Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-07-21

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The Liquor Law and Slavery Agitation--
The Mote and the Beam.
The New York Times is an anti-Slayery and
Temperance Journal, edited by the Lieutenant
Governor of New York. 1t comedies that the
prohibitory liquor law has failed entirely. The
Rev. Mr.. Wood, of the Central Presby terian
scriptive Of the evils of intemperance:
"What Is now giving such energy to the traffic
in intoxicating drinks--a traffic which docs more
than all other causes combined to ruin our youth,
to spread pauporism over our land, to fill our
streets with violence and bloodshed, our prisons
and almshouses with victims, and our very air
with blasphemyp What upholda all this in open
defiance of law? Remember that the sale of IL
quors in this city, amounts to Twenty-Five millions
Of dollars every gear, and you have the answer
The results, as everybody knows, are crime and
wo, paurerism and death; but the pecunary in
terests at stake are so great, the gains so enor-
NOUS az to blind the eyes and warp the judgment
and ensnare the hearts of many, even among the
yirtuous and the good Within these few weeks,
we have seen this traffic to great degree sub
sidizing the secular press, swaying the minds Of
thousands Of timid and well-meanng men, and
bribing by its princely fees, our abest lawyers
10 pronounce in advance upon the unconstin
tionality' of any attempt TO arrest its des0laing
scourgc; and all, all because rioting and drunken
ness, ruflianism and murder are things altogether
tho triRing to stand in The way Of a business SO
vast and so lucrative"
Here, then, is an evil of appalling magni-
tude and of undoubted immortality, prevailing
amongst the rcformers who have so kindly
undertaken the moral ameoration of the hui
man race Observe what Parson Wood says
of the moral enormities Of the liquor trade:
at ruins our youth, spreads pauperism over
our land fills our streets with violence and
bloodshed, our prisons and almshoGses with
victims, and our very air with blasphemy )"
and he atfirms that the paltry sum Of $685.
100000 investment in liquor causes all this
mischief
The public journals generally concur with
the Times, that the law forbidding this evil
cannot be enforced. The sinners quaf their
rotations under the very board of justice,
they take refuge behind treaties and rev.
enue laws which authorize the importation of
foreign liquors, and they resist the enforce
ment of the statute by obstinately insisting
upon trials by jury, writs of habeas corpus,
and every other legal subterfuge which can
exasperate the friends of cold water, or pofit
the lawyers.
The manufacture, sale, and use Of ardent
spirits is according to the Temperance party,
an artificial institution, originating in the
vice or weakness of society. They fail, in its
suppression, and the liquor dealers and drink
ers triumph in their defeat The New York
Times, the Tribune, the National Era, with
Messrs. Garrison, Wilson, and certain Cana
dian and European allies, have formed Car
son league to enforce prohibitory law against
another institution, in their estimation, replete
with evil They deem it their mission to ex-
terminate this evil As however, this institu-
ton did not exist amongst themselves, they
thought it might be overthrown with impuni-
ty, since it would neither cost them cent Of
money nor drop of blood. This last institu-
ton, however, involves a direct investment of
some two thousand millions of dollars, and
overspreads some two-thirds of the territory
Of the Atlantic States
To cowardy and selfish politicians, the
chance to gain money or office, without per-
sonal risk, is very attractive So these adroit
managers began 10 agitate this subject with
every demonstration Of delight They had not,
however, advanced far in their schemes of lie
struction before difficulty occurred. II was
discovered that much OF the labor and capital
Of old and New England was entangled with
this institution II was the umbilical cord Of
commerce. They discovered that there were
ships arriving at and departing from Southern
ports, laden with the products Of this obnox-
ious institution; that these ships likewise
brought in return the products of industry
from the New England States. They found
that the debt and investment due TO New
York alone upon railroad bonds and mineral
enterprises in the Southern States was great
many more millions than the Tribune, and
Times, and their whole party, English and
American, could command il they were regu-
larry japanned AMI sold at public outcry in
the Southern market.
further investigation showed that this
obnoxious institution furnished bread and
employment to millions Of honest mariners,
merchants, and mechanics; and that, in fact,
the very old maids who would not swceten
their curdled virginity with an ounce Of slave
grown sugar and the ascetic divine who would
turn out Of the highway to heaven if he learned
that Southern brother had taken the same
line were all receiving dividends or sdpends
earned out Of Southern staples, or exchange,
or hotel bills or house rents; and that, in fine,
they had as well endeavor to keep the atmo-
sphere out Of their apartments, and yet live,
move, and have their being, as to keep the nc
cursed coin out of their pockets, or get along
without IL came into them They found that