Tlie Maine Liquor Law—xvliat it
realty is I
JWr. Editor—Sir: The columns of
your paper have for a long time been
crew tied with articles, from the advo
cates o! the Maine Law ; and as you
manfully offer to give the opj users of
the law lhe same privilege, I send you
the following, which contains only a
small portion of what 1 think might be
urged against the law. Who has a
right in republican America to superin
tend my drink ? It is a privilege which
even the brute creation enjoy, to select
such of the fruits of the earth, as God
lias mercifully placed within their reach
for their use. as their natures prompt
them. And shall men be denied the
same privilege ? If so, by whom ? In
temperance in any thing is an evil c<ir
' ryiug its own puni-liment to its victim.
Hen are not periect, and some will vi
olate well known physical laws ; but
temperate and res| eelable men, if pos
sessed of the spirit of freemen will not
permit any conceited fanatics or upstarts
to dictal • to them and what ifiey
shall drink. This natural right, men
will not surrender unless tiiey are de
bases enough to submit to the most ser
vile degradation.
I he advocates of this vaunted Maine
Law adopt every species of falsehood
and misrepresentation to carry out their
mushroom theory, wdiich is represented
in !.he form of a lamb. But let none be
dece«’.’ e d, t‘ ; ' ' ias the voice of a dragon,
and the red ton£l‘e df demon to lick up
tlie blood of freemen as greedily as in
the darkest days of priestcraft.
