Delaware State Reporter (Newspaper) - March 16, 1855, Dover, Delaware aim to speak our in a common-sense And if we can't argue the logical optics of the Maine Law advocate are an unnatural which we hope to be able to speak in- can perceive the want of logical and to Mate fairly and im- BO and jet can't perceive partial This is all we aimed at in the OF OM copy of nc which fell under the writer's nt criticism rigor in a law containing such We have here just glanced cursorily at We propose briefly however to notice the provisions of the first two sections of this One of the dear j law in order to satisfy the writer that the before we close this He j law is arbitrary and We forbear i with that the I to proceed further with it. It needs only Gable to and yet contend that the sale of or corrosive mate is right And where can person be found who will say that the sale of these articles is or that they arc not liable to abuse of the grossest and of the most fatal consequences But the nuisances referred which are THE SMYRNA looking over the Smyrna of the 28th wo find several articles relating to Wo seldom get time to look at that paper the not consider himself intentionally by our not having noticed his articles at an earlier In anticipation of the Maine he suggests to us another pocket in our velvet We find be and u- Delaware are for the fiat to be placed with all its be- act that their A. prohibited by are not liable to two provisions in this which will obviate abused only they are both morally andl a similar expedient on the part of the abused j by 4. The Associate Judge can civilly wrong m the verj jr This 6iye a who does not use make such profession will be sufficient if not caught in the charged for w regular rated as made lor the publication of th POTTS connected with this to be subject to a law of the State of His logical verbatim nd in refutation of stands act passed by the and House of Representatives of the State of in General Assembly is a aw of the State of This is lis whole argument in refutation of this as he calls it. It may be that the writer that he has made a display of logical argument in his such as it but it would surely greatly puzzle a HODGE or a WHATELY to perceive in anything like Taking it as men of his skill in we perceive nevertheless a remarkable peculiarity about It is He seems to possess the gular faculty of including a whole argument in one sentence And made out by MARCH 16, 1855. vv i HI uc n Wi fore the in order to exhibit its constitutes the essential difference between intoxicating ns a license franking New Postage Act. Notice to the Public and Instructions to Notice is hereby given agreeable to an act of Congress approved Marsh 3d, 1855, the following rates of postage are to bo on and after the first day of April m lieu of those now to On every tingle letter conveyed in the mail between places in the United for any distance not exceeding three thousand three and for any distance exceeding three thousand ten From and after the first day of ment on tetters is excepting upon sucb as are to or from a foreign or to officers of the government on official The arbitrary and rigorous character in its full colors j for of these the people themselves are as well qualified to judge as either we or the person who signs himself of the dear and he need not but that they will judge correctly of its whether be can understand their judgment or the sale or even temperate use of seu intoxicating and the nuisances or evils which generally te a gne and no are and which may always constitutionally prove more pecuniarily profitable than be prohibited by It is on editing a country this principle of distinction that acts Another or rather is 1 m the that persons who have the con- whenever accompanied by an found encroachment upon the civil of as breach of the wicked or im- The writer above alluded j moral have always been prohibited for usc and have no questions asked and punishable by But this is plainly which of these the Editor will will be a and in an and it away bring a single argument against a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating distinguishable from the mere act of selling matter Of choice with we f n thu editor as] and postmasters required to place postage stamps lipon all pre- paid letters on which such stamps may have been placed by the By the third section of the act the is authorized to establish a uniform system for the registration of valuable This provisions of the law will be carried into and special instructions therefor will be issued to Postmasters as soon as the necessary blanks can be prepared and distributed drinks as a that will not with much greater against houses of race and every other that is prohibited use of it. for In another the said editor asks us f i I i IL nf II those nuisances which he In making this he has not the merits of Our Editorial During the in which the community has had its attention by tha ening of a Maine we had felt it to be not only a but a freely to express our views of such a We have never allowed when we thought the natural rights of the whether civil or were at to mise them to the probable success of however strongly we may be attached to our or how soever we might de- sire to its have long since that all which glitters is not And although may not have had so much experience in political as some yet we have had enough to become that not every nor every political or party may be proclaimed by its as indispensible to the salvation of the 114 