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

The fact tia: nearly all tine crimes from which So.
cey suffers are committed under the influence Of Ia
tOAicstine Liquors is nowhere denied. No. less than
Dueenths Of all homicides, assaults and other out
RACES on the person ere impelled directly by Alcoholic
Beverages while at least threeour.hs of the ofenses
against the rights Of property similarly nsgated
Mr. Wm. Edmonds, while Keeper of our City Prison,
kept an account Of the previous training aud personal
habits OF all the persons arrested on suspicion of crime
and committed to his charge during full year, and
out of more than Eighteen Thousand thus committed
not fifty claimed to be practitioners of Total
Abstinence from the use of Intoxicating Liquors On
the other hand, large majority were free drinkers,
whose love for the Temperance Cause was as abstract
and shadowy Gov SeymOurs; and a great proportion
attributed their degradation and ruin directly aud with
obvious truth to their habits Of Alcoholic indulgence
"Oh if il was nj for the drink ." says the poor Ir
woman who appears at the Police Office or before the
judges implOre mercy for the brutal husband who in
Lis drunken madness Las abused her and all ouE prs-
ons peni;e taries, aims houses refugees are filed with
Wretchos who. "If il we're not for the drink would
be kus. proyilent husbands aud fathers aud useful
respected citizens, but who, because of the drink
are the terror and shame OF their families ard nusances
to society. Is any thing more notorious than this
Now, be it remembered thar these men are thus
debased and deprayed not because they drink what
Gov. Seymour and his clan call bad Liquor-that is
Liquor adulterated with yitrol capsicum and poison
GUS berries but because dieh0Oic The drugs with
which it is aduterated and which the Governor would
punish men for putting Into IT, may may lot Kill tie
drker than if the liquor contained 10 other
pernciOOs ingredient than pure Alcohol buiti is Alec
lOl ana that only which makes the tippler madusn.
nuissrce and terror. For druggiug men with poi.
which hurt themselves ony, the Governor is wilt
ING to punish; but for drugging the with poison
alike social and personal in It's malign influences he
screens them from all legal retributon Such Is the
logic, such the ttsiesIsnship, now paramount in oar
State.
OF the men whom Gov Seymour has sent TO the
gallOWs, confident that every one was of Gov.
Seymours sort Of Temperance men-Dot one Of ours.
Several Of them have the gaOws expressly s,trb-
uod TO cur groesbops the impulse which hurried them
10 a murderers shameful doom. Stcokey hung some
year ard more ago for iauIder on the Five Points
VS. enc Of these Clark the sailor. more recently
executed for causing the death OF wstchmln in
RooseyeltOr Clery.st,, WIS another. This man sailed
for this port from Liverpool, where be had relatives
ard friends, AID was engaged TO marry on his re.
turn. Those who knew hin well assure Us that
lie was honest aud noble.hearted Having squAn-
dcred the product Of his previous la5Ors as
sailors usually do he had resolved TO drink
DO more liquor and lad for some time lived up to this
resolution. But, one fatal evening some friends drew
him away from his boarding house for walk through