The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-01-13


We do not wish to be accused of vain
Boosting. when we say there are individual
engaged in one branch of business whom
we never visit, from the fact that their oc
cupation is to destroy everything noble an
OF good report about their fellow men, and
SO brutalize and degrade their natures, as tc
change their likenesses from the image o
their Maker, to that Of the fend incarn ate
We will not loan what little responsibility
we may have, by entering their foul dens
for we regard their business as the founda
ton and prolific source of every crime
known TO the statute. Yet, as low down in
the deepest depths Of infamy as we do re-
gard the drunkard manufacturer, we will
not knowingly do him injustice by a mis-
statement of his position.
Notwithstanding our expressed repug-
nance above to visiting liquor sellers lab
oratory, we do receive an occasional pisit
from one Of this class, and on Thursday,
after the paper was issued, and whilst busiy
engaged at press. the proprietor Of the
Cassel House, Mr. Kirtley made his appear
ance and desired us to say that Sam Cassef
IS no partner Of his-that he. himself is the
sole proprietor Of that House-that the "a
pieces Of silver was not divided between
him and Sam, DC. He further informed us
that the grand opening of the Cassel on
Christmas, was ''in accordance with high
toned Southern principles-'twas the way
he had been used to in Kentucky" DC. II
the disgraceful scenes that occurred m his
house Christmas, are what Mr.. K.
terms "high toned Southern principles"
may Heaven in its mercy save our city from
being again selected the place in which to
exhibit the deuH opment of such principles
Twas the first time our eyes ever rested
on the new proprietor Of the Cassel. and we
must say that he is both polite and gentle
manly in his manners, well calculated to do
fifty fold more harm in the internal liquor
traffic than was his predecessor and. there
fore. it is that we the more deeply deplore
his connecting bar with the legitimate
business of bookkeeping. because of he per-
nicious influence he will exercise over re-
spectacle men-old as well as the young
in inveigling them into his house aud Undue
ing them TO partake of the damning cup.
Looking at the woful results Of the traffic
that are daily transporting around us-the
burning Of house on Thursday night
last. the torch to which was applied by
liquor seller. Through the agency of drunk
en- husband and father for the sake of a
small piece of silver-the freezing to death
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his home murdered. aye. murdered by
inches, for the sake of the five cents that
are now in the poke. of Hugh O'Bryan.
whose sign has on it: Lire and let Liret'
selling, we say, the man who so recently
opened out the same business on high /.
toned Southern principles here in our
midst, must not be surprised at the plain
talk he hears from that subject. He
must not be surprised to hear his name used
as a by word and reproach by every friend
Of temperance and good order in Richmond,
as long he continues selling lis Cassel
liquors on "high toned principles. which.
we beg TO assure him, is but prelude to the
sale Of precisely the same article on lac
toned principles. in the most degraded hell
hole in city.
We cannot conclude this article Of taking
back" the intimation made in our last No
Of a partnership existing between Messrs
kirtley and Cassel. in the 10 cent liquor
business, without congratulsting the latter on
getting out of q traffic that carries in its
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must, he cannot but feel better for the change.