The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-06-29
Inebria Asylum.

Dir Editor,-I see in your issue Of the i2th
instant an appeal 10 the clergy in behalf of
the inebriate asylum. ], for one, wish
promptly to respond to that appeal. I will
give twenty-five dollars toward building a
penitentiary in which, to place the drunk
asd-maker, TO be safely kept at hard labor
athe svails Of which shall 60 TO the sup
port Of The druukard and his family till he
shall give good security that he will never
again aE4ict the community by selling the
drunkard's, drink, or by manufacturing drum
kards for viruous people to take care of.
What say the sober part of community to
this proposition? Will you be silent while
,he rum interest takes shelter professe6ly
under the broad seal of the constitution, and
the traffic is taken to the bosom of state
laws, and large class of respectable fek
low citizens take the victims of the horrd
traffic to an asylum, and then appeal 10 the
virtuous for their support? Such is the ef-
fron,ery of rum, such the consistencyM the
state, such the property of the appeal made
TO the clergy.
The state legalizes the traffic in rum,
knowing certainly that krundeness will be
the result, and while the rumselief goes un-
whipped ofjustice, the vir,ucus part ofccm-
nnniiy must be taxed in a thousand ways
for its support. This is grand outrage!
What would be thought if the state should
take it into its head to legalize the breeding
OF wild and detructive beasts, TO be turned
out to make their depredations in the com.
munitya Would there not be heard an un.
mistakable cry against the outrage How
much louder would be that cry Of an out
ragged community, if in addition TO this
wrong, they should be taxed 10 thousand
ways for it's continuance, and still in addi-
tion be asked TO contribute of their virtu.
ously gotten means to prepare an inclosure
10 which TO place and take care of these
animals, and if possible render them harm
less, and then to be turned out to be caught
up by geatlemsnly breeder TO be made by
him as ferccicus as before, and all this at
the public expense, while the breeder is
enriching himself, and moving about as q
gentleman!
In such case If the community could
not get legal redress and protection they
would protect themselves. dispute the law,
and all would say amen. 1t would not ap-
pease their indignation to tell them the bu-
siness is legalixed, and to put stop TO it
would be guilty interference with mans
business.
) Change this supposed case, and substi-
tuse men for beasts, and the application of
the argument is not difficult.
Our fathers and sons are converted into
something as ierocious as wild beasts, while
The man who does this respectable work is
odding 10 the wiekedness of that work itself
10 sin Of robbing his victims and their
1amiIies. At the same time we are told
that these men are gentlemen. and their
business must not be interfered with. The
stata sakss the rumseller to its bosom, and
signldeanily says, Do my favorite pets no
When wilhan outraged people earnestly
demand proteci'an against this greatest out
ragei Then Nstall they be free.--From
ihs Chr,siian Adcos1is and Journal.
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