New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-05
Freemen Of Connecticut!

AO-OuJ VIII tcI Icdiiuiiy loI veal VI
woe on the destinies of our common Coun-
Try. Yours is the first State Election in
which either Of the great parties has dared
to plant itself fully and openly on the princi-
pie that the Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors
ought to be, not regulated, but Prohibited.
The fate of this principle is for the present
in your hands. If you sustain those who
must stand or fall with it, we may reason
ably hope for the speedy passage Of Laws
of Prohibition in New-Hampshire, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and several
Western Free States. If you falter,- on the
contrary, the Cause will receive terrible
blow at your hands, by which its progress
must be seriously retarded. Tremendous
issues hang on your fidelity To-Day.
Yainly should we hope to express all we
feel on this subject Language and space
would fail us. Rather will we ask your
attention to the following appeal from =
daughter of New England, now widowed
mother in Ohio, who writes to cOnjure the
Legislature of her Adopted State, by the
magnitude of her wrongs, to suppress the
internal Traffic. Read her simple narra-
ton, Men Of Connecticut! and then say
whether rain or business ought to excuse
you from doing ylur whole duty in bring
ing your friends and neighbors to the polls
We copy from The Ohio State Journal:
To the Honorable General Assembly Of the State of
Ohio:
GENTLEMEN I am about to address you through
the medium of the public press, because well know
your multiplied calls prevent you from giving due
heed to all the requests that camber your tables
and because am about to detail to you matters Of
truthful history, which are known Only to myself
and TO Him who Is omniscient and knoweth all
things andyei, true as these things are, respest for
the feelings of the living, and for the memory Of the
dead, prevents me from subscribing my own name
thereto. Ny heart bleeds when think how many
Thousands and hundreds OF thousands of similar
6ases OF accused wrong. caused by accursed sys-
ten OF vending poison and death lie barisd IN the
grave or in hearts deeper than the grave and which
viii never be told TIL tnat day when God shall Judge
both quick and dead and the secrets Of all hearts
am one Of those whose names are already upon
Jour tables peiinoning for the passage of Law pro-
hibitipg the manufacture and sale OF intoucatiRg
liquors as beverage. have cone more than this
have laid asice, Tor time, tcoman's instructive
dread Of encoupering the gaze the rdicule and the
Ietufs Of those who appseciase not her motives and
have raveised weary distances and entered dark
aboces OF siD, enuea'ing for Dames to that humble
petition which prays for your AID N accomplishing
wefk which would cause more Joy on earth, and In
Heaven also, than any Other event, save one, that
this eloious sun OF ours ever shone upon In these
walks have found the sick and destitute wives and
widows Of those VINO are esily SINKING or have al
reaey sunf, irto the dTunkarc's grave. have seen
the tear of JOY leap from yes because their
owners had the poor privilege OF subscribing tneIr
Ianes to surh = petition; and have departed,
bearing with me blessings Of those ready 10 perish
and followed BY the prayers OF those who have audi.
epce IN Heaven, If not on earth.
Oh could you, We honorable legislators Of this
great snc glorious Staiecoulc you oeholc with UNI
c.oussd vision how many from the novels OF misery
bow HsDy from the mansions Of the rich how many
from pallets Of st,aw and coDches OF down are send
ing up petitions 70 Heavens high throne fer bless-
ings upon your celleerations and invoking for YOU
the gulosnce Of Infinite wisdom and could you know
with what trembling anxiety these praying mothers,
sisters. and daughters watch your novemsuts and
wait with excited hopes the t,dinss OF your do.
inss IN thi. behalf, you would nos-you could not
turn IN Indifferent ear 10 our supplicstions
Know lt II said BY come that women have No YiGht
TO petition or AZ least ought not to DO heard on 90
grave question - this. They say that We are mot
fl TO judge of the consequences and relative bear
inss Of such Law tina. we are swayed by feeling
anc sympathy, ard hence that our views should have
hstle weight the decision Of legislators when N
teresis OF such magnitude are al stake. II may b
go but hear my tale and jucss II Il be true.
In early life l married q man Who moved In tbs
first circles Of 10 mesn city. He was descendant
OF Puritan stock, and his venerable fathers silvery
Iccks yet command vide respect amid those Who
niger On Pilgrim ground he wss worthy son Of