Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-03-27
OHIO STATE TEMpERANcE CoNvEN

The Convention met in Columbus on
the 18th E. Glover of Portsmouth,
President; H. V. Horton of Cincinnati,
NJ. II. Allardt of Cleveland, and G. II.
Croniger of Hancock county, Secretaries.
Carey of Hamilton, B. +. Morse of Lake,
Littler of Richland, J. 9. Pendleton and
Jno. A. Foot of Cuyahoga, was Commit
tee on business.
There were two hundred and eighteen
delegates.
Gen Carey, from the committee on
business, reported the following
RESOLUTIONS:
RESOLVED, That pledged temperance
men are specially bound to be true to
their pledge of abstinence from the use
of intoxicating drinks of all kinds. 1t
is better not to VOW, than to VOW and not
perform.
RESOLVED, That the Christian minis
try must ever be regarded as leaders in
every moral reform, and that as our
main hope of the final success of our cause
lies in the fact that it itappeals to the con-
sciences and moral and religious senti-
ments of manhood, we respectfully and
earnestly call upon the Christian pulpit
to utter its voice of entreaty and warn
ing, and not regard this vital question
as mere secular issue.
RESOLVED, That our cause has been
greatly injured by class of self-consti-
tuted lecturers, destitute alike of intelli-
gence and moral principle; who desire to
live by imposing upon too credulous
public-and that We urge upon the
friends of temperance, everywhere, to
withhold their countenance and support
from all such Notwithstanding no
professed lecturer unless his credentials
are well authenticated.
RESOLVED, That we re-affirm our con-
fidence in, and devotion to the princi-
Piles or the Maine Law, and that the
temperance men of Ohio will not cease
agitation and effort until the accursed
traffic in intoxicating drinks is entirely
prohibited by law, and those guilty of
violating such law are punished as other
criminals.
RESOLVED, That the universal adul-
teration and drugging Of liquors ought
to alarm all who are in the habit Of
drinking, and induce them to unite with
US in bringing the makers and venders
of these poisons to the bar of justice, that
they may receive the punishment due
their crimes.
RESOLVED, That the fraudulent man
ufacturers. of poisoned liquors and those
who sell them, knowing them to be poi
soned, deserve the halter as much as the
assassin who takes life by means of the
Bowie knife or other deadly weapon.
RESOLVED, That such amendments to
the Inspection law as would enable the
Inspector to demand access to liquors
and provide for the summary destruction
of all drugged and counterfeit liquors,
would, if enforced, empty every bar in
Ohio, and prepare the way for Maine
Law. And that, in the opinion of this
Convention, the present Legislature can
not do less than to protect the people of
Ohio from wholesale poisoning.
WHEREAS, Memorials purporting to
come from the friends of temperance,
morality and good order, have been pre-
sentcd to the General Assembly asking
that the question of changing the Com
stitution of Ohio, so as to admit of the
passage of law to license the liquor
traffic, may he submitted to the electors
of the State, ......
RESOLVED, That this Convention,
representing the various temperance or
CARNATIONS in the State, demonstrate
against the proposed modification of the
Constitution, and will steadily and per-
sistently oppose every effort to restore
the license system for the following rea-
sons:
First-This system, in this, and every
other State, has entirely failed to limit
or lessen the evils resulting from the
liquor traffic, and this State will com
pare favorably with any other where IL
cense law exists. -.
Second-The business of liquor sell
ling in this State is every year becoming
more disreputable, and hence the desire
and efforts on the part of the friends of
the traffic to restore the license system,
and thus give respectability to vile and
damning business.
Third--That we solemnly protest
against becoming participants in the
guilt, by receiving into the public
treasury revenue derived from rob-
berry and wrong. s
Fourth-If the traffic is wrong and re-
suits in injury to society, it is unjust and
anti Republican to license tiff right
and blessing, none should be prohib-
tied from engaging in it.
Fifth-A license law would bein di-
rect conflict with our 'bill of rights, y
which declares the right to enjoy and de-
fend life and liberty, pursue and obtain
happiness and safety, "inalienable."
Sixth-It is an outrage upon the in
telligence of a civilized people, to build
almshouses, lunatic asylums and prisons.
and then provide a way by law to fill
them. 1' ''t' -'..''-
7 Seventh-The great Law Giver, inf
mite in wisdom and goodness, never
licenses, but uniformly and universally
prohibits that which is wrong in itself,
or which results in wrong to His crea-
lures 4'
The resolutions were discussed in the
afternoon and evening sessions, and
unanimously adopted. Stirring speeches
were made during the proceedings. A
festival was given to the Convention.
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