Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-05-02
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ga. Intoxicating liquor found in any house or
place, and proved TO be kept for unlawful sale,
| TO have been manufactured in this State contrary
to law, shall be destroyed, under the courts or
Justices written order, by pouring it out or other
wise, in the courts or Justices presence.
Better to insure the seizure and destruction OF
| liquor unlawfully kept or rnanuactured:-
g o. THREE VOTERS of IA district or town make
oath that they have reason 10 believe, and do be-
ieve that intoxicating liquor is kept for sale Mt any
house or place in that district town, tie proper
Justice or court shall issue search warrant to the
sheriff constable, who shall search the premises
describedsin the warrant; and convey liquor,
II found, 10 secure place, TO remain till final
| tionSbe had But no dwelling house shall, be
searched, unless at least of the said voters
prove some actual sale of such liquor there. with
in month. The owner or keeper of the liquor
shall also be summoned: and if lie fail to appear,
or ail TO rebuff by satisfactory proof the pre-
sumption raised by the previous evidence that the
liquor is unlawfully kept-it shall be destroyed,
above. 4Hs-.7 .l5ls.f..-s.e
| Sc. 1t shall moreover be every sherffs and con-
stables duty, if he knows or has good cause to be-
leve that liquor is kept unlawfully in any house
or place within his bailiwlck, to inform some JUS
ce OF the district, &C., CT some courtthere sitting;
who shall issue warrant, to be proceeded on as
in the proceeding two sections,
| 81. From such Judgment of justice, the defend
antmay appeal to the county or corporation court,
on giving bond with good security in the penalty
OF $500, to abide and perform the final judgment,
and in the meantime not to violate the Law.
| SO. All contracts or debts for the purchase of
liquor contrary to this Act, shall be void: and no
suit be mnintainable on any such. And any mon
ely paid, or valuable thing given or delivered for
such liquor, may be recovered by the payer or Civ
er, suing within one year, or by the Overseels OF
the toor, i'll aid of the poor levy, suing within
four years after the expiration of the first year.
| The proposed Law, like that of Maine which il
nearly resembles, owes its distinguishing efficacy
10 its destroying the liquor-the Inanimate agent
OF mischief. Its penalties upon the human insti-
gator OF SO much misery and min, are singularly
mild: no higher fine than $50, and no longer i'm
pr!sonment than six months. Compare them with
the penalties quoted some two pages ago, from the
| Virginia CodePl Such n mingling of humanity
with Justice was one of the happiest thoughts ever
conceived by law -gveI: making almost the often
der's punishment consist in disarmIng him of his
| power to injure mankind, and leaving open to him
| a thousand other and better ways to wealth and
uSeiulneSS-as the good Genius drew out the
mighty Dragons poisonous fang, (his only means
| of hurt,) and then sent him errands OF mercy
and beneficence.
The great Lawl iver Of Israel Exodus xxi: %, %
did sterner justice TO the owner of an that he
knew to be mischievous: 52-
"lf an OK gore man or woman that they die;
then the OK shall be surely stoned, and his flesh
shall not be eaten:"
"But if the were wont 10 push with his HON
in time past, and it hath been testified 10 the own
er, and he hath not kept him III, but that he hath
killed man or woman; the OK shall be stoned,
and his gunner also shall be put to death.'
| Now, here is an OK going at large, whose horns
are red with the healtS blood of thousands upon
thousands of Virginias children: not only of her
deluded and erring sons, but of her innocent and
lovely daughters. Yet, though for many years sit
hath been testified to his owners, with tongue and
pen and by ocular demonstration numberleSS times,
i "and they have not kept him in,' but rather have
done all they could 10 make him roam at large, so
/ "that he lath killed" in twenty years more than
! twenty thousand men and women:-it is not pro.
poSe, 10 put the owners TO DEATH but only 10 kill
the OK, and 10 PUNISH them far more lightly than
yon punish the keeper of gaming-table, the SELL
er of lottery ticket, or even one who takes Oys-
ters NTH any but tongs Of certain description.
The MAINE Law has wrought IN the eighteen
months of its operation, larger amount OF good,
| probably, than any other law known in the annals
of legislation. When it had been six months IN
force, the Mayor of Portland "a city nearly as large
as Richmond) made Report to the Aldermen and
Common Council, in which he says:
| "Our streets are now so much more quiet, par
ticularly at night than they were last year, or any
year before, that the difference cannot be under
stood very clearly, except by those connected with
| the night police and watch.". ."Street distur-
Dances of any kind no longer occur in the city,
...."An open rum shop or bar OF any kind, is en-
| trely unknown: barrel, key, or other vessel Of
| liquor is not to be in the city at all, except
at the City Agency. The law has executed its
mission with more ease, certainty, and dispatch,
than was anticipated by its mcst ardent inendS-t
| has been triumphanty successful" 1.-THE
! quantity of intoxicating liquors now sold in the
city, except by the city agent is not one-ffiieth
part so great as it was seven months ago: and the
salutary effects of this great improvement APP
parent among the people in all parts of the city.
The amount of liquors consumed in the State is
not one quarter great it seven months
ago; and it will become less very rapidly, as the
people in the country towns are now enforcing the
Law more extensively and vigorously every day.
From many towns the illegal traffic is entirely
| banished." sl5l.
fro DE Continued