The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-07-08

out IN all the distiller1es in the btate OF Ohlo.
l have no fear of civil war, for more bad
whiskey will be split than blood. What If
we should have to she'd sope blood, would
not the gain be worth such a sacrifice. But
the Maine Law can be executed without
blood. We have an instance Of the ease Of
executing it in Burlington. They talked
of a mob, great crowd came together,
looked on with curiosity; and when the
last barrel was opened and its contents
flowed into the lake, hats and bonnets
came off, and nine deafeniDg cheers
were given for the Maine Law, and the
people went quietly and gladly to their
homes. These liquor sellers will not resist
The politician will easily yield. They will
say il the people do want the law, they
may as well have it. I have just as much
faith in the party to which belong More
than half the drunkards in the State of
Ohio are in favor of it, and will vote for it.
A man came to me in Athens county who
was going to ruin, and asked, what is the
prospect Said he, have been a church
member, have been Son of temperance,
but can not resist the temptation. have
spent half my fortune of $780, ,00O for liquor,
and now l will give the remainder to have
the law passed in the State of Ohio. A
drunkard procured 5000 names on one
petition that were sent to our legislature at
its former session There will be no per-
manent resistance to the law by any body
of men.
Some of our public and political papers
propose Oher ways than the passage of the
Maine Law, to get rid of the evil effects of
intemperance. They would have asylums
built in different parts of the State for the
drunkard. The Maine Law proposes to
erect an asylum. 1t will be bounded on
the east by Virginia and Pennsylvania, on
the North by Lake Erie, on the west by
Indiana, and on the south by Kentucky.
God has given US our noble State for an
asylum We will have to build poor houses,
jails and penitentiaries all over our land if
this law is not passed. If we pass it, we
shall not need new or larger ones in
fifty years. They were talking Of building
such in Portland when the law passed, but
not a word of it since. Out of the 900
lately arrested in Cincinnati by the police
not less than coo, by the showing Of the
officers, would not have been arrested but
for quOr.
This is more than simple moral law
The liquor traffic has always been treated
OF as a matter of political economy, nor
was it thought otherwise until they felt the
pressure of the legal screw. We have
sumptuary laws AMI they are respected.
We say a man shall not sell that which is
an injury to his neighbor. A car load Of
bad meat was seized the other day, but no
one thought it was wrong. There is no in
terest of society that is not injured by the
liquor traffic, and tranpled upon Apply the
same principles to the traffic as you do to
other professions, and it will be crushed
Immediately. A mans property should be
sacrificed when the good of the country
calls for it, and if man would refuse could
he be called patriOtf We would destroy
liquor to save the property Of the State
her citizens the most valuable property she
has. This is what we are striving to do.
We would save the man from being a
drunkard, not build asylums when he
becomes one We may seem to be hard on
the liquor traffic, but it is because it has
been hard on US, and now we are deter
mined to destroy it out of eur land.
The Convention adjourned to meet in the
Park again on Thursday morning at, 10
O'Clock.
Il [The Reporter to the Convention failed
to seUd us the remainder of the proceedings
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