Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-08-05
Gen. Neal DOw-His High Testl-
mOnlals.

| From the New Orleans Democrat
Neal Dow, the great ProhibitiOnist o
Maine, enters the arena for the Presi
Dental contest and promises to prove q
formidable riyal of Garfield. Neal is q
straightouter on blOOdy-sllirtism and
the abolition and prohibition of the sale
of alcoholic and vinOus spirits. He IL
the author of the great Maine law. His
party is made up exclusively of Radi-
Gals, and he expects to reinforce it large
| ly from the ranks of the disguised
Blaineites. He enters the field bearing
in one hand Blaine's bloody shirt and
in the other an empty, inverted whisky
bottle. Garfield has lodged and equiv
as on all others. His record is blurred
thereon. Meals is perfect and complete
on both. He illustrated his tenacity to
both during his military career, which
was passed i'm this State. Coming hith-
er with a regiment from Maine in the
army of Butler, in 1862, he achieved
great distinction fo' his indefatigable
efforts to enforce prohibition among his
own soldiers and the prisoners placed
In his charge. He brought home to the
"diabOlic rebels" the very severest PEN
alties of their crimes, on scale limited
only by the range of territory occupied
by his brigade. His depredations and
spoliatiOns of the defenseless people
were only paralleled by those of Tflly
and Alva. In his view the rebels added
to their crime of rebellion the more afro
ciOus one of tOddying and wine-bibbing.
His first orders after occupying the rich
country below this city were to search
all the houses of the planters, and
even the negro cabins, for dam
gerOus weapons, such as bird
guns, bottles, barrels, goblets and all
vessels used to hold and carry liquids
of every description. His soldiers were
directed to seize and convey all such to
his headquarters. GOurds were good
enough for rebels. If the men should
or vessels, those should be appropriated
to the use of the General himself.
His men did not relish this duty. In
truth Meals prohibition regulations
were quite as offensive, If not more 20,
to them. than to the so-calle ed rebels,
and so when all the bottles, casks, dem
lions, garde wins, decanters and other
Of the obnoxious liquids
were brought into camp, reekiDg with
the odor of recent old Bourbon cognac |
and Burgundy, they were invariably |
empty. There never was so large and |
a region of the South which
was SO entirely free from the presence !
and use by its inhabitants of any Of
these demOralizing agencies, against
which Neal had warred so vigorously
all his life. These empty vessels pro we'd
his. The men of the command, who
we're so diligent in executing this order,
md who poured into the camp loaded
lown with these discarded utensils,
,hese "vesels of WRATH" and threw
hem down SO exultingly before the
general, manifested iE very lively
manner their satisfaction. In these
uccessful raids they even went 30 far
n their hilarity and sportiveness as to
rect a monument of these spOlid Opinad
'cfore the Generals marquee, the base
f which was composed of heavy crock
ry utensils much used In families.
Among these vessels, of which the
,lanters of Plaquemines were thus de-
poiled, there happened to be some old
ntique family goblets of pure silver, 7
which were found i'm the wine room or
antry of a wealthy and festive old
lanter who was well known at the
Jorth, where he was then sojourning,