The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-12-13
Temperance Decentralization.


ANOTHER EFFORT TO ENFORCE THE MAIsE LAW
HEEIIEG OF THE TEMPERANCE CLUBS IN THE
BROADWAY TABERNACLE.
meeting purporting 70 be OF tho various Temperance
societies throughout the city, held in the Broadway
Tabernacle on Thursday evening The attendance wa
,maD, probably owing 70 the violent storm that wa.
raging The following gentlemen constituted the oa,ers
OF the meeting
President Bon Judge Capron Vice Presidents, william
+. Dodge, james D. Bennett. w. ii. Armstrong,
snow m. james 7. Alley, Captain Edward Richardson
William n DksmAn william Burleign, L. n Beck
C. C. Leigh, r M Hartley, Charles Glldersecve; See
retsries, Rev John Marsh, Rev. G. j. Warren, Thomas
Eoferly.
offered series Of resolutions, among which occurred the
foliowipg-
Resolved That stripped Of protection by The notification .
Despair had rot confidence in the virtue Intelligence an
essns ana We're we not SATISFIED that the opinions Il to-
three dissenting Judges Mitchell wrsh. and = yonnso9
,he s Sosee anu mus give VIC -" u
Aesoyed That all objections prohibory laws are un
worthy Of rational e'sen, since pioh'elon has been
policy The state from the beginning i he's a the oaoda
ph cepse tie ey ard state cursed with druaseunes
TO- medical artistic purpnses dimnuoc Of
ad1, ~ our ma ,o !. mper 9e oseran "a eight 81 H.
per enarss md houses OF correction the sie-an eee
Resolved, Iha, find serious impedinent 10 the
an Sa o. ee e sa
opposed 70 that decision prononncmg the law cousu
"
did for and two for anosher'
70 tine have majority o. The Cont agrsed upon es gnsoa
agree that 10 the ens right Of he Legislature to
sss prtbibHory Law If the good OF the community re
Rssoved Yhnt in the present juncture Incumbent on
the ferds Of temperance law order and humanity 70 nge
the nert LEGISLATURE either amend the present IA
ofihe Court Of Appeals orwheh would be better in our es
IN a. 20 % s s
Resolved That there Resolutions be communicated tha
state meeting Albany the 18Th inst and also TO tho Go
rno, elect With TegSss hat y BIS n, s be w f
Court Appeals the STATE Of our laws relating 10 the traffic IN
crime
He took the ground tbs, the Prohbuory Law was not
nuliy the retailers Of ntoxcspg drinks might stui De-
Per complaints before ,ae Grand Jury that parton o.
tho Pronbory law ~hich 10 not tou he'd upon In the de
csiols which cusIa,eo from the Court Of Appeals still
retains n vitality, y u equal 70 The pun snmcnt o.
offenders; ard, on the contrary. the whole enact
Dsnt 10 destroyed by the decision agains. the con
siui,or atty Ola potion Of 4, then The old iceoss
ihose Who cell without bceDse. These ppou hs sait.
were eli open for adtudcaiiou, and ne hoped tnsy
would be brought before the proper legal author
tics for settlement But then perhaps u would be
better for tho Legislature 70 psss law that al ooud IN
derstkHd, and about which there could be no dolo,
Judge tsrron was quite sure prohibitory ia~ could
enforced those who friendly 70 u would lend ther
40 70 the sHesrs q The aw; 10 regard 70 proposea
under oeraiI quantity should be made primo rac's
evidence against the seer Of having violated the Law
tbue thrown upon him the burden Of showing that h.
sold n for q sanctioned by the Lag.
TIE remarks Of the Judge were greeted with grea,
favor
Asops wa. then supg, OF which the following Is spe.
csmea brick
Invmrerance has foundered-
The demon gA~ps for breaih-
His rapid march " downward
To everlasting death.
Bod temperance uttirinr,
Strikes at the monsters hear,
Beneath b. bio ~s expiring
lie breads her well aimed dart
7be meeting then addressed by Judge Cslvcr Rev
Mr. Haiaeld, Rev l.. Gus Ter, W. II. Baresh and
Others Alter which the resolutions ado scd she
d~xcscgy song wnen the audience or whss vas len Of
then home,