Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-04-07
To the Citizens of Howard County.


FELLOW C1T1zEvs: You are unresisting-
ly bowing beneath a yoke more BURDEN
some than that which provoked your revo-
lutionary fathers to bloody resistance =
Your money is squandered-yonr slaves
are debauched-- your neighbor's children
are robbed OF tather-your neghborhoods
are filed with widows-your sens are de-
graded-your families are covered with
shame-your poor-hou,c filed with paul
pers--your public prison with criminals
many homes in you country made the
home Of grief. ignorance and squaid power
twice in all its degrading forms spreads
like a deadly plague among you-your
Criminal Courts and Offices filled with en-
ployment and your pockets flchcd by the
tax-gatherer to pay the expense OF 1t ALL
Your churches are rendered. in part, the
synagogues of Satan,ana the name OF the God
vour worship blasphemed. Your schools
often prove the highways to ruin, and your
villages the breeding places of loathsome
pestilence. Your social intercourse is made
the vehicle Of inlamy, your annual festivals
/ the OCCASION Of wholesale murder. and you
have sold your ballot-box for the whiskey-
tub. All tins is the work of two agents
ssthe man who washes the tumblers drunk
ards use" and the man who rolls touts his
burning lava by the barrel into your midst.
You see the evil, and .lspforc it; yet you
hug the chain, and have not dared TO break
it. We call upon you in the name of out
ragged humanity, and in the name Of your
insuted rights, 10 arouse from your lethar-
gy, and let your loud voice be heard, anG
YOUR strong arm be felt in vindination O
your liberties.
All the above named disasters are con,
. fessedly flowing in an impetuous torren
from the stall of the rumseller. and get, St
far from arising TO resistance, you have le
ealized the traffic, and thrown around it th'
| acgis of legislative protection. You havt
e only relieved the patient amoment by blood
letting, whilst the fever is still raging will
unmitigated fury upon his vitals. The sea
orthis disease must be reGched-the foun
dations Of the stream dried up, or the evi
e will never be less. The manufacture nm
sale Of Intoxicating liquors as bevcrag
must be prohibited, or the crime Of drunk
y enness with its ten thousand attendant evil.
win be pcrpctuated forever. To accom-
y plish this. it is nccessasy that the stron
s. arm Of the civil law, which now uphods tn
traffic should be bGred against it. 1t is
YOU fellow citizens, as the source whenc
r. the law making power proceeds, that bleed
ing humanity makes its appeal.
Many Of your bretheren have had the
J. eyes open on this subject, and their heart
ii enlarged; and the undersigned have been az
50 pointed a Central Committee, to stand fo
ward in the work, so far as our county
concerned. Our object is to sound the toc
sin Of aarm--to wake up the SIumberr
masses; show them the destruction that
s, wasting their substance, and incite them
" efficient action. Under the leadership
TO wiser heads than our own, we expect TO
ffpp forth boldly TO the conteSt--to fight q lor
he and obstinate battle, and never to lay dow
cs es our armor till victory perchcs upon the ba1
on ner of Temperance. We expect to distri
y " ute tracts throughout the couny-to ha'
public lectures; and if any man dare to me
de de us, public discussion in every neighborhoo
ay We expect to force this subject into fir
by side and roadside conversation, and If nee
mt be, into the ballot-box. We expect TO har
se, mer hard arguments and stubborn facts in
-, the brains Of our fellow citizens, until eve
OF mind is convinced and every heart enliSte
re- To assist us in the labors, we have accor
RS ing to instruction, appointed sub-Comm
IN tee in each township in the county, who q
expected to be vigllant and laborious. v