The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1858-12-30
The Casse1 House.

many Of these in early lile-when the shield
Of mothers influence had protected them
from tie rum -seler's power. Some had even
fondest hopes and ambitions-some had ac-
quired respectable positions in society, and
bid fair to win for themselves distinction,
ard confer upon their country the blessed in
lucnce Of honest. moral, upright lives in their
example. But in some unfortunate hour,
each lad sought the wine cup in the respec-
toJle hotel-in the parlor, the store, or under
the witching influence of generous, social
hospitality. where it h0nora6le to drink.
The appetite once excited they sought it in
less respectable circles and step by step they
went down, until in crowds of bloated, stag
gering, scnseless. miserable beings they con
gregated around and in and all over the Cas-
sci house. Once there, friends gave up all
hopes Of eforuation-humau nature gave
place to the british instincts, and they were
prepared 10 commit any act Of violence,
which their crazed brain might suggest
Many Of them having dsgraced themselves
-wrung tears OF sorrow from hearts that
nurtuerd and cherished them, have gone
down to the dark chambers OF death"--iil-
ling a drunkard's grave and their souls with
ing ii the agones OF 'druukard's hell.''-
Others are still on earth, moral pestilence
blasting with their pcstiferous breath every
thing good with which they come in contact
Others are incarcerated in prisons, while
their families are fed by the hand of charity.
Such are the inevitable results Of the liquor
traflie--aiways have Teen and forever will be.
Like all other great sins, their beginnings are
small. The appetite must be form ed and at
first the physical and moral nature revolts at
contact with it. Not one in ten Of the in
ebrates in the land formed this appetite in
low doggery, such as the Cassel House has
been for years, but precisely in such places
as il is said the Cassel House is hereafter to
be FIRST class. respecta5le hotel, with a
..hell hole" dressed up with all the gaudy /
trappings Of aristocracy. No IoGtcr is to be +
permitted about the house---even its own
graduates are to be kicked from their a2Dla
mater, as soon as their phys natures have
become corrupted and their moral powers
destroyed. Il is to be simply maanuJactur-
aAg establishment where drunkards are To be
made.
This Cassel House opened on Christ
mas eve, SO it is said. on "frec blow" and
no frey furnace ever sent forth more
consuming. burning and destroying blast of
flame. We passed it about nine o'clock in /
the evening, and saw there young men
-4gank, Mha-Me presume never entered that
house, under the Old regime, 1t was then
too low, bus now no man need be ashamed
to visit yiyst class hotel; with the assurance
that it is rcsPccto5let We have never seen
the proprietor of this netc Cassel House. He
is doubtless gentleman in the worlds ac
ceptatiou of that term; and in all things ex-
cept the selling of liquor, may be, and pro-
baby ii, an honorable man. Personally. we
shall have controversy with him, but so
long as he follows the infamous business Of
selling liquor, however high his professions,
he may expect us to be enemy to that part
OF his business, and we shall hold up his traf
fc and its effects upon community in its true
light. and with no sparing hand. If it wero
right Ito DO evil that good may come from
it," it might be good policy to encourage the
low doggery where only the most degraded
and most confirmed drunksrds resort; thew
only hurry on the work of death already be-
gun--they invade no happy home-they
make no drunkards; but those fashionable
hells enter the sanctuary Of the happy hearth /
stone. and tear thcrefrom its brightest and
most generous souls. They corrupt the pur-
est fountain and launch their victims on the
broad stream whose current leads to death,
and finely lands its passengers in a drunk
ard IL hell.
We invite the attention of our citiz ems 10
this res pectable .'heH" which has been es-
tablished in the Cassel House. and ask them
10 let no false delicacy debar them from ex-
pressing their condemnation of the business
carried on there. 1t is change. but no i'm
provement 70 the city; on the contrary il VIII
bring more disgrace upon the city than a
dozen such establishments as were formerly
kept in the house. 1t is unpleasant to speak
thus of the business of stranger, and if he
will give up the selling of liquor he will find
none more ready than ourselves to sustain
him in his business. !;
Since the above was written, twenty-four
hours have passed by, and the Csssel House
has commenced its history. God forbid that /
this one day is to be type of future days /
in that respectable hotel. This too, was Christ I
mas day--a day held sacred and holy through. 4
out the Christian world-the l85sth ami
versary of the advent Of the Son Of Cod
How sinful and inappropriate are drunken.
oachaualian revels on such day. 1t was
TO redeem the world from sin that this sax
was consecrated by the browning act of Gods /
mercy to sinful people-the giving of bis
own son as "a sacrifice g.