Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1856-11-28
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1880,
J. c.. FREMONT.
FOR UCE-pREsIDEDr
VIM. L. DAYTON
Misplaced Indignation-sympathy
too Late.


Col. james Stoops. He is said to have
have stolen two dollars from fellow
drunkard, in one Of the groceries.and ell
are ready to curse him by bell, book
and candle. and pronounce him one OF
the meaness vagabonds out Of jail
This is all wrong. We do not justify
the Col, for we think he did wrong, but
we can find many an apology for him.
James Stops, when young. was a man
of promise: Respectfully connected,
he married respectfully, and began life
with fair prospects. But love Of in
toxicating drinks has proved his ruin
Through a mischievous and ruinous pol
lev, the State, whose duty It Is to
protect the lives and morals Of It's citi-
gems, has erected and protected places Of
dissipation and vice, in every village,
and he has found il convenient to graft
fy bis appetite, and here is beginning
of his end. We pity. more than blame
him. The hlame lies at the door of tho
men who have dealt out TO him that
which transformed him from young
man Of promise TO what he now is--an
object Of scorn aud pity; and the pous,
praying, psalm.singing Christians, who
have seen all this, and folded their
hands, like plate, and said. "See ye to
IT," are equally guilty. stoops Is tho
victim, the lquor-sellers arc the guilty
ones. Stoops Is charged with stealing
two dollars from fellow .drunkard, and
he has been compelled to fee, abandon
ing his molherless children TO the cold
charities of tho world, while the men
who robbed him of his manhood, made
him drunkard. aud kept him poor, build
fine houses, and dwell safely, though
In their Golfers and brick walls 10 the
money that was worse than stolen from
him and his comrades. Had they taken
money only, II would have been but q
small matter. His motherless children
could and would have supported him,
had he merely been lame or blind, and
they would have felt pleasure in doing
40. but to endure the shame which Is
heaped upon such helpless and innocent
sufferers, has been heavy burden, yet
nobly have they bornei IL. And what he
has come to, Is what awaits others. His
father, and his brothers. and his early
friends, as little thought. 25 or 80 years
ago, that such would be his fate, as do
the doating and indulgent parents Of
many promising boy around us-as you
do of your own son, or OF your brother.
Yet II the present system OF making
drunkards Is continued, your son, inno-
cent and lovely rs he now Is, may BIO
the vagrant thief of 80 years hence
Little did the lovely girl whom he led to
the altar. some 20 years ago. know what
days and nights of anguish awaited her
--as little does your daughter, whose
Joy Is your Joy, and whose innocence
and lovcliness are worth more to you
than gold. anticipate such life Of suffer-
ing and shame, yet 1t Is for her, IL tho
ten thousand tipplinp-houscs that now
curse tho State of Indiana are allowed
TO poison and cmblster the lives Of the
rising generation. We have buried as
lovely daughter, and as promising a
boy as ever gladdened parents heart,
and we know how desoIatc their depart.
ure made tho little home circle, but they
died In innocence, and that grief was
not the hundredsh part Of what par