Maine Law! Maine Law!

FRIEND DOUGLASS:—The Whigs ought cer-
tainly to vote for the Maine Law, for they
profess to work to maintain such govern-
ment as will give fair protection for the
rights of the massess. Rum assails the rights
of the masses. The Democrats ought to be
Maine Law men, for they profess to oppose
aristocracy, and the rum aristocracy is the
worst of all.

The Free Democracy must know that we
can have no "free soil," if rum has a mort-
gage upon our lands.

Liberty Party men, of course, will sustain
the Maine Law, as a branch of Righteous
Civil Government.

Now look at the religious organizations:

All the believers in the Abrahamic Cove-
nant are pledged, by solemn covenant obli-
gation, to abolish the traffic in intoxicating
beverages; for they have promised to bring
up their children "in the nurture and admo-
nition of the Lord;" and how opposite to all
this is the presenting of the intoxicating cup
to their lips! This horrid work they do, if
they sustain the license system.

A Baptist, after having been "buried with
Christ in baptism," must appear most
wretchedly buried up in rum-hunkerism as
to vote against the Maine Law.

All Christians, for Christ's sake, should
sustain this Law.

All human beings should do it for the sake
of suffering humanity.

These suggestions are made in reference
to November 8th.

Yours, J. R. JOHNSON,

Agent of the New York State Temperance
Alliance

FARMINGDALE, October 26, 1853.