The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-07-27

A'JolJ AWs
JOHN T. MOORE, Esq, of Jackson,
delivered an Grafton at Rio Grande,
Gallia county, on the 4th Of July,
which is published in the Gallipolis
Tribune. We publish the concluding
part Of it, and it is not necessary to
say to the readers of the STANDARD
that we most heartily agree with
all that the eloquent orator says:
Young men, you look back with reverence upon the
character of Martin Luther; your hearts swell with
pride at the mention of John Knox; your souls thrill
with admiration when thoughts of the Great Wash
| ington possess your mind; the pulses bound. the
blood leaps and the fire of patriotism burns in your
breasts when contemplating those deathess heroes OF
the war, and yet you sadly these great dead
who have passed, have monopoliZed the laurels of
earth; nothing boys left for us, there
more conquests to be made, more victories to be
won! My young friends be not.mistaken; Civil Lib
erty accompanied usual by moral sentiment is just
about entering upon the most momentous of her con-
tests, and her stouter voice is now summoning her
sodiery to their guns. The battle is being set and
warlike legions gathering to conflict from which
the victorious hero will retire not garnished with the
fading of earth merely, but garlanded with a
haso crowned with a diadem whose costly
ae souls of the saved, and whose well
he shout of the redeemed.
se of preparation has been heard
:ruggle is fairly begun. Christian
ne hand, Intemperance upon the
se will you volunteer for SER
temperance look upon the
,r-bearer unfurls-read what
ty, tears, treachery, deceit,
regulations, blasted hope,
.ow,remorse despair, death.
damned! Surely you will
vice under such colors.
,emain neutral in this fight.
lsky; it is good generous
is sad and depressed a
him up again. tell you
es and mothers; desolates
auper houses, and leads its
nding scale of deceit. theft
at last with the hangman's
the trap door to perdition
wives and children as they
ed to brutal insults. Their
is profane and vulgar jests
IN laws to restrict the
lie of intoxicating liquors
shame of the people of Ohio
al. A recognized evil made
legislature authorized to
Here the people are SOW
naught but the expression
the people, stand convict
,nscences for authorizing
Itch nllct heavy penaltie:
there are, and l do no
Is desirable unless bettel
laws they stand car
ally moral.
eeping of place where
than wine manufactured
grape cultivated in Ohio
old to be drunk where sold
.imination. A drunk is
)ntracted and whether OBJ
with elegant surround
iters plate glass windows
the appliances of upper te
the squalor and wretched
grocery, the bite of tn
eof intoxication is attaine
lg of sparkling champagne
less pretentious guZzng
the same old 1nev1taDl
e be any greater morally t
he counter than to sell
lind alleys and tippled
makes it unlawful to sell
habit of getting intoxicated
must not legislate; it is a
,nal liberty and persons
he battle is on; public opiI
nd while partisan politician
public opinion they are as
that opinion TO obtain tt
watch the approaching way
nit and ride into harbt
hese swear by the Domdan
reformers.
this principle that the Por
enacted into law. This w
ctments that ever went upC
me, am not here to hout Il
tate of Ohio; trust that n
would prevent my doing til
iccord with that august Il
light and will stand. The II
. is found in another dlrectiC
h lcative of the popular WILL 1t L
= me legislature to the power of pub