Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1856-11-06
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| THE PhUHlBllOh1 LAW.
If this law is repealed who shall do it! Not the
: poor victim Of ntemperance; it is to him the ark of
safety. Not the outlaw rumseler to the credit OF
: humanity he 1t said they are but few in oommuS
nifty. Who then will do this great wrong to society!
done at all, it must be by the aid Of men profess
- ing christianity. Men who vote one way, and pray
= another. These are the who alone will be res.
r. ponsibe Men who, Peter like are willing to deny
" their master for tho sake of party On their heads
will rest the blood of the victims of tho licensed
Tumtrafio
o A few mouths ago young man of this city was
t. murdered by runs His bloated and sweled corpse
e was taken into back room of an outlawed rumsel
er There lay silent in death, the fond hopes of his
# sorroWfu friends Right above the murdered VIC
"a tim was written the wall "twenty five cents for
drink and the money paid before leaving the room "
/, Here the price Of blood. III this back, dark,
secret chamber Of the unlawful rumseller, his vic
l. Tins We're entrapt How graphically is the modern
: rumseer described by the PsAlmist in 10 ps. s.
live. "He stitch in the lurking places of the viii
lages in the secret places doth be murder the limo
cent; his eyes are pryiy set against the poor, He
lieth in wait to catch the poor he doth catch the
, poor, when he draweth him into his net Hu
croucheth and humbleth himself that the poor may
fall b, his strong Ones He hath said in bis heart,
God hath FORGOTTEN; he hdeth his face he will reyer
see it," Mistaken man! God doth see and hath
declared "wee to hin that putteth the bottle TO his
neiGhbors mouth and make.h him drunken alsc -
Protesting Christian when you cast your SECRET"
ballot oa Tuesday next for the election Of mon
pledged to repeal the prohibitory law remember,
charge you remember, that She who seeth in secret
will reward you openly Before you incur the
fearful c0nseq Of again legazing the sale of
intoxicating drinks in community. ask yourselves
who wants the law repealed? Not the poor drunk.
ard No. but the drunkard maker. Not TIE
friends Of the victim Of intemperance No! none
but those who wish 10 fatten the souls and bodies
of their fellow beings, they alone ask for the repeal
Are those men such good citizens that our
young mon are to be sacrificed, our jtils filed our
poor houses burdened, Mt expense to aecom,nD.
date them! How have they behaved under the mo-
hibitOry law! Have they observed it like good and
orderly citizens! Let tue records Of offended Justice
answer Let tho five open graves of the victims Of
mania putu for the past year answer the question
7, Let the widowed wife and orphan children Of the
i victims answer.
Can you vote for the man who when in the leei.,
la.uTe six years ago voted to desecrats the h,iv
!, sabbath by the sale of run! II you can then vote
for Abraham Boys, If not vote for Samuel McCau.
ICY, the firm consistent temperance man Tie poor
= mans friend, tho friend of the law and ord or
u whose vote for prohibition be relied on nd mol
for the man who assisted TO repeal tho SUNDAY Inv
% Let such mon feel the injury they have done 6y h.
lug left at home We say again ii the law is to b,
L. repealed it must bo done by hypocrtial bro
essors Ofreligion voting for party and not for yir
tue and humanity Lot thom he marked by tenn
!. rerance men hereafter aud when they appear il
OUR temperance meetings let the VOLTS clothing h,
err accorded U them which they will so richly merit
so Rumsellers ii you successful remember il wa
X by some poor deluded souls denying their priucple
ana DO not iall to give them the thirty pieces OF sill
Of YER your business is carried at tho price of blood
he share the spOils with The traitors
Id lemoeTats lot aie ask you what part ofDemosras
Of f6h lie land Vote with den. jackson to have si
er, destroyed as the common enemy OF mankind yot
nd with Jefferson against all men for Office who use in
'le oAOAlus uTihhs us beverage rus is Denocrac
We us learned bya DEMOCRAT.
~ MILFORD, Monday, Oct q, 20, o'clock, p. Nj.
