Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-03-10
TUNKIANNOK WYOMING co. Pa MARCH, TO- 81

/ the aged parents, whose son, the stay OF
their old age, is lured into the dens of this
! demon, whose calling, so cursed and nefa-
rious, is made honorable (God save the
markl by the countanence of statutes, and
! license, and public assent. Have these no
right to be protected by law, are they to be
| left to the tender mercies of this demon,
and his minions with their traps, and
snares; their gilded palaces, and alluring
resorts? Some say this is matter in
which we should conine ourselves to NOR
al suasion Why not confne ourselves to
moral suasion in the matter of theft or for
gerry or extortion, for God puts drunken
ness i'll the same category, for he says,
'ENor thieves, or drunkards, or revilers, or
extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of
God Suppose man steals your horse, you
have law that ''if he is caught, will give
him ten years confinement, at hard labor ;
here is another man, that, step by step, by
means of this internal traffic, leads your
son, your Joy and pride and hope, into the
path of ruin, both of body and soul, for
time and eternity, your son whose happi-
ness and hopes and prosperity, is of more
value to you than thousand horses. The
one you punish with ten years of hard and
dreary confinement; the other, the greater
criminal, in as much as the man with all
his hopes and possibilities, is infinitely
greater than any mere property you let
go free, because, forsooth it is wrong to
make laws to restrain him. Shame on
your logic, on your wisdom, on your JUS
tice! In the name of humanity, in the
name of justice, give the man that sells or
gives this thing to any human being as
beverage, ten years in the penitentiary, and
the thing IS done. Ii men can't sell it,
men won't buy it. You need not think to
stop it by attempting to stop the manufac-
ture. 1t viii be smuggled in q thousand
ways, 10 long as men can buy and sell it.
But stop the sale and the whole thing is
dead. And now to the main question
Can this monster, this despot Alcohol be de-
throned? We answer, yes, assuredly yes,
as surs as the Lord God Omnipotent reign
eth, yes, as soon as the people through the
ballot-box tey it, his Kingdom is at an end,
as soon as they say we will vote for no leg
islator, that will not help to make laws
against the miserable traffic, that they viii
vote for go officer that will not execute the
laws, for no Judge that will not condemn
the criminal, and the diadem of crime and
tears and death, falls from his doomed
brow. His grave is dug, his winding sheet
is made, and he will soon be buried beyond
the fear of a resurrection. But can the !
people be induced to do this BY the
grace of God they can. We must agitate, |
and talk, and teach, and preach, and write, |
and organize, and make sacrifice Of time, |
and money, and interest, and the object is |
worth thousand times what it will cost. |
We must battle nobly and manfully and |
persistently. For, it is to be the greatest |
moral and political contest, the country |
has ever seen, and, we are already entering |
upon it !; let us grid up our loins, and |
like men. Success is sure, for |
God is on our side, and We cannot fail if |
we pray and fight, honestly and earnestly. |
Who thought eight short years ago, that
Slavery, that gigantic evil, could, by any
possibility, be removed from our fair land. |
And yet to-day We stand in a broad land,
every acre OF which, is consecrated by the |
to freedom forever, and the
curse that divided the church, and the State, |
and deluged our fair land in blood and |
tears, and sunk twenty-six hundred mil
ried, and our deliverance is worth all it
cost. And now if we can be freed from |
this other and greater curse, long stride |
will be taken towards the millennium. But |
the good cause must have its martyrs and
trials, its John Brown, and Fort Sumpter,
its Bull Run, and it's fredericksburg, its
Libby Prison, and its Harper's Ferry, its
Booth, and its Alabama. But with the |
help of God it is destined also, to have its
Port Hudson, and its Vicksburg; its Sher-
man, and its Sheridan; its Wilderness, and
its march through Georgia its Petersburg,
and its Appomattox; and finally its Grant
to successfully fight it out on this line, un-
til unconditional surrender, crowns Tenn
perance King forever. And let all the peo-
pie say An'ea.
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