New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-24

To the Senate and General Assembiy Of Nsr- Jerey:
-" oLoeisiehed. nhabiIsn of the Cy OF Psssrsoa
arc Couhv oil Psssaic would respectfully represent
portion OF our cit ps.iircn been
ae sen Lesislatue If New Jersey sgsed 3, ndi-
to'h se1es male and female OF and under
20 pas Law for the suppression Of all licensed
S,op a. ,b s SS and 10 come und;, me se demon
Jaw would be Of immense and vital importancs to ths
y, nSt OILY Of particular class OF others ort Ia
time beng wholly mpoliti, Your petitioners do aso
sss nat su iLierersrcs By parties who have no special
OF Det have signed behalf the said petition Tor
OF her purposes, for their own asgraodizemea
hst our case shall be laid before YOU for yoor kind
gson and that will be duly ard truly heard
"e 20 0ehsl oil which your petitioners viii ever pray
1he above remarkable document is 4 re-
monsuance against the Maine Liquor Law, and it
emana'ed from Paterson, NJ. The first name upon
the remembrance belongs to a conspicuous liquor
seller and was probably signed within the sight and
smell OF the gin bottle In fact the whole document
smells OF rum and tobacco and is an elegant spec-
men OF the literature of the grog shop. Read it, and
marx now logically it is drawn up, and how profound
are the arguments which it embodies. 1t says that
females" are signing petitions for prohbitory Is
Have they, indeed Has the grog.vender who heads
his renaissance ever heard OF such parsonage as
drunkards wife And is he amazed that her broken
heart throbs and beats for the Maine Law
A"paftcular class of citizens" too, are going to
suffer detriment if the law passes. Who are they
VIII the Maine Law damage the drunkardl Will!
bloaf MS face, and palsy his hand, and corrupt his
soul, and slowly murder him by inches VIII this
Law take bread out of the mouths of the drunkards
vie and daughters' Will our young men be injured
blythe law Will they be robbed of money, time,
hath or reputation MIR. Rumseller step out Of
ycur lair and come forth into Gods pure daylight
all answer us: Whom 90 you seriously mean as
hitly to re injured by this law
We rather guess We know what " particular class
OF cGIzens" you refer to. You fancy that the vend
en of alcoholic poisons will be harmed by It: Cen
tsmen, you are profoundly mistaken. The best
friends the ilquor-seller has are such men as Neal
Dow, and Horace Mann, and Charles Iewett. The
Maize Law is Intended TO take the grog seller out OF
useless, dishonOriDg, pernicious and perilous
business and send him TO something better, and
higher ana more profitable. That Law, If carried
out, will lot only save many drunkards from perdi
toD, but more than one liquor seller also.
The Renaissance talks of petitioners who "haye
no special interest IN City, County, or state, and
who are aiming at "their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT"
Dir Rumseler tits barely possible that we, the Pc
titoners for prohbitory law hare some interest at
stake, and We probably pay as much tax as you do;
And we confess that we laboring for our own
" sgerandHement" We mean to aggrandize our
property and increase the public comfort health and
prosperity We intentto better ourselves, and II we
can, to better you also. And will not do all this
at the expense of life character. Are you quite
certan that your wn attempts at" aggrandiZemeny'
are equally honorable
This remor STRANGE has some two hundred signeys.
For them we have the sincerest pity. ehope they
may live to repent of il. Nor do we envy the feel
iBgs with which they would contemplate such a
on their dying beds. Tie.