Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-03-19

Me5srs. Editors; wish to correct the following sen
tence 10 one of your editorials Of Tuesday You SAY
laheT speaking Of the ~Father Matthew Temperance
So2iety Of this cy We believe that this society is the
only one in the city that maintains orsaniz tion for
the promotion of the temperance reform" nos, for the
information Of you ard your readers wish to say that
the above is the fact On the ga Of asst August
society for this obieet orme called the worcester
temperance Society The fiOw;ng officers we're chosen
at mas meeting. -PresideRt, George 81 Rice YiGe
PreHdeaB, Henry Griffin, J. G. Avams; StcTetary,
Nn, M-rorneyj Treasurer, Elbrdge Boy;ee; EEeca-
L are ComTtttee J. II. Wood, Blaisdeil, and T. W.
Thus You see, we have such an organic aon, but We
nave been so inactive, that DOM w8nder you did not
Know We were in existence. We have belonging to this
society niney-nine MEMBERS if take out the name Of
Professor acYey, VIA does not wish longer t. be a.e'
per on account Of the stupidity of the society," therefore,
aiew days before he left streets a. wrote at the end
o. nus name "RitlGragn." W. hope the members Of
this society will awake from their long sleep aud let this
community know that they alive, snd mat, If neces-
say, they can kick around among those dens Il tfannY
II IS little to5 bad hss there is no public seni
ment IN favor Of Temperance in clnmany. Are the
eyes OF the people blinded that they cHunat or will
nos see anything ou the Almighty do.isr? dut they
cover over everything else? The question asked, by
correspondent in your paper Tuesday, wb0the gam
pier was That took thetwenty dollars from the poog fellow
VINO committed suicide in Oxford, Immediately after he
returned tom this place. If the mars ney had been
stolen from him. the police would have lolni the thief
ions ago. Is gambling legal 10 this city! Is rum-elng
10 accordance with law? WIN.
If our correspondent had observed, with but
49, - - AAS hOulu nave stGi anu htLONi tiAHe
the present PROSTATE state of~the temperance
cause, which he so much bemoans, is owing to the
nJudicious and suicidal course which its protested
leaders have repeatedly taken in the politics of
the city. They have suffered themselves to be
made the dupes of designing men, and attempted,
under the pretence OF supporting temperance
ticket, to elect to the most responsible stations,
men IN whom they had little confidence them
selves, and who were repulsive to the feelings of
the people Thus they have run the whole thing
INTO the around. If, on the contrary, they had
worked with their respective parties, to produce
such state of public opinion as would make each
vie with the other, in bringing out for Office the
best men, in all respects, they would have con.
ciiated the partizan feeling of the people to their
cause, Instead of arraying it agant both them and
their cause
As to the queries so pathetically propounded
IN the concluding sentences of the communica-
ton, we would most respectfully refer the writer
for solution of them to the magnificent CITY
Government which he and his super Temperance
friends combined with the Know Nothings to fas-
ten upon the city, last December.