Smyrna times., 1855-10-17
Temperance.
After the Battle in Maine.
"What though the field be lost !
Au is not lost. "-MILToN.


a AH is not lost" MILTON
The first news from the September election
In Maine were sad enough to the friends O
temperance. The enemy were forward t.
celebrate the return to the glorious age O
hun' Let us get drunk and be uproarious
our old friend Satan is unloosed, and five thou.
sand grog shops will be themselves again!
But as the smoke and dust of battle clear.
away the boasted triumphs of the enemy dwin
die IN Importance. Each day since has brought
new food for heart and hope to the friends oi
Temperance. 1t is true that Gov. Morrill,, the
Maine Law candidate, is not elected and a
majority in the Legislature would seem to favor
modification of the law. Still it is a great
and significant fact, that so many votes for the
Maine Law were never cast in Maine, as were
cast for Gov. Morrill, in September. Fifty
thousand votes were cast for the Maine Law
candidate. This makes some six thousand
more votes than the same candidate received
last year. These things carry dsmay to the
hearts OF the enemy. Among other things dis
closed by the campaign, we notice these. In
credible as 1t may seem, some of Neal Dow's
most mveterate enemies are professed, and
even admitted Temperance men. The whole
temperance world applauds him as benefactor
OF the age; yet either the whole world is
wrong, or poor human nature is SO weak as to
sour against him because of his renown. But
we cannot now wait to expose the unutterable
ugllness OF envy; let every reader who would
aid in good work, here discover the hideous-
ness of this passion in others, and strive ever
to strangle it in himself.
Another thing: The KennpJec Journal states
that the Rumsellers of Boston and New York
had pledged money to the extent of one hun
dred thousand dollars to secure the election of
Judge Wells
But the defeat of the Temperance ticket, is
not necessarily the defeat of the Temperance
cause. The Rum power, we are told. never
showed themselves so outrageous; and the
temperance men will now be stimulated to re.
ioubled zeal. We shall hear from Maine
gam she will yet report herself right. Even
his l" doubtful triumph for Rum; for it is
ound that several of the members supposed TO
G
re still IN hope that the new Legislature will
Iot SO outrage the public sentiment of the
INES, or to darken the glory of the State of I
Name, as to do violence to that great and be.
ign statute whose fame fills the world. and !
whose operations for good, have illumined with +
he light of hope go many millions of the abodes d
f desolaton and wo!
When the Maine Law of 1851 was passed. /
avs the Maine Temperance Journal gublic I
plnlon was against it. The law itself made e
he sentiment that sustained it. 1t was re- +,
arded as utter and rampant fanaticisru. The O
lw OF 1851, since the more stringent amend d
aedts-makng the " intensified liquor law" r
John Neal calls it's now become conserya- h
ism itself. On that direct issue, says the Jour I
al, eighty thousand, out of one hundred and Il
en- thousand voters in the State of Maine, n
'ould vote for it Tomorrow. And more votes. !,
1t noted, have just been cast for the ain. A
9nslfed liquor lGW" than toere eper for ann /,
no or any ticket in the State. What great Ii
nd palpable proof of progress! The world
loves-Malne moves-Prohibition moves in r,
ialne-let the returns show at first sight as p
ley will. We conclude this brief review of 4
lls important field in the hopeful and confident q
lords of the Maine Temperance Journal.- ii
ays that excellent authority, to whose state q
tent of facts we have come to attach the =,
eight of evidence in court, and whose ud0- :,
tent thereupon we feel to be entitled to the !,
lghest conslderation--says the Maine Tenn n
erance Journal of the 22d of September q,
In less than tOo years, they ViR see Prohi- "
ition in Maine stronger than eper.-Prohibi- a,
onist.