Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-07

| liquor. Our house and lot are already gone. Our
son is becoming drunkard Ny husband, who
vas once kind, in whom have copfded all, by
whose arm have been supported, and for whose
love left nv family house--ny husband by the
sale Of your liquor, has become dFunkard and lost
dis property, and now, in Gods name. save me his
/ heartl" This is the moral soasion we have brought
! 20 bear; and the answer Of che traficer has been
made with angry look and cIenehed fst-"Go TO
your home and miod your business. Here. madam.
8 is my license. I en- doing IawfaI business"
We have bottlcd up the tears Of the widow and
the orphan. snd carried them into his presence,
and asked him 70 look q the fruits OF his unh0ly
traffic, and TO quit il; and he has sHid he would
not We have lined the sidewalk and road side OF
the tFaikcer with the ragged and enaciated orphans
cfhls victims. We have caused them 10 meet him
and address him 10 this wise: s'ir you have killed
our iatherl BE is gone Our Oldest brother Is
gonel and now in Gods holy name, donh murder
our motheriH Aud ell this has been unavsing
lhe widows tears. aud the pleadings Of the rags
and wretchedness Of orphans have all failed with
the liquor tFaficer. He cares for nofhing but the
tnkle Of the dollar as il falls into his chest. Then
talk to no more about the efficiency of moral
snasion. The friends OF humanity have tried it 10
all its forms. They have gone By their lecturers
into every city. toNn and village. and cross roads,
crossed every ridge and every river and permeated
every vslley and mountain gorge in the land, lee.
1 pleading for the abandonment al the traIfic Oar
stage coaches, railroad ears and steam boats,
and the very streets themselves have been, almost
lined with temperance tracts beseeching the dealer
20 abandon bis traffic; bat finding him still obdu-
rate. and intent upon his work, which the Law t.
self authorizes and protects, We come nov to in
yoke the power Of legislation TO Wips out from the
statute book that fcul stain which authorizes the
traffic in ardent spirits beverage.
But, sir, what kind OF law do We want. It
was decided. sir, In the Temperance Convention OF
The e2nd OF February Of last year. that we wanted
law merely to prohibit The trac in ardent spirits
| as beverage. know it has been said We wanted
law bringing its officials into every mans amily
and sending them into every mans corn-6eld and
orchard, &c. Mr.. Chairman, we want no such
thing. The law we seek would not suppress the
manufacture. We say, you may manufacture a.
much as you please. You may gather your peaches
and your apples, and pull your corn and dstill all
that your Fields prodhce for you: and you may
even drink your brandy and whisk y-drink il your
selves, give il to your chdren, and kill yourselves
and them with it, il you wish. Our law would not
restrain you in the least
Well, says one what good could be effected by
your Law, ii it allows every man TO manufacture end
drink as much as he pleases? Mr.. Chairtnan am
ready TO Acknowledge that in al probability Sthe
law We propose would not effect as much as we
desire with the adult pors N Of the community; but
il would save the youth Of ..se country. Ii would
save them from the groceries scattered here and
there, all over the land, and kept open night and
day, where the youth of the country may go and
drink and create appetite that is incOntrollsble
in after life. II our law would not materially affect
the man Of mature years il would rear Up
coming generations q temperate body OF hen.
| Such would be the character Of the youth of oar
country, who are TO take our plaees-EhO are 70
sit 10 these halls-upon whose shoulders the pillars
of Church and State are to rest--a generation such
as the world has never seen. Sir. is not this some
thing to be desiredS -
But again: There are sir, as you know, $4,000
sot drunkards in the United States, and the State
OF Tennessee has her part Of that lumber. VIII
gentlemen think ofit These men expeud every
dime they can gee for liquor, which ought go for
food and clothing for thJir wives and children.
What man is there having the heart and conscience
of humanity, whose bosom Is not pierced with
thr Of sadness at the bare mention Of this fact?
