American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-06-27
RUNS -SUFFERINGS.

tngs' but what are we to understand
by R@na's suDcrings. We mean that
portion Of Society who have been made
most severely to suffer from Rum, have
recently in certain places taken it into
their heads To retaliate and make rum
suffer at their hands.
The chiefsnferers by"Rum's doings"
everywhere, and tho victnrs in "Rum's
Sufferings,' in the present instances are
women Let who will be made merry
by rum, women are sure 10 be suffer
ers. M matter whether fathers. bus
bands, brothers or sous are the drink
ers, women are the Victims.
Who then can, with more proprie,y.
rise in deleuse of the peace of home,
aud The sanctity of its endearments, the
protection of childhood, the rescuinc
of youth and manhood from the avari.
cious gasp of their comforts Destroy
ers. and their lile's torrentors than
women! Who may so appropriately
petition the makers aud the executors
of Law, for redress of grievances as
women} And who. when, as has been
The case again and again, spurned with
and ridicuie from the seats
of power, and having reached at that
point, where "furbearance ceases To be
virtue" driven by desperation to des'
perate remedies, have. a better right to
all the means of self protection and
eeli:defense than womenl In The land
thar "fall lands, recognizes their 'srightS'
to full share of the blessings, which
q well regulated government can be.
stow, they are by the present system
of legalized vice. often subject to ex-
treme ill-treatmen'. without correspon
ding redress. Often their very clothes.
earned 10y their own hard labor, are
taken by worthless husband and sold
or pawned to still more worthless rum.
seller, for on increased supply Of domes-
tic wretchcdness. Who then can blame
them, if they do, sometimes, overs,ep,
what otherwise, would be the bounds
of propriety, to break up and anuihi-
late the sources Of their misery and
wrongs? But to the facts.
The June number OF the Pr0hibitiOn.
ast records The following list of places,
in which the women, sometimes persua-
sively aud praceahly pnd sometimes
by toIcr, and even OF the risk of life or
limb, have been The means of "clcan-
ing out" all or nearly all the grogshops
IN their vicini,ies
Milbridge, Me-; Lock Port, Mass .;
East Randolph. N. Y; Huron. Wake
man, Salem, Moscow, kirtland, Lima
Albany aud Bellrille, Ohio; California;
kyi Moorsville, Vienna. Princeton
Mmsantown and Greensbnrg. Ind !:
Hanover and Eu,l.iIle, H.; Plat,svile,
Wis; Chesterfield, 5. G.
In some ofthese places they first Wis
tied the grogshops and demonstrated
with the keepers against furnishing
their husbands, sons and brothers with
liquors. They are generally REPRESENT
ed by the papers as "the most respect
able ladies in the place. They went
sometimes sihgIy, bat generally in com
tDiltees, and in few instances in
crowds of from 70 to more than 100.
In every case their success was com
ple,e. lfthry could, they bought the
liquor aud poured it out, extorring a
solemn pledge "f the vepder, that he
would sell no more. IF worst came TO
worst as was generally the case they
"Siesed,' the liquor aud demolished
casks, kegs, demij"bns. bottles. &c, &c.
In mt solitary instance were they
hatlied in their undertaking. In each
case toos the newspapers, in the vicini.
ties of thci, victories, have expressed
their app,"bulion aud commended their
hrroisn. In two or three cases they
were prosecuted. bnt always acquitted.
In sCme instances the men of the vicin-
tiles. 81 cn"raged and cheere6 them
In one they offered their assistance,
bu, il was reruscd. The ladies were
determined to do their own work in
their own way.
We have long since been persuaded,
that il The ladies Of our country would
take this matter earnestly in band and
in all cases lend it their united influence,
The work would he accomplished the
abotiiuable Rum traffic would DO ban.
ished from our land, thousands of yalp-
able lives would be saved, and tens Of
thousands of now ~retched families,
made happy.
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