Smyrna times., 1856-03-26

10 He OSWocTdttC NneWOeTS " Tue IAoUSS "
Representatives from the county Of Phila-
delphiG.
PHILADELPHIA, March IA, 1856.
Fellow Democrats Il see from the vote ia
ken 10 the House on the amendments TO MIR.
Browns bill you all voted in favor of granting
licenses to restaurants, eating. houses and oys-
ter-cellars. In all conscience 1t is bad enough
to license a house for the entertainment of
strangers and travellers, to sell intoxicating
liquors a beverage. but to throw the sanction
of law around mere drinking houses, is abso-
lutely monsrous. | presume host, if not all
of you are husbands and fathers. Now, gen.
tlemen, | appeal to you whether you do not
know it TO be fact, that by means OF the Ii |
quor sold aud drank in those places-and that
too without one ception-upon, old and young |
rich and poor, merchant and mechanic, are be-
| ing ruined Tor time and eternity Do you not
know that those liquor shops are the daily and
nightly rendezvous Of white and black, male
and female =? DO you not know that women
are employed IN some of those denS OF ntaxny
and death, to deal out the liquid fire and dis
TILED damnatlon !" Do you not knOlo, too, that
those females a.e dressed IN the most indecent
manner DO you not knO,O that in many Of
these mealsrOms on the coast Of hell, there
are the most obscene and vulgar paintings and
pictures Did you not all know when you
gave that fcartU!-and to civilized and Chris
tan men--disgraceful vote, that all of those
infamous places are making drunkards by the
gross! DO you not know that not few Of
our best merchants, many of our first mechan.
les, multitudes OF our best salesnen and clerks,
and scores of our apprentice boys, are being
ruined by your liquor sellers! Do you MOI
personally knOW men who for years have been
industrious and thrifty, the best of husbands
and fathers, VINO have been totally destroyed,
, their kind hearts ailenated from their wives aud
children, and themselves and families reduced
to poverty, aud the most abject want by the
: keepers of those very houses you wish to per-
petuate DO you not all know widows, who
[ have been left with a comfortable competency,
whose sons have been ruined by those pre-
ciOuS pets of yours, the Philadelphia Jugcrs
Shame shame shame | challenge YOU, one
e or all of you, to point out any benefit those
: drinking saloons are to the community, the
y family or the individual. Nay, gentlemen,
there is not a man among you who does not
know as certainly as that the sun shines at noon
! tide-that without one exception, every drink
ing shop in this city is destroying forever more
or less of our fellow men. You know that wo-
man, lovely woman, wife and mother is re.
duced TO a condition, worse than that of the
most abject slave on earth, by the drunkenness.
;, of the husband. You knO,c, that hundreds Of
innocent children are found in the dead o.
e winter, in this great city, without bread, OF
.s clothing or fuel, brought about directly by the
= liquor shops, which you, with your most Gfec.
;s tiOnate and tender, loving, paternGL hearts
: wish to perpetuate among us, that the same
10 business of death, poverty, an6 destruction may
1t be carried on. God pity you what are YOU
hearts made of!
y
Gentlemen, when wave after wave rolled
over the wide Atlantic, from the shores OF fam
g ine-strlcken Ireland, frelghted with the cry o
er hunger, from hoary age to lIsping infancy, dIt
not your purses leap from your pockets for Ihei
lie relief; and would you not to a man have voted
; to prohibit the cause of famine, if in your pow
- er! Again, when pestence, like u burning
G. tide, swept over Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Gas
lg port, were not the bowels of your compassion
nd moved for suffering humanity! Would yo
81; not, TO man, have voted for the removal yea
:; the prohibition of the cause of the deadly MAS
10 ma Now then, you have glorious epportu
nifty in which you may display your humanit
- If the iugers have not bought 1t all up. Nov
You may stand up, and like men, vote to shu
up nIne-teuths OF those poverty ma king, crime
creating and oul-damning liquor shops
= Democrats from the county Of Philadelphia
j., if it Is peculiar qualification 10 you to loo
u upon groups of squallid poverty, crowds of crmi
~ nails and thousands of women and children i
Vi a worse condition than that of widowhood an
90 orphanage or thousand fold over, let me say {
III you, it is no qualification TO a Udst ajoriy
=, your fellow-cti2ens and if you will not aid tn
81 81 community in freeing itself from the blghtin
~ course of rum, we will aid the people In totin
20 you the privilege of staying at home!
u Dearly as love Democracy, and welded
" in nan1orrat,r nPIprnlca 1 wnuld m he
never see Democrat sent to the Legislature
OF our State, if they will disgrace themselvC
~ and the noble party by uphoding drunkenness
'"' which each of you have done by your vote
W 10 continue open, under the sanction of Law
-. oyster cellers, restaurants and eating house
gu 1t is bad enough, Heaven knows, to licent
- any place for the vile purpose of rumsellinl
,ia but TO grant such special privileges is moi
~ strops.
Why is II, gentlemen, that we Democra
:, boast of our Jeffersoniansm and JacksonisT
81. aud yet are SO unlike them? Mr. JeffersC
~, said expressly, that if he bad his time 10 ser,
nd over again, as President, he wond not appol
Did any man to Office who used intoxicating liquo
nat as a beverage. Think you theR, gentleme
no If Thomas Jefferson has occupied the pla6
ght either of you do be would have voted to llcen
three or four thousand more drinkeres! Ne
err! His noble Democratic soul would ha,
re. scorned such vileness ALI the gold in Cal
we fornia could not have bought ms vote, n1uC
mt less the tear-blistered dollar of the iniaIno
Ind Philadelphia Liquor League, What .faaat
IN. was Mr.. jefferson! You, gentlemen, cou
not give your support to so mad man! N
me- no Nor would be at all surprised IL RI
H. Democracy should use all their influence
~ defeat N. B. Browne, Esq. If he be a candida
ansn fofithe Senate again.soa ysp oa .sao-til,
for aLeGime again for your. information repeat
aay circumstance which occurred with the. M
who got the first vote ever cast--I mean th
man Of men, that patriot Of patriots, Andre
Jackson. When on alvisitto Washington,
'ule company with three ofmy boys we spent 4
itch evening with the gloroasold chlettain. VIII
,ar, I introduced the boys 10 him, and after a br
-" tha prasidaut nscaytainad Att