Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-26
The Puritan Spirit i'm she Last
Legislature.

AcS SieidtuiS iOi buO PuipOSO VI ChoOCAn6 A.
Ohio the senseless laws on the subject oi
temperance, which have created more dissi-
patton in the New England States than
they ever did good, was one that owes is
paternity to Mr.. WILSON, Radical Sena-
tor from the Lawrence, Meigs, etc., Dis
trict.
| 1t provided that 1t shall be unlawful for
any person to sell, or in any way to dis
pose of to another, any intoxicating
liquors whatever, unless such person SO
disposing of such liquors shall have pre-
viously executed bond, to be renewed
every year, and delivered to the Prosecut-
ing Attorney of the county, in the penal
sum of two thousand dollars, payable to
the State of Ohio, with two or more securi-
ties, residents of the county, and ap-
proved by the County Commissioners
conditioned that the person executing the
bond will not sell or dispose of any intox-
icating liquor to any person in violation OF
the statutes of the State. For q violation
of the law, the penalty is fine of not more
than one thousand and not less than five
hundred dollars, for which fine and the
costs of suit the property of the person SO
selling liquor, real and personal, without
any exception whatever, shall be held. AS
soon as judgment is pronounced, the seller
of the liquor shall forthwith be committed
to the Jail of the county until such fine and
costs are paid, but the County Commis-
sioners, with the consent of the Prosecut-
ing Attorney, may, release the seller from
iail. after he has been incarcerated for
ninety days, provided he has no means to
nav any portion of such fine and costs, but
such discharge shall not release him from
the payment of the fine and costs.
The ninth section of the bill made 1t ap-
ply to all parts of the State except cities OF
the first and second class, which section
was subsequently stricken out.
In its passage through the Senate and in
the House until the final vote was taken
thereon, it was amended In several partic-
ulars, each amendment making it more
stringent.
On the question of its passage in the
House it was defeated, yeas 30, nays 35, as
follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative
were
Messrs. Alexander, Banning, Barrett.
Boynton, Bronson, Bruff, Burbage, Clark of
Guernsey, Clark of Harrison, Coulter, Gu
sac, Dangler, Davenport, Deford, Fox, Fur
mas, Gallup, Gardner. Green, Hanson. Hare,
Hitchcock. Hoover, Hough. Howard, Kerr,
Kibbee, Kramer, Lockwood, Lybrook. Mar
tin, Masters, McMorran. Myers, Northway,
Oren, Patton, Phillips, Piatt, Rhodes, Saw
yer, Schneider, Shipley, Stedman, Tripp,
Welsh, Wiles, Williams, Wood and Par
rott] Speaker-50.
These who voted in the negative were
Messrs. Ault Beer, Bunce, Cist, Coan,
Cochran. Denman, Fitch, Fitzgerald,
Gas on, Gordon, Headly. Heller. Hendricks,
Hibbs. Hill, Hughes, Jones, ResSler, Lar
will, McMarrell, NIXON, Parks, Perrill,
Pennisten, Putnam, Reed, ROsecrans, Rut-
ter, Sorber. Stanton, TGfel, Thornhill,
Worth and Young-35.
Every vote of the affirmative was Rad
ical Negro Suffrage Republican, except
one-every vote in the negative, except
those marked in italic, were Democrats.
Until the bill was so amended as to in
clude the city of Cincinnati, seven of the
nine Republican members from that coun-
ty favored it, but because. as one OF the
Hamilton delegation said, it would lose us
(the Republicans votes in Hamilton coun-
ty, Messrs. Cist, Cochran, Kessler, Nix
on, Stanton, Tatel and Young voted against
it. Messrs. Fitzgerald and Bunce, of the
same delegation, were understood to vote
against it on principle-Mr. Coan. of Cler-
mont, changed his vote from yea to nay,
in order to move reconsideration of the
vote by which the bill was lost, which he
did.
Thus, every single member of the domin-
ant party in the House of Representatives,
except FITZGERALD and BUNCE, was really
in favor of this Puritan Legislation. 1t
lacked but three notes of becoming la,o.
So resolved were the majority to pass
it, that Mr.. DANGLER, of Cuyahoga. de-
termining that it should not even
be discussed, demanded the previous
question, in order to prevent the opponents
of the bill from moving to strike out some
of the obnoxious portions or to discuss its
m .rits. and DANGLER's gag was sustained,
and the bill, by close vote. was defeated,
lacking, as we before said, but three votes
of its passage.
Such legislation conld not be enforced in
Ohio, without doing great injustice. Be-
cause man sold glass of liquor, without
giving bond in the sum of two thousand
dollars, his fine of $500 to $1,000 is to be
paid instantly, or the man go to jail, and
his wife stripped even of her clothing-the
cradle of his child sold to pay the debt,
while the husband is forced to remain in
Jail for ninety days, unless the judgment
be sooner paid, is kind of legislation SO
i'll -proportioned to the crime, that the minds
of all good citizens must revolt at it. Yet
such was the legislation attempted last
winter by those who wish to enforce Negro
voting on the people of Ohio.
The Fear of a Radical Outbreak
in Nashville
The telegraphic dispatches set forth
state of affairs in Nashville that, unless
prevented by the action of Gen. THOMAS
will lead to bloodshed.
The charter election in that city comes
on Saturday next. The city charter is
full and explicit as to the mode and man
ner the election shall be conducted. AS
t ie charter provides, the judges of election
h I'VE been appointed.
Governor BRowNLow has given notice
that the Judges shall not be appointed in
the manner the law provides, but his
creatures, the Commissioners of Registra-
ton, shall appoint them so as to allow ne
groes to vote. The ablest lawyers in
Nashville have decided that BRowNLow
and his minions cannot set the law aside
that the Governor, by proclamation, can
NOT snnercede the laws of the land. Yet