The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-11-26

for a remedy, if the judicial arm OF
Government interferes. Are not judges
the servants Of the people and amena-
BILE to them for their conduct We
can reform the Bench as well as the
Legislature, and we can hurl from
their places of power the executive
officers, from the President down to the |
constable, if they fail to execute the
laws of the land. If the judges who
decide the law unconstitutional are
honest and conscientious in their de-
cisions, and they fairly construe the
terms of the Constitution, there is still
a remedy with the people. The con-
stitutions themselves are their crea.
lures, and they can make and unmake
them at their pleasure. If there is a
constitution in all this broad land,
which prohibits the utter humiliation
of the liquor traffic, it is disgrace to
the State, and ought to be re-modled
without delay. We say "V," and
that little word is very important in
the sentence; for we know that the
Maine Law does not violate any clause
of any organic law of any State in the
Union. There is not State in the
Union that has not upon its statute
book acts which contain every princi-
pie and feature in the Maine Law, and
the constitutionality Of these acts have
never been questioned. 1t is because
the subject matter is liquor, that these
doubts and scruples and difficulties
are interpOsed. Demagogues fear the
political power of rum-legislators,
judges, sheriffs love rum-and rum
has been driven into tight place. As
a last retreat, it gets behind the Con-
stitution for protection from the kind
ling wrath of the people.
We mistake the character of the
temperance men and of the people at
large, if the hunted fend is not
dragged out to execution even from
this city of refuge. We think the
decree has gone forth from the great
! power behind the Constitution, that
the reign of Bacchus shall cease, and
judges and Legislators, and every Other
class who would save the doomed
liquors from destruction, will be com
PEELED to yield. We despise con
stitution that would protect the liquo
traffic, if there is such an one. TIL,
truth is, men must be selected for leg
islative, judicial and executive stations
who have not sworn allegiance to the
rum interest, and the soonerth friends
of decency and good order take theil
stand on this platform the better
We shall be driven to it at last, and
we might as well take it new, and for.
tify our position and prepare for the
conflict. Temperance men have actec
upon the defensive already too long
they ought before, and they must now
carry the war into the enemy's camp
and regard every ofice-holder an
i seeker an enemy, who will not sho,
: his colors and come out openly and i
e a manly manner for the entire abo
}. tion of drinking houses of every grade
e wherever located and by whomsoeve
It kept. So far from being discourage
c by the interference of judges, we al
a rather encouraged. 1t shows that tt
s enemy is beginning to cry for quartz
|. and that he has been in old Mass
e chusetts driven to the very last Poss
? bic hiding place. When we are
b. possession Of the decision, we wi
f examine it fully and discuss it fairly
and give the Devil his due.
New Ritual
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