The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-11-22
The whiskyites Alarmed.

Old Line whisky organs in view OF the pros t
pect that when the liquor law is declared null il
and void by the Supreme Court, there will be : :
such general whisky drinking and drunkenness i
as to at once illustrate the Importance and il
actual necessity of a Prohibitory Law. Our
contemporary here warned his whisky friends
not 'to run the thing in the ground" and be- |
seeched them not go extremes John L. koo- t
inson, the 'itinerant vagabond" editor OF the
Rushville Jacksonian, trusts that in Rushvllle
mo dram shops viii be started" Very We'll.
He thus acknowledges one grand object'of the
Liquor Law he has been so vehemently OPP
posing, is bookkeeping down the dram shops.
But is he fool enough to suppose, that II there
be no prohibtory law, his advice will be fol-
lowed? All the difficulty rests in the fact, that
men will not refrain from the practice ola
wrong unless prevented by penalties, and this
liquor law was to make the penalties and pro- /
vide the means for enforcing them. 1t is very
well no,o for Democratic editors to beg citizens
not to start dram shops. Let them but be as
Isured no punishment will follow the opening
lof dram shops, and we shall have them ON
every street and cross road, wherever there
is a prospect of swindling men out of their
hard earnings, and depriying poor families of
their very bread. It's well for these editors
and judges, having let loose the whirlwind to
endeavor to guide It's furious path, or stay the
destruction of its course. All their sophistical
= arguments and lying statements, about what
the features of the law really were, which held
this whirlwind Of evil and wrong and misery
: in their tight grasp-fall PROSTATE in their own
e weakness and corruption, before these loud
u outcries of alarm and warning in view of "the
y whiriwind let loose" These editors are prov
/ ing by their own appeals now, that they have
d been warning against aIaw of good int7uences.-
y They are demanding that these same inauen-
e Ices shall prevail after the law is destroyed
e Unhappy wretches. They will yet groan be-
d meath the live Goals piled ON their heads by
1t public opinion the searings of the live Goals
% of conscience in their hearts
a But hear the "itnerant yagabond' Rabin-
N son again, preparing for the evil; a4
: eve look now, for intemperance to increase
VI rapidly over the State; it is the natural course
n. of things for such a reaction to follow the
X fanatical legislation of last year. Whatever o
"a it does ensue must be laid at the door of those
\ who made the late unconstitutional measure
J. and in their faulty repealed all former law
~ and thus leaves us without any"
y All, indeedl and how could this law hav
=. been made or carried out without repeating al
= previous laws? If such a great evil as tn
y & Tot
y is to follow the destruction of this law, hoy
dared Robinson and his compeers touch it
" He acknowledges the law has put down tn
dram shops of Rushville, and he knows Their
- has not been ono ten thousandth part Of tn
ei't intemperance in the State while this law wa
~ in force that there was before, and must b
~ without it, yet he has been ciamoring wit
Wy demagogue fury for its repeal. He and Others
W. knowing the evil was right at hand, of rapi
increase of intemperance over the State, hav
:, plead for and demanded the evil, in preferene
- to living under law which in all things the
did not believe, or pretended not to beliey
w. was right. And now because this evil is 1
az follow the good, they boldly declare the r,
sponsibility rests with those who establishe
the good, and labored to preserve it! If tn
ing argument is correct, then all laws are ,oron
rly the destruction of which would bring an il
hli' crease of evils! The statutes against the
and arson and murder, are wrong, because
she they were destroyed there would be mo-
leir thieving and more house burning and mo-
murders, than if the laws had never bee
en- made-and those who made the laws are r.
au sponsible for all the evils which might ensl
ID. from their obliteratien. Would not the respol
led sibility rest upon those who repealed the law
up And if so, does not the responsibility of ii
wv evils following the destruction of this Liqu,
'ast Law rest upon those who are destroying i
lln- Answer, thou most itinerant of all itineral
gh- political vagabonds; John L. Robinson.
ion -
as OF A correspondent of the n. Y Tribul
to says that George M. Dallas is not constitutio.
ant ally eligible to fill the Office of President of Il
rye United States. His father 4. j. Dallas w
IN a native of Londonderry, Ireland, who, at Il
this age of nineteen, emigrated to Scotlan
ex- where he married; from thence he proceedt
w a