Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-03-26
For tho Delaware Republican,


Mn. EDITOR THE recent Legislature has
done its work and adjourned.
The Democracy has had an unrestricted field
in which TO exercise its judgement and do its
viii in reference to the whole subject Of drum
kenness in Delaware II took the matter upon
itself as party question, and told the people
what il could do, and what il would do IL the
Democracy were clothed with the power of leg
slution.
Well, list. The Temperance Law to suppress
the evils of intemperance is repealed, and all
the law-defying violators of it are discharged
from both its penalties and its costs, and the
people arc saddled with the burthens imposed
by rebels--leadors in rum rebellion against
Constitutional law.
We all remember that the Democracy said
the temperance law was anti-republican in prin-
ciple, and excessive and cruel in punishment
unnecessarily scvere that the evils of intern
perance could be suppressed by well regu-
lated license law, And they promised the
people Il law, eectualy to protect society
against the evils Of incompetence, and free
| from the multitudinous objections they con-
stauty and ychemently urged against our tenn
perance law; law too, which could and would
be obeyed by the RummieS, and which could
and would be faithfully executed by the De-
mocrdcy. All this was magnificent manifest &,
a prctension which gained credence and carried
the day.
81. Very well, we have the promised law. 1t
is published by authority. 60 An Act regulat-
ing the sale of Intoxicating Liquors." This is in
contradistinction from the former, 'The Demo
cratic Liquor Lair.' II is not our purpose now
to analy2c its provisions, or test its character,
or speculate upon its results, yet we sec in IL
inequality and anti-rcpublicanism. The old,
odiOus and cruel penalties, (Sl0.OO fine and
twenty days imprisonment on the poor wretch
who sells the least drop without license,) are
| faut tra
ale amable, thy ways are lovely But we
would not oppose this law, We would not bring
it into disrepute, we would not lessen its au-
thority or cause its violation, or discourage its
enforcement. No. 1t is the law il ought to
be obeyed by all good citizens, and executed
by all good officers. For all the good it may
accomplish we arc thankful. But ii floods the
State with rum-any whcrc-every where at
any time. Any free white man or woman bo-
ing citizen, may sell without let or hinder
auue, for only $4,000, rum and whiskey enough
to destroy every thing lovely and of good re-
port, at any time or place; may delnge the
country with misery, crime, and death. But
we viii forbcar and wait the issues OF observa-
ton and experience Win the Rumlnies obey
this lawi II is their own liquor lglo. VIII the
Democrats respect and enforce it 1t is the
protection they oller to the people,
Will there be less liquor sold now than be-
fore The old establishments are being set In
order, and Rummies are getting ready. Will
public drunkenness and disturbance Of the
peace 10 lessoned2 There is no impeachment
or restraint upon it. This provision is rejected
entirely. We shall see time will devclope.
Let the PROPOSED christian patriot and philan-
thropist wait and see the work he has helped
10 do, and let him thank God for the fruit of his
vine. Let the democrat stand still and behold
the working Of the new principle Of his party
platform, carried out by his party, in party
law, cspousing the cause and interests of rum
for Il little filthy lucrJ to the State. Let Rum
ties shout their honid orgies around the ALTA
OF Democracy, and cry Democrats foreverl'
Democratic votes, like French bayonets, have
, trumphcd gloriously in re-establishing an obi
Gus despotism over the hopes Of freedom.
, Yours, VERITAs.