Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1852-04-10
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POLITICAL PETITION.


In the Ohio House of Represents tives on
Tuesday last, the subjoined poeical petition
from seventy. four ladie for The Maine Law
was read at the Clerks desk
BERLIN TOWNSHIP, DELAWARE Co., Ono, !
February II, 1892
To the Honorable, the General Assembiy o.
the State Of Ohio:
Your petitioners shove eth, what your honors
now knoweth,
That women have suffered by rum
Aud We therefore beseech you, yea, win
tears we entreat you,
That you 10 our rescue would me-
A petition from women, you may think
unbecoming,
But hear us before you decide
ii not governed by reason-if our prayers
out Of season-
At once you can cast it aside.
There are many who're making all their
living by taking
The money. the health and the lives.
OF the lords of crealion-of the men Of this
nation,
And breaking the hearts of their wives.
We refer srs, 10 creatures with hearts
bIacker than features
The makers and sellers of rum,
Men No Men we'll not name them,
for demons would shame them
Ii they from Tarturus should come
These black monsters entice men, 10 their
deep dens of vice, then
II Il Al. e.. l.. i,t
To drink and feel funny, while they pocket
their money
And store up their masses of wealth.
But their drinks, when once swallowed, are
quite sure TO be followed
With gnaW iugs and cravings for more
Hence, the habit of drinking, which e'en
men versed in thinking
Find hard, very hard to get o'er.
'Tis thus fathers and brothers, yea, husbands
and others,
Spell bound by this monster, are led
To the vortex of ruin, 10 their utter un-
doing,
Till health, peace and comfort are fed.
Till their means are all sQuandered, till
their reason has wandered
They have seemed TO delight in both con-
tenton and fighting,
Aud filling their friends hearts with grief.
Brightest hopes have been blighted, fairest
prospects benighled
While homes have been shrouded in
grief,
By these black-hearted fellows, by these
dirty rnmsellers,
Led on by the devil, their chief.
Many grieistricken mothers, kind compan-
ions and others,
Have sank, under grief and abuse,
Brought about by rum venders yea, by
heartless hearl-renders,
Through the means OF the still and It's
juice.
Many widows are sighing, many orphans are
crying,
For grain which these rascals' still up;
Many bosoms are aching, many hearts are
breaking,
Through miseries brought on by the cup
Many thousands are going 10 the grave, an,
10 ruin,
Who're poisoned and murdered by rum,
Sold through country and city by these
strangers 10 pity,
Till home after home is undone.
We have used moral suasion on each prope
occasion,
And tried every means that we could
By the deep lamentations, 10y the wailing o
nations
BY the anguish, the tears and the blood.
or the widows and orphans by the shroud,
and the collins,
And by the deep wall of despair,
Sent from country and city; we have said
''RumseIlers, pity ~
Their answer is-"Ilhdt do ice care ~
Their hearts are uufeeling, and vain our ap
pealing
To them any more for relief;
Law only can reach them, law only cat
teach them,
Law only can dry up our grief.
We do therefore implore you, with GU
grief spread before yon,
To give us "A law like old Maine,
For It's just what is needed and wen SEE
that lis needed
Iour labor shall not be IN vain.
Yes, the Maine Law on liquor, will stol
rum selling quicker
Than any thing else we can name,
Aud the people exact it will you therefore
enact II
Or shall we entTeat YOU in vain /!
You are clothed with the power, if yo
please, in an hour,
The tide of inlemperance to stay,
0, then, fly to our rescue aud high Heave
will bless you,
Your act of compassion repay.
PHILADELPHIA is the largest city Oh III
Western Continent.