Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-08-11

change the relations of those that al
ready exist Weare Wings, Democrats,
and Free Soilers, and we love our re-
spective associations, but we demand Of
those who ask our suffrage, as condi-
ton precedent to their obtaining it, a
clear and distinct avowal that they viii
enact law containing all the important
provisions of the Maine law. Unem-
barrassed by party politics, we feel as
sured that large majority of the legal
voters of Ohio are warmly in favor of the
measure.
CONCLUSION.
| Fellow-citizens: What say you? Will
you meet this question, whatever be the
consequences, to any or all of the politi-
cal parties? Will you require the candi-
dates for the senate and house of repre-
sentatives, to .'faee the music,P and
avow themselves in favor of law, en-
bodying the principles of search, seiz-
ure, confscation, and all the other vital
elements of the Maine law, or withhold
from them your votes? Will you, if
need be, forget your relations to party,
and give one vote for the interests Of hu-
manity and your country? Remember,
that failure now viii perpetuate the
evil for two years longer. Will you at
once organize yourselves in every school
| district, and enter upon the holy, right
eous, and indispensable work of rescuing
this beloved land from the blighting,
blasting, man-destroying, God -dishonor-
ing liquor traffic? Will YOU protect
your property from the onerous taxes
imposed upon it by this plundering bu-
siness? VIII you protect your fresides
from the merciless and cruel invader,
and save your children and friends from
the wiles and temptations of those who
''sit in the lurking places ofthe villages"
to insnare and murder the innocent?-
Will you depopulate the lazar-houses,
asylums, and prisons of your State, by
lremoving forever the cause which fills
them? Win you save your country
from utter desolation?
These questions must be practically
answered by every citizen of Ohio, for
the issue is made up, and there is no
neutral ground.
God speed the right!
THE LAWS CONSISTENCY.
By the laws of Ohio, any person who
shall alter the ear-mark on his neigh
boris pig, is liable to fine of fifty dol
lars for the public injury, and is further
liable to the party injured, in treble dam
ages, for the private wrong.
An inhuman scoundrel, who blots ev
cry lineament of countenanee Of a be-
loved son, and sends him home yaga-
bond drunkard, to curse the mother
who bore him, is not criminal, but a
good neighbor and a gentleman A law
to protect pigs ears is constitutional
and proper, for these are property, but
it would be an awful abridgement of the
liberty of citizens to prohibit him from
destroying child, because he is not a
chattell The Legislature of this State,
two years ago, in the plenitude of their
benevolence and wisdom, did provide,
the enormous penalty of twenty-five
dollars against the crime of making an
infant or ''minor" drunk, but whoever
prosecute5 the guilty villain, must give
security for costs of prosecution, and at
least one distinguished Judge has de-
clared that law unconstitutional
After the lovely child has been muir
dered by inches by the liquor-seller, and
his boay laid in the grave, the law of
/ Ohio protects the carcass from all fur
ther disturbance. The medical student
or his employee, who digs up the body,
is liable to fine of thousand dollars,
and thirty days on bread and water in
the dungeon of the county Jail. And
even the little stone which the hand of
the parent has erected to mark the spot
where his hopes are buried, is guarded
with watchful vigilance. To remove, or
even deface, it costs the guilty one fine
of two hundred dollars, and imprison-
ment for thirty days on bread and wa
ter. While living, it is unconstitutional
to protect the child or its home, but
when dead, it is right to protect the mar
row house and its inanimate occupant
The law of Ohio saws, eff any person
shall wilfully and maliciously cut down,
saw. bark, or otherwise kill or destroy
any fruit or other tree, growing IN any
nursery, garden, ETC., he may, upon
conviction, be fined five hundred dollars,
and be liable to the owner for double the
value of the tree destroyed" The
mothers of Ohio would ike to have
their nurseries of immortal fruit pro-
tected, if it would be constitutional
The law Of Ohio says, that if any per-
son, without lawful authority, shall cut
down, fell, box, or bore, any living tree,
he shall be liable to fine Of one hun
dred dollars, and to double damages to
the party injured. But every man has
lawful authority to knock down, drag
out, box, and bore his fellow-man with
accursed poisoned liquor, and it would
abridge the liberty of the citizen to take
away this lawful authorityl
The same penalties, as above stated,
are inflicted upon those who deface or
destroy the ornamental trees in the yard
or alley, sidewalk or avenue, but the
.'oliye plants round about a mans ta-
Eble'' may be defaced and hewn down,
and he can get twenty five dollars for it,