4 -j the prefix of the only two original words in stale and and about as the to a quotation old as the political temperance from the statute Now we would not oV I in we ask him to prove that a to the shortness of his if it law should not be enacted prohibiting the were perfect in the essential parts of an ar- sale of and but we find in it and all other such destructive 0, ye shades of LOCKE and of would prohibit the sale of and of ARISTOTLE and He and the very liquor m Ye mighty men of the law itself the liquor to be could ye but have lived to these days of prohibitory liquor that ye might have caught something of the skill of our 3Iaine law by which ye could have rendered the immortality of your fame the more but most of these have no and the world would be better off without while others of of some been the by but oftener by of inflicting the We called it a law of for we have j greatest We ask him to try in body or or to the happiness of Not only has it Deen ne in and recognised as hut it IS in sub- heard it called the And if he had shown with the aid of his the difference between a of and a Maine we should less have questioned his to determine what constitutes logical Not only has it been called the Maine law is or even in reality to produce such an before we would adopt a public measure or have others adopt we would thoroughly examine it. We would not let the heat of our enthusiasm rivet our attention entirely to a few bright that might be dis- covered in it. We would view its dark ones We would keep our eye fixed upon the on which we are about to are well that we may not have reason to retrace our and regret that we had taken Such have been our and such enr course in regard to the Maine But since it had through the agency of the a law of this and according to our Constitution and irrevocable for some at we had concluded to leave it to every person to de- termine by his own experience and what we have said of its con- will not prove But a writer in the Smyrna of the 7th who signs himself One of the dear has thought it necessary to attack an editorial in our issue of the 2d in such a aa to require from us a passing He speaks of the editorial in question upon the same the food of every person should not be prescribed in quantity and quality by Why the amount and kind of his and the of bis bis hours o retirement and of all should not be fixed and enforced by legislative enactment in all these everybody that has and with of subject of health and the same law which was j the least 1 i 4.1..T. the commission of the establishment cannot are both moral and civil evils in The same is true of gambling But in regard to the third of his the there is some It is not settled that the act of the race itself is either a civil or a moral It has been contended for the that its tendency is to improve the stock of If this be it is beneficial in the acts of the race and there is no moral And hence the has not been to be prohibited by the laws of some It has even been encouraged by The evils as in drinking to consist in the consequences of its such as and these wrongs are invariably and properly prohibited by law acts wrong in even in those States and countries in which the is permitted or encouraged. of the dear says be nies emphatically that this law was enacted against the wishes of the This he thus There were votes csat in the State; nearly voters went to the JAMBS Postmaster March The steamship Pacific ved at New York on bringing ten nally enacted in the State of These justify us in calling it a law of And so long as our that the health of the largest part of the community is continually and human sufferings produced and life These evils t asking for the passage of a Law Does he call a of Or does he call the wishes of this the wishes of the ple of tMs State But what evidence have we that voters ipse for his own We must however say that his reminds us of the fable of the fancying that he had beaten his ad- flew up upon some eminence and crowed most which scarcely having he was espied by the seized and born off. Mr. of the eagle while you are enjoying your is our It will do you no hurt to observe it. But few gamesters can both crow and Obsequies of the Some of the Know Nothing papers are trying to get up a great smoke about the death of the of New who recently met his death in consequence of his own wicked and unlawful coarse of life and To hear some of one would almost be that this lawless was a very The Know we want to Deify him and place his name in their The following article which we find in one of our is so pertinent to this that we here give it an It is impossible for any American who really loves his to read the accounts of the ale funeral in W without a thrill of delight and gratification through his An not distinguished for official position of high social is cruelly and the sympathies of a great are loudly expressed at his melancholly Contrary to the usual it is the and not the who is the object of kindness and And why is all There can be but one answer to the question It is because the deceased was a most useful days later news from The Sebastopol remained It is announced by the allies that on the 19th of February Gen. with 000 Russians and seventy attacked the Turks at commanded by Omar The battle lasted four when the Russians retired with a loss of 500- Another crisis has occurred in England and Messrs. Herbert ana Graham have resigned from the English which has been No important changes except that Lord John Rnssel has