New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-13

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A WORD TO FOHEIGN-BORy RESIDENT
We see with dismay the foreign born poPula.
ticn, who lave many Of them acquired here ar
ipdept ndtnce which their own country re
fused, among the most clamOrOus enemies OF tht
Temperance Law, IN the plea that it violates
personal rights and personal liberties, the dig
nifty Of man ard so-forth. We would no. will
lingly speak with severity, much less in bitter.
ness or with Injustice against those who, seek
ing field Of labor in our land, have already
become citizens, or purpose to do so. Bot the
urgency of the case demands earnest admonition
and repIoof and some few home truths to set
everybody in his right place on this question.
The Temperance Law ia this and other States
ia the result Of the decision Of majorties in
spired by an ardent and deep moral conviction.
1t is law Loyalty enacted and in harmony
with the only true and logical principles of self
| government. Ii is therefore obligatory on every
honest citizen, so long as it is not rescinded by
the legislative power or palsied by the decision
Of legal courts. Well-organized selfgoverning
societies can only exist where each individual
sacrifices his sayage-lke egotism, or what dem
aeogues fond of calling rights, for the bene-
fiji OF the community, as expressed by the le-
gally constituted organ of its will. We are
constantly warned in this Temperance question
to beware of adopting the European theory and
murdering popular rigbts;-but we must not
confound terms. Rights are destroyed 10 Eu
rope; but es acompensation, the rulers, especially
on The continent, with an Indulgence, per-
INIT their subjects 20 get drunk to their hearts
content and TO degrade themselves into debased
brutes, Is it not sickening, then to hear this
b,astly bawlpg about the violation of their
rights" uttered by men who knew not the
value of rights and never enjoyed auy until they
landed on American soil Is ii not disgusting
to hear men cayil at law legally and demo-
cratically enacted and threaten to resist its
lawful administration, who in France or Ger
mary some short time since bowed with respect
ful humility before each petty officer of police
and submitted daily in quiet and meekness to
each Commissaire or Captain of the squad At
the whim Of any of these underings dressed
arrested and imprisoned. To such they
opened not only their pantries and cellars,
but their private drawers and writing desks,
without murmur of opposition. Their most
Intimate correspondence could be seized. read
and inquired intO-their private and family
affairs becoming thus literally investigated and
di7ulged. The agent who has the power to do
all this acts not by virtue of law enacted by
and in the name of the people, but through an
order issued by some superior officer Suchi the
real condition of personal rights on the Cont.
nent; while the Irish are perpetually assuring
us, through the press and speeches, that the
only right extended TO them IN their own coun-
try is the night to starve. Such is a true. pic
tuTe Of what both submitted to 10 their respect.
i've fatherlands-but few comparatively being
political refugees. Yet, forsootb, here their
wrath is aroused, and their fury turned against
the decision of a conscientious and enlightened
majority, trying TO raise them to the dignity of
manhood, and 10 enable them to secure more
easily and with greater speed an honorable and
ind' pendent position by disabling them from
squandering their hard-won earnings in grog
which these are so prolific. They curse with fool
ish faulty that delivering enactment which will
put stop to immortality desiitu,ion and crime
those fends which ever dog the steps ofin,em.
Terance and esrousal-and which will make them
psrelts to their children in the true and sublime
mesning ofttat sacred duty. By thislaw they will
be enabled spendin the education of their chill
dren that money which would otherwise find
It's way to some poison-seller's till. ANY one
acquainted with the state of degradation of the
masses OF Europe knows well, and uone know
better than the foreign population, that Intem-
perance is the root of all wretchedness. From
tie daughters Of impoverished drunkGrds the brotAsl
is supplied and that army cfprOstiimes recruited
WhioA counts By hBndreds Of thousands in forsigs
states. Even many Of the girls of respectable
parents, if the source of their fall were traced.
would be found 10 have lost their innocence in
lager-b beer parties, public dances inns, "tanzbo
den," ans such half.drunken scenes Of reyel.
And yet law to guard them with protecting