New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-24

drinks as q beverage, With adequate penalties
and suitable provisions for It's enforcement.
And further, that IL case the present Legisla-
ture shall adjourn without having passed
prohibitory Law. it viii be the right and duty
o. the friends Of Temperance at the reGt cleo
tion to combine their influence SO as to make
the Temperance question the main issue, ard
secsre the election. irrespective cffouner party
ties. Of svowed and incorporating friends Of
the Maine Law.
These resolutions also aver that no really
vital principl5 Of the Maine Law has been as
sailed in the recent decision Of Judge Curtis in
the Rhode Island case, and that the right OF 3
State to protec. itself from the evils of the
liquor traffic BY prOhibitOry law, and the
consequent right of seizure and destruction Of
the contraband article, stin remain intact.
A crowded meeting of the friends Of the
Maine Law, including members OF the State
Society, The State AIlisnce Sons of Temper
nncs, Rechabites, &c. &C.. from ell parts Of
the State, discussed and adopted the same
resolutions. and appointed Committee Of 10,
including Chancellor Walworth. Bradford r.
Wood Of Albany, John Savage Of Utica, R. n.
Haveus and Z D. Culver Of this City, J. c.
Smith Of Brooklyn, &c. &c, TO drafs pro
hibitOy bill to be presented to the present
Legislature for its adoption or rejection, as in
its wisdom may seem good. 4 biz had already
been drawn up by the Executive Committee
Of the Temperance Alliance, which with some
notifications wiIlTery likely be adopted BY this
Committee and presented to the Legislature,
where it will be voted down
The Sons of Temperance took theintiatvs in
this affair, and on the whole the demonstration
was q yory creditable ard impressive one, and
will no doubt be productive OF good to the
cause of Total Abstinence but there was not
so much unanimity Of sentiment and concert Of
action as there should and must be to secure
favorable result We are not quite sure that
such demonstration are the most effective
means of promoting tie Temperance cause.
The same amount OF money and effort spent in
the organization ofCounty and Town Societies
and the spreading of Temperance tracts and
facts before the people. in a quiet way, would,
We are confident, prove more beneficial 10 the
cause; bot we are noe disposed to find fault
with any who feel inclined to lend helping
hand. We only insist that there should be a
raDying point somewhere--a head which
will command the respect and inspire the
confidence Of all Temperance men through
cut the State Whether that head should
be the State Society, the state Alliance, or
cOgbinGton Of the two or neither, we are not
prepared TO say. But there should be cen
tTal organization, and in order that il may con-
idently look for succesI to this greatest Of all
reforms Of modern times, it must be an organ
izatiOn which shall extend its labors and inAu-
ence from the center 10 every remote town
ship aud school district Of this great State.
An immense amount Of untiring labor must be
performed. The people must every where be
enlightened Is to what the law is which We ask
the Legislature TO enact. They must be post
ed up as to It's working and results in the
glorious State Of Maine; and then they can
judge ntelligendy as TO its probable, nay Ger.
tain effect upon the happiness and pres
pcIity Of the people Of the Empire State.
The friends Of Temperance do not pro-
pose to form a distinct political Tenn
perance party throughout The state but
they do intend to say to tie politicians: Gen
tlemen, We are in earnest about this matter;
we mean 70 have the Maine Law, and we
will have it. We have no desire 20 break mp
Your parties, aud il you choose 70 give US
what We demand, veY well ifnOt, We shall
be obliged TO take the matter into our Own
hands We give you fair warning that yon
must nominate for the Senate and Assembly
candidates who are svOwedly and unInistAk-
ably for the Maine Law, and they must be
men on vhose integrity the public san place
confident reliance Unless you DO this, va
shall feel impelled to nominate such eandi-
date, ourselves, and whom We nominate We
mean TO elect
Let the friends Of Temperance 80 resolutely
81 this work, in such a way that Sue politicians
shall comprehend that they are in earnest, and
there can DO no reasonable doubt ~ 20 the re-
suit. The people of this State, when they con
be brought to an ineligible untrsmmeled de-
eision on the question, are as certainly in favor
Of the Maine law as they are Of their own vel
fare and prosperity
Distress In the Island of MADEIRA.
The undeTsigned having received frOra friends ina
Nsdeirs authentic nieg cses o. Ae fsarisl destu9R
suddenly and severely brought he Inhabitants OF
that Illd ly DE des.reson VI he vine AID potato,