New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-01

that it was freely given out I'm an under
tone) that the Liquor men were determined
to "know their friends that they should
regard refusal to serve. DO matter on what
pretext, as evidence of hOstility--and would
remember it. Aspirants for public honors
who declined to figure on this occasion
knew that they were mortally offending an
interest which, under the machinery hither-
to in use, could infallibly control nominations
if not elections.
And yet
The meeting was called to order by VIM.
S. Duke, distiller.
The officers announced were
President-Robert II. Morris.
Wee Presidents-John Anderson, Edmund Grifen
Robert B Coleman, Oscar w. Sturtevant, Jas. D
Libby, Richard French, DR. A. r vsc1e, sola LAW
Kip, Andrew Hood, f ijah f Purdy, W. .. Cor"ln'
Nathan C. Ely, William H Cornell George W. W.
jenkins Augustus Embury, Jno. w. Cdioert Bfadlsa
Johnson, w. S. Duke, and j. McNanee.
Secrefaries-John J. Herrick, |onh NC Mlcnael,
Samuel BIeyoort, Jr., and Stephea Van Nosirand.
Of these officers certainly ne-third, and
we think more than onehalf, are engaged
in manufacturing or vending Intoxicating
Beverages-whle some of them are ia.
nous for making rivers of the meanest and
worst Liquor ever sent forth to madden and
destroy their fellow men, not to speak Of
the 'swil miIA simultaneously produced,
to destroy more children every year than
Herod did in all his life.
The resolutions were offered by P. w.
Engs, leading wine. merchant
Do we give just cause of offense in stat
ing these facts?
We know Mr. Eggs and several others
of these dealers in Alcoholic Beverages to
be highly respectable men. We do not say
the others are not so, We only urge the
fact that men standing in the relation they
hold to the Maine Law question would OBJ
viously not have been used in this connec-
ton if others Of any sort of standing could
have been pressed into the service. The
managers understand the value Of appear
ances too well to have disregarded them
thus except under the pressure of the direst
necessity.
The speakers at this meeting beside
the Chairman) rejoice in the appellations
of Mr.. Spencer Mr.. Thompson and
Enoch Z. Camp The Iast-named gen.
tleman we had heard of before. He was
altogether the most entertaining and de-
lightful of the Rum orators, though we can
not approve his turning upon the vice-Pres-
idents in the savage, elephantine way he
did in his denunciations of bad liquor as the
cause of all the mischief. 1t was all true,
every word, but that was not the place to
utter it. SILL there is an excuse for his
bluntne.s suggested in the following para
graph of his speech, which we quote from
the sympathizing Herald:
"Let me tell you, that little toddy often makes
man more honest, (the sentiment and the dumb ac-
ton of the orator tapping his breast, as If applying
it, produced the most ludicrous effect, and it was
some minutes before the laughter subsided) have
seen men who, with the effect OF congenial glass;
spoke their mind freely and independently. ami ad.
yocated principles which they never would have
dared to have done without Its ennobliDg influence
tLaughler.p
In all seriousness, does any man be-
Ieve that Mr.. Spencer Mr.. Thompson
and Enoch <. Camp will be organs Sc
lected by this great City to utter senti-
ments in which "nearly our entire voting
population" are heartily agreed. If any
body supposes that these were chosen by
the projectors of the meeting in preference
to George Wood, Willis Hall, Ogden Hoif-
man, N. B. Blunt, J. Prescott Hall, Charles
O'Conor, Francis B. Cutting, James 7.
Brady, John M'Keon, John Van Buren,,
James S. Thayer, T. E. Tomlinson, L. B.
Shepherd, &c. the supposition discredits his
common sense. We venture to say that if
a retainer of $1,000 could have procured a
speech from either Of the seven first named
in the above list, it would have been deemed
a capital investment. Now not one of these
gentlemen, so far as we are aware, is te-
totaler, yet none of them saw Mt to appear
on the Metropolitan boards for the Rum
sellers benefit. Contrast the list of Vice.
Presidents of this meeting with that which
either of the great parties of our City can
put forth when it makes serious effort
Gentlemen distillers and hquor-venders
why put us to the trouble of fighting it out
The case is against you, as your own show
of hands has clearly established Why net
mitate the discretion of Capt. SCOTS coon
and come down! That would save
world of i'll feeling and trouble, and YOU
clearly see that it must end there at last.
The Facts in the Case.