H. Doc't. WM. NJ BARR.-DEAR SIR :-IIaypg ius
il returned home embrace this limited opportu1t
OF replying to your special note of invitation to m
W. to be present at your meeting to morrow Your for
~ | mer letter has not reached me
40 Your urgent request" rendered me through III
Il kindnessof Mr.. james Lake, places me under n
ordinary obligation to be present with yeu a nd GU
10 friends ut MddletOwn but il is with regret lhat
y, have to inform you that l must deny myself IN
great pleasure OF complying with your request, ow
ID lug to previous engagements which will necessot
Q demand my attention.
b need not tell you that the great issues which will
doubtless be presented by tic eminent orators Won
Committee have selected are very dear to my heart
10 These dem onstratiOns springing as they do iron
It true patriotism and devotion Il principle ought no
If TO ho ia vain,
!. Please render to your mmil,ue Of Arrangement
the Insurance OF my high consideration and regard
o nave tue hohor TO DC Your ob't, servant
o Z. i. CAUSEY.
! Hon r. C. WINTHROP ON SECTIONAL PARTIES. :
Z The Hon Robert Winthrop, of Boston, made al
! eloquent political address in Faneu Hall on Frida,
evening last, and in the course of his remarks thu
! | reierre to sectional parties;
am against all such organizations have no faitl
any party which tries 10 fly up into the high place
Of this great republic on one wing [Applalse.l A
soon should look to see the imperial bird which 4
the chosen emblem Of our countrys glory cleayipl
| the clouds, and pursuing his fearless and upwar,
= path through the Skies If one of his wings had beer
g Topped OIL wantno MANNED or mutilated emblem
oil my country progress. would not pluck sin Il
plume from his pniDns even to feather my own New
|, England nest And still less do want any maimet
or nutllated country. Nothing less than tho VIII ole
e However bounded-or, certainly however it is nov
| rightfully bOunded,-wi content me- ICheers l.
And desire to see no party organizations from whcl
any portion o. that eouHtry Intentionally or neces
saTiy excluded When party, composed of only
}, the nane OF national party, and shall be ciaimet
and recognized as such, it will not be long fear
II wlll not be long-before half the States will b.
10 semiNrepublcan party is only the first step 10
semi>republic, and we know it is tho first stop tina
Heaveniorbid that any second step should be take
Z, in such direction in our time. To-day our countr
'k Is the country of Washingten-wlth some large n,
he cessions, indeed, which, however reasonably AM
Oh rghtfully they may have been opposed at the tim
Q would hardly be spared by any Of us now-but, .
re any rate, without diminution and without division
Is. Mount Vernon, where he lived and died and wber
d, his venerated ashes still repose is ours. New Yor
r. and Philadelphia where Ae presided over the infar
nd Constitution, the capital which he laid out and whs
bears his name; Virginia, which gayo him birtf
Ohio which he yeyed in his yOat6 South Carolin
40 and Massachusetts, which "felt his own great arr
lean upon them for support in his tried and trum
is plant manhood; Cambridge where he first drew hi
swsrd at the head Of the American armies; yorktown
where the eagle OF victory finally perchei upon hi
Il, banner Annapolis, where he so nobly and sublime
y sheathed that sword and surrendered his commis
,e sion The Union which he blessed by the labors
10 his whole life, and by prenepts and an exampl
nj which will live forever. 1t is all surs, and we ca
claim full share in its whole inheritance of glory
do NOT say that all this, any part of this Is to
" lost or changed by any event which am willing
~ contemplate
n am no panic maker, nor have ever set mysel
ii up for much Of a Union saver But this / do saw
a. that this continued scufing aud wranging betweeI
sections these perpetual contentious between th
North and the South are SO shaking the foundation
1t and Earring the supersrueture and loosenng th
cement of our greatrepubican fabric and il nobod
e should ever care to assai it directly it may one
: / or other become absolutely untenantable, and b
" found failing to pieces Of ITSELF by its own weakness
t. and its own weight. Aud do say Also that ever,
n man who loves that Union, others do doubt nc
= quite as sincerely and perhaps o great deal NOR
= wisely than myself, should look to it seasonabiy
that by word, act vote of his, which is not ab
g soutely essential to the vindicaton of rights and
9 privileges which are never to be abandoned he has
tens and precipitates catastrophe which ii may b.
= m nil tvhic