Irish laborers to go to the city to vote. Many of these were brought to the poll who had no right to vote, but they did not hesitate to take the oath prescribed. Hundreds of naturalization tickets were brought from Boston and placed in the hands of Irish laborers and others, who personified those to whom the tickets had been originally granted. Several hundreds of these non-residents voted, and then vanished from the city. It was well known that NEAL DOW would have a large majority of the legal votes of the city, so that it was only by fraud, perjury, and false voting that he could by any possibility be defeated, and as these were employed extensively, that object was secured, and in April, 1852, he was released from his official duties as mayor

of Portland.

7. With his usual tact in turning temporary defeat into permanent triumph, he took advantage of his release from the arduous duties of office, and devoted himself to the work of spreading "the infection" over the country, and made extensive tours through almost all the Northern, Western, and Middle States, and Canada. He was almost constantly absent on these tours, attending innumerable meetings of the people, so that the rumsellers themselves said they had made a mistake in defeating him, as he had done vastly more mischief than he would have done as mayor. The success of his missionary efforts is indicated in the present feeling of the country on the great question of prohibition, and the extent to which it has been adopted as the law of the land. He was everywhere hailed with enthusiasm as the acknowledged leader of the prohibition movement, and his popularity has gone on increasing with the triumphs of his cause, as State after State has added its tribute to his well-earned fame, by adopting his principles as its own by legal enactment. The "infection" is still going on. Already has it gone throughout the British Provinces and crossed the wide Atlantic, until wherever the Anglo-Saxon race is predominant the Maine Law is regarded as likely to become, sooner or later, the law of the land.

*See Map showing the extent of Prohibition in the United States.

Chapter Eight.

As to the call for the Maine Law, ask the first man you meet, and the next, and the next; ask the mothers of Maine, the wives, the sisters, the daughters. If the tears which the women of Maine have shed over their broken hopes and desolate hearths could have drowned the accursed monster, it would have been long ago swept away before a flood of bitter anguish.-L. M. SARGENT, ESQ.

NEAL Dow's influence on the Massachusetts Legislature-Testimonial of New Jersey citizens-Succeeding municipal election in Portland-Banquet and presentation in Philadelphia-Portland municipal election of 1854-The moderate policy of the Portland executive-Expectations of the people.

1. As an evidence of the force of his reasoning we may mention, that on one occasion in 1851 there was a proposition in the Massachusetts Legislature to build a vast asylum in that State for inebriates. NEAL Dow wrote a short letter to one of the members, which was read on the floor of the House. It stated, that calculating there were 4,500 inebriates in the State, nine establishments as large as the hospital at Worcester would be required to accommodate them. That the cost of maintaining each inebriate would be $50 a year, making a charge of $225,000 for the inebriates and $1,108,000 for the buildings. But this would be no objection if it were effectual. When cured they would go out, and be drawn into places of temptation, to be maddened, crippled, and sent back again; and as they left or died, a new supply, created by the rum-shops, would come in to be taken care of or reformed by the State. "But what," it was asked, can be done; shall we not have compassion on the inebriate ?” "Yes," said NEAL Dow, "but take care of the country, and break up the business by which inebriates are made. Instead of imprisoning many thousands in magnificent hospitals, imprison a few dozen rumsellers in common jails, and your drunkards may go at large thoroughly reformed and no new ones made." This letter was a death-blow to the project, and Massachusetts has since acknowledged the force of the reasoning by adopting the suggestion, and thereby proved the truth of the prophecy.*

*See Results of Prohibition in Massachusetts.

2. On the 26th of January, 1853, there was a large gathering of citizens in the Methodist church at Trenton, New Jersey, on which occasion Rev. THEODORE L. CUYLER, now of New York, an able and distinguished preacher, and champion of temperance, presented to NEAL Dow a magnificent silver pitcher of the value of $200, bearing the following inscription:

RESENTED

TO

Hon. Neal Wow

BY THE

STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

IN BEHALF OF HIS FRIENDS

IN

NEW JERSEY.

TRENTON, JANUARY 26, 1853.

The pitcher is eighteen inches high, standing upon a base with a Roman border, and covered with leaves, flowers, and fruits, all in high relief. On the right are barrels, bottles, and demijohns, all broken, and their contents running away, with jets d'eau, and trees, and foliage. On the left sits the Goddess of Liberty, bearing the arms of New Jersey in the same shield with those of Maine. In her right hand she holds aloft a liberty pole and cap, and at her feet are the fasces and axe. She sits in a posture of great dignity, her hair and robes flowing freely and gracefully, and smiles wreathe her features as she observes numerous officers of the law executing its penalties upon puncheons and barrels of liquor, the heads of which they break in with great hammers, while their contents overflow the ground. She is overarched by oaken trees, and is surrounded by foliage. In front is a shield, on which are balances and the inscription, "Salus Populi Suprema Lex." The handle is surmounted by a spread eagle bearing the national arms on a shield, while the national flag falls around in graceful folds. All the ornaments and devices are in alto relievo, and are executed in the most perfect manner, credit