The weekly Columbian. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne Co., Cal.) 1856-1???, 1856-06-28
Observance of the Sabbath.

Last week we gave notice that the Ladies o.
Columbia, were making an effort to induce the
merchants of this place to close their business
establishment on the Sabbath day. On
Wednesday, according to notice many of the
most respectable Ladies of Columbia and Sping-
field, met with the merchants of the former
place at Broadway Theater, to whom they pre-
sented very ably written petition, praying
merchants if CONSTANT with their views, and
interest, to close their stores on the Sabbath, as
above stated; pledging their support to any
one who might suffer thereby, in consequence
of others not complying with such regulations.
The petition was carefully worded, and evil
IDENTIFY written with due consideration to the feel
ings and interest of the petitioned party. AS is
characteristic Of the Ladies, when any benevo-
lent object or moral reformation is in view, they
were unquestionably actuated by niger motives
than those of selfish nature. We believe them
to be sincere in their desire to effect moral and
social reformation,i in the growing circles of our
adopted home. We are liberal enough to be-
lieve, that in kindly unison with Nature, as she
smiles in purity from the surrounding hills;
that "amable and lovely women" ever the
guardian Spirits of our domestic hearths are
now interceeding in behalf of q principle that
has, from all time, proven absolutely essential
to the permanent prosperity of any country,
Or to the happiness of any people! 1t is not
strange nor unnatural, that they should mani
fest an interest in the publication of society
it is their only protection! When society be-
comes corrupt, man looses his respect for wo-
men! He can no longer look upon them as our
reader has done, when at the loved home of his
innocent boyhood, he has learned to regard his
kind and generous mother, as the embodiment
of all that was pure and noble. We now have
mothers amoug us, whose children love them.
we loved ours.-Mothers whose hearts yearn
with that passion and soul of solcitude which
none but they can know; when in caressing their
prattling little 'innocents,' they look away into
the dim future, and behold their shadowy forms
reeling in the designations of matured drunkness,
or dangling at ropes end, the doomed culprit
Of a midnight assassin! 1t is doubtless with
view to remove the chances of evils like these
that our Ladies are now laboring to bring
about a reformation in our society; and if So
we respect their motives and love the kind hand
that would administer the relief! What say
our merchants? We are fully aware that it is
not everything which Of itself is right, that is
at the same time expedient: and therefore, we
don't pretend to dictate to them the course
which they should pursue, having full conf
dence that they will use due discretion and
judgement in all the arran gemants of their hus-
mess : But we do say God bless the Ladies, for
everything they do conducive to the happiness
of the human race.
During the progress of the meeting,a Commit
tee of gentlemen were appointed to wait on the
merchants and business men of Columbia, Sono-
ra, Springfield aud Shaw's Flat. with the object
ofsecuring their cooperation in obtaining the
desired results. Success to them /!