Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-10-19

morals, ana mat We SnOulu OccIn any
course, which would undermine the virtue
Of the state and tend to introduce general
proAigacy. q terrible calamity. even it it
should pour into the lap of the community |
wealth more ample, than was ever dug
from the mountains OF Potosi, or the noun |
tains Of Peru. No community, but vir-
tuous one, can be free, or happy. A vi
cious people il, BY It's very character, pre-
pared for wretchedness, as well as obnox-
ious - the wrath and the judgments Of
heaven. ,-.. Vi -.
But, should we be told that this is not
ia proper subject Of legal enactment, and
that Il Is the business Of public opinion TO
do away the evil in question we reply
that since j. has not been, in other kindred
leases, the policy Of our Legislation, and
THAT, in view Of its character and its evils,
there Is not, in the whole range Of public
tlaw, q more legitimate subject Of legisla-
garded as noxious But public Sentiment
was not trusted TO, as adequate to Danish
the evil from among US. The vending Of
lottery tickets was deemed injurious to the
community. But public opinion was not
|. the only influence employed to drive the
n practice from the state. The keeping of
gaming house was deemed injurious to
vfrtoe' and happiness But. the
public disapprobation and frowns were not
}. fegarded, ss adequate 10 the correction Of
a the evil. The keeping Of house Of ILL
fhme so Tar from being left to public opin-
ion. or to Indictment at common law. was
: recently made BY statute, state prison Of
fence. Why, then, in the case of intem-
perance only, trust to an influence, as the
n means Of prevention, or remedy, which, in
!, other instances Of like character, is
never relied on2 There are men in every
n community. who are either above, or be-
, low the reach Of public sentiment; men,
2 who in defiance Of public disapprobation,
8 howuver explicit and decided, will prose-
j, cute the traffic, as long as it will prove a
a source Of gain And as long as ardent
o. spirits are offered for sale, there will be
} buyers and consumers; and appetites will
10 be acquired and habits Of intemperance
IS will be formed aud in manifold instance.
s. the multiplied and appalling evils, to which
1t this vice gives birth, will still exist and az
e flict the public.
et To your honorable body, then, we ap,
peal as the constituted guardians of the
II State, and bound to adopt such measures
d as will promote its best interests, to save
q as from evils Of the most noxious Of vices.
! Grant the prayer Of this memorial. and
= you will confer benefit Of incalculable
v value on the State, you will exalt It's char
IS acter, improve It's morals, and subserve its
> pecuniary interests, and you will secure
" to yourselves the benedictions Of coming
Is generations.
ID THE Dis1lLLERY.-It is said that &
,r cargo Of grain, Of Is, 600 bushels, was re
Gently brought'up by distillcr to becon
IN verted into rum. Every article OF foot
1t is now extremely high. 1t is with diff
of Guilty that the poor obtain bread for tbei
j. children. And yet the moment a ship
il freiqhted with the staff Of life, touches a
} s. our wharves, the distilier seIzes upon tn
Of blessing and converts it into curse, TO 81
il the earth with poverty and wretchedness
!. And yet the distiller is an honorable mar
to a respectable gentleman, an accrcdtc'
ar Christian!
nd The rich grairgoes down into his cnol
ch nous watts, and thence in liquid poison
to scattered over the land, producing scene
IS OF wretchedness which neither war, no
us famine, nor plague can rival, filling III
he country with weeping widows, and beg
its CARED orphans, Tani every inaginobl
cy crime, and yet he who plies his fires b
In night and By day in this hateful work is
ng respectable geatte@Gn '-Rslig'Ous Mas
IN d.iRe. o.,