Maine Law in London.—Many
the attempts and summary the fail*
urcs to establish an excise law in
London similar to that of New York.
The cockneys regard all such legisla
tion as aimed exclusively at the poor,
and such a hullabaloo among the cus
tomers of the “ ’alf aa ’alf cellars
and gin palaces have been raised that
the authorities have not dared to risk
a repetition of the riotous scenes.
The argument is, that the right to
get drunk is inalienable and God giv
en ; that excise laws only reach the
poor, th i rich having the means to
get drun t it homo and when they
like. There may be *‘suiumat” in it.
BSK.A veteran Jackson Democrat
rings out this stirring appeal:
•.Sir : Gen. Grant is a Jackson Dem
ocrat, and so am I. He can stamp
his foot on Wade Hampton as Jack
son did on Calhoun. A still tongue
makes a wise head. The hand that
writes this voted for Gen. Jackson
at his last terra. Now the hero’s in
the grave would be ashamed of the
party that call themselves Demo
crats. No trifling with men’s souls
that have laid down their lives for
us, Tho«. B. Clarke,
Red Bank, Monmouth Co., N. J.,
August 1, 1868.
Delaware.—Republican papers in
Delaware claim that the republicans
are daily receiving large accessions
from disgusted democracy, and that
Wilmington will give €OO majority for
Grant in N ovember
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