For the Columbian Fountain.
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Ma. EpIroR l have not seen for some time
any thing in your valuable little paper relative
to change in our city charter which will Sc
cure to the voters Of Washington the inestma-;
bic privilege of declaring by ballot whether the
destructive, demoralizing, and expensive traf
6c in intoxicating liquors shall be tolerated or
not2 Have you, dear sir, abandoned the no .
BILE project, or have you been Influenced by
good and sufficient reasons to postpone the
subject until "more convenient season /? y
Many Of your readers feel deep interest in
the question, and have been patiently waiting
the development of your plan, as il respects the
modification of the charter. as also the means
of its accomplishment. If be your design
that we memorialize Congress, and respectfully
pray for such modification, is there the most
shadowy hope Of their granting any such pc
tition Can we expect Congress, the majo-
!, rity of whom are so hostile to the temperance
reform, as to suffer, aye, to pasrmize the most
hagrant abuse Of their own recorded resolution
in relation to the sale Of ardent spirits within
t18 8OuPNOt--tU PiVSututc the HneSt Oh tne DaSe-
ment rooms in that sacred edifce to the use of
I she most destructive groggery within the ten
Z miles square! to declare by solemn vote in
their refusal Of the use Of the Hall TO the
friends of temperance for one night only, that
they hold no sympathy with the god-like en-
terprise-an enterprise which has brought the
na,;on under lasting and eternal obligations
which has, to good degree. rolled back the
pillows Of intemperance which had well-nigh
deluged the land, which has given back to the
nation intellecn Of the first magnitude, thai
had long been buried in the oblivion of drunk
eaness, and vindicated her character from the
asPersions Of those who had branded her as 8
"nation Of drunkards.'''


.i'gl ask, SIR, can We expect that such q Con.
gress. Cloud though they be IN their profession.
ofa desirs 70 extend the "srea Of human free