New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-31

cal aspect sho. As contrivance for giving
instant end imme date efficacy to a new stat
ute our common law ~ stem Of criminal prose-
cutions is exceeding Inefficient afording to those
who are determined TO resist its operation,
e.peciany If they have money aud iniueutlal
friebds, the means of making pTotractea re-
sistance. But tbis prOtracted resistance on tue
psrt Of the Law breakers becomes, IN all those
cases in which the community Is rtally 10
earnest. only meaDs Of grao ually wearing out
the streI 9Th Of the criminals bringing them into
a condition in which being no longer formidable
they may be as suumsrily disposed of as even
under our system the common iuL Of criminals
are. The hunted fox that escapes one, two,
three, or four times would be wrong in coming
to the conclusion that fox.hunting was hum
bug. The fox hunters are persevering gener-
alton. Day after day, and week after week they
renew the pursuit, and be mu,t be very cunning
olo fox indeed that escapes being caught at last.
In fact there is no safety for him except in chang
ing his quarters
Small FISH being hooked, may be pulled up
without ceremony. Your big fishes require a
little humoriDg. You must give them line.
Let them dart backward and for ward, up and
down, to their hearts content, they may seem
to bold you in contemplate laugh as it were
at your hair-ine and slender fshing-rOd; never
thelts g there is q most decided difference be-
tween even the biggest fish swimming freely and
the same fish with hook in bis mouth no ~
ever much be may slap the water with bis great
tail, bending your rod, and twItching at your
line, threatening not only to break that but
if you don't let go, to pull you, the fisherman,
beadloDg into the water. Our common Law
procedure deals with fish of this sort exactly
like an ex pert fsherman-giving them chance
to expend little of their super1uous energy
before making the final and serious attempt to
land them and generally speaking the longer
they are allowed to founder the more quietly
and easily they come up at last.
A more effectual means of wearing out the
strength of the liquor dealers than that which,
under the operation of the liquor laws, they
have been led to adopt it would be difficult to
imagine; nor would it be easy for the most
,agscious Temperance man to employ any such
tltCtUdl Ucdus iOl CHilbhttuIHS tuO FuSiAN Vh
this subject as that which the liquor dealers
have themselves brought into play. The great
strength OF the liquor dea ers is in their money.
1t is that alone which gives them a sort of re-
spectabiljty. But how long will this money
las, with all the lawyers to fee, and daily
newspaper to support in each of our principal
citissl Then again, lat would more efectu-
ally convince unprejudice minds of the extreme
weakness of the cause of the liquor Dealers
whether in point of law, morals or political
economy, THAI the sort of legal opinions which
even the largest fees have been able TO extract
from the mos eminent lawyers, and the sort of
arguments, if they deserve to be called so,
urged in their behalf in the columns of their
subsidized journals The game is already more
than half won in thus obhgiBg the liquor dealers
to plead at the bar of the Courts and the pub
lie. The question is now fairly raised, and to
bring it to final and satisfactory settlement,
which shall place our laws against liquOr-selllng
on the same bass of general acceptance and
acquiescence with the laws against gambling
houses and brOtkels, only requires a little
steadness, energy, patience and perseverance,
on the part of the Temperance men. Our fish
is hooked, and nothing but great bunglng on
our part can prev' Mt his being secured.