Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-03-07
NTEMPERANCE

INTEMPERANCE.
Intemperance is making giant strioes in its pro-
gress over the land. 1t goes hand in hand with
the progress of Slavery, rufianism and every
other vice, individual and public. 1t is the
instigator and the chief aid in the commission of
all crime, whether committed by the beastly sot
who consumes or vends the ruinous compounds.
of the county doggery or by the staggering and
blasphemous Congressional bully, who concocts
and executes and then defends theft, burglary,
arson, murder and every other crime by whole
sale, in Kansas and elsewhere. And whilo in
temperance is thus running riot, everywhere, the.
friends of temperance are this winter compar-
atively inactive. Very many of the friends of
legal prohibition and penalty, are doing nothing
lest their movements should damage the prospects
of Republicanism, and they seem almost equally
to have suspended their moral efforts. True at
our last County Court, several rumsellers were i'm
prisoned for thirty days by Judge Potter, but the
vending and consumption goes on as briskly as
ever, here and elsewhere. For many years we
have not known so few Temperance Meetings and
so great apathy on the subject within the circle of
our own residence and travel as during the winter
Just passed. Very little is doing anywhere and
many persons who we've once numbered with
active temperance men, are now not only indiffor-
ent, but some are found at the beer shop them
selves on the highway to ruin and leading others
to the same perdition.
} We find in the Prisoners Friend the following
! results of an inquiry instituted in New York city,
for the number of drunkards and dram shops
i there to be found. The statement is appalling.
: But similar results would be developed on inquiry
in almost every town in the land
STATISTICS OF IyrEMpEsANcE IN New YORK.
Judge Capron, at the Union Temperance Meeting
? held in the Tabernacle, on Thursday, February
4 llth, states, las the result of his own Investigations,
that. in New York City, there are $1,000 dram
u shops and 100000 drunkards. At the very least
2 calculation, each of these drink two gills Of in
+ toxicating liquors every day being equal to
d 0 1000, or 500 barrels per day,-300,0 900 barrels
in u year. This gu nifty would make a reservoir
900 feet long, so feet wide, and SO feet deep,-equal
: to '744 cubic cet,-and conld float four large
ships in full sail. AtS30 per barrel, it amounts
{ to 1000, 900. 10000 children never enter tho
Il school. During the last year, GO, 600 arrests have
r been made, and a., 600 convictions. AT the Court
a of Special Sessions, during the last year. G,000
cases were tried, of which there were 1920 con-
y y yictions. No. more than "a of the subjects of
= these trials were sober when arrested not more
u than 1874 who were habitually sober persons.
! Poupers cost the city $4,000 600 a year. The
= entire population of the city, over fifteen years Of
dRe, is udruiy 9UU,UUU; ana the Judge 3 statements
are, to say the least, very extraordinary.
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SPEECH OF Mr.. CoRY.-Mr. Cory, q Democratic
r representative in the Ohio Legislature, had the
n moral courage to brave the ruf6anism of his party
: and condemn the outrage of his colleague, Slough
by voting for his expulsion. After Mr.. Slough's
. defeat. Mr.. Cory introduced his new colleague to
e the House of Representatives by the following
speech:
r REPRESENTATIVE The right of Mr.. Hosea to
st II seat among us being clear from these papers, l
10 ask that be sworn into office.
1t is proper for me, as the colleague of the new
member, and as a representative of the people, to
express my satisfaction at tie concurrence Of pub
h lie sentiment in Hamilton county with the action
of this House. The member Who was expelled by
n us has appealed to the august tribunal Of the peo-
e pie, and they have decided that for violating the
Q sanctity Of this place of elaboration, by striking
a fellow member with his fist during business, and
afterwards persisting in his faults till the last, he
It did deserve expulsion.
The question invoked in this whole question
Z, was not one of party politics, nor of party organi-
d cation it was purely a question of public decenoy
ID affecting alike the rights and feelings of all tie
citizens, There has been an unlucky attempt to
re put a false construction upon our proceedin gs.-
a The partisan politicians have thought fit to forget
RS that there could be no difference of opinion upon
D. the delinquency of the member expelled in the
n breasts OF our people. lt was not possible Tor
TX instrumentation, and party trammels to bring
III out more than two-thirds the vote of Hamilton
County and in several Wards and Townships the
~ refusal of the democracy to endorse Mr.. Slough
was ~emphctic with thousands at command, they
had no majority to give.
eh TIE great moral Of this crisis which is lust past
st, is, that there is Il people in Ohio altogether equal
to their own form of self government; they re.
4 quiIe their representatives to obey the restraints
/" of reason and justice. The time is quite recent
when these began to be violated in public places,
,r but the people and Legislature of Ohio have now
he settled it that force shall be no longer tolerated in
IF dellberative bodies and the people of she United
" States will soon come up to the SUPP ort of Con-
lie gress, if they expel every man who has violated
m his oath and duty by fraud,
In When force and fraud are forever banished from
all our deliberative assemblies, the great confeder-
alton and the greater cause Of liberty will. have
to secured the only conditions OF existence. Then.
Oh and then alone, justice with her even scales, will
M decide which way inclines the weight of reason
ms and argument in the adjustment of contentious
rt in the establishment Of the true, the right the
h, free.