The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-06-28

legitimate practice Of law from lis abuse
The learned advocate of this bill, 10 be con-
sistent should close The courts, imprison The
lawyers, and forbid The manufacture of law,
or its importation from foreign countries
Woman, from her first appearance on the
scene Of life, had brought sorrow and suffer
ing with her. In her train came rvalries,
and jealousies, and war and strife. Let the
learned menber go into his own country,
where the pretty faces, peeping through the
apple-blossoms, are lovely 10 behold. Even
there--are there no broken hearts, no pale
faces, no bighted lives, no danaged reputa-
,ions2 Nosir!s with Burns, pretty excuse
uron their lips
"a dear, loved lad, occasion sung
A.reacherous inclination q
No youths pleading, in the intona:ion Of pas
sionate repentance, That even
The light tina, he'd astray
Was light from Heaven =
Yet would the learned gentleman, III view of
all these evils, point to the pretty girls, and
say-'Touch not, taste not, handle not.'-
Would he, for fear of mischief, coop them
all up like cows in Belgian barn?
The world has come down 10 the present
period from the mosl remote antiquity with
the wineacup in its hand. David, the man
after Gods own heart, drank wine. Solomon,
the wisest of monarchs and Of human beings,
drank wine. Our Saviour not only drank it,
but commanded Christians 10 drink il sin re.
membrance of him. In strong contrast with
our Divine Redeemers life and practice, we
hear the Scfbes and Pharisees, who drank il
not--who reviled our Saviour as wine bib.
ber,' and The companion Of publicans and
sinners;' who would have voted for the Maine
Liquor Law as unanimously as they cried,
..Crucify him.
Such people have existed in all ages The
World. The desire of human beings 10 die
tate TO each othe. what they should cal, and
drink and wear has been evinced in differ
'ent countfies at different PERIODS. The zeal
o,s in the Stale OF Maine are mere plagiarisls
after ALL Sumptuary laws, tried in many
countries, and at different periods. of the
worlds history, are now universally condem.
ned by the good sense of mankind. Laws
restraining drunkenness are nearly as old as
drinking. II is curious 10 see what slrarge
experiments have been tried at times Ia
leucus ol Locris, 45O years before the Chris.
tan Era, ordained "that no woman should
go attended with more than one maid unless
she scas dunk and that she should not wear
gold or embroidered apparel unless she in
tended TO act uncbastely. This sage Law
giver punished adultery with the loss OF both
eyes. His own sou broke the law, and the
old gentleman, unwilling to deprive his son OF
both eyes, compromised the matter by put
tng out one of his own.
AS early as 747, laws were passed in Eng.
land restraining drunkenness in the Clergy
And Constantine, king Of the SCOTS, (who
was sort Of Neal Dow in his day. punished
il soitk death
His laws passed away as This law will pass,
and good deal of whiskey has been drunk
in Scotland since. In England, in 995, an ef-
fort was. made 10 restrain drinking by law,
but it failed, Taverns were only introduced
in the 18th century. 10 the reign OF Edward
the III, there were only three allowed IN all
London. Now there are thousands. Ed
ward the IV tried 10 restrain them in 1862,
40 were then allowed in London, 8 in York,
but 4 in Oxford. They were not licensed till
1852. The history of wine is curious. Its
invention is attributed 10 Noah, who cerlair-
ly had seen enough of the evils of waters- :
The Chinese made wine from rice two thou
sand years before the birth of Christ, and al
though il must be allowed that they have tea
enough, they make and drink it yet, Wine
was but little known in England ill the Ro-
man conquest. We are told that it impairs
our strength, yet the people who drank il
conquered those who did not. II was only sold
by The apotkecaries (as is now proposed again)
in the 18th century. In 1927, Henry the vi
a sensible king, tried TO restrain It's adullera-
ton, and We read that 100 butts and pipes
were condemned and emptied into The gut
iers in Londolg for being adulletaled
The Stoics denied themselves the use OF
wine, but their sick soon died oui. The Pu-
rtans tried the. experiment of coaxing peo-
pie into temperance and virtue, but they sig
nally failed. ! invite the honorable and lear.
ned member for Annapolis TO review this pc.
Rod Of English history refer 10 the time
when puritan cause was most triumphant,
when Caahes had beer slain, his followers
dispersed, when Cromwell reigned IN White
hall, wien his Major Generals held military
command Of all The Counties, when The May
poles were struck down--ihe theatres closed
1.-The lowers shut up; when mirh was re-
strained and temperance enforced by the
sword Now, what was the effect OF all thisl
No sooner was the Protector in his coffin,
than the people of England, bya common
Impulse, threw of system which they re-
gardel as oppressive. So distasteful had
their restraints become, that the people resio.
red The Stuarls, forgot their civil wars and