New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-08

That paper eHalts over Judge c. decision
as if it bad annulled the Maine Law N toto, and
placed the Rumseiiing business under the aeys
Of the Federal Constitution evermore. IL
says:
ats deci-on knocks the hung out Of the Name Law
serves IN bofh heads and 'sp.t the ground S3-ns
of .oes who gOt up doubles sctsfcd By good
fnotves some among the tesdoas and Ignorant "a
nscs Of ST stripes Blu; they hsTe done rrepersAs
injury the OF Temperance ~ attempting 10 crsn
tier owu ferociCus and ignorant biyotIy down tie
throsfs Of the community by sheer brute force sad By
attempting throoghths fundamentally Of ryrsnnc M
constitutional ard not Incorporate legislation - coerce
large classes Of who greatly their saperOrs In
ntellSeuce spd fully their tquss 10 every st1rbuic Of
soSriety and morality. The vipdc-ive and natural r.
acton against this sort Of brute force has doubtless led
zone INTO excuses which they would otherwise hzve
avoided In this way the Maine Law unscs have done
great damage 10 the Temperance cause
Now We happen to be better acquainted with
tie habits of Maine Law men than The Times
man is or can be and We assure him that OHr
" Temperance has not suffered from the pas
sage and operation Of the Maine Law. We as
g class or party are just IS temperate - we
we're previous TO thar ensctment-neither less
nor more. And % to the adverse party, to
which Th Times belongs, we happen to have
the means Of proving that they too are more
temperate where the Maine Law Is in force
than elsewhere. Where il was formerly neces-
sary to send five hundred Of them to jail for
being drunk and noisy in the streets.
Z" drunk and fighting &c. &c. there are now
but tvo hundred or so requiring ike dis
cipline: and where three or four hundred
per year we're formerly arraigned for
assault and battery. assault with intent TO Kill,
burglary, arson, granddaughter, and murder.
there are noT not more than q hundred and
fifty. We speak on the faith Of Official state
ments By the authorities Of Portland, Bangor,
Lowell, Providence, &c, comparing the Of
fenses previous TO the Maine Law with those
perpstTated since its enactment. We stand
ready to back our assertions with proof, and
we demsnd that TIE Times shall retract It's
falsehood that the Maine Law lunatcs have
done great damage to the Temperance cause"
Unless by Temperance it means Tipping, the
assertion is false.
The Times further asserts that
Tx Tribune absolutely boils over with wrath and
cabbage g, the decision OF the T. 5. Court It toss at
the mouth like msd dog in mid summer. While the
tEitered mantle Of TIC IribaHe which Is OF more col
ors than Josephs cost charhsbly spread over almost
all the various grades OF vice hich disgrace mankind
wine drinking alone Of the most moderate and rs
tons character b excluded from It's charities and de-
nouneed with the choicest rhetoric OF the stews and
the hskmarket'
Our readers know this to be absolutely false
We have labored as zeal0usly TO procure the
passage Of laws prescribing penalties for Sc
duction and Adultery formerly unpublished
by the laws of our State.) and for the more
efiectual suppression Of Gambling, as we ever
did for the Maine Law. We wish the State
to wage a constant, jealous, incorporating
warfare against ereTy species Of Vice and Im-
neutrality-suspicious. all that can corrupt and de-
base. The Times utters willful falsehood
above, rs becomes the cause Of which it is a
prominent advocate.
BY the way: a writer in The Proeideaee
Journal thus limits the consequences Of Judge
Curtiss decision:
TIE MAINE LAW DECISION
AZ much rlisapprehcn-on prevails in the community
a. 20 the decision of Judge Curtis and it, effect upon
the Maine Law" YOU win allow me 10 cay:
Let That Judge Curts does not declare even init
mate, tsi the law Is ia conflict with the Constitution oil
the United States
2d He doe- not decsre or intimate, that the msin
principle Of the law Is in conflict with the Constitution
OF cur Siae-in other words, he does not decide
that the Iegs aiure has net h to restraa, c0ao
,pDprss the .saic Of Intoxicating drnks that il has
net the rclt TO punish By fine and imprisonment those
who engage la tbs traffic; 10 order the officers OF the
Sts,e TO searcA for scs and destroy such liquors
he'd and intended for Illegal salc He simply declares
tina: o. tc processes by which this end y reached
under the presort law ~ conflict with certain sr
cles Of our State Constitution.
81. Upon this question-Or any qusstSn under our
own CoHsutioi-is decision has no binding authority
upon our state Courts They have jurisdic
ton Judse Curtis in this decison, has rode
decisions Of supreme Court and In return, that
Court has equal right ~ override the whole Of bis
Alb For the reasons above stated no man Is safe in
prcsumiug that the law any part Of H. l. 0geIthrowu,
and that Therefore lac may engage IN TIC tTAc IA liquors
will imYuTty
5h IL may be further remarked, inst Judge Curtiss
decision does rot the Jaw the nraVa-te
OF liquors concerned Tie hrst and eighth sections OF
the law stand entire and under them Manufacturer
common seller OF liquors may be proceeded against
by Indictment, before any court OF competent grisdic
ton
ANY nsr, therefore, who ergsgcs IN the manufacture
sao o. Intoxicating hqu0r- liable 20 be arrsignei
before the Court Of Magistrates examined and bound
over for trial
make these statements Of fact ss understand them
IN kindness 10 many, who beng mlsuiorInsd, may
INTO diliculues which they would prefer 10 atoid.
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