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The Scott Act -
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To dile ft lifer of the Exeter Tines.
Dxan Val.—The Scott Act party
found a valdrsluss o:,rlanns and prat.
tical champion h --I week, in "A
tUreerhoru: who hasn't travelled."
Arid he dubs himself very appro.
priate name in,leed. No cultured oto.
tistnau who Rett travelled. would for
a maouaet.t Fuplrose, that calling nae
au '^irnpertiueut jackanapes," "driv
tilling imbecile" and such elegant
epithets, Atte discussing the Sodtt
Act, -.–Nona but a veritable "Greets.
horn who hasn't travelled" wovia
tl iuk, that throwing doubt on an op.
portents "decency' roepeo.abtlity or
Aabite, era, an argument in favor of
hie ChM. Norio but a "Greenhorn"
would descend to the infernal regions.
and applying his ear to the door of
pandea"oniurn, could oomit 2800 Can•
radiata drunkards !aside, and proclaim
to a frightened public that the sole
occupation of the population (espeaa
tally drnnkarde) of that wast own.
try was shrieking, groaning. onreiub ;
end conclude that such a remarkable
discovery as that had ought to do
with the ate, it of either prohibition
or license la.. I woudet, if this
genius could make another voyage and
tell us particularly, what the l ;ttoua,
cheats, hypeorites and those who gee
temperance and religion as a cloak
for evil deeds, are d.iing while the
drunkards are sn diemally employed.
It would be intereetiug i:afdrua'ttiou
and n9 doubt r'Greenharn who hasn't
travelled" (ouly to pandemonium)
could obtain it. All those primes are
denounced in. Scripture. Gluttony is
severely talindentued, null mole than
one anon in 700 Is a glutton. Why
not, of the same grounds, de away
with God's choisest gifts --good food
--simply to stop gluttony. One is an
reasonable n•t the oilier, and quite as
Scriptural.
11 is idognlar that the Scott Act
people who claim all the ulorality,res-
pectalnnlity and ability, are the tirat
to throw feud and ill names, and ulis-
take It for argument. --Por a court•
eons and practical debator, commend
Its by all meatn•1 to 'Greenhorn'. None
would expect a greenhorn to distin.
guish between the use and abuse of
alcohol. But most other 0181903 of
people possess sufficient acnrnon for
such distinction. And because one
man in 700, like "Greeuhoro" cannot
make such distiuctiou, ie alcohol to
be wholly forbidden ? It won't do,
gentleman, lior centuries just such
waves of fanatical alcohol-maaia,have
periodically swept over civilization—
and yet alcohol occupies a legitimate
place in general economy to -day.
There is a niece for it, just as there
is for all of God's gifts, and such
being the Daae, no amount of abuse or
vituperation will banish it, no more
than the fires of Smithfield extermin-
ated heresy—And the true principle
of temperance ie to teach greenhorn
and otbors,that druukeuest is a 0. ime
and wrong, that sobriety is a virtue
and right, and leave each person
ponsible for his own acts. Such is
the divine method of government, as
In the case of the forbidden fruit; but
fanatics and greenhorns will try to
improve on divine, principles.
Every man who votes for the Scott
Act, thereby says that he has no con-
fidence in his owl ,•osol>ttions or prio-
oiples,or rn those of his sons or neigh
bors._%Therefore heroma erect a'bai'.
rier to force himself and his kind to
do what he thiol;,( right.
A convict in penitentiary is sober
while there, from necessity, lint what
becomes of hist enforced p:incipies
wheu he get out
God gives man a free will egoucy in
accepting or rejecttug religion, but
men nowadays improve that bee doing
away with freta will and forcing so-
briety oda people. A great principle
of personal lillerty, Tree will agency
and moral responsibility underlies
this question. No amouut of foul
.moles, flippancy, or abuse, is koing
to alter those principles.
Is legal coral"ulaloo,,gotng to sup-
-ply the place of conscience and is sense
of right anti wrong. hire from using language similar to
'Btsttics prove beyond a reason that I have quoted about men who are
alale doubt that local prohibition ,toes influitely his batters.
not lesiten, but rather increases Yours,
drunkeiless. Such bait; the use Exeter. Aug 18th 18854. PAUL
mac sgatu, what is the use of taking
bumpily_+.�.
bunily for mord ;ilio it is worth To Editor of the ig.xeter Times.
