The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-02-18
Connecticut Republican state Con-

Yention.
The Republicans of Connecticut held
State Convention at Hartford on Monday.
Jan. 25, for the nomination of State officers
and delegates to the Chicago Convention.
The present State officers were re-nomina-
ted by acclamation as follows
Governor. VIM. A. Buckingham Lieut..
Governor, Julius Catlin; Sec. of State,
John Boyd; Treasurer, Lueius J. Hendee !;
Comptroller, W. III. Buell..
The resolutions adopted deprecate all
attempts to disobey or violate the Constitu-
ton or discover the Union; deploring and
condemning the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise condeznning the John Brown in
vasion expressing determination to put
down Disunionists and Slavery extension
lists, and restore peace and good government
to our country by the election of President
the opposite in every particular to the pres
ent incumbent favoring Homestead Law
and protection to American industry.
The Convention was large and harmo-
NOUS.
The Liquor Traf6c-Selling VS.. Drink
ing.
There is large class, even in this COM
munity, who argue that the acrony is in the
using and not the selling of intoxicating
drinks-that ii is the improper and perverted
use that produces the evils of which we
complain, and that the sale has no connec-
ton with, nor is the seller responsible for
such perversion.
Nowhere are the relations of society so
closely allied-nowhere are they so mu-
utually dependent, as in the great branches
of trade between the seller and consum-
er. It is the consumption that Gre
ates the demand, and the traffic is established
to keep up and increase that demand. 1t
has always special reference to the mode of
consumption, and upon that basis is it es-
tablished. Now there is only one mode of
consumption that sustains the liquor trade,
and that is its use as a common beverage
It is this use that creates the traffic, and it
is carried on with full knowledge of that
use, with all of its attendant evils. The
vender cannot escape the consequences of
the criminal act by pleading ignorance of the
nature of the article, or the purposes for
.vl;oh- it Ss0a aald There is not a retailer
in the land but knows the pernicious effects
of the articles he sells; and he sets his de-
canters before his victim in the full blaze of
burning truth-kands it to him to use for
the purpose of his injury-giUes him the
glass which he knows will disrobe him of
his humanity, and develope within him the
undying worm of the drunkard's woe.
If you sell servant arsenic for the pur-
pose of poisoning household, do you not
become implicated in the crime? If you
sell man laudanum and he drinks it in
your presence, with your consent, will not
an indignant public as well as Righteous
God lay the crime at your door? How
then can you escape if you sell slower
poison which you know will surely bring
the victim to a premature death? Who can
estimate the depth of the crime of enticing
youth. by gilded saloons and sparkling wine,
from the paths of virtue, into the descending
grade of moderate drinking, and along the
rapid course OF confirmed Gr;:;ed intoxiestion
Who's Is the crime, when enchanting al
lure}}d all bare thrown across every pathway
whe3 he young delight to walk. and vic
tims are taken from high stations, even from
the bosom of the church of God The
crime of the retailer falls with increasing
force unon the wholesale dealer and manu-
facturer. The law of human responsibility
runs back 70 the fountain head, and justly
holds the author of crime answerabls fol
its terrible consequences. We appeal. there
fore, to the dealer, as he rolls out cask after
cask of the liquid poison, to ask him SELF
seriously, what kind of mission this viii
accomplish.
I ALBANY EVENING JoURNAL.-The pros
pectus and terms of this most excellent pa
per will be found In The News of this week