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less and hat-less negro, with his three cent
capital, which he invests in these dens of ini-
.quity, up to the perfumed, be-whiskered dandy,
who sips, at his leisure, his iced liquors, with
his more extensive capital to maintain the
expenditure; and from the poor orphan'd ap,
prentice for whom


-sNo mothers bosom


Throbs to soft sympathy and fond ALARM
to the gray-headed drinker, "whose feet take
hold on destruction" multitudes may be seen
on the Holy Sabbath day, thronging these low
groggeries, or the more fashionable taverns of
our city.


We insist that Intemperance is great and
terrible evil, and we equally maintain that the
desecration of the Sabbath is most horrible
enormity, calculated to demoralize society, and
to bring down the chastisements of an offended
God. And when both these streams of evil
meet, at one common point, and pour their
conjoined evils upon society, who can tell the
extent of the injury which society suffers
Let no man accuse us of fanaticism. If res
pect for the Constitution and Laws be fanati-
cism--if an ardent desire to see our glorious
institutions preserved in unimpaired strength
and purity-if an unquenchable desire to see
social order maintaineil-ifl love for our fellow
men, comprehending every thing connected
with their best interests in time and in eter-
nity-if reverence for the precepts of the Bible,
and proper regard for lessons deeply engraven
on our hearts by the examples of the past, be
fanaticism, then, indeed, are we tanatics-but
not otherwise.


Iflhose who are engaged in this traffic, and
in these practices, cannot be induced, with the
light of truth flashing in meridian brightness
about their path, and with the knowledge Of
this law before their eyes, to yield to the force
Of public sentiment, then, as the only alterna-
tive left, we invoke the aid Of the Executive
Officers of the Corporation, and Of every friend
Of the Sabbath, Of Temperance, and good
morals, in putting an end to these enormities,
in the way provided for in the ordinance itself,
or in some other proper and constitutional
manner.