New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-03

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Pc, Goverror Seymour iss il'erPosed lis 30 and
.,,cken down the People measure lie, CHOSEN With
n, rsereueet 90 th- l-ufe-ch'.en seventeen months
,so. when The People intent on other q1es'ioss-
Ia. seen Fl 10 arrest AID defeat the deliberate acton
Of Legislature resbiy elected, with express refer
srce 10 this very questiou--action wherein very
lsrre majority OF either House cOncurred
Has be done this honestly AMI unsehshly
1.r Edward C. Deaysu volunteers a certificate Of
GOOD intentions in hs behalf But this IS not the nr't
tine that Mr. D pas iDterpoed 10 shield the enemies
and di.pust the friends Of Temperance The allure
Of the No License set of 1915 is VIGOROUSLY due TO
bis illiuoqed sud ocous intermeddlog ~ screen ts
vioators from the just punishment OF their mis5e-
meanors What he mean. We 60 not pretend
20 know but can only exculpate bis heart at the
expense Of ola head Let US leave him where de has
chosen 10 place himself and look az the position a1d
conduct of Gov. Seymour:
This gentleman became candidate for Governor
in 1852 with perfect knowledge on his part that the
question of Liquor Prohibition would very probably
come before hin if elected He traversed aud can
vassed the State soliciting the votes of hs fellow cit
zens Did be anywhere intimate that fundamental and
insuperabe hostility 70 Liquor Prohibition which he
gov agows Not be lie sought and obtained tue
votes OF Name Law men as well others. Nay: he
poslti7ely knew that Maine Law canvassing
10 bic behalf under assurances obtained from himself
ths. be was not hostile TO their One OF these
(lr, O. Il Peirce) US that he asked
Horato Seymour. before taking the stump in his be-
hsf Suppose sou were Governor Of Ohio ana bill
d" like the Maine Law were presented for your signa-
ture what would you do! "Isioud sign II, GER
% sail the emhrVo ,oVernnr This deemed
concusive Mr. PIERCE with other Maine Law mem
worked for him and Seymour obtained thousand ma
ority in The County of Oneida which has just chosen
Senator ard four Assembymen TO vote for the Name
Law Ard now behold the result
IL his conduct honest Had be told she Legislature
a. fire. If you pass auy ESSENTIALLY like the Maine
" Law, l will veto it, ala course would have been
frank at least But be kept dark until the last
ment 30 that his beet friends in the Legislature did
not know how ne would act, and many of them believed
lie would sign the bill Does honesty need the shroud
Of mystery!
Consider bis position: Gov Seymour stands before
the community notoriousy broken-down politician,
deserted by the larger moiey of the party which elect
ed him. and very certain had he signed the bill to be
the candidate of party or fragment OF party for re-
election He is Soft, and the Softs about the
most bankrupt party whether in numbers or prlnci-
pies that our State has known. His Veto is
directly calculated il was doubtless intended. to
rally the support Of his faction the great body of
the Rumselng interest throughout the State Our
Lager Bier Democracy, our Imported dis pensers of
home msde rish whisky and French brandy are rather
obuse as to the distinction of Hard and Soft but they
are all alive to the distinction between License and
Prohibition. The Veto is palpatle and very cogent
retainer for their services next Fall Does any man
believe that this was not studied and calculated -
ally maD we mean. but T.. c. Delayan'
II may be that we sLa hereafter have patience to
review the special pleading of this desperate petit
logger with regard to unreasonable searches and
seizures malicious proceedings, ald general
warrants" For tue present let it suffice that
neither the petfogeer nor anybody else appre
hended that Iona tide private dwelling would be
searched under this act Inc only apprehension was
and is that rumseers would be deprived by it OF ia
ces fbr prosecuting their nefarous traffic in viola.
ton o' law. II i, in their behalf and for their
benefit that Gov Seymour interpOses his veto,
and he will not succeed in binding one honest
advocate Of Temperance to the truth here
asserted. For if the essential provisions of the
Maine Lsw-thOse intended to prevent cau1estine
Dllng-were indeed liable to be perverted as Gov. s
Affects 70 apprehend then it is morally impossible that
such perverson should not have occurred ere this
tine. The Maine Law essentially has been in opera
ton from five TO thirty months in the States of Maine
Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island and Michigan
respectively as for until broken doTn
BY judge in the Territory of Minnesota Surely if
it were liable to be made a source of ANNOYANCE and
abuse to private families hot engaged in the unaw
full sale Of poisons, then it ,eonid hare teen so
perverted in some of all these States But even
Gov Seymour does not pretend that this is the case
and We defy the most interruptions Of his apooysts TO
cite an instance where the Maine Law has been per-
verted by its advocates into Of snnoyince or
insult to any private family whatever
If Gov Seymour realized that the of snses pointed
at in the several sections OF the bill before him were
essentially wroDg-as, for instance that the wrong of
selling to husband, father in defiance Of law
does rot consist in the buyers getting drunk on the
liquor but in the anecedent sale-he would reason
otherwise than he does But being buy er and drioker
himself be does not know and has determined that he
wH not know Whist is the moral nature of the act he
shields from punishment
We thank him for the frankness VIII herewith he
tells us that bis vital objection is not to this or that pro-
vision, section clause but 10 the whole spirit intent
and scope of the act He does not veto the bill az he
would seem at first TO pretend because it is wrong in
this or that provision, but because it undertakes 10
prohibit the Liquor Traffic. He denies the right of
the Legislature to suppress the sale of Intoxicating
Beverages, though in the next breath he .tutife,
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