The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1855-07-06
THE LIQUOR LAW!
g0l. p0ll0Ch'S POSITION /!


Law berau.e, in approving that measure, he only
carrird ont pledge he had given the people to sane
ton any law enacted by their Representatives in ac-
cordancc with the popular will Now, would ask, |
did the sspopuar wili declare in favor OF a measure
like this, any thing approaching it? On the olh-
er hand, the question Of Pfohibtory Liquor
Law submitted to the Frecmen of the Common /
wealth, and did they not, by fair and decided +
majority, proclaim themselves opposed TO ANY PRO
HIBITORY LAW, thus instructing their Represen-
tatives in language 50 plain as admit OF no mis-
understanding get, IN the very face Of this IN
siruction placed upon record in the proper Depart
ment at Harri-burg Know Nothing Legislature
passed Prohbitory Law which is burlesque upon
common sense and common decency, and an outrage
upon every feature of the Constitution Of the land;
and Gov. POLLOCK approved and signed II with The
full knowledge that he was trampllng beneath bis
feet the legally expressed will Of the people. IT, un-
der these circumstances, Gov. Pollock is ''no 10 be
held responsible for the imperlectons of the anti
License Law then the Office Of Governor is the sheer
est humbug in the world, and is the mere auomaion
Of any corrupt and designing set Of men who may
happen to control the State Legislature.
Heretofore. the great conservative power of the
Comm onwealth rested with the Peoples CHIEF
are passed inconsistent with the CONSTITUTION
and the WILL OF THE PEoPLE-and now, Iori
the first time in the history of the sod Keystone,
we are told sBg Aathority," that the Executive De-
partmen considers itself bound to carry the will
of TIE LEGISLATURE, matter how revolving
their act, simply because its members the Repre-
reatatires OF the People If formef Governors had
pursued this disgracelul policy Ruin, Misery, and
In, IL .F.t,., /
ry Of Pennsylvania! The candidate for Governor
who will give pledge 10 approve any bill the Le-
gisiature may choose to pass is more fit TO be nves-
ted with strais Jacket than Executive honors.
What! a GOVERNOR not responsible for the pas
sage of infamous and imperfect Laws, whilst invest
ed with Constitutional power 10 prevent them from
going into existese Who heretofore heard OF
such Inoustrous doctrine as this?
But Gov. Pollock contends that ths Liquor Law
comes s.WlTHIN TIE LIMITS Of THE CON
STITUTI0N,'' whilst nearly every Law Judge IN
the State has pronounced il bundle of contradic-
tious and nonsense meaning any thing and nothing;
and no two Of them have construed its provisions
alike. We say, let it be REPEALED-not leaving |
line or word Of it from BE it enacted down TO
and including the Governors signature, an issue we
are prepared to discuss both in the Gazette and on
the stump, without lodging equivocation-and, IN
making this declaration, feel warranted in assert
ing that temperance principles as sound as
those Of any other upon the face of the Globe
The difference between us and FANATICS on this /
subject is, that they force every man to fol-
low their peculiar notions, whilst we concede the
right TO every responsible human being to think and
act lor himself as TO What he shall eat aud what he
shall drink. Sometimes you find the most Tabd
Temperance Lecturers the verest slaves TO IOBAC-
CO-denounciug rum with long toby or handful |
of rotten weed in their mouths, emitting stencil
quite as offensive, and decidedly filthy than the
fumes etnanating from the swallowing of Whiskey.
II people, generally, would mend their own ways in
stead Of setting themselves up dctators for the
rest Of mankind, the morals Of the world would
improve. aLet him that is without sin throw the fst
stoue''
After the people decided against Prohbitory
Law the Legislature had right TO pass such bi,
uor the Governor sign it, until the 'popuar wilL'
had again been consulted.
..If we mistake Eot,' says the Repository and
Wing, the sBedJorE Ga=euo was the paper that
voached for Gov. BiGLER, on the authority Of
celebrated minister, being good Temperance
man as Gov. Pollock, and willing also 10 sign any
restrictive law that the Legislature might passjust
what Gov. POLLOCK promised, and what he has
/ performed. WiIthe Ca-eHe expaia?''
/ Now, the Ga1tte not only vouched for Gov. Big
/ Ter being ..as gooI'' Temperance Gov. Pol
/ lock- bu; tar Jetle, Did any iran ever see or
hear Of Gov. Bigler using intoxicating liquors as
beyerage-aud has not hss entire life exhibited the
character Of Temperance tin the fullest sense of
/ the term? Can this much be said OF Mr.. Pollock
The s.ceIebrated Minister alluded to- (Rev. JOHN
/ CHAAIDERS.) made no such declaration as that at
| trlbuted TO him by the Wing. He defended Gov.
/ Bser as a sincere friend of Temperance, and said he
! felt warranted in declaring that he would sign any
! CONSTITUTIONAL Liquor Law framed in accor-
dance with the WILL OF THE PEOPLE ex-
/ pressed through the ballot-box. The Rev. gentle
mad Cone OF the ablest advocates Of Temperance in
the Naton) deprecated the idea Of passing any tenn
/ perauce Law against the voice of the people.
| Gov. Bigler never pledged himself ''o sign any
restrictive law that the Legislature ngh pass" He
/ distinctly proclaimed TO the world that he would
give no pledge on this subject in advance Of the
/ ton OF the Legisature-that he would consider il
gross violation of his oath Of office do so--thal he
would be governed in his conduct by the character
Of the presented for his signature. He did not
perpetrate the enornity OF saying be would sign any
restrictive bill the Legislature would pass--and
venture to assert that his VETO OF the anti-Leen>e
JUG law OF last session would have been of the
clearest aud ablest papers that emanated from
his pen.
IN passing this law, says the Eastoa Argus, the
Legislature commi5ted outrage the rights and
interests of the citizens OF Pennsylvania, which they
alone have the power to resent. If their voice
not to be respected, what use there in taking
vote lfit had been PREDETERMINED to disregard