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GENTLEMEN:-ln looking over the Police
Reports observed the following: 'Littleberry
Tyler--fned So for selling apples on Sunday
after market hours'' Now do moi intend 10
defend the practice Of selling "appleso after
market hours, but to call attention to the just
ness Of that law which makes it penal to sell
apples-which are certainly very harmless
rhings-.and permits those who deal in
apples DISTILLED to go "scot free" Gentle
men, which is more offensive in the sight Of
God, 10 go through mans corn-feld and
pluck the ears Of corn and eat them, orto sell
apples on Sunday2 The Apostles Of Jesus
Christ did the former, and Littleberry Tyler
did the latter! Is not that most admirable
law which Furnishes petty offences, like this,
and permits those who are guilty of fragrant
crimes to 60 unmolested This is one Of the
effects Of the late city ordinance respecting,
not the Sabbath, but the Lords day, for the
ierm of Sabbath is not applied to our Sunday
in the whole Bible No-.not once!! Those
who deal in distilled damnation are permitted
10 sell to the high and low, the rich and poor,
the black and white, from morn till noon, and
from noon till night and this equitable law
winks at it all these men, who deal out dis
ease, corruption, death and destruction, are
suffered TO roll in luxury, while their poor, un
fortunate, drunken dupes, if found on the
street asleep, must be '.jug'd." Verify, gen
flo IF tha Ia nd llotio of
our "Cily Fathers" as some call them, dis
play more marks Of imbecility and folly than
of sage wisdom and knowledge. The poor
Jew, whose conscience compels him 10 OBJ
serve the Sabbath" proper, must be prohibi
led from selling yard of calico on Sunday
while all classes Of "Restoratves," )" from the
two cent dram shop up TO the more fashiona
Bile saloon, are thronged with visitors during
the whole of that day, which Christians re-.
gard as sacred The existence of such law
is stigma upon us-while its very spirit is
openly and fearlessly violated. The laws Of
God require no City or State legislation to
make them more binding upon the commuui-
Iy; but if we are 10 have such laws, in the
name of virtue and wisdom, let them operate
equally upon all offenders The Lords day
should be observed according TO the word of
God--in worshippng Him who arose from
the dead on that day; and as the object of the
ordinance was the prevention of vice, and the
promotion of virtue, let not the city authorities
"strain at gnat and swallow camel"


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