The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-08-26
Editorial Correspondence.

Mountain State, where the people enjoy
cipa ibeyfy; where, in other words, all men
are prohibited from introducing into any
reighborhood that which win result in pub
lie mischief. Here, it is not pretended that
man has an inalienable right to PROSTATE
the health, destroy the life, waste the prop-
erty, blast the character and blight the repu-
tatiOn of his neighbOrs. Here, it is boldly
asserted that Government has right to in-
terfere with any mans business, whose
business interferes with the public good,
Here, the people maintain the doctrine that
the individual man must not get rich at the
expense of the property and lives of the
community. Glorious Green Mountain
boysl Worthy of such heroic ancestors as
Ethan Allen, who, Gin the name of the
great Jehovah" demanded the surrender of
the stronghold of the enemy in the days of
British tyranny The cruel despOt, Rum,
has fought bis last great battle upon your
soil there will be some skirmishes, bnt his
power is broken, his forces are scattered,
and they cannot again be rallied for gen.
eral engagement There are those who
think banishment from the State too hard a
punishment; but let such reflect that the
ruthless and inhuman tyrant has drawn his
recruits from every family circle, that the
noblest from every ireside have been sacri-
feed, and that every graveyard is peopled
with his slain. In yonder valley dwelt
happy family-peace, plenty and content
ment abided there. The now banished
demon invaded that delightful home, and
it became a hell. The broken fences, the
dilapidated dwelling, the briered fields, the
paneless windows, all tell that the destroyer
has been there. Not content with outward
desolation, he entered the dwelling, and
one after another "the olive plants" were
cut down. The afflicted mother has gone
with sorrow to the grave, and the father,
like lightning riven oak, stands a monu-
ment of the power of the fiend.
On yonder hillside, and on the mountain
top, we see also the footprints of the de-
stroying Angel No wonder the heart of a
patriotic people beats warm and ardently
for retributive justice No wonder they
have heard the voice Of brothers. blood
crying from the ground for vengeance
The liquors seller of Vermont, like Cain,
exclaims, "behold, I am fugitive and
vagabond in the earth" Shall my own
Ohio be the Gland of Nod" whittier he
shall fly and dwell securely An indig-
nant and outraged people send back the an
swer, "No !"
Really, it does my soul good. feel
quickened in the inner and strengthened in
the outer man, when l witness here the
broken down abettors of Bacchus, and hear
the once wretched captive rejoicing that
the shacbles have been broken from his
limbs, and that he is free. "The fattened
calf has been killed, and hundreds of fathers
are exclaimiDg, come and rejoice with US
these, our sons, loere dead and are GliUe
again, Dere lost and are found" Aims
houses are being emptied, and the "prison
doors and being opened to those who were
bound" Let those who assert that law
of annihilation cannot be enforced, visit
Vermont, and the next time they would de-
clare it, the 'lie would stick in their
throats." Let those who think (f there be
any such) that more liquor is drank than
ever, come to the Green Mountain State,
and be converted from the "error of their
ways wish every voter in Ohio could
pass through Vermont, before the October
election, that he might be convinced of the |
infinite insignjfcance of whiggery and de-
mocracy, in comparison with the liquor
question. Such pilgrimage would result
in the immediate and entire overthrow of
any and all men who court the power of
whisky to secure Office. Not man would
be found in the next Legislature, even from