For the Columbian Fountain
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For the Columbian Fountain.


MEssRs. EDITORS: We noticed an ad-
dress to the inhabitants of the District pub
lisAed in your paper sometime since, rela-
ting to the propriety Of having the charters
of each Of the cities in the District so
framed that the voters in each ward shall
determine with regard to the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors within the bounds Of their
ward. We are constant reader of your
paper. We are quite rejoiced to see the
temperance cause moving on, fair as the
moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an
army with banners" The monster, INTE NJ
PERANcE, will resist your death-blows with
prodigious force, and with long and loud
howlings; but his strength will fail after a
lisslel--he will become feebler and feebler--
he will breathe slower and slower, until his
last sigh escapes, and he closes his fiery
eyes in the quietness OF death "a consum-
nation devoutly to be wished for, even in
stanter. Some persons may think this is a
mere vision of hot-blood, and may smile
at our folly. Well, let them smile it is
easy 70 smile, and harmless too 1t affords
" pleasure to hope that the time will come,
will soon come, when the people Of this
great nation will be SO disguised with the
cruel and iniqnitous traffic in ardent spirits
that they will rise up in their sovereignty
and demand from their servants, the legis-
lators, the enactment of laws to prohibit its
sale as a beverage.


taAs it respects the proposition to ask for
change of the Charter, 80 that the voters
may ldetermine, in each ward, whether there
shsll be sold any intoxicating liquors with
in such bounds or not, we are now to write.
Perhaps il would be well TO ask Congress
to change the Charter for the purpose above
specified. But, if it should be done, it
must be with the distinct understanding, that
temperance men maintain that the legisla-
tors for the District and the different States
ought to abolish the license law, and make
the traffic penal offence. 1t certainly re-
quires no great mental power to perceive
that the licensing this traffic is licensing all
the crime which results from it. Il is au-
thosizing men TO sell poison to destroy their
fellow man. These license laws stand di-
rsctly in the way Of one Of the grandest re-
formations Of the present age: movement,
in which are concerned some Of the highest
interests Of this nation. These license laws
were, no doubt, intended for public good, I,
they were made at a time when there was
bus little light on the evil of this now dis
traseful traffic. Then, even the best men
duultfn this peace destroying beverage; but
now the light shineth, z chemical light,
Psychological light, moral light"


Who does not see the injustice Of raising
Z revenue from business that causes the