New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-20
LIQUOR PROHIBITION AT ALBANY.

II is q striking ard painful fact that, while
in other free States the recent political rev.
olution growing out of opposition to the Ne
braska bill has been ate nded by universal move
mens in favor of Liquor Prohibition, In the State
of New. York where no such revolution was re-
quired or performed, and where the Temperance
cause bas an uDdeniable majority, which has
e'ecled two Legislatures, that cause is nov In
danger of injury from the detection Of men whom
the people have honOred with their confidence.
But this fact cannot be put out OF sight There
could be DO doubling the drift Of Mr.. Whitney's
nor, alas of Mr.. Dickinson's remarks a. the
opening of the debate in the Senate; nor can the
subsequent indications be misunderstood. Both
of those Senators voted for the stringent bill Of
last session; yet now that q new Assembly has
passed sn improved but not diluted transcript of
that measure and Governor thoroughly right
on the question stands ready to seize the bill as it
comes from the Senate and stamp it q law of
New York We encounter hesitation, hsir.split-
ting, compromise and an evident desire so to
serve God as not TO exssperate nor even greatly
annoy the Devil.
The friends of the Temperance Reform are not
uDwOnted to these Affections. They have been
temporarily endured in other States; they may be
destined sti,l further to try our patience ia this.
The only question which we have to consider is
ths-In what spirit shall they be met, and with
what weapons subverted
There can be no hesitation or division among
earnest Probibitionists as to this point. The
spirit eri.eed by ar. Dickinson and his present
uOrk1s 1iN NOT snppres' the Liquor Traffic. No
set which ignores all search for and seizure of
contraband Liquors will subserve the main pur.
pose. 1t may say that Liquor selling shall stop,
but will do very little to secure that end. 1t will
be in effect about the same as Col. S. G. Hatha-
wsy's proposition in the Assembly some years ago,
when great difficulty was experienced In framing
a satisfactory bill to punish violations of the Sew
epth Commandment, and Col. Fl. proposed to
purpose by this simple enactment" Sec. /.
Adultery &c, are hereby abolished Those
who now clamor for ProhibitOry act of two or
three sections which shall stop the Liquor Traffic
without being eIpo,ed to any cavils and without
containing anything which dispensers or lovers of
inc AIueDt VIII PiVuVul0o u"Sones"u a'n'',
may take valuable hint from the suggestion of
Col H.
Under the circumstances to which We have
referred, it seems sadly probable that the Assem-
bh's bill is doom ed to be diluted, enfeebIed in
the Senate, and that it will probably 60 back from
that House SO shorn OF its strength that the
friends of Prohibition cannot expect by means Of
it to ahut up the grog shops, from highest to
lowest, universally and at once. And the qaes-
ton, therefore, Inevitably ari,es-Wna. shall the
Assembly dol
In such an eventwe urge that the earnest friends
of Prohibition, thorough and effective, shall
in no case snfsr the Session to close riskon. tie
passage Of some Prohit'iory Lao. Got the strong.
cot act you can; but take anything rather than