Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-08-24

A MAINE Law IN EFFECT The Carson
Leaguers. or total abstainers, have bit upon
new dodge to check and they hope 10 great
measure to stop the retail liquor traffic The
temperance law, the intention which IL to
regulate the sale OF liquor in less quantities than
quart, provides for an appeal from the County
Commissioners, who empowered grant
licenses. to the Circuit Court, If the Commits
sioners refuse applicant. all right but If they
grant license. the temperance organization
appeal from the decision OF the Commissioners
by Hing their protest. appeal bond. &c This
action suspends the issning of the license. until
the appeal is determined OF course this makes
delay, which Is the object in view. and sharp
practitioner can proerastinate the suit almost
indefinitely Even If a case should come to trial,
in empaneling jury, some one of the twelve
may have such tender conscience upon the
liquor traffic as to hang is, The disagreement of
the jury Is reported to the Court, and new trial
may be ordered to be followed by a similar pro
ceedure. By this plan the temperance men hope
TO make the Indiana liquor statute partially a
Maine law. And the same course is TO be adop
ted ali over the State 10 prevent defeat the
granting of licenses. lt is a shsrp dodge, will
make paying work for the attoruies. aud il N ,
win while. But one thing is certain, the sale
OF liquor by retail may be hedged in BY all sorts
of legislative and legal restraints but the use of
intoxicating drinks will not be prevented by such
agencies The judgment and conscience OF men
must be convinced. before any moral reform will
become general and lasting. The reformers
proceed upon the untenable idea that the OF
liquor is a crime--a sin-and not the abuse OF it
which is the wrong For this reason the tenn
perance movements, especially those which
looked to legal restraints TO prevent the use of
intoxicating drinks, have proven failures, and
human nature has not changed since the creation
Of man.
GREAT OUTRAGE on NEeRoEs-A few DAYS
since Q number of negroes got the Cincinn ii
train TO 20 TO Shelbyvills. 10 attend a negro fu-
neral. In the hrst car there were number of
soldiers who would not permit the negroes to sit
BY them, not having taste for such a scent; in
the next car we're a number of ladies who had no
taste for having negroes in the same seat with
them. The last car was filed with ladies and
the negroes were not permitted to enter that
The result was that while the dsrkies we're trsv-
cling around hunting seats. the two first cars be-
came filled with white passengers TO such an ex
tent that many white persons were without seats
and compelled 10 stand, and the negroes we're
compelled TO share the same fate of tbir unfor-
tunate white brethren and stand also.
Ii was certainly an outrage that the negroes
should be requiredrto stand. when white ~omen
and men had seats they might have vacated for
their accom- modation, and we think il very pro
per that they should give public uttessncs to their
grievances They therefore rush into print in a
communication in the Journal of yesterday; but
notwithstanding the prOverbal honesty and We
racity of the negro race, they make few mis-
statements of fact: that injustice to the Conduc-
tor they attack we desire to correct.
First. They were ordered from the first car. Of
which they proposed to take possession, by sol
diers. and not BY the employees of the road.
Second They were no, permitted to occupy
the second car, because there were G number q {
white ladies IN il. occupying seats, who did not
wish negroes to occupy seats with them and
there were no vacant seats except those partly
occupied by ladies.
Third. They did not speak 10 the Conductor
at all, nor did he speak to them. give them
any orders &c TO where they should or should not
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They stood up. many white men did. and
perhaps suffered more than they, in consequence
OF the characteristic and unfortunate weakness
of thar shins.