Even if there should not be moral prin-
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Even if there should not be moral prin-
ciole enough in this community to prose-
cu,e them and bring them to justice, sill
= will not be in vain. Ii will take the
ouietus from their consciences, and permit
that monitor, if there be any remains of il
in their bosom, to sting them with self-re-
proach. And it will also develope their
true character.


Now many man who pockets the gains
of rum-selling would wish to be considered
the friend of law and order. He would be
considered as an honest man and law-abi-
ding. Withhold the license and see if he
will still obey law. Withhold the license
and see what his claims are to be good
and respectable and law-observing citizen.
See II he will not, as some have done with
in our remembrance, break the law, or con-
nive at its being broken. See if he will
not show that he loves the gains of iniquity
more than he does his honor and his law
keeping habits. 1t is good way to try
the integrity Of men. 1t is most excellent
means of developing character. We have
had some trial of this heretofore, and we
may have again, if licenses are not given.
Let us see it done. Let men show them
selves. 1t is sometimes useful to commu-
nifty to learn the true character of mems
professed patriotism, and to ascertain what
they mean when they say they are friends
to law and order.


Besides, if the refusing Of licenses will
not stop the sale--if men will see whether
they have license to do it or not, why is
it that all who are interested in the rum
traffic are SO strenuous to have licenses
granteds Will not their gains, or what
they sell without license be just as great
as if they had license' And might they
not save also the expense of a license by
selling liquor without one2 Why, then,
are they SO desirous to have Commissioners
elected who will grant licenses Why do
they want license at all


And here my friends the whole matter
comes out. Those who sell spirituous IL
quors, and those who drink them, and those
who pocket gain from the traffic, want the
sanction of law for the business, SO that
their consciences may be more at ease
and their unrighteous gains be the more Sc
cure in their purses. They want you and
me, and all sober men, to sanction their do
ings, and say it is right. This is the shield
under which they have hitherto been pro-
tected, and they desire it STILL Will you
give it them? Will you give your sane
tion TO the sale Of intoxicating liquors in
this county, Will you consent, either by
acting or not acting, to have the food-gates
no iniquity kept open, and to have men
ruined, soul and body, for time and eterni-
ty, by law


o! if more men must be ruined, let it be
done against the law! If more sons, bro
theirs, and neighbors must fall victims to the
tempter's lust of gam, let it de done against
law. If more of what one calls "liquid
death and distilled damnation" is to be pour
ed out on the community, let it, pray
you, be done without the sanction of law.
Let the trafficers, and those who with them
share the gains OF the traffic, bear the re-
sponsibility, and not the whole communi-
ty.