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

delphia, not long since wrote letter to his
Democratic brethren on the subject of the
ssJug Law in which he gave them particular
'sfts.'' Below will be found another, in which
he walks into the untcrrifed in manner that
SIS as amusing as it is refreshing.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. q, 1856.
Hon. HARLAN INGRAM-1fy dear sir II have
| read your speech delivered in the Senate, on
the 18th inst, on the Restraining Liquor Law
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, single argument
in favor either OF the manufactures, sale or use
of Intoxicating liquors as a 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 tn min
listers of freligion-stigmatize many of the tenn
perance men as fanatics, and all of YOU. as a
sort of salvo presume, denounced drunken
ness III the most measured terms But where.
let me ask, is your consistency in railing at
drunkards, and yet defending the accursed
traffic by which drunkards are made? Ifyou
condemn the effect, does not consistency re-
quire youto condemn the causeP 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 man of your intelligence will
not pretend TO deny that just so long as intox-
icating liquors are to be had as beverage.
drunkenness and its fearful catalogue of evils
will prevail. Facts on this subject are a 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, tho COM
munity, the Church or the State. Let the
members of the Senate and the IfsEse, who
are in favor of the liquor business, hold
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 hundred years. if |
the protection and perpetnation OF this traffic |
is worthy OF the earnest efforts of grave Sena-
tors and wise Legislators, Point out in how |
many instances the use of Intoxicating liquors
laS reformed the abandoned how many worth |
less husbands have been restored to their bro |
ken hearted wives and worse than fatherIess
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
piing houses and dram drinking, upon which
you and many of our Democratic friends are
throwing your legislative smiles, Tell us how
much our prisons have been depopulated and
hor maay felons hav. I.e.,s, ss5-----.i- '-@f
ter by our delectable dram shops!
Come, my brother Democrats of the Senate
and the House, give us some cheering statis-
tics in regard to the delicious traits 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 dishonored grave the bloated car
cases of the miserable victims of rum7
Ny 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 Liquor League, 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
with riot, rowdyism- and rum =
Attempt to palliate liquor selling and dram
drinking! 1t is the source of all vilainies
''the winding sheet of souls;'' the frightful
vortex where young men and old men-where
husbands, fathers and sons arc eventually swal-
lowed up. Look at your associate in the Sen
ate, n. B. Browne, Esq, what noble example
has he furnished of Intelligence, independence
patriotism and moral courage He stands on
a pinnacle, so high above the whis1ey advoca-
ting Democrats, that they would have TO look
sharp through Sir Isaac Ncwton's great teleS-
cope to see his fair proportions and manly stat
ure. He has reared for himself an enduring
monument, upon which will be Inscribed =
The friend of the people, the true patriot, the
Statesmen, the honest Senator.
You might have done the same; nay, you can
hold place of equal honor, influence and res
if you will 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 off right hand do it for
the honor of Democracy above all, do 1t for
the sake of bleeding virtue and suffering hu-
raanity, and the thousands who are tempted
and destroyed by the worm of the still.
Yours truly, JOAN CHAMBERS,
CENTRAL AMERICA General Walker has
seized all the boats belonging to the Transit
Company, and after annulling the charter, has
granted new charter to another Company.
1t is said that Costa Rica has not received