The Maine Law Advocate

Correspondence of the Advocate.

MIDDLESEX COUNTY, SOUTH,

Sept. 9, 1854.

Mr. Editor-Sir: We hear the news from every quarter, that the Maine Law in our State is working wonders. Those who were dealers formerly, have quietly submitted to its rule.- Mr. McKinney, of the Fenwick House, Saybrook Point, is an exception, and the people on the old platform are stupid enough to submit to it and be bullied by him. Most of the old soakers are improving in their manners and circumstances, and but few are heard to grumble at all. These fears are of the "outs," and are very zealous to be among the "ins." They-dear creatures are alarmed about "town grog shops" think the law is a lame affair-but must be submitted to this year, though there be some trouble about burning fluid and the mixing of paints. O, the hypocrites! to risk every thing that is valuable to man as a father and husband, and an accountable being, for the sake of a party triumph. It would seem that none but fiends would thus tamper with human interests.

I had a letter from a friend a few days since, who is perambulating through the eastern part of the State. He says: "So far as I have been the Maine Law works admirably. I should think in New London and Norwich Landing, the Millennium had come." Another who has been in the same section says: "Matters at the East are all right. I visited old haunts of the vicious, the hotels, etc., where liquor was formerly sold—it was as still as the Sabbath."

It is strange to me that decent men will stand by and hear the law vilified without remonstrance-will even exult at the idea that by such means our party expect to succeed at the next election. Some I know are indignant that the "Register" should be so unprincipled as it is, and will manifest their disgust in a way more effective than by soft words of disapprobation.

L.