New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-18
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VINDICTIVE INHUMANITY OF 4 RUN
SELLER.

Mans inhuanity makes countless thousands non
The facts detailed below have been some time 10
our poesesson-in fact they published at the time
in a Long Island paper, but appeared so impossible
that any human being lived on earth so void of hui
maIity, Notwithstanding he was rumseler, that We
hestaed to believe the damning tale until personally
assured Of tie truth by Of the sufferers. We now
print the account that every man who reads the name
of such wretch may learn TO hate it-that every wo-
man may pity every other woman who Il the victim
of rumsellers or rumdrinker's cruelty-that every
child may learn TO think how the traffic debases hu
iran nature ard learn that nearly every similar act
humanity and cruelty 10 children comes from the use
o rum a beverage.
On the day of the second furious snow-storm, IN
January two brothers by the name Of Prime, of Hunt
ipgton. L. l., with two ladies and their two young
children, started in a sleigh from Brooklyn to 90 home
one Saturday afternoon. The storm was so furious
that it delayed their progress, and nigh, overlook
them before they had accomplished their journey; and
when they reached Westbury, finding it dangerous 20
proceed without the greatest risk of life and 10 fact,
with their tired horse, almost impossible to get along
amid the sorm and darkness, they proceeded to
country tavern kept by one William Layton for the
purpose of getting entertainment for the remainder of
the night Tie landlord came to the door, and IN
ouired who was there and what was wanted They
told him their names and their pitful condition; but
as soon as he learned who they were, and knowing
them well as strong advocates OF temperance, be
closed the door in their faces,
They now appealed to his cupidity by offering any
amount Of money that he might charge to open his
house and save them from their perishing condition,
but their appeals were in vain. They then appealed
TO his humanity to let the women and children have
shelter and the men would take their chance in the
storm. They might as well have appealed to the
northeast wind that was chilling them TO death.
What was to be done The horse refused TO go fur;
ther-they could not in the storm and darkness find
their way to any other house where human beings
would admit them to their resde and not like brutes
close their hearts and home TO humanity and the ap
peals OF wont ard children for shelter.
As last resort they managed to get the horse and
sleigh under an open she'd somewhat sheltered from
the wind and all huddled together under the buffalo
skins counting the chilly hours of that dreadful night,
irving to keep each other awake and alive till day
lglt and each fearing that morning might show that
some one had gone from the chill of a living death TO
the chill Of the reality What one of these persons
had persisted there by the door OF this inhuman mon
ster who had refused them admittance solely because
they would not drink his poison, or countenance him
in administering the seeds of death to his neighbors.
Would he not have been guilty OF murder! Just as
cruinally so Is he would have been if he had shot
them dead upon his doorstep. How many of the adj
yocates Of Temperance viii such conduct of rum
seller wrn 10 approve the rarnsellers trade !
Not ny the IL, n himself will be abhorred by every
man. woman aud Oh III who reads this story, but tn
traffic that brutasos a to such degree that he
can be guilty Of such yndictye brutality will be-
come more and more odious to a reading and thinking
in,