Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-06-21
1857.
The Southern States.

arlSn Is Wneellng INTO line ana Yetolng
he license system. Lafourche parish, by a
majority, has resolved to have no
1ore grdgshops. From the Thibodaux Nj
erUa we copy the following:
No LIcENsE.-The election which took
lace in this parish on the 9Th inst, re-
ulted in a majority against granting IL
.ense for selling liquor by the glass. 1t now
'emains to be determined whether the result
will effect the selling by the glass in the
own ward, which was decided in favor of
license by a majority of four votes
days previous. Many think not; but
We are of the impression that it will. The
vote was taken throughout the whole parish,
and our citizens having voted on the ques-
ton on the 9Th inst, we are inclined to the
opinion that the decision of the people affects
both town ard country. Let the knowing
ones decide.
ALABAMA STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
This convent on, after a harmonious session
of two days, adjourned on Thursday last.
Legal prohibition is indeed becoming very
popular down South-the old moral suasion
treatment of the rum traffic is being discard
ed. The resolutions adopted urge a change
in the license law, to this extent-that if q
man desires to retail ardent spirits, instead
of obtaining n recommendation from six per-
sons, he shall obtain the written
dation of a majority of the voters and heads
of families in the city, town, village, ward,
or election precinct in which they may desire
to retail. This is the main feature of the
present movement, and upon which the Tenn
perance men express the determination to
contest the election campaign of the ensuing
year.
Resolutions were passed recommending the
organization of State Leagues throughout the
State and requesting said Leagues, and 9TH
er Temperance organizations to send dele
gates to a State Convention to be held in
Montgomery next winter, for the purpose of
nominating a Temperance candidate for Gov
ernor, &c.
TExAs-is to vote for License or No Ii
cense' at her State Election on the first Mon
day in August next.
f MIss1ss1PP1.-The Vicksburg sentinel says
The new anti-liquor law is working wonders
in Mississippi. Town after town, and coun-
ty after county, are executing the law faith
{ fully and vigorously. Our temperance friends
IN the North have misjudged thelaw altoge-
Their. 1t is killing off the grogshops effectual-
g ly. 1t has even closed the noted den at
1 jackson the Capitol. The owner made vigo-
t rous efforts to induce the voters to renew his
license, but he signally failed. 1t is almost
equal to the Maine Law itself, and for its
age perhaps is doing more than that law did
at its first passage.
The "Jacksonian," published at the seat
of Government, says:-All over Mississippi,
the friends of good order are crushing out
the grog,shops. The new law works like a
charm. In one year from this time the re-
tail traffic, in Mississippi, will be lone with.
There may in some of the towns, be SOM low
negro trading foreigner, who will steal the
4 chance to sell, but there will be no white
man mean enough to stem the tide of public
opinion. A majority of the towns in Mis-
sissippi, where the issue has been made, have
,e succeeded in crushing them out
The victory in Mississippi will be won al
= most without an effort. There is no excite
mept- no mixing up with politics. no strife
II but the work of crushing ont goes on, ST
s lently, and gloriously. God Speed the Right
I Mississippi is to be the first Southern State
= liberated from the shaekles of King Alcohol
We possess one great advantage: We have
ne no large towns or cities thronged with foreign
ce vampires. Our Liquor Sellers, heretofore
in except on the Sea Shore, have been Ameri
cans, ready to abide by the Laws Of the Land
= ready to do right when convinced that the
es were wrong.
A gentlemen, writing from Natchez, gives
: : the following account of tho progress Of re
- form.
raj
l have visited during the past four or fvr
weeks most of the cities and towns in tn
no State of Mississippi, and have in my journe,
to spent some time on various plantations, s
err that | am well posted up as to the state G
- public feeling on the leading questions Of th
:. day. | am happy to announce to your mum
erous readers, that the glorious cause of Ten
perance is gaining friends everywhere, an
the new law passed by the last Legislator
,,cy is working wonders. / know that the friend
of the cause at the North have not been vel
pleased with the new law; bat if they coul
ong only visit this State and see the happy effeci
are of the law, they woulda say that it is ia
superior'to the Maine law. The questio
of granting a license to sell liquor is not le
OK to the towns and cities where the grog-sho
the influence can always command a set of loa
sea ers to vote for the retail of the poison; bu
the planter and farmer have a voice and q
-, man can sell liquor unless he can procure
Tue majority of all the voters in the county whel
= he resides to sign bis petition, and as all til
law counties in this State are very large one
the country influence can out-vote all Il
~ IrlcQQS Oh rum anu TOIpOb MHlsEJ III III
towns, and in many of the towns where
quor has been sold, the influence ofthe coul
try has been felt, and grogshops are close
es." jackson, the capital of the State, has con
r. to the rescue-the Temperance banner wav
the in triumph over the city, and the sale of
NIB ouor is abolished. In Pass Christian, t
~favorite resort and watering place of I
sane citizens of New Orleans, the Temperan
api- party have noble contended against Ne
= Orleans rum influence, and have, by a fir
and united effort, closed all the numero
sons grog-shops. In Natchez and Vicksburg the
asa. will be a few licenses granted, as in the
-. cities the friends of the cause have had
Ms contend with the grog-shop influence, as a.
tenn the seLf-inteTest of some of the merchants.
any 1t appears that most OF the owners of tho
sing grog shops are in debt for their liquor to I
n merchants ;andin order to secure the amour
\ = due, the merchants of those cities have be
Indl- able to prevail of many of the friends to 81
4 the petitions in favor Of the grog-shops
one year but at the end of that year ey
the Vicksburg and Natchez will be added to
numerous towns where the Temperal
cause has been triumphant. In Grand CT
tam where there are four grog shops in a to
arty of only three hundred inhabitants, the v
of the people of Claiborne County has clos
them all. In fact, nearly every town O
county IN this State has put a stop to the S
ear of liquor. The law has killed off the OF
sger- shops effectually. The owners Of the d,
and all a vigorous efforts to induce the vot
to renew their Hcense-but II Is no 90 : III