The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1856-02-28

taken from the Indiana State Journal, and to
which we invite the special attention of our
readers, is from the pen of one who feels the
responsibility of her position as wife and a
mother; and who conscienuously believes it
to be her duty to step forth in behalf of her
fellow creatures. 1t is earnestly to be hoped
that hearty response will be given by the
"Women OF Indiana" We again invite 10 the
following article the candid consideration
of the reader. II.
To the Women Of Indiana.
ssEeTl 90 FORTH and never falter
Till tho foe shall bite tbs dust;
He whose purpose cannot alter,
VIII maintain a cause 50 just.
1t would be super1uous for me 10 tell you
that our loved State has been cast at the feet
of the liquor seller, without any bar TO his
murderous traffic This, alas, some of YOU
know too well The golden chalce presented
to your lips by Hope during the short enforce
ment of the Prohibitory Law has been dashed
thence, and those husbands and sons whom
that law was enabling to return to the path Of
rectitude, again sacrificing life. fortune and
sacred honor. on the liquor sellers counter.
When all effort for amicable adjustment of
the difficulties between the then colonies and
Great Britain had failed Franklin wrote home,
The sun Of liberty has set" He was mis-
taken; the Anglo American spirit was Just be
ginning TO develop itself. We all feel that the
late decision OF the Supreme Cour. has en-
shrouded our State in gloom, but the sun of
liberty HAS NOT SET. nor viii it while the Anglo
American women OF Indiana live; and to these
women the drunkards are stretching out their
hands for aid-for such all women can be
stow. In the dark hours Of our country's his
tory. the women carded. spun, wove. and
made the clothing worn by the soldier on the
battle field. Your assistance is now demanded
in moral contest. So mould public opinion.
that your next Representatives,, when they
assemble at the Capital. shall be prepared to
enact constitutional law of entire prohi btion.
Or, il our Constitution has been framed by
such barbarians as 10 preclude such law, let
immediate steps be taken to form new Con
sti,ution--one that will guarantee to the drum
kard's wives life. liberty and happiness. All
the women of the State are called upon. No
one can fold her nan1 in Indifference and say.
1.-THE pie sue shall no: come nigh my dwelling.
Though your hearthstones may yet be free
from the liquor sellers scourge. in tue fear Of
what you may suffer. in the KNOWLEDGE of what
your friends and neighbors do suffer. arise
and let your power be felt. Home is the ap-
propriate spaere of women, and therefore lst
US see that our homes are protected from that
most cruel of all invaders, the liquor sellers
victim.
The late Prohibitory law was demanded by
majority Of the million of inhabitants Of
Indiana and in aiding TO obtain its renstae
ment. you will assist In procuring the greatest
good for the greatest number. All history,
sacred and proiane, teens with illustrious ex
amples Of the moral courage of woman in the
time of peril. l beseech you, let not the en-
ergency to which State has been reduced
by the decision Of its highest Judicial trib anal
be without its record. alike honorable to the
heads and hearts of the Women of Indiana
Do not deem me presumptuous in again ad
dressing YOU. | am vet the Little Woman
and have known no increase Of stature, save
that which accrues to integrity of purpose
and an upward and onward aim. | profess
to be laborer only. "for the cause that lacks
assistance. and such is the Temperance cause
can do but little and yet may earn the ap-
probation bestowed upon Mary of old. "She
hath done what she could
have stood idly by in the hope that those
better qualified. would thrust their sickles into
the fields white to the harvest, but to day
every feeling of my soul has been aroused on
hearing that a woman who had been burned
in drunken spree, had frozen to death. died
of whisky. cold. and starvation, in our city
Of churches. Sabbath schools, and eroq shops.
Young America might well feel himself manly
enough to sneer At our pretenses TO religion,
when We are Indifferent TO such occurre nces
Ii we have been informed tha. band Of Indi-
ans had passed through the city. and with one
blow Of the tomshawh taken her life, what
indignation would have been felt, what a zeal
manifested to revenge her death. but she has
been kiiIed according 10 iatc; the liquor seller
struck the blow. which only stunned her and
thence her subsequent sUaerings. And who
beheld those agonies of body and of soul. fox
she, too. had soul. Was that Judge there.
who has decided that man NAV do AS he
pleases with his property. If he does not ia
jure his neighbor: was be there TO tell her
she should have taken only enough whisky TO
promote hllarity.' and TO lament to her tha.
weakness and folly enter so largely into the
composition of human nature. and moral in
fuence is so powerlsss.' Such are his words
and Notwithstanding he "endeavors to make
his life an illustration of personal rasord :or
temperance" this wretched victim TO the laws
of Indiana DIED alone in our most Christian
city. No ear but that of the Recording An
gel heard the curling sound as the breath
issued from the freezing lips. and no tear fell
from the eye OF that Angel to erase the record
agains, the professed Christians of Indiana
Tor allowing the law 10 sanction such crimes
"iaasmuch as We have done it to the least ol
these, We have done j; unto me-" We are no,
surprised to hear o. The death of this young
woman. The causes which have produced il
have oeen at work since her childhood, and
daring this bitter cold winter We have heard
their inevitable result. We are verify guilty
concerning our sister. for we have expected
such termination 20 such life. and have
resched for'h no hand to prevent it. Her We
cannos save. bat thers are thousands in ou,
ate who are daily in danger Of similar fs:e