The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-05

dress Of the State Central Committee but as il has
ready been published in OF your papers and As :
have noble list Of speakers, win not do So ,iesir
70 move that tne resolutions se adopted and that tn
Mr. MARSH sat down amid considerable applause and
| few Misses.
/ The CHAIR-Previous 10 introducinv the osn,,s,,a
who will second these resolutions VIII request som
young men hvre-yeuths who not voters-to ren,a
fAIrlause)
Fer Nr. crrthR was then introduced to the meeting
and -poke as follows
freemen OF New York-short speeches Is the order a
The day This Is Saturday night (Iicre Mr. Greele,
MADE his appearances on the platform and the voice o
The orator for moment drowned In scclamations
put The speaker Appropriated them to himsef-by mis-
take Friends, he resumed, would little rather TIA
you would testify your appreciation Of the few words
have to say, and Of the dcstrines which put forth
next Tuesday. The time is so short that we had
petfer not spend II in this sort of
Uauehter.) The American laborers Of New York have
gathered together here tonight after their hard weeks
work fcr Their families to do little work for humanity
snow mat some OF you, according to the good old
custom viii lind it necessary be st home to look
ai'er tne washing and sweeping cf the Saturday
night Qaughtcr); and that you have but It'll
time now to devote to opposition to the liquor traffic
We have gathered here tits evening to scsss moi on
home affairs here in the ci'yabout which there
glorious cause Of prohibition. II has been dciermnel
that Tor one night at least the whole Temperatures bro
earnest impetus to this prohbitory liquor lw ii has
been determined to together this nigh. and spaaa
ont ,i,s t. e s y consulting or the aspect Of through
pesssses' 70 g our duty to God sna to common
esunsr Applause) IshaIl make to you but shors
speech 10 night, FOR sec that il has been AN
nGnnced that am to discuA this subject in IL
religious aspect in this house. to- morrow afternoon fee
that came here tonight Of the citizens &c New
York. to meet you heart heart and to offer INV few
words at these closing hours Of this week. with The
iui assurance that am doing my honest duty to God
ana TO cur common humanity. 1t is said that on the
OF Austerx when the surgeons were probing
the wound Of French soldier who was breathing his
.unien bullet he little aecper eper '0~m ro little ths
deeper he repeated, he felt the probe coming near
his heaTta E little deeper and you win find my Empe
ror 80 would say to you tonight about the tempe
rance cause Go deeper down to the very core of nv
heart and you will find this blessed heaven sent ben
cence in the cause Of prohibition Applause) After ALL
fellow citizens, here meet and stand on the same
platform, face to face, and heart to heart I am in
honest oy simple test
for It who are against it. On this test am very apt
TO make up my mind on public questions. On the side
the faithful the praying the earnest the patriotic.
see the cause buoyed up BY their strong hands, IS is
noble who stand up we who are opposed to III
Some men are opposed to it who quite ignorant of
the details and practical working Of the law They
opposed TO It because they yet familiar with it,
VIII tell you though where the strongest opposition
comes from Go within bow shot Of this very building
and ask the keepers Of the twenty on
the Five Points where liquid poison is sold and ask
them what they think Of the prohibition and you will
coon tan very ws Why they are opposing IT,
II
canvass haunting out there many street. and read
the inscription upon them the sunshine looks down
make humanity blush +" Fourth Ward liquor Ieaiers'
Association" The old names--the old familiar names-
,s were gone ! looked for the word Democrat or
the WORD Wing" but they gone. There
It was clearly written and haunting to the free
breexes-" Fourth Ward Liquor Dealers Association
1aunted out their candidae--Horatio Seymour. And
beneath that little way of in many Of those streets
you might the absolute products Of the tra AZ
ri man fold
neghborthat he absolutely beneath that canvass
poor man in the marred image OF God lying in the
drunk with the poison. He might have said the mad
boy sad 10 The liquor dealer when he saw poor man
wing drunk efore his door, ''Neghbor your sign has
the worst hauns in the Fourth ward which would seem
70 Le anrIeasantiy eHected By the prohbitory bill,
shments around. / looked into two or three
OF them, and all round the large barrels, and all
round the walls, inscriptions in all the coIors OF the
barrel through the whole Of these establishments One
mans name-a name, too, which in the past history sf
New York has been connected with the names Of the
great and good men Of the Empire State. And over the
9 name 2, seymour saw such inscriptions as these -
mn rnr your yonr ina. means supp'sn
That translated into plain English, sinsist upon
your right to drink without mercy to yourself and to
scription wassMaintain the Constitution suppose
that means ''stand up for the lqour bill veto" Sand
you dead drunk that you cannot lie
on the ground without holding on.' Qaughter.l
In looking at tho question fairly and soberiy and
solemnly. when yon see such men engaged here
tonight carrying forward the noble movement and
whence such earnest opposition comes entertain
doubt Of its 6nal Another thing let say
here. Afew nights since procession Of who had
been ratifyng the name Of Sew Seymour a candidate
for the highest Office in the empire state, moved
With lanterns dimiy burning
ur Broadway. They gathered around one Of the most
splendid hotels Of the metropolis, in its exterior an
ornament to the city They sent up huzzas and called
n n rama IN ratuY hie
tion to his constituents. And when l read the
notice Of that circumstance the next morning, !
house. in which going forth in the defence of
rale feeble, scky wife struck down in those very
Gns INV with IL s and sns
marching through the marble hal yet stained with the
blood shed in that sad calamity to receive the greeting
significance in such fact which cannot be overlooked
There Is another fact which have learned and which
o-hand remarks and that is that gathering Of the
citizens OF New York some time since to express their ad
mracn Of Governor seymour's veto Of the Prohibition
bill have it on the authority Of of the leading citi
Of New York, in this house. who went there
90 locker in vence'--that two three men, bru.
the platform at that very meeting vomiting in the de-
baucheries Of intemperance. (Hisses-con amore)
They had come there to rsy strong drink and strong
drinks defender When he told Of the fact Of those
two being there in that wretchcd plight could not
but think Of the saying Of some Of the old prophets Of
the Bible
month ana maksih him dranssn: the right
Lord shall be upon him. and shameful spewng shall be
his glory.
There seemed to be something in the prophecy ap-
propriate to the melancholy incident related by my friend
that cannot but recall the words And now, what is 1t
that feel bound to opposes If asked opposed
to the present Governor Of New York. political grounds
would say not at all. But will tell you of
quarrel with him. you read the Governors veto message
Of the prohbitory liquor bin you will find that does not
merely object to the details of the bill but he objects
tirsy and toto the legal prohibition Of it, He stands
opposed in the view to the State Of Maine which has for
It's motto DrgoI direct And what has led the way in
this work Of legal prohibition take Issue with him. and
that is the you and here together He says
We want decision the 7th Of November, to the
popular feeling in regard TO prohibition As to the prin
cple objection he has 1t is at variance with one Of the
principles Of the decalogue The command " in the de-
calogue, !" Thou shalt not-thou shalt not do wrong.
The prohibtory law Of Maine following out that principle
says, Thou shalt notwhats Thou shalt not drink in
toxcatng drinks-is that itf No-but thou shalt not
sell them IL IL the Rrst, it would be sumptuary
law which would myself oppose. After all the practical
WORKING Of the thing 10 the least argument for IT, The
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