American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1867-02-20


of families and the profanity of the bar
rooms, all to be treasured up in Gods
just retribution against the people Of
Butler county who are called upon to
grant this license, 18th Ne have ha'
no license in parts of this county for
whole year, aud no person has been iH-
jured no persons wife has been beaten,
because whiskey has not been sold. No
person has been found lying in the gut
ter senseles, merely because he could
not get whiskey. No mother has been
found in the silent hours of the night
ctying, merely because her husband was
deprived of the intoxicating bowl, l4th.
It is no part Of the necessary entertain
ment of public house. These rinetcen
houses have all been entertaining the
public to everything necessary, without
license and eau continue to do So The
citizens of the county don't need it. and
the traveller, VIXEN he calls at a public
house in Butler county, don't want a
fiery bowl that will burn his stomach,
scar his conscience, take away his senses,
destroy his affections and make himself
and his Friends miserable and leave a
miserable recollection of his entertain
ment he merely wants his horse cared
for, a good fire, good supper and good bed
and in the morning, after he has feasted
on good warm huckwheat cakes and hon
ey, for which our county is so famous, he
goes on his way rejoicing in the full in
ioymeut of all his senses. 18th. Rum
sellers knew it is wrong. never knew
mau to sell whiskey to his neighbor
a.. d cultivate his taste for the poison ,un.
ill he made him confirmed drunkarc
and himself an d his family miserable
| but what he wou ID stand behind his bacl
aud say to the decent topper: "Thore is
fine man, pity he drinks So" And whe'
the man was carried to drunkard' I
grave, the Rpmseller was IN the train G
mourners, and loudest in eulogy of th'
good qualities Of the deceased, "but h
only had ope failing, he would sometimes
take too much" always thought thi'
was hardihood at which Satan nigh
blush. And trust the day has come
when the people who have the power
("but not the right'), viii not thus Ii
cense murder 16:h. | protest agains
it in the name of each of the Ten Com
mandmeuts, which itdirectly or Indirect
ly violates 17th. protest against it il
the name OF every one of the youth o
our land, who have not yet been school
ed to crime
18th, | protest against 1t in the nam
of the Sacred Volume, which says, AN
druukard hall iuherit the Kingdom 0
Heaven" 18th, protest against it il
the name of all the catalogue of crime
daily committed by meu undeF the infu
epce Of Yhiskey, which John gap neithe
obscure nor obliterate by his tale of to
bacco or smoke 10th. | protest again 5
| it in the name OF the conscience of ever,
one of these nineteen mon, who know
that they ask what they should not, ant
what po person or persons have a mora
right to grant. 2lst, | again protes
against it in the nawe Of the ladies o
Butler, who entreat the Hon. Judg
Moulin, Judges GaFyey and Cummins
in consideration of all the undcniabl'
facts herein before mentioned, not t
+ grant license, permission or power unde
the law, for dram sellers to stand upor
the dark g aves Of those they have muF
dered and continue their iniquity.
EMMA.
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