Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-08-20

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episode of life. 1t was complete sue
cess in all its appendages. Nothing oc
currred to interrupt The joyous pleasures
of the occasion.-Spirt of Jc6srson.
From the Central Presbyterian.
Redemption of the Sabbath in N. York.
New York, July, 1859.
Messrs. EdiIors.-The rejoicing, of
the LombardS over their deliveranCe from
Austrian bondage are scarcely more sim
cere or general, than those pervading this
city over foreign despotlsm. For
twenty years, or so, Irish and German
dramseIlers, with springIing of Ameri-
cans have lorded i, over the people, with
but faint aud Intellectual resistance. "A
| Liquor Dealers Association" 5000
strong, and with the ampless pecnnlary
resources, entered lhe field of morals and
of politics. And in large measure our
city government and legislative delegation
took their type from this body. Excise
laws that stood between the seller and his
victim, or curbed the rapacity OF this
dreadful traffic, were practically annuled.
The tide Of pauperlsm, taxation and crime
rolled on with increasing volume from
year 10 year. The Lords Day became
saturnala. While all decent trades were
arrested, liquor-selling on Sunday be
came the path TO fortune, and 10 ruin.
The police returns showed lha, more
than 5000 dram-shops were i'll full blast
each Sunday, and they also proved an av.
erage increase of % pei CT. of arrests for
crime and disorder on that day above the
ordinary number on secular days.
Last December, the Sabbath commit
lee issued a document on the Sunday Ii
quor.ustfic, so cam in It's tone, and so
overwhelming in III statements, as 10 ar.
rest the attention Of the press and the pub
lc. Without word of invectve, II
grouped the facts and argument, which ap.
peaed to reason and conscience; and the
! foundation was thus laid for Reform so
general as TO have taken the city by sur
prise. After the matter Of that document
had been digesred by the press and the
people, careful memorial was addressed
to the Board of Police, signed by many
hundred of the leading citizens OF all par.
lies, creeds and crafts, at the same time
German petition with some 500 sigma
lures, invoked The protection OF The police.
The hquor.deslers rallied, but the more
respectable among them COunseIIed SUBJ
mission 10 the laws. A remOnslranCe IN
German and English. drawn and circuIa-
ted, by the Poet of The pol-houses an
aposlale clergyman was presented, in The
interest OF rum sellers. Meanwhile the
appointment of new Superintendent OF
Police, has fallen upon an honest, brave
and prudent man who enters office with
ample powers and cordial purpose TO
enforce to the utmost The Iong-desplsed
statutes against Sunday-tipplng. But
without waiting for his accession, the po-
lice captains have taken the matter in hand
and, on The last three SabbaihS nearly
every dram,shOp in the city tcas closed,
com plants being entered against the recu-
SAINTS. | passed through seven or eight of
the wards on Sunday last and can testify
to lhe lhoroughness with which the work
was done. The influence on the moral
condition Of the city was instantaneous
In some of tie wards not single arrest
was made for drunkenness, crime or dis.
order. In others the falling off was one
half, or more, in The average number, and
as a whole, The city en- joyed more of quiet
than for quarter OF a century before.
The Lords day is thus redeemed from
one of the viesl forms Of profanailon, and
the leemng masses of a great city freed
on their rest-day from one source-lhe
chief source of temptation 10 sin. The
machinery Of our government both judi
caI and executive, may be regarded as
having cast off the bondage OF the rum
power, and will be found working effec-
lively, it may be hoped on the side of or
der and virtue. Jurors now convict often
ders, and prosecuting officers forward
complaints. This state of things is chief
ly due TO the manly and credilsble stand
taken from The outset of this movement
by the Daily Press. With a unity the
most rea arkable and with consummale
ability. all our prominent Journals have
ranged themselves on the side OF The peo-
ple against their oppressors. The rell-
gious papers have been lockers on, Tor
The mos, parl; no, wba, they were indif-
fefen, g. the issue; but because the battle
was so much better fought by the secular
Journals, on grounds that admitted oil al
most no debate. As one resul' OF TINS
discussion, il is believed that The press ol
this city has frmer bold on the respect
and confidence Of The better portion OF the
community than ever before Another