Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-12-05
For the Patriot.
The License LAYING. 4.


To the General assembly Of the State Of Ten
neSSee:-
see that the Senate has restored the Tipping
Law of 1916, which I very much regret I hope
there IS salt enough in the House to preserve the
mass.
The restoration of the License Law brings with
it an army of "Sepoys" with 'Nena Sahib" SATAN
at their head to ravage Tennessee, sparing neither
age nor sex. Under the former law, we had 2l5O,
whose daily business it was to dole out pSnts halt
pints and drinks, to accommodate the morbid APP
pettes of their fellow citizens. These are seduced
from active, productive employment, to follOw'this
demoralizng business. No man lives, or ever has
lived, who keeps a tippliug house, and coming in
contact daily and nightly with the society who re-
sorts there, but is injured by the contact. By L.
ceusing the law you give it character which will in
duce many young men to engage in it, who, with
out your endorsement, would not. I know liquor
will be sold, bought and drark without license, so
will stealing and counterfeiting go on. Yet, we
would feel disgraced not to prohibit these by pen
atty. I am not pleading for 'prohibitory law"
not at all-only stringent law without license,
which I am satisfied you in your wisdom de-
wise. Restore the license Law of '4s, and you will
llCIedbt your army VI puOtlC " O'SA
1000 You will have build a penitentiary,
and other houses of correction, for the unfortunate
drunkard and others, seduced into crime by your
! officers.
| The chief police officer (MatzeD of the city of
! New York, in 1855, reported 7, los tiplng hous-
es, 6,OB6 kept by foreigners, and $50 by females.
! One man had young girls to mix up the liquor for
the drinkers. No avocation which tends to demor-
alize society and to diminish the national wealth,
! should receive public sanction. Lord Bacon says:
'AH the crimes on the earth do not destroy many
Of. the human race nor ALLEVIATE much property as
rir,nkeness"
Your restoration of the License law will no doubt
'frcrease the revenue" but you have not the fig
ures to count the expense and which it will
bring upon your people
Louis XII Of FIR nee, was the monarch who first
allowed spirits to be manufactured and sold in that
! Kingdom upon a large scale. The consequences to
the nation were so terrible that in % years after
wards, Francis, his successor, was compelled for
the safety of his subjects to laws for
the suppression of drunkenness Sweden pre-
sents another instance of this kind. Previous to
the year 1888 that nation had been comparatively
free from the evils arising from the of strong
drink. In that year, however their King " Gus
tavus," to increase the revenue, " not only per-
mitted the manufacture of ardent spirits but &C
| lively encouraged the establishment of Tipng
houses for its SALE in s tie villages and towns Of
his kingdom. The object he hal in view, ito raise
a revenue" was accomplished, but the consequen-
ces soon became frightful in the extreme Crime,
poverty, disease and mortality fearfully increas-
ed that the same King was eventually obliged TO
pass severe enactments to restrain the Of what
previously he had been so active in promoting.
| Had these measures not been put into operation,
the Kingdom OF Sweden in imminent danger,
not only of universal Generalization, but actually
of becoming extinct smong the nations Of the
earth.
The history of Ireland during the last century
forms another most lamentable example of the
game awful evil In the sixteenth century the sale Of
| coho was dscountenanced as I" a drink nothing
! profitable TO be daily drunken aud used.H In the
i'ary part of the eighteenth century, however
through mistaken views of national veal, great en-
ioursgement was given to the manufacture aud sale
| bt ardent spirits. The cons quences Of this short
| Fghted aud erroneous policy are manifest az the
present day. The habit has become national, and
many years may elapse, pregnant with every kind
Of misery TO that unhappy country, before the evil
ran be sffeetualy eradicated.
These facts / learn from an eminent EngIst
suthor, and alude to them here, call your atteu
ton TO the danger of encouraging. by your authori
-, the erection Of "Tipog -hous, all over tbs
baud, aud making the traffic honest and honestly
10 induce all classes TO engage in il. You may elm
crease your revenue" but you viii multiply Grim
and misery one hundred per cent.
FARMER