been made Colemal The members of the Government express con- hopes that the pending negotiations may lead to an honorable although war sures continue all over Louis Napoleon seems determined to proceed to the He has been advised by land and Austria to stay at There has been a slight decline in Cotton and THE ARMS OF THE NEW Pre- sident and War Department are using every endeavor to arm the new regiments in the best and most effective A few weeks ago a trial was made of the United States grooved and sighted after the manner of the Minie by which it was found Hartley's invention would make our old muskets equal to the arm used by the Russians and French with so much Yesterday the celebrated breach loading and self- 11 a UJL i must go to the Statute books of might be if the people generally other States or to find laws for the j would observe the proper course of They may not always be so great as those evils resulting from the excessive use of yet great and numerous enough to call loudly for a And why not government of the people of we shall not be wanting to call such laws by their right The people of Maine or of any other State may or they may not prohibit by law the use of tobacco in every for their own for it is demonstrated to be injurious what kind of laws are required for their own i but who would think that because a certain law might be required in Maine or in the same must be necessary in Delaware has need of more information before attempting to inter- fere with the business of We take this One of the dear to be quite a comical for he admits his own propensity for telling He says his mind is so that he can't believe his men and therefore hopes we shall excuse him for not believing our statement concerning the sensation produced to health and Ions Why not have a law to punish by fine and obscene and profane guage for the children can hardly pass a week of their without having their finer feelings and shocked and endangered from this if they go Why not a law to prevent children from playing fox and and all other such since their morals arc so much endangered by the sight of a drunken man f for these games a species of and often the ste sa of the Maine We stones to little higher after proT dealing in idle declamation without an approach towards sound logical This language and sentiment sound so much like an article which net long in the Statesman and Blue Hen's that we are not that we be if we were to infer that it has the same But for we are not at all Nor are we any more concerned about the opinions of the writer or or their assertions in regard to our reasoning or But we we hare learned enough about to know that it does not require much cal to refute rant and idle We been at a loss to know how to reconcile the writer's lieving our does not believe those of bis own the for in the proceeding number of the following language from its Dover appears in relation to the Some on the occasion of the Maine got gloriously while especially from the rural dis- talked strongly of shouldering the This seems like sensation quite Buf if of the dear has been out of since the writing to be prohibited or remedied by on the very same that the sale of cating liquor is required to be It is not enough to the evils of drunkenness are greater than those from some of these All and all bad habits are and very few can be named which are not more con- and have not a more general lence than that of therefore a habit be bad in producing evils of He must be a very knowing as well as a good judge of sound logical to know There were many slips of different in different parts of the were employed in obtained in obtaining What one person is quainted with all the signers And how could One of the dear by looking over a list of the name of a lad or of a male child from that of a legal The name of a colored man from that of a white man One of the dear conceives the idea that his Maine Law is very democratic all at because he did not go to men of prominence of character for ers to his But he could see only one side of the He could not that with his voting even by his own he has subverted the grand and fundamental principle of racy and the will of the majority He speaks very exultingly of the TER and its rum-selling sympathizers not presenting fifty remonstrances to the Maine while almost everybody that knows knows that the Democratic proposition to refer the measure to the people at the last having been rejected by the Nothings and Maine League they determined to have nothing to do in this iniquitous be- lieving that they could bear the burden as some who have been so anxious for LL is member of society because he was a pattern of all the Christian And he was not less distinguished for his love of than for his practice of although American Philosophical never enrolled him amongst her The tell us that his funeral procession was more solemn and imposing than those of Webster or This is The mourning for those statesmen might have been ascribed to regard for their official position and eminent public services but not so with that of Mr. The grief for him can be attributed solely to an honorable admiration of private to regard for excellence in cannot fail to be of great service to the rising generation in our sister 1 hey will learn to tread in the footsteps of the de- to emulate his and to aspire to share his Such a sight as last day's will do more to train them to habits of virtue than a year spent m the public 30 is to be erected to his By all let the