The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-08-22
From the Berkshire american.
INDEPENDENCE FROM RUN, FOR
EVER -

"When in the course of human events
it becomes necessary for one people to dis
solve the intemperate bonds which have
connected them with another, and to as
sumo the sober station to which the laws of
nature and of natures God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind
requires that they should declare the cause
which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident
That all men are created sober that they
are endowed by their Creator with GER
tain unalienable rights-that among these
are life, liberty, and the pursuit of health
that whenever any habits become destruc-
tive to these ends, it is the right of peo-
pie to alter them. Prudence indeed will
dictate that habits long established should
not be changed for light and transient
causes, and accordingly mankind are more
disposed to suffer than to right themselves,
by altering the habits to which they are ac-
customed. But when long course of in
diligence in luxury and intoXication eVinces
a design to reduce men to absolute beGstla-
ness, it is their duty to provide new liquors
for their future security. The history OF
Rum is a history of repeated reUeLS and
inebridtionS. To prove this, let facts be
submitted to a candid world. 1t has called
together men at places unusual and I'M
comfortable, and distant from the deposlto-
ry of their family records, for the sole pur-
pose of reducing them into compliance with
gill and half pint measures ); it has en-
deavored to prevent the population of these
States; it has made Judges depend upon
It's excitement alone; it has erected null
titude of new grog shops, and sent amongst
US swarms of drones to eat out our sub
stance; it has kept amongst us IN times OF
temperance, standing distiLIe1-ies in some
cases it has rendered the military superior
to the civil power; it has subjected us to a
jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions IT
has cut off our Responsibility with all the
world it has imposed imbeciIity upon us
without our consent it has transported us
half seas orer, to be tried for pretended So
briefly it has taken away our appetites,
and altered fundamentally our former hGb-
its it has invested itself with power to
rule Us in all cases whatsoever it has
plundered our barns, ravaged our lands,
burnt our Threats, and destroyed the lives
of our people; at this time, large casks of
foreign liquors arc transported to complete
the work of death, desolation and drunk
enness, thing totally unworthy ciuil
liquor; it has excited domestic broils
amongst US, and has brought on US the mer-
CHESS libertine, whose known rule of war
fare is an undistinguished destruction OF
happiness among all conditions of people.
A liquor which is thus marked by every
act that can define tyrant, is unfit to be
the ruler of any people. Nor. have we
been wanting ia attention to Brandy and
Whiskey. We have warned them from
time to time of attempts to extend an I'M
wafrantable jurisdiction over us but they
too have been deaf to the voice of reason
( We must, therefore, acquiesce in the ne
cessity which denounces our separation
and hold them, as we hold all liquors-en
emies in excess-in moderation, friends"