The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-10-07
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"The Maine Law will save you a great a
mount of money" This goes to show the /
corrupt nature Of those who make such an
appeal. care not how much they may rail
against intemperance. | do not object to
ttat, for I believe II is one of The most de-
grating vices we heve in community. But
what appears to carry such Objectionable tea
lures is, the making that crime that never
was recognized as such since the days of
Adam to the enactment Of the Maine Law:
TO prohibit the manufacture and sale OF wine
and other alcoholic liquors, and yet permit II
TO be sold for medicine and the erte, subject
the invalid aud the artisan to enormous i'm
post duties, for an impure foreign article,
when we could have a supply OF the pure,
home made this too from men who shouted
Justify for protective tariff to foster and en-
courage home industry, and to protect 1t n
galnrt the pauper labor OF Europe, aud 10 .
seek to deprive q man OF his natural liberty |
upon the supposilion that he will abuse II. !,
Must men submit - have their private rights
aud social circles Invaded by the espionage
Of government hirelings! Must we be re-
stricted merely because our neighbor does
not or cannot govern his appetites! Must
all give up the blessings Of providence be-
cause n few of their number abuse their priv
ileres! But it is useless TO spend argument
with drunken men. The Maine Law men
have become drunken with the excitement
of their own raising. When the excitement
runs out, and they become sober, they will
then feel like all other drunkurds, ashamed Of
their folly.
But Monsur Tunson's come ugain-long
looked for has come at last. g. hat same
said johnson" has aguin gave TO the world
the labors Of his quill. lie asks Messrs.
Howard and Cowen the privilege of replying
through the columns ofthcir paper, to some
remarks and structures of one of the free sons
of liberty, q wish the Squire would not try
to make the world believe we use such tau
tology-freedom and liberty are synonymous
terms, and sounds too much like "sel, vend,"
in his Ordnance,) viz. Robert Heaney ST."
OF course am not mistaken. He means
my humble SELF He says he will begin
where the thinker left of. Well, if he sees
fit to adopt the crab fashion of travelling, us
am son of liberty, will not object: he may
go stern or front foremost, just as his fancy
leads him, SO he keeps his hoofs off my corns,
all will be right, though can say to the
Squire consider it no disparugement to be
called a thinker, nor do in the leas: regret
having said my habits of life had made me
more thinker than talker. He says !
complained, and said he ought at least to
give us credit for being sincere. | done no
such thing. | had not this pettifogger in my
mind when made the appeal to those who
SO piously profess to have nothing else but
the good OF the human family in view, why
they could not accord to us the same honesty
of purpose they claimed for themselves, and
il he had not claimed to have been personal
ly addressed, might have remained in total
ignorance that he vas in the least pously in
cined, g. il he be fair sample OF pious tenn
perance men, confess myself wrong in my
estimate of christian piety. He says oil laws
human and divine, are ubridgmcnts Of mans
personal liberty. wish he would give Us h {
definition of personal liberty. Liberty, says u
certain author denotes state of freedom, in
contradistinction to n state of slavery. Natu'
raj liberty, says the same author, is the lib
erty of choice, in which our volitions ure moi
determined by any foreign cause. And
would Just say to the Squire, to eat when we
are hungry, and to drink when We are dry, 1t
a part of the liberty we do not wish him Of
others to seek to a5rdge, provided it be ou
own and not anothers. And we are willing
to accord the same privilege 10 others, no
like him and his Maine Law friends, the,
had the liberty of choice in refraining from
the use of alcoholic beverages, but are no
willing that others should have the sam,
liberty of choice. He says the candidate o
the sons of liberty must oppose all laws, hu
man and divine. Such assertions merit M
further notice than to say they are bencatl
contempt. AS to anarchists, intidels, Ton
Paine, aud Voltaire, SC. the Squire know,
moro about such than do. | never rcat
any ofthe writings of Tom Paine or Voltuire
never sold grog or tippled. Can the Squire
in candor say as much! wonder how long
since the Squire toel a horn at a certain
house on the national road, not far west OF
this. (Those who live in glass houses ough,
But there is one thing ] do bcleve--ihe
course pursued by professors and ministers
OF the gospel in lSI0, and ure now pursuing
have and will do more to bring religion into
disrepute, and to make more unbelievers than
all the writings Of all the scePtics since the
days of the hypocritical Judas lscarot to the
time Of the present temperance crusade car
do. He says wings and democrats oppose
intemperance. Granted; and | would ask
who upholds it! The Squire perhaps would
say the sons of liberty do. Does his saying
so make it sol would be sorry il il should
Let me here say the sons of liberty cnn und
have done more to prevent intemperance in
kirkwood than his celebrated Ordinance
for twas no sooner passed than there was
more whisky bIough, into the township than
had been for years before in it at one time,
and he aud his Maine Law friends were u
fraid to put it in force, afraid to test it when
dared to doit. But i have heard drunkards
say as much against ntemperance az the
Squire, and then get drunk the first opportu-
nifty, (do not understand me as intimating the
Squire would do so, il was only by way Of H.
lustration.) The Squire rather boasts OF
having aided In driving the hauor out of the