▪ making laws. ? And if :4 certain DEAR Ste, --.The editor of your oc-
ttmouitt of drinking will he dace, ie it tem nee bit bard by the defeusc, of
better to have it done openly, tee oat., Dr. Gtttltrie by your correspondent
ably, legally and deoent;y, or Clouts ` A Breabyteriau,' and judging by hie
secretly, illegally and disreputably ? writings and prevarications iu his
Under which system would "'Green. last hien° foals pretty sore over it. He
' rather eels his neighbors and duel not venture to nail " A Presby;
friends drink ? Where n very larje, tenet ' a liar ic, as Many words, but
minority think their liberties and brands ltim las making " false etete-
rigida are invaded by late, little res. Wept* dna ,as au " uutrutbful aorres.
poet le atom for that law. How roudeut,' ,But instead of prciying his
would . iroresullorn" and °thorn of charge, in 4irr attempt to wriggle out
that ilk, try to obey a law forbiddiog of the difficulty. he commits the very
the use of fork and beaus, or beef, or crime he coudotuus A Presbyterian "
bread, silrply because same people for,
are gluttons, others poieoued by pork Itis idle for ;nr. Moir to squirm or
rt�,rd others over oat shalt food ? Me• %twat. Now, 1 happened to be pre-
%tunk• little;thepaot would be paid to taeut et that meeting, and en attentive
law by them, listener to Mr Moir in his defence of
Ooueidering the whole thing 1 atilt, the liquor Irak, and hie retnarka
is the name of all that is right, litter- were to tine effeot :---
al, and lawabidnug.-Why pass such " That the drinking ut"aps of the presoat
an allot ? But there Fra civilized day under lion"were right, honorable 'and
Blase. and roan differ, and if we will cant(istent with the highest Chriatiaaaity."
differ, lot us do so civilly, conrtecualy d And to prove this be quoted (first)
eeaeibly. Enough of imaginary Infer."Goldwiu Smith, and then Dr. Guthrie
cos anti traeb of that kind, enough and all the Presbyterian Idtnistere of
also of ueetee, sweetest and foul re l ht+trills ss twin used aloobolia Finita;
orimivatiou aud inuenda,
Uwe, &c., the extent find magnitude of theirMODERATION. moral influeune, which, he sat"i,would
reaah down to the end of time. Never
To Editor of the Exeter t'iares. once did be Hint at the uuivoreally
Dun burr. --l0 the oast issue of your known foot ;hat though to his earlier
town cote= in continenting on the days, Dr. Guthrie had in oammuu
dismissal of the petition abaivat the with many othere used those liquors
return of the kion. G. W. !lass, the in moderation ; that he spent the
Edits+ rises the following language;;-- atrengtl, and vigor of his beet days iu
"On the other side, evidenoe WAS inadvert. fightuieg this crime of crimes. Mr,
entlydrawn from the petitioner's wituossen Moir did misrepresent Dr. Gutbria--
that the Conservatives, true to their natural and far no good purpose --and it is
instinct and constant habits, had made open idle for bun to try time to wriggle and
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offers of money to any of the electors.'
twist ant of it.
The astute Editor verycarefullyab-
A. Orfn'tcx MEMBER.
stains from giving ties evidence, and Hsy, Atlq. 12. '84.
as is his custom Beate in asserttou
hoping u a doubt that the readers, Of To Editor of Exeter Titucs.
hie paper will accept it as truth. e.t.a yrs. --It appears as if 11Ir,
There was a time in the history of Moir is llot4rtily ashamed --as well he
this aonntry when .°ere assertion of a might --of his dealings frith rho anem-
slander would have passed mns'er but Jry of our Sainted Guthrie, add upon
in our days people 1'oquire;hoof. being taken to task by the St. Marys
This would not do however in the pre- rlrqus for his slanderous utterauoos,eu-
sent case and therefore the weaklinfi dertronrs to creep out of his averse
resorts to his old fogy tactics. I
however, desire chiefly to call atter'
that 11..e Arms had been misled by
the false statements of an anonymone
and " untruthful correspondent in our
town cotem."
