The Weekly Comet

"Saddle White Surry for the field to day."

To-day "fellow citizens" of this temperate, and moderate in-all things—part, of the city of Red Stick, the vote is to be retaken in reference to the great bellum question of "License or No License." It is our duty as one of the sentinels on the watch tower of liberty, to sing out to you in a warning voice, when the geese in the temple below cackle, and now—we, who have never set cried "wolves" when there were no wolves are forced to sing out. It is very true that the General Assembly in its legislative wisdom has passed a law—a law which is the initiatory step to a long series of other laws to give to the majorities the right to rule minorities in despotic manner, in all matters concerning social habits, which have heretofore been deemed sacred to the individual. The law before us to-day opens wide the door to contention and fanaticism, and gives to the mob, a power that sets at naught all written law, and abrogates the necessity of a constitution. We know "fellow-citizens" that the example of other States for insane temperance movements, is before us. but has not their action, in this matter, rather been the result of a whirlwind of excitement bordering on fanaticism, than the result of soberness and reason? We defy any one to look on the effect—to see the strife and contention in communities where prohibitory laws exist—and witness the law suits continually growing out of them, to come to any other conclusion. Call us not, a grog shop advocate for talking thus. this is our honest and unbiased conviction. The use and abuse of alcohol, in all its various seductive forms, can never be prevented by law, and its prohibition in public; makes private hypocrites of the people. Raise the tax on coffee houses and you dignify them, and drive out of existence the miserable doggeries; but never think to purge the moral atmosphere, by mere brute force in the tyranny of numbers. This is Red Stick, and this is the Second Ward in Red Stick—let the people act, as "becomes them." In conclusion let us say that if you do not wish to change Red Stick into Blue Stick, vote "License." The Blue laws of Connecticut, are behind this arbitrary enactment of the legislature, and a Presbyterian—straight Jacket manufactory will soon be required in Louisiana, after it gets the full force of numbers.