The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-29

policeman. Ably aud faithfully performed,
they are as honorable because as useful to
society as any that fall to the lot of man. No
one but an idiot would think of despising them.
The reasons therefore which lead some to look
askant at the wearer Of livery do not apply
to the case of a uniform The uniformed police
man stands in the same light as the soldier,
whose uniform is adopted as essential to disci-
pline, safety and order. If the one have a
right to complain of his costume, the other is
entitled to make the same complaint and the
police who now demonstrate against the orders
of the Commissioners will meet with little
sympathy SO long as our army is resigned to
wear a uniform. Until the New York National
Guard repudiate their coats as unworthy Of
freemen, people will always believe them good
enough for the police.
BRIBERY AND DRuGGED LIQUOR UP AT Gov
CORD-CALL FOR THE MAINE Liquor LAW
The Geographic despatch which we published
yesterday, from Concord, is suggestive Of a
frightful state of disorder, bribery and corrup-
ton in the New Hampshire Legislature. A
committee of five members has been appointed
to inquire into certain charges made against
the coalitionists, in attempting to hribe menl-
bers, and of drugging their liquor!" And
this is the discord to which things are brought
in the city Of Concord. Bribing members and
drugging their liquor! What members? and
what are they bribed for !? Let us look into this
business little, 1t calls for Investigation.
The despatch says the coalitionists' have
been arraigned for the alleged offences. Who
are the coalitionsts They constitute the anti
administration alliance of wings, democrats and
free sellers proper, on the spoils and Nebraska
questions. The parties, therefore, who have
suffered from drugged liquor and bribery must
be the administration Nebraska spoils demo-
cracy of the Legislature. How did they come
to suffer from this drugged liquor? We're they
"takcn in and done for' like John B. Cough
OF did they lift " the poisoned chalce" of their
own free will Were they freely consorting at
the time of their absorption Of the aforesaid
drugged liquor with designing coalitionists, in
some rumhole2 or how? Were the barkeepcrs
of the establishments patronized on these occa-
sions by the orthodox democracy, or anybody
else connected with the said establishments.
parties to these tricks upon the faithful breth-
rem? These are important questions, and
worthy of a committee Of five.
Then, again, we should like to know what
was the liquor that was drugged Was it Con-
cord French brandy, Granite State whiskey, or
common lager bier? And what was the drug
used? Was it opium, coculus indicus, strych-
nine, or Harry Hibbard's speech on the Ne
braska bill? And how was the imposition de-
tected?-By the victims of the villanous decoc-
ton falling asleep, instead of becoming COM
fortably intoxicated? or did the drugged liquor
develope its poisonous ingredients in the flu
rious rawlings of the sufferers against General
Pierce, against Douglas, Nebraska, John Coch-
rane, Paul r. George and Col. Forney? All
these questions, we trust, will be suggested to
the committee of five; for this dragged liquor
should be analysed to the very bottom of every
suspicious demijohn, wbiskey cask or beer
barrel
According to the testimony G. hard shells
and soft shells, who have visited Concord since
the Presidential election, the politicians ass N
bling there are in the habit of innocently
drinking drugged liquor" in considerable
Prince OF the soft shells never tasted the French
brandy of Concord-neither the light kind nor
the dark--after his first visit to that thriving
inland village. If these things be SO, (and why
should they not be SOD they would seem to con
vey the idea that the liquor sellers of Concord,
from purely mercenary motives, are the parties
responsible to the Legislature for the drugged
liquor sold to its members. They may have
seasoned it little too stifly in their efforts to
drug he liquor according to the excitement
on the Nebraska question. Any how, we are
decidedly of opinion that the liquor sellers, and
not the coalitonists, are the guilty parties;
and that if found guilty they should be pm
ished by the immediate passage of the Maine
Liquor law, to take effect forthwith.
The evils resulting from bad brandy, home
made gin, and bald faced whiskey, hot from
the still-house, are manifold and disastrous,
often involving the innocent in the most la
mentable suferings and fatalities, while the
guilty escape. Therefore, if the New Hamp-
shire committee Of five succeed in fixing the
crime Of dragging the liquor of the members
of the Legislature upon the taverns, corner
groceries, or oyster cellars, give them the
Maine Liquor law; for otherwise there is no
safety for the future. Let the late offences in
question pass UNPUBLISHED, and we may next
expect to hear of the poisoning of every adj
mnistraton member of both houses, through
'he agency of drugged liquor. 1t is, no doubt,
entirely owing to the absence of a stringent
liquor law that the lawmakers themselves at
CONCORD are imposed upon with spurious
drinks while, with the Maine law in force,
VINO knows but that resolutions fully endorsing
.ne Nebraska bill, might be passed mem. cont
Inc Name law is the thing for Concord.
GERRT SMITH AND THE GADspEy TRsAry-