES
out "a pack of playing cards were cut into stripsw
lv which to light CIGARS!
New HANOVER COUNTY, Sept. 5, 1852
~, ,r The following resolutions were unanimo