The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-03-12
FIom the CiTelsvillo Herald.
Liquor Law.

2l and over, for the adoption Of the Maine
Liquor Law. If the members Of this
General Assembly are so easily taken
in,O let them grant the prayers of the
petitioners. That law can never be en-
forced in the West over western freemen
but so soon as it is done, we would
respectfully request that body TO adopt
and put in full force the old Blue Laws
of Connecticut. I" We shall see what we
shall see." If we are to be subjected
to these old tyrannical laws, the sooner
the people know it the better, We are
anxioust TO see the vote on the adoption Of
the law Ohio Eagle, Lancaster.
We are a little surprised to see our
"cousin of the " Eagle" swapping at
the friends of the Maine Liquor Law in
that kind of a manner; and we really
looked twice, to see il we had not taken
up by mistake, a copy Of the Ohio g Buz-
gard" instead of the "EGgle." To be
sure the merest tyro in natural history
has not failed to notice with what instinc-
tive indignation the lower " order of ami
mails" oppose any interference with a
gluttonous enjoyment of their " creature
lcomfons.p For instance, Pompey,D no
matter how decent a dag he may be
generally, will snap at all who trench
their shins too close while he gnaws a
bone. And "grimalkin," even our old
bob-tailed "Tom," will get his back
up" If interrupted over his crippled rat
The " ring.tailed monkey" on seeing the
approach OF Intervention at meal time,
Immediately adjourns in disgust to tree.
top, where he angrily gesticulates and
chatters. The unweaned cali, "waves Z"
his tale and bleats piteously when the
teat is drawn from his mouth. And even
the " baby" no matter how fine
baby" ," as general thing our ''Cousin"
has not been married long enough yet, to
know this)-no matter, we say, how re-
markable for smirks and suavity, at other
times, ''the baby" hesitates not mo-
ment to vent his disapprObation in spas
modic squalls when deprived of his
sucking-boitle."
Perhaps, then, it is not a matter OF
wonder if older specimens Of the genus
sucker " do not eiongate their rye-faces
when public opinion threatens TO phil the
"bottIen from their mouths. We would
not for a moment insinuate that our
" COUSIN" of the " "Edgle," opposes the
passage OF the Maine Liqnor Law from
any such selfish motives but he must be
more careful OF folks will think so.
Our "cousin (" tells us that innamer-
able petitions" have been presented to the
Legislature, asking for what? That men
may not be regularly licensed By Law 10
kill each other, and bury youth, beauty,
virtue and genius in the premature grave
of the drunkard, the Ielon and the prosti-
tute, And he sneeringly tells us that if
members "grant the prayers" of these
innumerabie Petitions" they will be
"taken in" He feigns to have great
confidence in the opinion of western
lreemen," &c., but folks will be very apt
to take him for one of that peculiar kind
of "western freemen f" who have not
only been frequently "taken in" but kept
in and done for,n until sober
Wehave seen e western freemen" " be-
fore now, so fond of freedom that they
would tear all the clothes oftheir backs,
and lie in fence-corner all night, such
idolators of " freedom " that they would
tt free their estates from solvency, them.
selves from decency, and their families
from husband and father--such advo-
Gates of "freedom that while their
wives sat broken-hearted in hovel. their
children were left to "freely" wander
up and down the earth, hopeless and
helpless. Nay, we have seen men so
full of Freedom" and so imbued with
the spirit of independence that our "con-
sin " admires, that they would " freely "
share half the gutter with the hogs, during
nights lodging. Freedom" forsooth!
1t is that kind of freedom" that frees a
man from his money, his friends, his
health, his life, his soul-every thing
but
I" The bonds of sin and the gals of iniquty"
We have heard many poor sot boast
of his freedom" and ieer and iabber
about his privileges" his "liberty,"
&c., but its all in a horn," Mr.. Ellis.
We have seen the drunkard's orphans
upon our streets the present winter beg
ging for bread, while the freezing wind
played freely" through their rags-we
have seen them skulk through our alleys,
and kick from the frozen mud and snow
old boots wherewith to clothe their FROST
ed feet. Had it not been for the very
I" freedom you contend for, the father Of
those children might now be living with
his family comfortably around him. But
he was western freemanp and deter
mined to live up to the enjoyment of all
of his constitutional privileges" and
inalienable rights "-if he died by it.
He now sleeps in a drunkard's grave.
There is tGy for protecting the grave Of
that poor bloat from violation; and our
western freemen " dare not mutilate his
tombstone, under heavy penalties, but
when a statute is asked preventing the
liquor seller from turning the countenance
Of the iUing man into that Of devil, and
defacing every thing human about him
until he sinks beneath the brute, our
"cousin " of the Eagle thinks there is
danger of men being deprived Of their
rights
The Eagle man is Of the opinion that if
the Maine Liquor Law should be passed,
he would at once petition for the adoption
ofthe " Blue laws"
ga fellow feeling makes us wOndrOus kind"
and, our impression is, that the Eagles
s.llusion to the blue laws" will be very
strikingly associated in this instance, with
a "blue nose"
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