The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-07

The organ Of abolitionism, anti rcntism, Fourier
ism, spirituslism, Koasuthism, AMI Kinkelism, has
got another ism under way-it is teetotalism. one
of the beat he ever had. The Tribwns has come
out with terrible fury, in pronwncameato of twelve
sections, duly numbered, with proem and psro-
ratien against the sellers, and in favor of the
new temperance reform movement, to the uttermost
extremity The new ism, which has been every
day gaining strength since it was launched upon
the stormy of politics, was badly in want of an
org an but has at length found enc in wing paper
that is ready to 90 all lengths for it, to the
blowing TO pieces, with cannon and grapeshot, the
"publieans and Sinners" and all the politicians
who sustain them in their alleged consti ,utonal
right to sell, wholesale and by retail, "quid fire
and distilled damnatio i.
The YroaNnctamtnto of the Tribune draws a hor-
riele picture OF the effects, not only Of the abuse,
but even OF the most moderate Of ardent liquors
aud other accustomed beverages, wines, cordLals,
heer, ale, porter cider. Even chewing tobacco is
described as reducing man, as social and IN sral
being, below the level of horse, while the
elephant is very far above the drinker, in the
social and moral scale. After this dash Of philo-
sopby, by which we are let iato one of the
mysteries Of spirituasm, and informed that brutss
have souls, and are moral and social beings, the
philosopher goes to state that nine tenths
Of al crimes proceed from alcohol that the desttue
children arc the victims Of parental drunkenness ;
that il is the cause of vagrancy aud pauperism;
that this vice and its results ere on the increase
everywhere except in Maine; that alcohol is a
deadly poison; tina. laws do not permit persons
to use Poisons at their personal discretion and
n ia of Wl dru, N
assure the benighted, degraded and brutals,d
drinkers; and further, that Chief Justice fancy has
de,ided that the State governments have constitu-
tonal powers TO prohibit the traffic in Intoxicating
drinks, which judgment is directly at war with the
rum sellers memorial on that point and lastly
the organ Of the movement calls upon the legis
la.ors at Albany to meet the responsibility like
men, and enact the Maine Liquor law, to be finally
submitted, for approval or rejection, to the ju3g
ment Of the people; and should the law pass, the
rumsellers and their friends warned that if they
resist its enforcement, they will be treated as
"rebels, and shot down like dogs, as it is not fair
that the negro rioters, and the opposers Of the Fugi
tive Slave law, should be the only victims marked
out for severity. "JVe will take care of them"
says the Tribune And thus the gauntlet is thro IN
down, the issue joined, and the moral war pro-
claimed, beguB, and carried into the very camp of
the enemy.
Whatever may be though. OF this N ovemen. as a
theory, Of its spiritual spTituous effects i. is
going to become, in its political aspect, one of tho
moot important that has taken place ia this State
fer many years It's practical opera alton will be to
totally disorg anize the wings, in spite of the
canal lettings II will divide them into two camps,
hostile to each other; large portion will take ides
with the rumEelers, and the rest, constituting the
section which are enamorea with all sorts Of isms
will join the standard of cold water and moral
reform. One camp will contain the teototal whgs,
and the other the rum whigs, and all the leading
politicians who attached to the present system
Of managing the primary elections at grog shops,
and all those who hold places obtained by the in.
hoepce Of rum and ro~dyism. TIE abolition camp.
and It's great gun, the Tribune, want to have the
nomin atoms emancipated from this slavery, and to
baye their own teeto.al men placed en- the waig
ticket
Thus stand the contending armies an such are
tho objects for which they are aoou. to wage
deadly irternecne war. The battle is to see who
shall have tbs nominations, and who the spois.
IL is eud between two sections of the whg party,
TO determine which shau have the dominion l.
I'll! BE- Tremendous rtraggle, as beta sides are
resolved upon "Geath or victory There will be
nc quarter, no surrender, no compromise-war TO
the knife is he word and the black dag will wave
over the contendirg hosts
Whether the Maine Ii gucr Law be passed this season
not, tho strife will be Continued and carried iuto
lie Presidential election. The result will be, tina.
the whig party may be cot to pieces, horse, foot,
and artillery, IN this State; and the operation Of
the new is, teatotalisn will probably control the
choice Of the next chief magstra to of the United
States. The great leaders and wire pulors in this
movement are BlrnUm, IL wilkins, and Sam
Houston.
TIE INDICTMENTS AT WASHINGTON The indics-