Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-03-13


and sustained traffic in men and in rum,
which are incomparably moro abominable
than any Of them, and,the fruitful source and
cause Of the whole. BY admitting Slavery
to be right because legalized by men, they
have diffuscd far and wide the idea that
that there is no higher law than human en-
that there is no such thing as i'm
Justice and right; that moral
principles are nothing in themselves, or arc
flexible or malleabc in the hands of men,
to be fashioned and shaped so as to conform
to their wills, interest or caprices! They
have punished crimes while they have fos-
tered and cherished those guzzling shops all
aroundus, where criminals are made by the
thousands. They have laid heavy hands
upon the victims of the rum traffic, while
they have lightly touched those more per
nicious men, who, standing amidst their in
fernal poisons, spider like, tempt the unwa-
ry to ruin. In view of these facts, we may
not marvel at the increasing crimes and the
downward tendency of public morals. We
need not wonder that our Fourth-of-July
laudatives arc but little more than unmean-
ing and truthlcss panegyrics. We need
not wonder that good men everywhere are
compelled to deplorc the undisguiscd men.
dacity of the political press, the heartlcss de-
pravity and knavcry of multitudes of p0iiti-
cal leaders and aspirants, and the demoral
ization everywhere diftlSed. No wonder
that the prophetic visions Of our future glo-
ry are darkencd with clouds, that portcnd
the doom of Liberty and reign of Despot-
ism.
Some object to stringent Liquor Law
on the ground that it cannot be enforced
The true question for MS to decide, is oWgh
such law tt exist If such law ought tC
be enacted and enforced, them it is our duty
to enact it, and throw the responsibility o
its enforcement upon the people whose bu
siness it is.
Do any believe that the rum traffic IS not
an evil Of sufficient magnitude to require lc.
gal interposition3 marvel indeed at such
an idea. All around US may be seer
the evidence of this necessity. 1t may be
read in all the blood begrimmed records Of
intoxication. It's evils are more numerou,
and aggravated than ever fell from Pando
ra's fablcd box. 1t is chargeable with al
the intoxicaton that ever cursed our race
1t is the drunkard's school, in which lesson.
of dissipation are taught and acquired
I Could we cut off the traffic, and annihilat,
the interest of the rumsellcr in this river o
destruction, we should soon cure the MOI
bid appetites of thousands now reeling t
an untimcly grave. We should dry up tina
turbid stream of woe, which none but de
mons can look on unmoved. So long a
the drunkard's schools arc tolerated all owe
the land, so long, will intemperance abount
) with all its uncounted evils. Such are tn
appetites and propesities of many that the,
cannot resist the temptations which eas,
access presents. And let me ask, what i
there in the traffic so sacred, that som
good men think it must be tolerated, amids
the wrongs and tears and blood it occasions
u | hold all groggeries to be public nuis
ances; and most of them | hold to be per
feet slop-holcs of Satan-disgusting cess
pools of human depravity and degradation
There NAV be seen the scared william, VIII
thinks to fill his Golfers out of blighted hope:
dcsolatcd homes and bleeding hearts. H
is planning to make your sons drunkard
and your daughters drunkard's wives. Lii
tie less vile, think him, than was the Arc
4 Hend, when he is said to have squatted i
, the bowers of Eden, to plot worlds ruin
, He may not, indeed, burn your building
$ but he may burn the brains of men wit
n his liquid fire, and thus prepare them to d
: the deed. There congregate the low, ii
: vulgar, the vicious and the Devil, to dri
i and revcl together, There may be seen IL
h stupi6ed, the hesotted, the imbruted, vii
d faculties deranged and tenderest affection
1, blighted, and all natural ties and endea
n ments forgotten. There are tremendo
Is losses, heart-rending accidents, diseas
n poverty, cold, hunger, shame, war
n despair and fear; riots, quarrels, assault
d and batteries, with their train of disastrov
;, heart-burnings, frightful deaths and appal
d ing funerals; sheriff's, prisons and the sea
of fold; the anxiety and woes of innocent wiz
r and children; the sighs of gray haired sir
1T over ruined sons; the piteous walls of be
W CARED children, and the pallid countenanc
W and unspeakable griefs of neglected mothe
a, and sisters. These and countless other wo
n. throng the mind, while looking over IL
a. gigantic source of misery. Could pityil
Is angels weep, they must often rain tears
e sympathy over the devastations of this tc
n rible destroyer Learned judges and 9th
It distinguished men everywhere, have e
n pressed the opinion that more than thre
% fourths of all the pauperism, broken forum
g and crimes of the land, may be traced to i
y temperance. But in democratic republi
G where all the institutions rest on the pc
: ple's suffrages, and all the laws result fro
@ the popular will, who can tell the mischie
IS Of this execrable traffic upon nations dc
s. tiny Then the ballot-box-the very thror
d ofa republic-nay often be controlled
), the maniacal influence of intoxication.-
Q Doubtless, many important elections, {
/ which immense public interests depend a
y decided by drunken rabble, who genera
S " cast their votes for men who most reser
Il BILE themselves. Then little, artless scou
y drelS, are sent to the Penitentiary; but Il
9 big ones, who can serve the Devil on son
: grand scale, and evade penal enactment
l. are generally sent to Congress, to "cru.
IS out" the rights and interests of the peop
l. or they are hoisted up into Presidential
5, judicial seats, to WELD the fate of million
d Then "the wicked bear rule and the peop
l. mourn" Then usurpations, ruffianism al
Q assassinations are sanctioned by Cover
| ment, while n patriotic devotion to hum,
n veal is punished as treason.
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