The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-02-20
For The RECORD
A WRITER PORTRAYED.

Tue puOnc respect ne mast be sincere.
He may be wrong and be respected be-
cause Of his sincerity but when his in
sincerity isprosed he sinks into contempt.
To the points | have heretofore made
against your Mt. Airy writer, the only re-
/ ply he is able to make is an admission OF
his own insincerity. He now says ait
was flyer to catch fool with" Exactly
/ Well, it caught one certainly-himself.
/ But it is very strange, if that was his
object-so successfully accomplished too,
/ that he should still persist in the very
4 same absurd contradictions. Through all
the rambling wildness of his last article,
but two ideas can be discovered. First,
that where whiskey is not sold By law
it will surely be sold against law, and he
emphatically adds, and don't forget 1t.
Well, that's fair opinion, and l make no
complaint of it. But then comes the
same Cd story, that after all it's not sold
that these detectives who searched Lam
bertville, their object unsupported, could
not buy drop, and perjured themselves
when they swore they did, and most likely
bought their whiskey in New Hope,
there being none TO be had in Lambert
willie. 1t is a principle of law known to
everybody, that where sworn evidence is
offered, if uncontradicted by other sworn
evidence, and it is not improbable, it is the
duty of a jury to receive it. And it must
be palpable to everybody that the whole
object Of the Captain in this pretended in
credulity is to stick to the rum holes
through thick and thin, regardless of
every other consideration.
Certainly IL the temperance men of
| Lambertv lille haze driven whiskey out of
the place or into such holes and corners
that the most careful search fails to re-
/ veal it, they are entitled to send up
hallelujah of rejoicing. But does the Cap
tain believe it No, he don't. If he does,
what becomes of his many times repeated
assertion that the sale cannot be prevent
ed ? You see there's the same old blund-
ering fool-trap which in spite of warning
he has gone right slap into again.
But about the Army of the Potomac.
Think of his statement last week. Not
some men out of a few companies, not
even whole brigade, nor division, nor
yet even a corps, but he declares the achote
army, and remember that nearly all the
time that army numbered one hundred
thousand men-think of that number,
the flower of our country, all helplessty
drunk, 10 the very face Of the enemy,
when in a single hour the government,
the Union and all the glories of American
liberty might have gone down in blood
But If it were true, is ii a thing to cringe
to, to fawn at, to slobber over, to declare
more precious than the dearest ties OF
kindred, to defend against selfevident
truth and TO make fool Of ones self for
No ! 1t is matter for the Indignation of
every true and honest man, thing for
every patriot and lover of his country to
swear eternal hatred something to be
exterminated as far as we can. But what
an argument he makes of it. He says
that twenty years ago or more, one hun
bred thousand soldiers all got help
iessiy drunk at one time aud nearly sacri-
feed all that the American people hold
most dear, therefore the citizens of Lam
bertyille and all other places ought to
have continuous and ample facilities for
getting just as drunk also. Well, that is
logic but it is his logic. But you will
notice, as the Captain tells the story, he
must have been one Of tie number now
have often heard of man seeing double,
but, dear me, when man gets enough to
make him see so many thousand doubles
well, really
A word about the matter at the bottom
of all this whole discussion. The entire
people of this city are entitled to the pro-
lection of the courts of the county. The
citizens of Lambertville pay nearly seven
Thousand dollars per annum to the county
for that very protection. When they don't
receive it, it is o shame and disgrace to
any officer who is derelict in his duty.
The presumption ofright always lies with
a party boldly seeking vindcation by
the laws of the land, and is against those
whose only effort is TO dodge, battle and
DISTRICT the operations of the law. Who
ever before found old Hnnterdon too poor
to give her citizens hearing? Who don't
see right through such bold, tlimsy, |
paltry excuse?
One more point and | am done. The |
Captain shall not complain that do not |
meet his only argument fairly. This is it,
Tina: if liquor is not sold by law, it will /
be sold against law. Well, / don't be-
lieve that prohibitory laws are going to |
usher in the NJ illenium with suddenness |
to startle anybody. Remember that the
most hideous crimes, murder adultery, [
arson, burglary aud the like have been /
prohibited both by the laws of God and I
man, ever since the thunders of Mt. Sinai, /
and are still perpetrated in our own
country every day. But what of it? Are
the statutes against these crimes TO be re-
pealed because many of the perpetrators
go at large? Because we cannot hinder
Tom, Dick and Harry from gambling
away their wages in the corner Of hay
NOW with smarter rogue than them
selves, shall we therefore license gamb-
ling bells upon the corners of our streets,
that the road to destruction may be broad
and easy to find by cverybody? -
With liquor 1t is just the same way. 1t
stands to day the giant evil of our land.
If anything effeciual is to be done against
it, it must be to withhold the sanction of
the law, to put it under the ban of the
law, force it out Of responsibility, and
drive it into the dens OF iniquity where it
belongs. Then deal with it there just as
numerous other social evils are dealt with,