Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-10-28

CHATTANOOGA, Oct p, 1853.
Nsssrs. Editors: A few weeks since / wrote
yon few struggling thoughts upon the Maine
Liquor Law | see from your paper OF the 7th
inst, that was soexceedingly unfortunate cato
call down on my head the terrible blows oil some
Knight of the quill who assumes the nome ds
plume of "GraphO." When l read the article
i was so completely overwhelmed with the WIT
satire, and logic of which was remOrsely made
the victim by this Ajax lebanon of the "Maine
Law" that it has taken two full weeks to collect
nv broken spirits, and to 'Escrew my courage
to The sticking ppi4t and keep it there But
t nblinglby / viii make show Of fight
"Oraph,," saws surely friend is a lover OF
tie q1od cy-fterr or h would not oppose the
Maine Law. Now that srgument is knock
down one and how is Il to lac answered? All
can say is tina; IL was Icing time before Gould
see what effect ms loVirg II not loving the
"good crter' could have On the propriety or m
proprety of adopting the Name Law. Ii. i''c''
/ have as vet been unable to discover the mat
ter, for have Known some UPRIGHT. horcIab'e;
and patriotic citizens who loved the good crit
ter and gain have known some great kaaves
and fools who had nothing TO do with It, pre-
sumo that GRAPHIC would consent thai man
should drink little on q lCsdding OccdsOI'; stlll
he should not use it to such excess as To burn
his friend with cigar, or tilt him into the dust
! Yet | have known some advocates OF the Name
Law charged with this indiscretion; but that
does not tend to establish the fact thai the Mame
/ Law should be adopted. Will GRAPHIC 1--WE Us
/ little more light IN his 'good tr.tter' argu-
! ment.
| 'Gfapho exhorts us yehemcntly to "cass our
eyes to ward Maine and other States which have
F-st1 ytalt law, s-v:slf-s-s- aZsoots W eli.
sir, we have looked as far in thai direction as
can, ana Tor inc iis-ef we cannot see any
thing in your favor All those ''happy Effects
are in your minds eye, or some where else
they do not exist in fact The law is not enfor-
ced, nor is there that happy result you claim
| Gov. Boutwell,, my dear sir, who lives right in
the middle of those States who have enacted
this law, and can see how things are mended by
it better than you or ], said in speech the 9TH
er day, that the Maine Law is o stupendou5
humbug and is rot enforced. | shall leave you
and Gov. Boutwell, to settle the Giiferenee;-
! glad of opportunity to walk out Of it.
+ But GRAPHIC is perfectly Mortified at our ar
gumeut against the principle of the Maine Law,
that if we must destroy the cause of Others and
per consequence We will depend on law, and
not EDUCATION and moral principle, to do every
thing. His hairs stand ON end and his eyes
glare lightning while he sqalls out ''did any one
ever before hear OF such preposterous notion!'
Dear Graphic would not have shocked your
turn gray. Let US whisper in his ear to take
things more mildly. POOR fellow, exhausted
with the terrific whirl of great thoughts through
his brain he falls back and cries, "my pen falls
Oh that Uncle Toby, dear old man, had been
there, and ordered Corporal Trim to hold
Graphos headl What an affecting scene Now
We will inform GRAPHIC, if he does not already
know it that We have TO sw on our Statute books
resembling in principle or by analogy his Maine
Law. We have laws prohibiting vice and
crime, bu there is radical difference in the
mAnrer ri Their prohibition, and the manner
by winch the friends Ot the Maine Law would
prohibit drunkenness and its consequent evils.
Nv if GRAPHIC should complain that We have
not n ated him with proper courtesy, al the
apology have to make is this: We consid-
cred his notice of our former scroll as d.Srespeet:
full and nonsensical, aud, in fact deserving moth
ing bat silent contempt. When ne lntimates
that none but drunkards, or those Who indulge
IN the habit of drinking liquors would oppose
the 'Maine Law he reckons without his host:
Some of the ablest and best Temperance men
in the State opposed to that law IN toto coel0;
and GRAPHIC is unable 10 show any earthly good
reason Why the Maine Law should be adopted
;