The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-03-25

Iers who violate the law. but the mo-
iment the bit is to be applied to their
lown mouths. how these men kick, and
writhe, and foam. Although the
words imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary" do not occur in the temperance
law of our State, yet how immeasur-
ably they denounce it for its supposed
| oppressive features with what
measure We mete, it shall be melted to
you again.
Il. The drunkard alone shall be
made responsible Tor the overt acts he
commits, and for ell public inaecency
or disturbance he shall be punished
severely.
I Yes, and this is exactly the spirit in
which the grogseller always wants to
act to the poor drunkard The drunk
ard must be punished, while the man
that knowingly, and wilfuliy makes
him drunk. aud robs him of his money.
must go free, and be recognized as q
respectable person. In all other
crimes before the law, the alder and
abettor TO the crime, must be punish
ed equal to the criminal himself; the
traffic in whisky must be the only ex-
ception The grogseller may be al
| lowed to make a man drunk-pat him
into condition to rob and murder
yet he, (the grcgseller), must be a
privileged character; the law shall
grant HIN the only exception from
punishment All other a;ders and
abettors shall be punished. All we
can say is, that if the people are sensi-
BILE, they will sustain laws which will
place the grogseller just on the same
level with every other person.
IS. The religious rites and cere-
monies of no church or person shall
be disturbed or interfered with, by
noisy and unruly demonstrations of
any kind, while the innocent and
cheerful enjoyment Of sensible and
decent people shall also be respected,
and not denied as long as they in no
way come in conflict with the relig-
ious convictions Of others, or do not
disturb church service or Worship
What a grandiloquent pronuncia-
lnento is this How modcstly do
these anti-temperanee men arrogate
unto themselves the high and trans
cendental position of the guardianship
of the churches. What conseryators
of piety and good order these men
have all at once become If history
and experience prove anything, 1t IS
tIldl tie Has lCd u iiOIC
disorders and disturbances of church
meetings than any other. If past eX
perience demonstrates anything, it is
that the grogshop is by far the great
est obstacle to the christian religion.
and to the spread Of christian church
es: and yet these very supporters of
the grogshop are wanting to lay the
fiattering JUNCTION to their souls, that
they are the tutelary Gods in whose
hands the peace and good order CT the
churches is vested. Verify. how has
Satan transformed himself into an
angel of Ii. ht!'
If the anti-tempcrance league cx
pect to hoodwink the people with such
declarations and assumptions as these,
we predict that they are reckoning
without their host. If this is the best
manifesto they can make, how utterly
barren of tenable reasons they are. 1t
we are not very far mistak Ken, people
have lived beyond such fossilized
ideas as these resolutions.
On the 18th, | spoke to large mass
meeting at Attica, and on the 10Th
and Goth to very large assemblages at
Covington. Everywhere | find that
the people are becoming intensely in
tcrested in the Temperance movement.
The tidal wave" is rising and expan-
ding in every direction. ". Il.
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