And this is Of the results Of the sale Of ardent
spirits as beverage
And again: shall I have attention to the fact
| that, out OF these $4,000 sot d.unkards in the
United States, there are 1000 human beings who
go down 70 the gravs every yesrl
And, sir, who are those forty thousandp Are
they not in our midsti / would that they were
only TO be found in the dark corners OF ihe earth
amongst the scTfs VI nassia, or lhs savages OF
North America. Bot, sir, they those alone Who
can fuy realize ti.is great nationai blight, ever
/ neighbors. their wives and children, and many Of
| them worthy aud innocent as heaven itself. Ave,
sir, many drunken besotied husband plunges the
reeking dagger TO the heart Of his aectionate wfe
and many an innocent child is thus thrown upon
the cold charities OF the world. These. Mr.. Chair
man. are among the sad and blighting effects OF the
traffic in ardeat spirits. Yes, sir, amongst this
number, are the kiad wife, the beautiful daughter.
and the ianoceRt babe, destroyed BY the drunken
| husband the father or the brother. Thence, sir,
the reason that the women Of the country are call
ing long and loud for The law We advocate; bat as
they have voice at the ballot box, the members
Of the last well the present LegiAlature, are
determined that they shall stil bear the nnmbeiess
abuses Ills and misiortunes that are inflicted upon
them. Who does nos know this? | cail upon.
gentlemen To reflect one moment here. l call upon
you Dir. Chairman, having wife at home--h having
studied the character Of woman--to give me your
attention to this consideration. You have seen
the faithful wife weighed down under the blight Of
drunkenness in her husband. You have seen her
when the man who had promised to noarish and
cherish her life, ha violated all his pledges at the
altar-msde beast of himself, and victims Of his
wife aud children. You have seen that faithful
wife, n the spirit Of Christian hero, still main
taiuihg her integrity. She stil continues 10 love
and hope on, clingiag 70 a disgusting and loaih-
Y.
O. airnian for such these, but IN the legs
iatlon OF the country. Buta few minutes since
gentleman on this floor told me Of one Of these
scenes OF horror, which took place but few days
ago But few miles from this city, where a
drunken husband having gone home, seized the
wife Of his bosom and cast her 10 the flames. In
the name Of heaven, il but one such helpless and
innocent one could be saved from such iats By
he passage Of shis law, let gentlemen be prevailed
4 fls. t..n W. = ~.
principle sufferer. Yes,
wOnan. dsares, nsne, vih PsrssssIuns seven.
Within her place,
~ khe sxalis car race,
Bus her proper home Is hesven- t
Her lot en- sarh Il cast win nan,
His nls In parf 10 bear;
There's none o, none perissss sas slsa
Bat seoBsaa divinsly fAir.
Man feels her hIu
In nesness sud distress,
wi1h sofs and gentle quiekness,
Proving her a. ausnsglt, pea, Asassa's esus
Yes. sir n Coz nc other consideration than to
shield helpless and innocent woman from the bi-ht
/ ing and rainous Effects Of ibtsmpersnce. sould
I 60 Tor The passage Of the bill. Bat when We add
20 this idea, thss three fearshs OF the PAaperisr
/ in the land Is caused BY khis trAfie d~lray the
/ expenses Of vhlch. Tennessee u called upon 90
furnish her part Of tie three millions Of dollars
devoted Ia the Uulisd States 70 this Object ms do
sire tor is success is increased. Could our part
ot the one hundred and ghirtJ-ave thousand par.
pers n he United States stand in full Visw OF this
Legislaiure--the niaisnsd ihs kah. ne hind D's
poor raqgya dirty rrsisteA sissratis Aanas 5siHgr
R0s on, l. bat every meunber u tits House, yes,
sud melhinks she grocery keeper himself would be
lor the passage oi the bi.
Bat sir, net only lhreefourths Of The psuperism
! Of the state u atlFbaizoie 20 intempefaacs. bus
sas feufis Of Ihs cines ef the State = also REFER
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