The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-06

stential Democrat s-such asare usual +
" sent up from sound Democratic
counties like Posey, Martin, Dubois,
Warrick, Knox and Daviess.
But. says the Couriey-echoing
Judge RoBINsoN-the originallaw, al |
though it was passed through q Re
publican Legislature and by Demo
cratic votes, as we lave shown)-Te- /
ceived the sanction Of Governor VIII
LARD because it provided no penal.
tn for Sunday sales." We will exam
inc this proposition. We copy the
following section from the Act of
1859:
SECTION S. A license granted under the
provisions oLthls act shall not authorize
the person so licensed to sell or barter aDy
Intoxicating liquors on Sundays, nor to
any person under the age of twenty-one
years, nor to person or persons in a
stale of intexication, nor upon tho day
of any State, County Township or NUM-
clpal election in the township or city where
the same may be holden.
Now, it strikes as, that under the
provisions Of this section, every
liquor dealer who sells on Sunday is
liable to be prosecuted for selling
without license. under Section 10,
Of the same law. Section 8 ex-
pressly refuses to grant the right to
sell, and if he sells, he runs the risk
of prosecution for selling without
license. precisely as he would do
on any other day of the
week. which his license did not
cover.
But let us look again at the amend
ment to the law which the Courier
calls Proscriptive Sunday Law, that
the Republican party has imposed
upon the people. It will be remem-
bered that the Legislature Of 1865
was so intensely Radical that the
| Senate elected Mr.. A. I. WHITTLE-
! sEY Principal Clerk, by majority OF
two votes. Surely, if the Democrats
: were strong enough to elect the prin-
: cipal officer of the Senate, they were
strong enough to defeat measure to
! which that party was so bitterly op.
} posed. But. by reference to the SEN
ate Journal, we find only one Demo
. crat of the rs who supported Mr.
: WHITTLEsEY for Clerk voting against
!. this terrible Sunday Law. Every
: single Democratic Senator from this
Congressional District voted for the
atrocious Sunday Law, in Senate O.
: which Mr.. WHITTLEsEY, the present
? editor of the Courier, was Clerk. Yet
in the face Of this fact, b,
e presumes upon the ignorance 0
. his readers to the following extent
We copy from Saturdays Courier:
= The Democratic party, through days o
= darkness and of sunshine, have opposed
- compulsory temperance legislation, ant
for the future our motto is the repeal Q
all laws that cIrcamscrIbe liberty of con
y science, chief among which is our "SUNDAl
OL LAW" passed by . radical legislature ant
u approved by Governor MoRToSl
~ Downwith this shameful tniquity!
. BAIL such hypocrisy could only d.
d credit to a North American. savage
Ouch p0Hucal chicanefy ought 10 dis
IS gust every intelligent man in the com
q munity.
'e But, turning from the Senate t.
b the House, where the Sunday Law
N so-called, originated. we find tina
20 only five or six Democrats in all tn
= House of Representative vote
1t against this compulsory Temperance
1t legislation u
D We have devoted this much spac
l. to the Coricr's whangdoodle style 3
.. manufacturing what it coneeives to b
p political capital, because We desire tn
people to be correctly informed Of tn
8, facts in the case, and not to be misle
s. by that papers persistent perversions