The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-21

of these informed that all the daily papers in the
city are Temperance papsrs sn,spt S.s sud that Is
from what have seen Of it. have no doubt Of the fact.
DIV n0s' '''' 'N' Q. X w is
The Liquor Question.
THE PROSECUTIONS IN BROOKLYN.
The liquor dealers who examined before Judge
Culver Of the City Court last Tuesday the charge Of
selling liquor contrary to Law. namely, Ezekiel Baldwin
Patrick Mooney and Patrick Cream, appeared before tae
Judge Saturday last pursuant to Sdjournmsot
No further evidence offered and the court directed
they declined to do by advice Of counsel who, it Is
derstood intend to question the legality OF commit
ment BY an action against the city Tbs Judge said he
10 go al large until this 3Monday) morning a, 10
On the day FIVE liquor dealers with one excep-
ton from the extreme eastern portion of the city
trial before Justice Batchy the charge of viost
evidence failed completely in three One boarding
house keeper from Grtenpont was convicted and uds
os u s : ns
the stand himself, and asked the question:uD you
sell any liquor, anything else sunday, the 22d'
he might criminate himself The Corporation Attorney
COMMENDED that this civil suit and cited passage
from an opinion O Judge Strong wherein hs says th,s
crime nor mlsdemearor The court ruled the ques-
ton admss and committed the witness for contempt
Qugey brought before Judge Moore but there not
having been any bond or payment OF fees rendered. he
for violation of the Sunday ordinance yet to
disposed Of.
THE PRoHIBToRY LAW AND THE LIcENsE SYSTEM IN
case was brought before Judge Seldom Of Rochester
by habeas corpus to test the vadtyof the
der the license ystem under the Judge
cden very properly refused to enter upon the merits
the upon motion OF this character The granting
habeas corpus, the issuing Of an Injunction
and courts abstain possible making them
the occasions of opinions abstract questions Of
SHERIFF But the case was dismissed aud the accused
discharged by the Police Justice the City Attorney
upon consultation with the court aud upon
OF the law, decided to withdraw an hold
ing that sectons two and twenty ave of the Prohbi-
tory law abogad the excise provisions rendered the
fifteenth and sixteenth sections Of the revised statats
on that subject imperative and the jurisdiction OF the
police had therefore become obsolete.n The city has
ben prosecuting suits at the rate Of ten cay
and there was prospect that in six weeks the
)aticn o. sus would block the court and bsnkrup the
city treasury There seems to demand that
the litigation ihan cease The Sunday laws however,
The Portland STATE IF Maine declares that orders have
cider, under pain Of conviction under the new Liquor
aw.
The total vote the prohbi,ory liquor Law in Iowa.
stands-for the law, rs, $50; against 22,64s.
Geo. N. Sanders to tho Democracy or vlr-
ginIa ON the Hon. II. NJ. Il. Hunter and
the Higher Law.
NEW YORK, May 10, 1855.
DEMOCRATS CT VIRGINIA.
You expect men Of the North to be faithful to the
constitution and laws Of the United States and yet
Of your most favored sons Senator Hunter ucts upon
US from the Virginia stump doctrine that shakes SKI
law to its deepest foundation.
can Christisn churches and Individuals" says Mr.
Hunter at Petersburg, believe that the allegiance
which they TO ID is CHER than any obligations to
man, and that In q conflict between human and divine
laws, you must serve God rather than man"
these words, deliberately spoken BY United States
Senator to the public, any thing they that
tie constitution and laws of the United States Az
be at any time resisted as hostile to the laws OF God
and that sny man may rehuly under the influence OF
Protestant pety, er Cathollc" piety, or Mormon pie
~, oppose them, on the principle That the aegancs
which he believes he owes to God is higher than any
obligation to man." This Is q dark and threatening
creed more especially to be put forth at period
day In our rational history.
What does Mr.. HuItefmsan BY obligation to man."
distinct from allegiance to God, thus country Of
republican and democratic organization? The iosttu
tiops handed down to us BY the Of the Revolution
South, susceptible Of the mpui atoms of immortality and
irrelieion. Such audacious and sacregous attack
am sure never before made by southern representa-
tive Senator Hunter speaks to the existing state OF
things and by his own moral code takes the oath to
supp. IT the constitution Of the United States with
taretervston And how to know whether the
Of conscience he defends has not aresdy him.
or at what m ,ment-a what pregnant crsis-hs con.
scientoui convictions may not nuify his oath Xnd BE-
tray the interests that he has been elected to support,
Mr. Hunter gives up the whole question Of tie citizens
oufy to the widest fanatcsm, VIXEN he thus declares
that civil obedience Is not religious obi ration There
is in all questions Of submission to the Law Of the land
bouteess scope fer individual Judgment and dssent
sli such cases your sense OF obligation to man
does not grow out Of your sense Of Obligation to God,
what bnos yen to acquiescs nee but force and fsry
lu'ionist to overthrow oppressive government but
wherever republican repreeo tative has Determined to
be an outlaw, and bid defiance to the government Of
which be ia part, he should at least surrender his
trust He may then, IL his religious sentiments impel
h% s,e SnTs an fs or %sr lie viii
TIE who takes his oath to sustain the constitution OF the
United States, hoeing the peculiar opinions Of Mr. Hun
ter, pe1petrats . fraud upon his constituents
All crimes on earth bave been committed q. various
tras justified and goraed under this doctrine Of dis
"sieher law The inquistor al torture the psrseeu
tcn OF the jews the sensuslity Of the Mormon priest
hood and it, rebellion against the United states aathor
ties ali find hsense under the 'shigher law" The BIZ
bic open boob in the hand Of every school boy and
by It is this law.ss seacnipg most alphabetically
demned. The fulnment Of moral obligation Il this
tst Of true religion by the word Of Christ add his
Apostles The contrary doctrine Is designating to the
purtst that be Devised BY man and ia
tai to the highest sense of human responsibility.
Mr. Hunter is trained to the study OF words. That is
bis profession He does not thersfore isnsrsntly use
these potent weapons OF good and evil His spes 81
language Of the dianer table 1t ia proper that tbs
fretchen OF . scnolhr nOicln8 Ms position enoulo DO
cosey s.utpzed The particular va1ne be sttahsdto
any d.clsraon Ct Mr. Hunter, however, should be
sprtd by hs senatorial subservency to an ad mn,tra
tien Which he rdiopes and denounces outside Of the
Senate chamber and the White House.
IL Ia met that this Southern convert to the higher
Law should openly dtrcsac from the importance OF FOB
gat on 10 man, occupying his present position before
ths vcIlo he does through his fsitblessnsss to al
r sanS Ton s o. s
core rgly never have any other impulse than self sd
var cement. cflt calcuistng and uascruPu'ous aspt
rent for tie Presidency, - J. and many OF you, know
him TO be- viii always be grateful duty to me to ex
hibt bis chameleon changes Whenever no hsi the
ttmsrty TO adopt the Norihern hue nddeity to state
Interests and 10 sill that should held dear BY high.
hearted Senator has Married his career since his nss
hstr ed hy his frasto efforts to reach the sway
ing pendulum OF the prospective Presdepcy.
Nust that the democracy OF Vtrgtaia ere by this