Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-12-07


that the ships of the United States O.
America, frequenting the ports of Eng
land, are stated by several witnesses to be
superior to those of similar class among
the ships Of Great Britain, the command
ers and officers being generally consider
ed to be more competent as seamen and
navigators, and more uniformly persons
Of education than the commanders and Of
ficers of British ships of similar size and
class trading from Eng land and America -;
while the seamen of the United States are
considered to be more carefully selected,
and to be more efficient; that American
ships sailing from Liverpool 10 New
York have preference over English
vessels sailing to the same port, both as to
freight and to rate of insurance and
higher wages being given, their whole
equipment is maintained in a higher state
of perfection, so that fewer losses occur :;
and as the American shipping have in
creased: of late years in the proportion of
- 81 per cent. per annum, while the
British shipping have increased, within
the same period, only l IL per cent. per
annum, the constantly increasing demand
for seamen, by the increasing maritime
service of the whole world, the numbers
cut off by shpwreck, and the temptations
offered by the superior wages of Ameri-
can vessels, cause large number OF Brit
ish seamen every year to cave the service
of their own country, and to embark in
that Of the United States and these, COM
prising chiefly the most skiIful and COM
petent of our MAJ iners, produce the double
effect of improving the efficiency of Amer
lean crews, and, in the same ratio dimin-
iahing the efficiency of the British mer-
chant service.'
The farmers have been called upon to
aid in extinguishing the fires of the distlI-
lcrv and brewery, by Withholding their
coarse grains from these manufactures of
paupers and criminals. They have nobly
responded to the appeal. They have
helped to close nearly one thousand dlstlI-
Ieries in the state of New Y ork alone
The farmers have found it better policy TO
feed their cattle with their grains and
fruits, than to take them to the brewer or
dlstilIer. They have also extensively
come to the conclusion, that it is as i'm
moral to furnish the materials for making
the destructive substance, as it is to make
and vend it. The diminution which has
thus been made in this most improbable
and hurtful employment ofthe bounties of
Providence, is trul y wonderful
1t appears, for instance, by the collect
or's returns on the Erie Canal, last year,
up to Sd October, there were 285,489
bushels of barley received IN Atbamy; up
to the same period this year, only 1868
bushels; showing falling off of 2l4,28O
bushels. We believe there has been a
full crop of barley IN the state, so that the
inference is, that the farmers are feeding
it to their cattle instead of furnishing the
brewery to some extent ct least.
In New-England, New Y ork, Penn
sylvania and other states. the habit of feed
ing the cider mill with the fruits of the
earth is almost universally giving place
to the more patriotic and polite custom of
feeding it to those animals who, instead of
poison, make a return of wholesome and
nutritious food to man. The shameful
and cruel practice of filling the farm house
cellar with the most besotting of all bever-
ages, to drown the mind and quench the
heart of whole family during a long win
ter, is giving way TO wiser and kinder ex-
penditures of the same money in furnish
ing the library with the instructions OF
wisdom and piety.
We have called upon the merchant and
the mechanic for the results oftheir obser-
walton and experience. The facts which
they present are alike appalling on the ore
side, and heart cheering on the other
In word, the whole business of making
importing, vending, using and furnishing
alcoholic beverages, is an unqualified evil
1t has furnished some of the darkest chap
tiers in the record of human crime and
wretchedness. The impolicy, injustice
and cruelty ofthis branch Of manufactures
and commerce, are Standing before the
public eye in bold relief
We now wish to make an appeal to you
1t is our belief, that should all the manu-
featuring establishments adopt the primer
pies or practice of total abstinence they
would require no protecting duty, 1hey
could then compete with the world under
great advantages. We have already as
certained enough to satisfy ourselves
We want the world to see; we want the
manufacturers to see the combined testi-
,uonv Of the whole. We know manufac-
|torIes. once hourishing, reduced to bank
ruptcy by the general use Of Intoxicating
drinks. We know others whose success
is astonishing under the total abstinence
system. The advanta ge is not to one par
ty in the establishment to the disadvantage
Of the other. But proprietors and work
men rejoice alike in its benign and profta-
bic effects. Our object in this circulal
is to propose the following questions, tc
which, for the benefit of mankind, we re-
specially request an answer as soon as il
can conveniently be transmitted.