The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-07-28
What Caused the LIaine Liquor
Law.

Il A short time since, we attended lsrge
Temperance Mass Meeting, which was ad-
dressed by the celcora ed Hawkins, of B II.
timors He gave The occasion. or cause, of
the Maine Law. lie said that at Wash
lnSto4lan meeting in Portland, confirmed
drunkard, who was impoverished and bow
ed to the dust by drinking, came up to sign
the pledge, followed by his miserable wife.
AS soon as he 81 gnedit, she burst into tears,
AMI followed him back to her seat After
this, the drunkarl (Sweet. was his hanoi
Went to work picked up piece of furniture
here and anoyher there, and supplied the
house with ncccssarics and comforts; then he
bought him cottage, and lived for seven
years happily with his little family, If.
.cr so long ume. he entered splendid
saloon III The city, and they prevailed ON
him 10 drink, and he was made dead drunk.
was given out that he W Is dead. They
put HIM on a truck and took him home
Ills wife came TO the door to receive his
corpse, but Us soon Us she saw he was drunk
she screamed i'll agony. IlewAs carried IN
to chamber and pnt on bed, and she SAT
by bis side until he came to his ,sensex.-
She then asked him where he got his H.
quor. He refused to tell, She locked the
door, and threw the Ky out Of the window
to her little boy, and directed him not to TN.
lcck the door aDtil she told him to.
She then told her husband he shon'l not
leave the chamber, neither would she leave
it, until he told where he got his liquor
For s long time he refused to tell, but final
! ly said he got it at Coles, Cole kept
splendid saloon, and he enticed poor Sweet
in, and made him drunk. She then order
cd tha door open, and put on her bonnet.
! "Where arc you go!ng?" said her hus-
band.
I "l'm going to Coles" she responded.
"Dont go there, said he, you'll disgrace
yourself"
II shall not disgrace myselfso much as
yon have dlsgraced me-" and off she went to
Coles.
She found some young men in this splcn-
did rnm hole. She told Cole who she was,
and com nenced begging him not to sell her
husband liquor, and told her melting story.
He cursed her, and told hertoIcaye She C.
fused aud fell upon her knees, and begged
talk obSccneiy 10 her, and aroused her lndis-
nation. She tncn seized him by the collar,
and held him with one hand, as in a vice.
With The other, hand she slapped his face,
back and for,h, until he was most severely
chastsed, and then left for home.
The young men who were present, told
the rumselier he well deserved The hogging
1t was an infinite shame 10 insult a woman
he had so wronged, when she came to plead
with him i'll such a manner,
Well, the next day Sweet came home
drunk again, and so the next anlnext, when
she found he brought liquor a Coles again
She Immediately started lor Cole land about
! 50 men surrounded an auctioneer, whoI
was crying off goods before the door Of Cole s
saloon- Her former visit TO Coles vas
known over the city, and had caused gen
eral talk. She lodged into thr sal9on;An the !
people at the auction, seeing her go in,
pushed in after her, and left the auctioneer
alone. They said, "Therc goes Mrs Sweet
another battery!'
AS she entead she saw her husband in |
Il act of raising the cup to his lips. He
droped his cup and escaped through the
back door See then began to talk to Cole
Us before; and he talked to her as before.
When he commence his obsenity, she went
into the bar and seized Cole by the collar
with her left hand, aud run her clenchedI
fist in his face with hGr7right land, until it
was well sounded, and then showed him out
head first, SO that he fell headlong into the
street. She then entered the bar and sur
veyed the splendid bottles and furniture.
In her Indignation she at once brok, all the
bottles, and SCI the cocks Of barrels ofliquorl