Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1855-06-20
Of the committee.
M. S. LITTLEFIELD, Sec'v.

nj. =. LITTLEFIELD, Secy.
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Too BAD The latest intelligence from H.
linois removes all doubt in respect to the de-
feat of the Prohibitory Law. This is really
to be lamented. What evil genius presides
over that State, to cause such a result, we
can not surnise. Are the majority of the
citizens believers in ghostology? and do they
delight in holding intercourse with "spiritual
mediums| If so, we trust some kind spirit
from the invisible world will arise, and like
Paul, Of old, reason with them on "right-
eousness and temperance" We feel quite
sure "second sober thought" of the people
upon the result of this question must be any
thing but pleasing and satisfactory. And we
are unwilling to harbor the thought that the
many citizens Of sterling worth, in that State
advocates of morality, virtue, and reform, will
suffer themselves TO rest quietly under the
stigma which is thus unaccountably cast up
on the fair fame hitherto enjoyed by the peo-
pie of that State, as those instant in every
good work. We opine this result will be an
incentive to greater future exertion; and that
the whole temperance army in that State,
will, ere long, marshal in strong array, and
erect banner whose ample folds shall wave
triumphantly over every place now dedicated
as a mighty workshop where increasingly burn
the fires that enables the devils emmissaries
to forge and rivet upon thousands of hopeless
victims chains that can only be sundered by
DEATH
The following remarks, in relation to the
canvass on this question, we clip from the
Chicago Tribune, Of the 10Th inst:
GAS You WERE.-The defeat of the Pro-
hibitory Law, by the people of Illinois,
makes no difference with the law of license,
which remains as it was before the Prohibito-
nv Law was enacted. The business of max
ing paupers and drunkards can be carried on
as cheaply as ever. The work of filling the
jails with criminals, of furnishing the gibbet
with victims, of populating the grave-yards
with the early and ignoble dead, and of colo
nizing the whole land with the widows and
orphans of the rum-lnaniacs, costs no more
than twelve month ago. Ruin is as cheap
and as plenty as ever ~ lbeI
"Those who voted against Prohibition will
have the consolation of knowing that their
taxes will be no less this year than the last;
that their persons and property will be no
more secure; that the temptations which
may ruin prosperous son, or wed daugh-
ter to one who will be worse than a brute,
without the redeeming qualities of the devil,
now abound as thickly as ever before. Con-
solutions, these, that make angels weep, and
good men groan with despair" -
10y
Gs~ The Montcalm Reflector states that
Messrs. Sprague d Co., Of Greenville, have
determined to Immediately rebuild their mill,
which is to be much larger and better ar
ranged than the one recently consumed BY
fire. They intend to have it completed and
in running order by the first day of Septem-
Der next, Success to them! r. riyd a,-r
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4 Es~ Capt. PETERSON, of the schooner
Henderson, has kindly furnished us with late
Chicago news; and Mr. LEeeAra continues
his good offices in the same line of accom-
rfyt