Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1856-04-30

Law substituted for Prohibition, with hsf"s
strongest provisions, the search and seizure "
clauses FROM what we can gather, the new s'''
law. though having the appearance of great !"
stringency, is designedy framed to make it hard Fi'
20 arrest the violator. They knew that the 50
loud calls of the people for law on the sub '''
iect would have to be obeyed, but in complying 10
with the demand, the temperance interest have y
been basey sold to the rum faction. Bought u
wit is said TO DO the best of wit, antfwe opine "
that the people OF Maine viii be wide awake u
when the candidates are next brought in the a
| field.
/ The Portland Transcript thus notes its adj :
vent: .---a--,. :,
The Maine Law is at last repealed, and we u
have in its stead license law which is said to q
lbe intended TO restrain instead of prohibiting v
1.-The traffic in Intoxicating liquors. That it will I
accomplish this object we very much doubt 8
Its restrictive provisions are but sham, having
no force in themselves to sustain them, while
& it's IiJeraI features open wide the hoodgates
of liquor selling. Under its operation, we
greatly fear, not only the chosen few will sell,
but all others vile enough to engage IN the BUSH
: ness; for with the striking out of the search
and seizure clauses, the power to suppress the
; has no guards against those evasons TO which
. rumsellers resort, but leaves wide loop holes for
. their safe passage through the courts. Indeed,
. its authordoes not look for its full enforcement.
z Mr. Barnes said, in advocating the striking out
&c of the search and seizure clauses, that the law
could have a reasonable enforcement without
2 them! "A reasonable enforcement! What
does this mean! DO we talk of IL reasonable
enforcement of law against robbery or murder!
he 1t is evident that the law is not intended to be
p. enforced--it is not so framed. p, t.
The cause of temperance, therefore, can
n hope for no assistance from this law. Indeed,
o it has no ground to expect its aid, for it is foun
as ded as its framer tells US, on the principle that
at the law has no power TO remove the evils of
= which the world is full. Law, says Mr.. Barnes,
%. is simply the means by which to govern the
world; to redeem it other means must be en-
ployed. And yet, by putting into his law some
"a restrictive features, he has acknowledged the
principle that laws should have for their object,
not only the punishment OF offences, but the
1ss promotion of good morals. His law contradicts
he his theology. - " fat
of But, saws Mr. Barnes, the law has no redeem
90 ing power. This is but evasion of the
question at issue. IL is very true that the Jaw
'"- has no direct moral power and il may be true
son that too much at times has been expected frOu
he it, but no one ever pretended that Maine Law
he could convert the rumseller or the rumdrinkel
- to Christianity. It's justification rests on M
such claim for law. 1t Is founded on the RICH
ers of society to protect itself against the nuriOu
lso practices of any one of its members, and on tn
eh, fact that the law does exert an indirect mora
u power Ii exerts this influence in many way
by making disreputable the practices prohIb
n.y. tied, by removing temptations from the path Q
'nr- the weak, and by cmbodying, in concrete form
un- the moral sense of the community. Law is tn
nm /: handmade of religion, following close in he
!, :. footsteps, and securing her trlumphs. Wher
" would have been the achievements of Christ
anity to-day, without the protective force
nee law! 1t is a sort of holdfast, securing all tha
nus has been gained in moral improvement. Chris
ron, tianily, aud the reforming influences who
emanate from it, go in advance, acting npo
'ua- the hearts of the people, and the law follow
ore, securing the ground that has been gained. an
ived restraining those who inclined to stray bac
the into the paths of error.
- Moral infuences'and wise laws work toget
er. aud are both necessary to the completion
Jus' any great work of reform. To say, therefor
owl that the laws should not look 10 the moral il
/ be provemeut of community, because there is
c,l salvation in them, is TO utter an absurdhy co
, :, lradcted by every days experience.
Appropriately after this, we place an artc
80. from the temperance journal, of the san
city, which notes the return to the " good o
-. times ~
The people begin to see what sort of ente
doie tainment they invited to by the Jacob
isad- partv-tbe rnm party-tbe efow.bar party
pres, this State. The fruits OF the new order
dis things are already apparent. IN many PIac
mid ~ our Guy leans ANS % "ien u al Ia a
; aho at doors Of shops where liquors are sold.
ssai. most every day and every night there row
aug and fights, and broken heads, and black eyes
~ and more of them on Sunday than on any 9th
day.
pcs Last Sunday there were two great rows
meri- opusite ends Of the city. at which hundreds
persons were assembled, either as participant
or spectators. IL is within the truth to ST
AND that since the election last fall there have be
can ten times us many rows and fights, and distu
s. we ances in this city, as there were in all the ii
,ho., from June ID, 1851, when the Maine Law v
approved. to September, 1855, when the r.
using triumph took place, emitting the Wells liqu
effect riot of June I'd.
n the '.'... d" p. ---.-.-.---
fetal Accommodation Saturday last about no
h. he Mr.. John A. Lavender of this town, was thro
erous from wagon at his farm in Appoquinim
upon1 hundred, aud severely injured in the knee-jo
of the DIR. Moore is attending him. '
The On Monday mornings child of Mr.. Fitzwa
ly for living al shorts Landing IN thus Hundred
thers from the second story OF a pIazza' striking
head upon the ends of the slaves Of hogsh'
,ed by causing slight fracture fthe skull and lay
lroyed open the scalp. DIR. Daley dressed the wou
,et DO. W +. ]. Colt, Esq, has resigned his Of
ctons as Postmaster in this town, having been apo
on ac- ed TO fill a situation in the Bank. Mr. g.
Gather been a very efficient attentive and obig
r mas. officer, and gave general satisfaction in
J. The performance of his arduous duties. lie vii
,nse az succeeded by Marion Green, Esq, who, b.
range IN every way qualihed 10 MI the statloh'
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