The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1854-05-17

have neighbors. You solq ihem aleohoiic
drinks until they formed powerful aPPs-
lite for them. You still sold, and they
drank. They brough, on delirium, and
now they are dead. You did not mean to
take their lives. You simply wished TO
get their dimes. But they are dead-pre.
ma,urely dead. They died Of the slow
poison YOU gave them. Yougaveitto them
knowing the effect it would produce-aye,
seeing i,protucing thai effect. What shall
we call your part in that transaction! The
druggist took the lives Of your children.
What have you done for these drinkers
If you had done out Of malice what you
have done for the love Of money, what
would the law Of The land call your oct!
But Is the highwaymen less guilty because
he takes life in order to get money, than II
he had done il GU, Of malcei
Suppose butcher should discovers poi
sonous substance which, when spread up
on his meat, would give il very agreeable
flavor, and should, BY that means, gain the
patronage Of all the community, and should
continue its sale until every tenth man IN
the community had died. Wha! would
you say of such an onel But do you not
furnish poisonous article, and continue lis
sale, although a, least Ave per cent. oil The
community perish by that mean'' Or
suppose man laboring under arrangement
should go to a-druggist and ask him Tor
a poison, informing him that he wished to
drink it, and the druggist should give it to
him, and silently watch him drink 1t down.
What judgment would you form Of such
an acti
Lie, me ask you. further, if you do not
know that The drinks you sell, even if pure.
are totally destitute Of aliment-are poison
Gus and that, in addition, they are drug
ged with some Of the most active poisons
Do YOU no, know that their use tends 10
produce an excessive appetite Tor lhem'
and The qualification of ,ha! appetite pro-
duces drunkenness and disease ana pre-
$ mature dea,h' Do you not know that
: many 10 whom you sell are imPeIled to
. drink by an appetite they cannot resist
and that some Of them are already top
n plng upon the brink of the grave! Is II
' not true then that you furnish your fellow
i. men dellotr4,vsy with drinks knowing
r them TO be poisonous, that they will soon
), er or later take life If much used, and thai
;. those who drink are impelled 10 it by an
o appetite SO powerful tha, though they
n know death must ensue they will drink!
J. Do YOU not knowingly aid their self de-
!. slruclon! presume you would shrink
/. with horror from the idea Of receiving a
If brbe 10 administer poison to fellow mar
!, from which he nigh, die. Blu. what does
1t this differ from what you are actually do
\. inpl In that case as in this, money woult
is be the motive. In that case as in this, ,h'
If des ire 10 produce death would no, exist
IS In that case as in this the knowledge tina
death would probably ensue would exist
ps The resul, is The same in this case as
n. would be in that. What is the difference
is Simply this, In the one instance the mon
Of ey is offered you by the person injured
,rt in the other by third person. In tn
h. one instance you do it with the consent
he a, the request Of the injured person. il
on the other without his knowledge or consen
n. II you did the first, you would be irea'e
Ie. as having unlawfully taken life. But i
es both cases is not the act the same, the me
10. tive the same, and the result the sameI
ST. A principle Of the divine law on II
". ,ubiect of taking life was illustrated b
err the great Jewish law giver in this way
,ss If any man owned an OK which he kne'
ill., would gore he was bound TO con6ne hin
,se But if he was suffered 10 run al large an
by goared any one to death, the owner pal
ATE the penalty of his neglect with his liie,-
Iol. He was treated as a man.slayer. Yc
Dw know that your liquors will take the Ii
III. Of men. You not only do not conliT
md them so as to prevent disaster, but yo'
lh. very business and daily occupation is
ny send them abroad regardless of The ru
irs, they must effect. Besides you know III
YER under the influence Of acoholc drink
re. men often rush into the most horrid crime
lily They indulge abominablo passion, s'et
cd. commit mob violence, and take the liv
enl of men. They would no, commit the
crimes when sober. But they can beeoT
nth intoxicated only by yyour aid. You q
ion them what you know will excite them a
our prepare them for, and probably lead ,h'
10 to commit these crimes. Look at Il
IN heap Of a hundred dead bodies Of murder
iae, men. Who murdered ,heml So ma
our of their fellow men. How came they
in commit these crimes! They were mi
lore dened. Whs, maddened heml Alcoh
,uld ic drinks. Who gave them these drink
you You, Sirs, you--and that knowing d
n to such nigh, be tho results. Look at d