The Delaware herald., 1854-05-10
Veto of the Maine Liquor Law.

the pronigacy of our present State lepislat;on
On the Liquor Bill as it deserved. II was
conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity
The hrmness of the Governor, which has killed
II ios TINS year, Is worthy of great praise.-New
York Freemen's Journal s,.... ---r,-.
The Ffeemen's Jexrnai, as our readers are
aware, ID Catholic paper and the organ of
b'shoP Hughes. IL is a prevailing characte,is-
nc OF that paper to be opposed to everything
tnaf raises man above the gsoveling level of
ignorance and superstition. We cannot wonder
at its hatred Of Prohibition or the venom of its
expression, nor is it a matter of surprise that
the church, whose doctrines it sets forth. is
composed of such material--so much ignorance
and lowness of life. Anything that tends to
elevate the people or make them manly, self
relying and intelligent, is sure to meet with
ferocious opposition from the organs of Roman
ism
This Is one of the strongest arguments in |
fayor Of Prohihitery Law that can be urged. |
Whatever the Pope Opposes if the subject is in |
regard TO the amelioration of the masses, we
fay safely take the opposite side if we want to
sseer into the right channel Our cause will
not suffer by this ayowal of hostility frsm the
Bishops mouth-piece, for opposition from such
source VIII arouse the friends of Prohibition
and enlist host who have not before felt verv
deeply interested.
few weeks since, we read an article on the
opposition of foreigners to the temperance
cause, and, if we recollect rightly, it stated
that, of some four hundred and eighty remon-
ssrances sent to the Legislature of New York,
over four hundred were from the Germans and
irish. The Priesthood, being infuriated against
temperance, denounced it from the pulpit and
stump, heaped opprobrium and abuse uponit, and
treated it with as fierce opposition as if it had
been an edict of Pharaoh to destroy the first
born of every family. In the late public de-
snonstrations in New York, in regard to the
veto of Gov. Seymour, the majority, and, in
fact, nearly all, were foreigners! The poor,
miserable outcasts of other countries Of whom
a numberhaif to fee their country to save their
necks from the halter, on account of their attro-
cities. come to this country begging protection
and an asylum to save them from oppression,
and in few months set themselves DIP as dc
tatofs to our Legislators and statesmen who
were Graded in liberty and nurtured with the
fall enjoyment of political freedom. They see
their strength-that they hold the /" balance of
power" between the nearly equally divided
political parties, and knowing the willingness
of political haekneys to succumb to them for
the purpose of securing their strength-they
have come out with bolder front and "daring
words.'' as their late public meetings, remon-
strances, petitions or Instructions to Congress,
etc, viii show. Whocan deny that they in
fuence our President-making, and that politi-
clans hare an eye to this in selecting the can.
didafs Of their choice! Their Bishops-theil
Demi-Gods-would willingly, and, indeed, are
earnest In their efforts to change our system Of
property -holding to the one man power-giviDg
all into their own hands and the general priest
hood. At the last session of our Legislature
an effort was made for special Act of Assem-.
bly, to transfer the Church property of the Catho
lies, in this State, to the entire control Of the
Bishop but, thanks to the worthy legislators
who were keen-sighted enough to see into the
ssback-ground Of the plot, they put a veto or
the bill. Their thirst for POWER is Unsuitable
Grant them this, and they will heap more and
more upon us until we are saddled with all the
superstitions and rites of Italy. In q majority
of the municipal elections last year in the Yves
tern States, the question was not Wing aEG
Democrat, but Catholic and Protestant. The
struggle for RIGHTS, political and Social ha.
come, and it is our duty to unsheath the cutlasi
before We are fanked. ..l -. -..-.
l.. +ol.a5 tha coursa of fba oo,,4ro1
ling spirits of this country with sorrow ard in
aignasion, and weuld do anything to shield the
ignorant ana injured people from the oppressive
bondage inflicted by an aggrandizing Priesthood
There is no class in the world which needs the
blessing of a Prohibitory Law SO much as tbs
Irish and Germans. and. yet there is no clas
~ho oppose il with greater yehemence. Com
ing to this country, as they do. from the ignor
anee aud poverty of the Old World, they ente
a.io avocatons which viii yield more than
livelihood, and tboughtlessly plunge into thu
vice Of drunkenness. .fs. s...-. +.
1t takes but small capital to open a run
shop and most Of our sinks of drunkenness arr
owned By foreigners. From these drunken
places proceeds more wckedness than from an,
.csher place and it is the duty of the well-neap
a,g portion Of community to rid the country Q
:aesc curses. Pope, Bishop, Priest and people
NAV raoe, and d,,nounce the cause Of temper
snce. bat all they can say win not avail any
thing; the earsc is advancing--those dens o
wrctehedness win be destroyed, and societ
freed from the pcrnicious influences Of rum.
K;
THE WEArHEli--The Spring has been un
Usually backward, and il is seldom that tn
farmers are 50 late in planting corn. In Ken