Milford beacon., 1854-04-07
For The Milford Beacon.
Letter From Fox Hole.
Fox HOLE, March 80, 1854.


Fox Hole, March 80, 1854.
MEssRs. EDlToRs.-I notice in your
paper of the Oath inst, cemmunica-
ton from Thomas P. Reynolds, who /
suppose is the same Thomas P. Reynolds
who presided at the meeting of the Rum
Party, at Frederick, on the 22d ult., con-
tanning many allegations in which do
not concur with him, and proposing GER
tain queries to which suppose he de-
sires answers and taking into consider
alton the high source from which they
emenate, to wit: the Presidency, we
must regard them as worthy of attention.
He commences by saying, "We have
no such desire as to raise Rum Party,
but wish to raise party whose desire is
that every gentleman shall have the right
TO use the gifts of his God in his own
way-the poor as well as the rich; and
does not God send rain on the earth for
the blessing of man, &c.," and attempt
ing 10 show a difference between the
providence of God and the Temperance
party. i.ai
If they had no desire to raise rum
party they certainly exceeded their de-
sire, for "we hold that truth to be self
evident" and therefore incontrovertible.
We deny that rum is the gift of God, for
we are informed in the Bible that in six
days God made all things, and We deny
that he created rum, Or any other intoxi-
eating liquor. g ''God made man upright,
but he has sought out many Inventions
and one of those inventions is the man.
uiacture of Intoxicating drinks.
We admit that God sends rain on the
earth, that is, on some parts of the earth,
and on some parts he does not; and
while some other parts of the earth per-
nit the reign of King Alcohol, we in
tend, by the blessing of God, to stop his
reign in the State of Delaware, which we
feel certain we shall accomplish; there
fore the difference of which the Presi-
dent speaks is not SO great as he would
make it appear. And when that reign
shall cease, the Rum Party will be WIS.,
tied with the greatest draught they have
ever experienced, while the Temperance
party will be unharmed, for while their
fountains will be entirely dried up, our
f,zntains will continue to flow; notwith-
standing, we will say to them fear not,
for there will be plenty of corn in Tenn
peranceville, and JOSEPH is in our land,
who is your brother after the flesh, mot
after the spirit,) who will bring you up
out of your land into land
'Where sparkling with light is the water bright,
From the bed oi the cool spring flowing
Again, the President says, "The tenn
perance party say it is right for a rich
man 10 use alcohol, but wrong for poor
man to use it," The temperance party
never said any such thing-we deny it,
and therefore demand the proof ,-and if
his excellency fails to produce it we shall
mark and label that assertion No. L.
The provision in relation to package,
cask, &c., in the Maine Law, has refer
ence 10 foreign liquors, imported into the
country. under and by virtue of acts of
Congress, and over which the State Leg
islatures have no contol, and all men of
all classes have the same right TO pur-
chase them, and if they all have not the
means to do so ii is not the fault of the
law; but the law provides for the ap-
pointment of agents TO sell liquors for
the State, at the prices for which the
same are purchased. for medicine and all
other useful purposes, to rich and poor,
without distinction. zf
Again, he complains "of the tax on the
rumsellers being an imposition on them,
and says that the temperance men would
not like to be taxed, &C." They are not
bound to take out license to sell rum
it is optional with them to do so or not,
and if they will ransack whole school
district and buy and importune school
voters to recommend them for that pur-
pose, and then go up TO court and employ
counsel, learned in the law, TO advocate
their cause, and voluntarily pay their $25
in money for license, l do not think that
any one ought TO complain, not even His
Excellency; | really fear that his SYM
pathies and feelings have become so en-
listed in the cause, that he'll ultimately
conclude that all civil government was
instituted in order to secure 10 mankind
the liberty of selling and drinking rum,
and that all other interests will be lost
sight of or merged in this. We must
have an eye to him, for our .foreathers
taught us that "the price Of liberty is
eternal vigilance" but the President
seems disposed to fix the price ten
cents quart.
The temperance men have been taxed
all their lifetime by the rum traffic, until
they have become aroused, and now the
other side is taxed until the President
thinks they ought to be aroused and as
this thing Of being taxed is very unpleas-
ant to both parties, I will offer him COM
promise,--let us, both parties, go in for
a Maine Law, which does not provide for
any tax, and will release us all from tax
alton, and have no more complaint on that
subject. What say you, Mr.. President?
Again, he complains " That the Wing
and Democratic parties did not carry out
their principles in enacting the temper
ance law of the last session, but run their
tickets under those names, and then went
over to the temperance party, imposing