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91 he said the Law was doing great good in the country towns and every place where it is enforced and that there would be no trouble in enforcing here would the Temperance people but stand firm - but he was sorry to say that many of them were waning - that they would give utterance to remarks which would fan the opposite party such as "I don't know about this law whether it can be enforced or not" - such expressions give strength to the Liquor party - they say that if the Temperance people have no faith in it why should we have - he stated the fact of the law passing in the Territory of Nebraska - he went over to the seat of Government - the Legislature was then in Session - he succeeded in getting a hearing before that body. and in the evening addressed them - the next day the law was passed without a dissenting vote - he likened the fact of the liquor drinker prating about the law saying they dont care anything about it they can get all the liquor they want, which shows that they are afraid that it will be enforced at no very distant day - to the Dutchman who had a young Colt which the boys need to ride - but in spite of all they could do he would spring out of the road and throw them off - now says the old Dutchman "let me try it I will break him of that trick - so he told one of the boys to crouch down in a corner ahead of him - and that when he drove by he must jump up and holler Boo - the old man got on and started along when he got opposite the boy jumped up and hollored Boo the colt reared and darted off from under the old man leaving him sitting in the mud - the old man jumped up and says Hans, Hans, dat was too big a Boo - it is so with this law it is rather too big a Boo for them - he likened those who are on the fence ready to jump either way that may offer them the greatest advantage to the Yankee and his horse - a Yankee was travelling on horseback through Kentucky - he had got out of money and thought to sell his horse - he met a Kentuck hunter with his dog and gun - and asked him if he knew of any one who would like to buy a hunting horse Oh yes says Kentuck