Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-08-30
AMERICAN TEL EGRAPH
The Eloquenee OF the Sidewalk and ar
the HHarID
We clip the following from the Republic OF this

The ElOquence OF the Sidewalk and ar
the HHarw
We clip the following from the Republic of This
morning:
"ANoTHER DISTURBANCE. The neighborhood
Of the old railroad depot having been selected by
the itinerant lecturers on temperance on Sabbath
days, the scene of the previous Sabbath was re
peated yesterday, in efforts to expe the lecturers
from the front of places where liquor is sold on
Pennsylvania avenue. As these cases will be
made matters Of legal investigation and trial in
our courts, We forbear making auy comments
upon them"
The above, We are assured by persons present,
is erroneous. No disturbance can be said 10 have
occurred yesterday. The temperance speakers
took position in front Of n house ocdApied by II
friend of temperance Pennsylvania avenue
This house is fianked by two drinking houses Mr.
Savage was charged (by some Of the friends, or
pictims, of these houses, il is said) with being
'afraid to come in front of them |" He an
swered that he was not afraid, but that he did
not go OF come upon the street to create any dis
turbance on the Sabbath that his business was
to promote peace among all men. The meeting
terminated with the enrolment Of name or two
upon the catalogue Of temperance men.
The opinion Of Judge Parsons, of Philadelp phia,
as to the right of the occupant of house to
forcibly compel person from his sidewalk, has
been referred to of late, in connection with this
subject, and will soon undergo the revision of
our own court This right is one of great i'm
portance, and we hope the public mind may be-
come fully established in relation 70 it,
One opinion expressed by Judge Parsons has
been thus stated by the Rev John Chambers in
public address:
" A dealer in liquor was tried for some crime,
convicted and sentenced by Judge Parsons The
next day lawyer waited upon the Judge and told
him he could show defect in the proceedings
wherefore the man should be released. oh,
said the Judge, that matters settled But,
said the lawyer, he isa worthy man. "A wor-
| thy man! snid the Judge, and make drnnkards?'
But, said the lawyer, he is a good citizen
A good citizen, said the judge, and fill up our
| jails and amshOuses and cause men to commit
murder and arson, and every iniquity! That
questions settled, sir, and the man must abide
| by the law The name Of that Judge was Par
| sons and may God send us more such pursons as
these -
Chief Justice Cranch has also expressed an
opinion Of some perinence
" know that the cup is poisoned; know that
IL may cause death, that it may cause more than
death-that il may lead to crime, to sin, 10 the
tortures Of everlasting remorse. Am not then
murderer Am not worse than murderer
as much worse as the soul is better than the
body? Ii ardent spirits were nothing but a
deadly poison, if they did not infame all the
evil passions, il they did not dim that heavenly
| light which the Almighty has implanted in our
bosoms TO guide us through the obscure passages
Of our pilgrimage, if they did not quench the
Holy Spirit in our hearts, they would be compa-
ratiyely harmless 1t is their moral effect, it is
| the ruin of the soul which they produce that
renders them so dreadful The difference be
tween death by simpe poison and death by Ina
bitual intoxication may extend 10 the whole diff
ference between everlasting huppiness and eternal
death"
These hard and severe sayings but they
relate to hard and severe busness-a business
that must in this community receive all the en-
couragement and protection the law allows 10 it.
but that can never make further encrouChments
by means of legal sanctions.