Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-03-19
ANOTHER SNORT FROM THE WAR HORSE.

KEY. J0fn CAamDerS, DeLhoCfdt, Vi hIid-
delphia, not long since wrote letter to his
Democratic brethren on the subject of the
esJug Law in which he gave them particular
Gifts" Below will be found another, in which
he walks into the unterrificd in a manner that
is as samusng as it is refreshing
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 81, 1856.
Hox. HARLAN INGRAM-My dear sir IL have
read your speech delivered in the Senate, on
the 18th inst, on the Restraining Liquor Law.
L also read the speech of the Hon. Judge Will
kins, and other distinguished gentlemen of the
Senate. As proceeded, line by line, through
the speeches, l earnestly sought to find, in one
orthe other, or all together, a single argument
in favor either of the manufacture, sale or use
of Intoxicating liquors beverage, but from
necessity or choice, you have not said the first
word in favor Of the business in one form or
another.
True. You have denounced some of til min
listers of religfon-stf -stfgmatized many of the tenn
perance men as fanatics, aud all OF you, as
sort of salvo presume, denounced drunken
ness in the most measured terms. But where,
let me ask, is your consistency in railing at
drunkards, and yet defending the accursed
traffic by which drunllards are made7 Ifyou
condemn the effect, does not consistency re-
quire you to condemn the caHse ? What is all
| this but battling on the side of drunkenness,
for it is folly to say that is not the side you are
on; for surely a man Of your Intelligence will
not pretend to deny that just so long as intox-
| icating liquors aro 10 be had as "a beverage,
drunkenness and its fearful catalogue of evils
will prevail Facts on this subject are q great
deal better than fine spun theories or sham
logic.
Prove if you can, that liquor drinking is a
benefit to the individual, the family, the COM
munitv, the Church or the State. Let the
members of the Senate and the House, who
are in favor of the liquor business, hold a
meeting, make the venerable Judge Wilkins
chairman, then compare notes, and see from
the appalling facts connected with the liquor
business during the last one hund ed years, if
the protection and perpetuation ef this traffic
is worthy of the earnest efforts of grave Sena-
tors and wise Legislators! Point ont in how
many instances the use of Intoxicating liquors
has reformed the abandoned how many worth
| less husbands have been restored TO their bro
children, by their use How many widowed
| mothers in Pennsylvania have had cause, morn
| ing and evening, to thank God for the practical
| influence of the bar-room upon their prodigal
sons Set forth the benefcent effects of tip
| pling houses and dram drinking, upon which
| you and many of our Democratic friends are
: throwing s.,tss-sS tgs.srrr,.
mue}l our prisons have been Slep9p-sat.d and
~
/ ter by our delectablc dram shopsi
Come, my brother Democrats of the Senate
and the House, give us some cheering statis-
ties IN regard to the delicious fruits ofthe rum
traffic. Has the sale of Intoxicating liquors
reduced taxation one mill, or decreased the
number Of paupers, except by consigning to
an early and dishoHored grave the bIoated car
cases of the miserable victims of rum9
| My Dear Sir, deeply lament that you and
the great body of the Democratic members in
the Senate and House should have espoused
the cause of the LiquorLeague, a combination
as infamous as the object they seek to accom-
plish is wicked. What an opportunity you
have to prove that Democracy is the sum of
| equal rights, the cause of the widow and the
! orphan, the cause of virtue and good morals,
and is not affiliated, as its enemies have often
represented, with riot, rowdyism and rum =
Attempt to palliate liquor selling and dram
drinking! 1t is the source of all vilIainies ::
"tthe winding sheet of souls;'' the frightfrl
vortex where young men and old meu-where
husbands, fathers and sons are eventually swal-
lowed up. Look at your associate in the Sen
ate, N. B. Browne, Esq, what a noble example
has he furnished of Intelligence, independence.
patriotism and moral couragel He stands on
pinnacle, SO high above the whiskey advoca-
ting Democrats, that they would have to look
| sharp through Sir Isaac Newton's great teles-
cope to see his fair proportions and manly stat
ure. BE has reared for himself an enduring
monument, upon which will be inscribed =
The friend Of the people, the true patriot, the
| enlightened Statesmen, the honest Senator.
You might have done the same; nay, you can
hold place Of equal honor, influence ana res
pectability, if youwill break loose the iron fet-
ters of the Liquor League. Do it, my dear
sir, at any cost do it if you have to pluck ont
a right eye, or cut offa right hand do il for
the honor of Democracy; above all, do it for
the sake of bleeding virtue and suffering hu
manity, and the thousands who are tempted
and destroyed by the worm of the stin.
Yours truly, JoHs CuAnpEas.
CENTRAL AMERICA General Walker has
seized all the boats belonging to the Transit