Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1859 — A Temperance Speech. [ARTICLE]

A Temperance Speech.

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Colvmebs, Friil :y, Feb. 15. Mr. Plants, of Meigs e-cunty, made, this ill'll' a 11. tiie best speech that, has 1,,-.. ;, math' in the Ohio Legislature tli is‘session, and that/on the' hackneyed subject of Temperance. It was outlie consideration of the bill submitting "to the people an ameiidne nt. to the COll.-lit.ut.iori,.to provide for Ifeeqsinogrogshops. ff •‘Me" regarded drunkenness as a disease—not as a crime, and did'not agree"with" seme" members .who had spoken 011 this-subject, (.that, the drunkard sliouhi. he pi-rnisiied. . You mi ’lit as well pass a l ev to punish the poor j sufferer who was shaking with the ague. | Ask the poor inebriate to get up ir uu the gutter and save himself. Why, he Was not able to do that when well. -■lit; did not regard rum-soiling as a sin. He did not believe the ruui-seller could rise to the dignity of a sinner. To he a sinner a man must “know the right, and still the vvrong p rsue.” but in this latter half of the i nineteenth century it was impossible that ary man with a moral sense within him could set up a doggery and sell strychnine wlrsky by ho-glass. That man had gone down below the-reach of moral sense, jje was a moral cripple, a moral paralytic, and should be restrained from injuring society, as is the maniac. •‘ln conclusion, Mr. Plants announced that he should vote in favor of striking., out-the present clause in the Constitution in regard to; the liquor traffic, and leave the whole subject.to the people." Oi/'Charles Cook, the man of respect ah lt*precedents and cbnijcctioris, who, in Cincinnati, in company wi li two other “nice yqwmr men,” found himself in a house of iil-fame one night and got into difficulty w ith one of the women therein, named Kate Bercau, and which resulted in Cook stabbing her to death, has just been tried in Cincinnati for in order. The jury were out two days, and on Monday came in with a verdict of “’guilty*; of murder in the second degree.’ The penalty is imprisonment hnlie State Prison for life, 1 OTt’A woman named Little died of starvation at Cleveland, last Friday night. Her husband is in the penitentiary for paxsing counterfeit money, ami she was living in a miserable tenement with four little children. _ 011 Saturday morning lln* eldest of the children told the neighbors that her neither was dead. She had perished the night before Ir on starvation. And all alone in the cold and dark, in a miserable and crazy old house, friendless and food less, t lie* four little children had passed the night hy the side of their dead mother. (U/“A census of the State ofLousinna has just Lean published. The number of quali-fied-voters in the State is 49,295 —the total number of white folks is 272.072. The number ot slaves is 27-1,887. The number of free negroes is 10,58(5. Thus it will bo reen that the negroes outnumber the whites in Lousiumt.

j The new* Apportionment bill, Intro?, dured by the Democrats of the Illinois Lfg- . 'siatnre, is so arranged that should the Republicans carry the 39 counties, claimed by j * nom. and the i j doubtful counties, togetb- | pr containing t-Mo.l 1 3 popuiatfon, they wqnld I elect only y!> members of the Houser while* j if the Democrats carried the remaining 49 | counties, with :> population of 461.576, they j would elect 41 members. CFUA letter from Pari--, from a prominent s ’ll roe s arcs, on information received from ; Madrid, that it was not probable Mr. , Preston-" will he revolved as" Unitetf States vTmistor, hut if he should be, the first intuna- ■ T '*•- 1 !r °ui hini relative to the..purchase of ( U.n on would sufficient grounds for giving I him ins passport- . Otir government, liowev-g-r, io not in receipt of any official information from Spain on that subject, ( 'cjv l"' 1 1 h' ,s passed the Michigan House’ .of Representatives- amending section 25 of chapter 153 of the Revised Statutes, so ns to punish any person bringing n colored person int? the State, claiming him as a '5 imp'isunrnpnt not oxccedjf ig* tor/ vear.-. or by a fine not exceeding iSfI.OOO

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