Will he kiudry tell his reamers what
I did say anis let any of those who
were present et the tneetiug judge of
who has truth cn their side ?
1 quote from his Article in Aug. 7th
edition of his paper ;--
"" We did say, however, that Dr. Gnthrie
stated that during his younger clays, every
minister in the Church of Scotland used al-
coholie stimulants, and asked our reverend
opponent were none of these men Christians
or were they unable to understand the teach-
ings of their Bibles with reference to the use
of drink .' We asked, in effect, did it lie in
the mouth of such as the Itev..Mr. • Morrow
to cast reflections on the Christianity, the
natural ability and the scholarly attainments
of a long line of worthies, whose moral
meat made by your totem is simply
nouseueical since if the natural in-
stincts of Conservatives be evil iu pol-
itnoal matters these instincts nnderiie
hquor as a medicine.'°
and would be manifest in all their qI say positively that Mr. Moir a ave
actions political and othertviae. no statement whatever as coming from
It the assertion under consideration
were made by one of the "uuco gaiae Dr. Guthrie. He cited his example
it might be passed over as the honest as a moderate drinker, (classing all
titteranses of a man, who, while Leine
the other Presbyterinu Miuisters of
himself extremely good, yet has had. Scotland at that day with him,) and
his judgment warped nud beclouded the fact of his being sneh, he used as
by early training and unconquerable aIustifieitiou of his own champiou-
Prejudiee. ship of the " 7'rue Temperance Party."
But roaming from the Editor �f y°dr I suppose lie thought as he was act-
cnteni whose yah +le political record dressing an audience largely conopoe.
plays him utterly un(ornpulone and ed of English people and members of
""steeped to the lip., In corruption" it other Churches that lie was free to
give,( nue a sort of intellectual t,;ui• drag this honored name through bar-
eottu to road it. room filth as be did, without being
checked, and that he might perh ape
eeive his roaster's cause in so doing.
But it did not lie in the mouth of suck 'as
Ma. Mots " to cast reflections on the
mentor! of the 'noel talented, eloqueiit`
and powerfel ally the cause of total
abstenance in Scothind had, auu be a
Prreebyteriau ton. Littledaeger of an•
intelligeit,honorableand ohristiau gee:
tlemau like Rev. Mr. Morrow doiug
atante. lie then proceeded to tell of
their worth eolaularly attainments and If you want the beetvatuofor
that, and now falsely to elate as above rn Fairthat he told hie audience that though este
dieing big prime, U. r. Guthrie become4 Li 11
au abstainer ---he had "a during kis da• --
dining years used liquor as a medicine.
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011l:ate ssen ser eG. 'Escrett'a Moat and Shoe
EAP GOODSI May 14tH 84,
stallisltment.
than nusrepressntation, by saying
tion to the untruthful and cowardly
statement that the conservatives are
in the habit of offering bribes and that
they do this in accordance with their
natural instincts. I propose to ex
amine this assertion and bring it to
the touohstone of common sen-te.
Take the town of Exeter, (1 am ail
hug to take any other municipality)
in it you have repreeeutctives of both
parties, compare the meu who are
Conservatives, with thoee who profess
to be Reformers, and I ask the most
rabid Grit if as oitizens and members
of society, they are as good in every
way and in every particular that goes
to make good citizens as the Reform-
ers. If this is admitted, and no de-
cent man can deuy it, then the state -
worth would influence the world to the end
of time. We said, ;too. that although Or.
Guthrie during the prime of life became an
abstainer, dining his declining years he used
Perseus who have any knowledge
of the Editor's esctpades daring ttlo
Trow -Guest election in June 1882 can
readily recall the details of more thea
one unsavory transaction in which ho
,and Mr. Trow were engaged. He will
no doubt, Gaud if lie I1sd forgotten the
public has uot,)remember the part the
played in bribing it young meu named
Glenn. His antiou in that ease in
my bumble opinion was such as t.,
stamp him for all time with political
Wittily, and should at till events deter
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