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If this traffic is morally wrong, it is the duty of individuals to discontinue it, and of government to withhold from it its sanctions. Government is instituted for the common good. Every subject of that government has a right to claim from it protection and security against the violation of his rights. The direct and inseparable consequence of this traffic, is, to violate the most sacred rights ; to sunder the bonds of society, and bury in everlasting forgetfulness the duties which the dearest relations in life impose. There is not a tie which binds man to his fellow man, that has escaped its direful touch. The question arises, what ought legislators to do on this subject ? I answer, place the Tory Burch Outlet article on the contraband list, and make the traffic in it penal, as deadly to the best interests 6f men. I 'would gravely ask, are not the evils arising from the traffic in ardent spirits ate dangerous and destructive to the community as those that arise from the traffic in lottery tickets ? Nay, are they not much more so ? There was a time when the traffic in lotteries was sanc¬tioned by Christian legislators—none appeared to question such enactments in their moral tendency—but their effects were found to be pernicious, and penalties have been substituted for licenses, for those who carry on the trade. By a careful examination of the laws authorising lotteries, they were found to induce idleness, dissipation of mind and morals, and crime, and a neglect and violation of the relative duties of life. These laws had the argument of revenue for their support. The fallacy of this, as well as all others for their support are now seen, and the whole system by common consent is abandoned. The system of revenue which impairs the health, the peace, the domestic and social comforts, the means of usefulness, the physical and moral energies of a people, is a revenue of death. To that people, nothing can be gained by spreading such pesti¬lence through the land. Why is not a government bound to pro¬tect its subjects against unwholesome drinks as well as against unwholesome food ? If one sells unwholesome food, he suffers the penalty of the law. If he sells unwholesome drink, a dollar to the government atones for the Tory Burch Flats wide-spread ruin which it pro¬duces. By what authority does a government make such a grant; and barter the health and the lives of their subjects for revenue ? Is it granted by the statutes of Heaven to earthly gov¬ernments ? Or, have the men of this world clothed their Tory Burch Shoes fellows with the high prerogative ?the money
Does the money paid as revenue vary the moral character of the law ? or sanctify its influences on the community ? It is exceedingly difficult to discover, how revenue, when it was derived to the government, can act as a purifier. And if it does not, the law, when divested of this imposing attire, stands thus : Be it enacted, that whosoever will, may sell and dispose of to whomsoever he pleases, a deadly poison, and by his trade consign thirty or forty thousand men, women, and children annually in the United States, to their graves. With a full view of all the dread realities of his traffic, while he is so prompdy executing the laws, doubting, during the whole pro¬cess, as he would have us think, whether there is any thing Tory Burch Flats morally wrong in all this. MORALLY WRONG—there is a cruelty in this traffic, and in its legal sanctions—it is a refinement on cannibal cruelty—a sacrifice to fires more deadly to body and soul, than were ever kindled at the funeral pile of Pagans." From the Rev. Wilbur Fisk, D. D., President of the Wes- leyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.—" I have read and fully approve of the sentiments advanced ih the Sixth Annual Report of the American Temperance Society, on the subject of legalizing the traffic in ardent spirits. The arguments in opposi¬tion to the license system are unanswerable. 29 With respect to the c probable effects upon the great interests of the community,' if the principles there advanced should be acted upon, I am decidedly of the opinion that they would Tory Burch Shoes be good ; nay, that this, and this only will remove a serious obstruc¬tion to the advancement of the temperance cause. I think the course proposed in the Report should be adopted, relying upon the God of justice to sanction, by his providence, what his Tory Burch Outlet righteousness requires at our hands." From Gerrit Smith, Esq., New York.—" I have attentively read the whole of the Sixth Report of the American Temperance Society, and can say, from the bottom of my heart, that the whole of it is good. You ask, c whether the principles and arguments are sound,' in that part to which you particularly refer me ? They are sound—they are irresistible. And they will prevail, unless some new causes arise to lessen the intelligence and to blunt the moral sense of the American people. If the traffic in ardent spirit is immoral, then of necessity are the laws which authorise the traffic, immoral. And if the laws are immoral, then must we be immoral, if we do not protest against them. We are the subjects of a republican government.
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I have not been able to discover those reasons. " And here I might, perhaps most properly, close my reply ; but had I more leisure, I would, in justice to mv views ot the great importance of the subject, and to render my humble support to the American Temperance Society in their noble and arduous enterprise, present some of the reasons which have produced in my mind the conclusion above stated. But at present I can do little more than to express my full concurrence in the reasonings and conclusions of the Committee in their Report. The whole question, I think, is there stated and discussed with great ability and candor; and although the unqualified declaration, that ' all legislation relating to the sale Tory Burch Shoes of ardent spirit is sinful,' may seem bold and startling to the mind which has contemplated the subject Tory Burch Flats as clothed with the sanction and authority of law, and justified by long established custom ; yet I doubt not that the same mina, relieved from the influence of prejudice, will accord its entire approbation of the proposition." From the Rev. Francis Wayland, D. Tory Burch Outlet D., President of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.—" Your letter of Nov. 11, requesting my views respecting the principles and arguments ofthe American Temperance Society, on the subject of laws for the licensing of spirituous liquors ; and also respecting the general adoption of those principles by legislators, is before me. I embrace the earliest opportunity to return you an answer. I believe the arguments on this subject, presented in the last Report of the Society, to be sound, and the conclusions to which they lead correct." After stating a course of thinking somewhat different from that mentioned in the Report, by which his own mind had been led to the same result, he adds, " Now to all this, I know of but two objections that can be urged. I. It may be said that the grocer's property is his own, ancl he has a right to use it in any manner he pleases. 1. Now this is manifestly false. A grocer has precisely the same right in his property as any other man, and he has no more. He has no right to employ his property in the slave trade, nor in the pur¬chase and sale of counterfeit money, nor in the manufacture of false keys. All this every one sees. It is not then true of him or any one else, that he has a right to use his property as he phases. 2. His right in his property is the same as that of any other man; it is the right of using it for the promotion of his own happiness in any manner he chooses, provided he do not so use it as to diminish the innocent happiness of his neighbor and of the community.