New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-04

ths Cty during vh-h he vss persuaded % drink all
drink again He returh>d home about qidnigi. 10.
vi.I, intoxicated but coofasci and excited: ild
inst entering the house when be saw some sailor fdells
struggling in the street with party 20 him udkoogn.
Heated and beclou.ed IS be was be rushed OFT
into the street. and. zng THE first weapon thai came
10 hand. which happened 20 ne cart-rung he struck
one Of the adverse party blow over the head which
foIl.d lin 70 the ground Tits ended tie aEray and
Clark tgred into the house sni went to bed no. sup
posiuc be rad involved himself in any serious trouble
Put the nan be struck was d watchmsg the blow
rroved ..tsl: AID il 'ew hours Clark arrested
nprifoneJ and in due time convicted, sentenced an
executed The friends await NJ Linn across the Aria J.
tic. including .he who would have been bis wife,
hin. no more and heard of him only as doomed muir
3erer though at heart he vas less guilty Of the fear
!ul crime Of which he suffered the penalty than is any
IN who ia this Jay of ligat and knowledge colspres
TO cover the Internal Liquor Taft: with the shield OF
Licelse.
Now it i mad it Is dwelling 70 talk Of regulating
the traffic in Intoxicating Beverages Rase the charge
for Lcense to $1,000, and enact that noood! but
Doctor Of Divinity shall be allowed 20 sell, AMI y)u
will have no material improvement on tie state OF
Il ings bow presented because so long as on: man IS
liotnsed to SELL thousands Kill sail WITHOUT license.
The Law is robbed of all moral sanction and force by
the fact that it grants dspensatiOns 10 10 do with
impuIiy and for their profs tha! which is forbid
den 70 others If our laws allowed the hve leading
hotels in this CITY to disburse Alcoholic madness only
to moral, upright discreet thrifty men, upon payment
of License charge of $1,000 each per annIn, there
would be thousands of porterhouses an gro
- oil efau+l and "a all xCnn
would buy on the strength OF taat License
and public sentiment would say, If maa is
allowed to sell why not other men Either stop oil
or give all cb5nce." But give Us strong law for
bidding The ,ale Of these maddeaing beverages enry
and We ii drive tie kegs and dec inters out Of public
view the first year and pretty nearly out OF existence
within three yens. This VIII involve a severe ar
duous stgUggle-ye understand that-but the men and
the means are ready: and, with such an act az
Gov Seymour has just vetoed we will make
RDnsCllug as ehy as Gambling or Harorry now
is within the three years Aforesaid, That
all LQuor-sellng VIII be stopped in City Ike
this We 10 not anticipate; hut We will make 1t
teathy hidden guilty business prosecuted that ha
wLo aW drink must sneak down back stairs AMI
through underground passages to ud the Liquor and
whenever that shall be the case there will not be one
glass drank where ten glasses are now nor one new
dIunlard manufactured where there now are huu
dIed And in spite Of Executive conplicty with the
yote-getherine srosgeries, this shall yet be
But is il not scken az nonstr0us, horrible that the
Govern or of great state should lend himself to the
base u,es OF tie rumseliers az Seymour has done
Whose .ympahes aud efforts should be on the side Of
Virtue, Temperance, Purity Thrift Innocence ii not
those OF the chosen ruler Of Three Millions Of free
citizens Yet Lere are the earnest patient, seltdeny
ing iong.cOu; nued efforts CT sany thousands Of
phanhropists AMI moral rel0rmers rUthessy stricken
down BY tue land OF him who should be the champion
ADD guardian OF whatever is good and noble! How
We v.h that tbs be;r,yer of bis greas trust could
see dawn up AID pass ia review before him "a one
side The 1leareyed, rank bTeahei array OF all whom
lie Veto has delighted, aud the other the tens Of
,tou sands whom it has aegr.eyed and mortified. We
should like to watch his c0untenance he looked rst
this picture, then on this and saw the faces whom
av6rce md appetite and vice had distorted almost out
of tie seDbdnce OF Humanity lit up with sulphurous
exuitaou his deed while the gaze Of pale mothers
whose lives are passed in .errOr lest their own chill
dreu's lives stall yet be sacrificed TO the demo1iac
rage Of him WHO ought to be their protector aud
euard-he WHO wien sober WAS their JOY and pride,
tut who is cow their shame, their burden, their tor
meut-sbould o. the other hand be fixed in silent an
guish him who hqd dashed from their lips the cup
of hOpe-be first they hal tasted these many weary
yesrsperhGps the last they shall ever taste on earth
Who that believes in Cpd Of justice would be in this
mans hOes for all the Offices aud hoGors that Rum and
its votariec can besow!