The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-18
DArorsx IN Nswresr.-A trem.udous amount

year been conjured up throughout this republic, for
the oppressed nationalities Of Europe and pill
grims and apostles of regeneration, in the shape
Of orators and artists, have traversed the country.
delivering speeches, and giving concerts and ballots,
and collecting funds from the benevolent and liberal,
in aid Of their mission. But we do not see any
manifestation Of such feelings for the oppressed
and down-troaden peoples of Maine, Connecticut
and Rhode Island, who are the victims of despot-
ism more grinding than that which exists in Italy,
Hungary, Germany, France, or any other Of those
countries for which our sympathies have been APP
pealsd to. Charity should always begin at home,
and something should first be done in behalf of that
unfortunate trio of neghboring States which are
yrannized over by the cold water fanatics before we
intervene in the affairs Of foreign countries If a
Yankee Kossuth, or Kinkel, OF Lola Monies, from
each Of these soyereignties, should make tour
through the other States, and depict in clo-
quent terms the oppression to which they are sub
ieced by their despotic rulers, we have no doubt
hut the people would respond literally to the appeal,
and contribute larger amount Of practical aid IN
their behalf than collected by the whole troupe
Of European revolutionary mendicants. There is
species Of despotism more Calling than that
which prescribes what man may or may not legally
swallow and which has recently developed itselfn bhe
passage Of the Maine Liquor law. Sumptuary provi-
sions, such this haye in oil ages, when attempted
to be enforced created the strongest indignation and
opposition throughout the community; and at the
present day not one Of the European despots would
dare to put such act in operation. History tells
us that Lycurgus, the great Spartan lawgiyer, who
almost regorenced a god, created such
connection among that people by attempting to
regulate their diet by law, that furious dis
turbauce ensued, in which he lost ono of his eyes.
more gentle and appropriate mode, however, Of
dealing with the legislators down East, would be
TO bring them where a plentiful supply of their
esteemed beverage. cold water, could be got, and
give them such dose Vt it that they would be fain
to ask for glass of rum, to warm the blood in their
lcins 1t really of the most singular
social phenomena of the present age, with all the
light and knowledge enjoyed in it, to an in
telligent. educated, commercial, industrious, and
civilized people, abandoning all the principles, in
which they had grown up and returning to species
of the meanest and most contemplate kind of
desrotisia worse than anything which exists in any
part Of the Old World.
The odisus Maine Liquor law not only infringes on
the personal liberty, but is calculated to njure
materially the commercial interests, of those who
have the misfortune to dwell within the range Gifts
operations. Its effects beginning to manifest them
selves in Newport and the other deuant fashionable
watering places of Rhode Island which now present
miserable, deserted appearance very unusual at this
season of the year. In Of the latest news
papers of that town, we read that the number of
arrivals there, for the preceding day, only amounted
to forty persons. distributed among three Of
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House, twenty to the Bellevue House, aud four to
the Atlantic. There We're no Southern folks in this
seanty number, but all appeared to have hailed
from the outskirts OF Philadelphia, and down East,
and were. probably, for the most part, groups of
pale. lank, cadaverous invalid coldwater fanatics,
socialists, spiritual knockers, and modern philoso-
piers. Al intelligent, agreeable persons-all well
educated, fashionable women, and all pretty girls
who want good husbands-shoold by all MEANS
avoid Newport this season. ~ will be most me-
lanchslc, hypocondriacal, hospital Of place.
NJ one will be there but lot Of pale faced,
gaunt looking, angular shaped, eanting per-
sonages, whose acquaintance would not be
worth making. Indeed, far as we can learn
all the dashing women of the South, North
and West, instead Of going to Newport, Tex
cept to pass through IT'D intend to enjoy them
selves rambling over the White Mountains,
and nhaiing the bracing air Of that local.
ity We sincerely pity and commiserate the hotel
keepers Of Newport whose interests are ruined by the
Maine Liquor law. The class of visiters who have
been in the habit Of spending the summer there; and
laying out their money freely, will now avoid sub
jecting themselves to the despotic laws of Rhode
Island under its present regime as cautiously as they
would avoid the neighborhood of cholera or the
plague.
In this dilemma, We you'd propose general sub
scrpton 70 be collected throughout The country for
he benefit of the poor sufferers among the proprie-
tors of hotels at Newport. We shall commence one
of these subscription lists with hundred dollars on
our account, and recommend that they be cir
culated I'll around the White Mountains the Eastern
railroads, the Western railroads, and the North
eastern railroads, to collect money to buy off the
hotel keepers of Newport SO as that they may be-
enabled to abandon the place altogether. 1t is pro-
babe that ali the fashionable hotels in the despotic
States will soon after follow in the same direction.
SUSPICIOUS HATRED.-One of Kossuth's turnkey
editors-little Raymond Of the Tlses-seems to
have some very bitter and bad feeling towards those
poor errng females whom he denounces as prosti-
tint and NEW &c . H.