Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-09-19
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yirtpous training, d losrsze spsrisr or Oh pro-
fout,sf rcIig aus consicsions--rali inefthe 10
wnr,t HE Right They sdo good and avosd
evil ms tinctivaiy. a. she duck takes to wassr /
art. the stream runs Down bill. rof tbs
.,lasa. hps,,sra laws SAD least penal .ss-+-ars
,,,;te sn.,rriuoss.s The .awlof love written |
II the;r hearts, prompting them .oiio what
eyer seems calculated 10 benefit their neigh |
/, n ard bless mankind, rs all they need.
Thsre Is anofher class. fcrm,dabls though |
M iruss a msnshing in numbers, whosr im-
pulses are just the opposite OF shnse aboys
ss,r essssti. and requir assiiierens trea.m MT.
Z This scsass regard every gu ss,an foom tue
r,;n-sof self iat'res.. ani are just As honest
as In, law sceinpsis Them II b,.@ Ha 4 On
tarz .po. they would have tax n stock IN an
African slaytr which held pui prospect OF
tive suadred PR cent. pross on the invest
n, MT: NOW they would not gtoush aventuTe
oil that ssre--the sodinm and risk are too
great. They NAV have ma lie, ,isemelhins
| hand some in these latter DAYS by selling sin
dian ,Whiskes, wartiir-no, scesting--ten
cents per gallon, to poor, infasuated saya-
| ges in Nebraska fora dollar quart, there
/ by instisating them to massacre tbe children
of pioneers or neig hborlng tribes they may
| have backed a Faro Ba- in San Francisco
at an average prohtiof' > ,sho per night, or
4 fitted mp extra boarding houses in Church
lor MERGERS treatf for a rem, of FIVE or six pr
| cent. per month on the farniture; but they
4 have always been careful not to do any Thing
for syhicl,si he law would take rank hold of
them. They believe in Law and Order,
l,think Reiis jon a good thing in its way, and
are willing to eipsupportsit IT It's ministers
will mind their own business aud keep clenr
of fanaticsm; but it is their very decided
conviction that a; clergyman should stick 0
the Gospel and not distract his society by
meddling with politics and stirring up excite-
ment aud ill-feeiins by fierce diatribes rela-
I TIM to rum and niggers. And If there be
one phraze which, above all others, express
SEES and conda nses all the objects of their de-
I'testation, it is s:Compulsory Morality" III
Now we very heartily agree that the moral
lity which requires no compassion Is by far
1.-THE better sort; if this were universal, there
would be no call for any other. Ii all men
would do right of their own accord, we M ght
dispense with our judges, sherlfs armamsf.s,
police, and reduce our taxes and charities to
| a very low figure. But all men tcih not do
right-that is, great many will not-thFy
are WRONG. headed, black hearted, and 60 in
for securing to themselves the largest posi-
Bic share Of sensual qualification at the
smallest cost Of labor or excrtion. They
know that the arts by which they make gain
Fare injurious to the community; but they
do not care for this, so long as their own
Golfers are filed by them. Which, then, is
to be preferred that these men should con-
time to do wrong with impunity and seem
ling advantage at the cost of the general
veal or that the law should intcrnose to bar
the path in which they choose to tread p
Yet to do this latter is just what is stigma
tized as "Cempusory Morality 7'''}'' @
For example: we have now in mind q ca
EpaFle, intelligent, robust, shrewd man, who
could make good living in a dozen differ
cnt ways-ali useful, all benifcent but he
considers none 6f2thcse so easy and so lucra-
tive as keeping petty village tavern andfscl-
ling rum. Around and in this tavern Il dozen
or more of the poor creatures of the neigh
borhood spend half Their tune and all their
earnings, leaving their spirit brok en- wive s Mt
home to feed and clothe their children as hest
thew can. Every winter, the temperate, in
dustrious, thrifty families Of the vcnage are
laid under contribution to. keep these poor
families from starvation or the aims house
since they get nothing from their natural
providers but abuse. The roo, and focus of
tn whole mischief is in that grogShn shut
itup close and keepi ii shut, and every fimiiy
within three miles of it would live in comfor,
: without aims. Nine-tenths of all who earn
, the living of that neighhorhood want the
. progshops shut up; the rumseller and bis
miserable victims alone wish 1t kept open
j.. Yet John w. Brown virtually says the law
\ has no right to declare that grogShop nui-
,, sance, (Which everybody knows it is.) and
that the sober, wel-'loins, Go fea Ing pe"'
pie of it's vicinity have no choics' but to grr
and bear it! And two-thirds of the consrrv
alive and part Of the religious pr SIS of the
0 city is out red mouthed on the rumSrl!rr
e side aud against those long sufle ny neigh
bors who are trying to have it extinguished
These conservative and religious journ lists
are as s.much opposed to drunkenness as any
, bodv''-of course they are-but they CAM
abide 'sCompulsory Mnrality." Didn't Chris
once turn water into wine ?--wherefore Dicl
French and his confederates must be allowed
the. fullest liberty to turn rum into then
thirsty customers True, lce do not see th'
!, connection between the pr, misses and the con
) clusion but few glasses of the wines that
' Christ didn't make, nor anything like them
and which have been well drugged and bran.
died as well as wasered, would probably
make MI clear. 70 ~. ... q s--ag. -a- asei 20
We don't see how penal laws can enforce
any other than compulsory morality, mol
what they are required for if not for just
. this. Nor DOVE feel the faintest desire &c
sell rum because the laws forbid it, any more
than to commit murder for the same reason
What sort of a citizen. must he be who
t does? .q IL ais%s .e1.@ .s> be rs-s .sa.