Herald Of The Times

The License Law in Massachusetts.

At a large meeting of the Whigs of Boston, held at Armory Hall, on Wednesday evening, it was recommended that the Legislature should refer the fifteen gallon law directly to the people, for their adoption or rejection, to be acted upon at meetings called expressly for that purpose. The following is one of the resolutions passed by the meeting:

Resolved, That under the very peculiar circumstances with which this case is surrounded, as friends of Temperance, with the view of keeping the great moral principles of the Temperance Reform, separate and distinct from the temporary political questions of the day : and as Whigs, with the view of preserving harmony and union in the Whig party at this eventful crisis, we authorize, and request the Central Committee, appointed by this meeting; and we respectfully suggest and recommend to other Whig Committees and Conventions throughout the Commonwealth, to labor at a compromise of existing differences in the Whig party, upon the ground above mentioned of the reference of the law aforesaid, directly to the people.