projectors take the monument for their Let it be at least as high and at least os Our word for it will be finished before that at the A funeral sermon is to be preached in honor to his memory by all let not one but nve hundred sermons be and let the Sunday schools have his life written and placed their for the edification of unborn priming was tried at the in tne presence of the his private and many of the Ordnance Bureau and officers of the including some of the command of the new The piece used was the short cavalry At the distance of 500 yards it bit the bull's eye every The facility of its rapid firing was some twenty shots being fired to the All present expressed unqualified satisfaction at the results It will be remembered that the House would not accept the amendment which provided for Describing the arms which should be used by frontier on the the ground that the iVar Department was best qualified to decide that We now see the wisdom and also he solicitude manifested by the government for the best discharge of that It is our opinion that they will decide in the Sharp or if they do it will be because a still better arm will be brought for- of as we don't The President has until the first of June to make appointments of officers for the new Washing Ion Star of SANTA ANNA PREPARING TO would seem from the news recently received from that aspiring Dictator of that who had hoped to be successful as his NapoLEON the in placing a crown upon his worthless is making preparations to leave the country which he has both robbed and His this should it be will be much more pleasant than the former French as ed that he has already sent a large portion of the received from the United out of the together with such other valuables as he could conveniently It is also that he has anticipated The latter name 000 still to be paid by our by ling it to parties in With the several millions thus plundered from that wretched which we shall shortly have to take under our to prevent its sinking into he will be enabled to enjoy his favorite amusement of fighting game cocks at some villa prepared for the The next we take of should be the whole of to save future And this is not The name of New should be that it may perpetuate the name of her great and good citizen for whom she is now in tears and If town or be thought common and let be selected for its And let the great street of that the scene of his quiet and peaceful be forth known as instead of THE G ABUKL a lorth known as way that fures Among the Glasgow Mail hearing of of the 12th of February states that John S- thine but nicknamed the Angel has arrived at w. D. home from New York in the steamer I It A roost screeching sound Levy Court elected the from the steamer reached the ears of the we should think of nothing order and in some of the rural districts not very re- mote from we have no but that and existence n sensation not very unmistakable tone degree may not be quite the in- jury of health and corruption of good and bs also calculated to operate in office and been clamoring so following constables for New Castle on PROHIBITION Friday last In we will take the occasion to refer any who want a specimen of rant Samuel John James and idle to tive with jutt as j of this article of H. tnis ui New Smith and John Mill gers on the and in which was soon re- cognized the familiar war note of John S. alias the Angel Gabriel's trumpet the vessel the 'the Angel was only recognized by his old by the brazen emblems which be for he appeared not only to tare bo- come a convert to the beard but to allow his hair to grow until it hung all over men fail to editorial void of logical u be how his logical acumen conld says it is with all he clearly the of his own article to a and arbitrary character in every In this be 011 r article of it a we must assure if pavl We will refer him for such in return to we have considered due to provisions of the BUI in tie character of its White Clay L. Leonard With the exception of two or three short A We wiU in to One of of ehow In and often or elaware fa are so with perception of in the fln fer our own we make the people of if the is prop to the fair way to at Fifty of fait aad imprisonment an for selling quart of this with a In 2, a j injurious to cither bodily health or J from the one which morals And much ihc creator portion np of those old and nuisances which temperance have been nearly for time out of mind j such as oar into It itt tf Into w with come It their -J in Canada and the United in doing battle with said he would the people of for hours on night of his adventures and among the wheeled and rushed up the going off to Glasgow by tho way at N. on Saturday gether with the and of the The gallery at rbe loss is estimated fifty thousand cm which there is of so in honor of MOVE isrs TSS For the first a of the Of his H. It nauer of t by of an intelligent Cu n a ana an vng o vision rf any s folly pi re anv to of known and we arc he on that all know and that forfeit pav a fine of to act in non prohibited n ibe rights of And mere act of tiling men who t-n out of its reach colleges has n It has evf r a Between the rears I Jtm were obtained by the and f VTe logicians should preach nor more the Trip is be very I That tbe article be to M does not render cither its or K. not give you office a spoonful of temperate we any My He -bo rW of it is it Ud bnn if f of on e for of since 1820. to taw for the i of the treaty for the of tie End d Veer March 12, by Ut then on to All on
