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

this great enterprise, we have called up.
: on gentlemen occupying various stations
) of responsibility and influence, and en-:
: Joy1ng ample opportunities OF observation
among ell the different classes of commu,
nifty Their answers present two glow
ing pictures. In the one, we behold in
, dlvidual degradation and ruin, social dis
tress and public loss. We behold the
monster reveIIing in the miseries of the
human family. Under his paral yzing
touch, commerce declines, and the sturdy
arm ofinduStry wlthers; health, intellect,
virtue, hope, happiness, life, with its fond
est eniearmcntS, its most tender attach
ments in a word, all that is sacred and
lovely, and valuable to man as a mortal or
an immortal, lie bleeding beneath the hor-
rid smile of this bloated demon This,
we have found is no sketch Of fancy. So
Der facts, rigid statistics verify it with too
horrible an authenticity. But the other
picture is j@st as bright and cheering as
this is painful And it carries constantly
with it the delightful reflection, that the
half cannot be told. The streams of this
peaceful heaIthful river have gone cours-
ing around the scOrChed and bliohttd
plants of many deso!ate hearth. And
on, how many dropping plants the Sweet
est and best Of carth's production, have
begun to revive, We speak, grntIr,ntr,
without exaggeration,; tens Of millions Of
dollars have been saved to this nation. hv
the Temperance Reform. The paI>icd
arm has been touched as by miraculous
power. The pauper who was bringing
his family TO burden the town, IS now the
respectable, thriving mechanic the fami-
ly that used to eat with trembling "nXie)V
the last stale crust, lest ii should prove tile
last indeed, are now living in the wei
furnished house, with the kOuntcOus!y
supplied tables, surrounded by tie well
clothed, well educated group Of children
Disease is attacking the human frame
with diminished power. Paupcrism is
actually known now in some towns, only
in the annals of former days. Unfrlendy
litigation is decreasing. The class of
Proftless consumers and oilers, the drones
Of our civil hive is diminishing; while
the class Of producers is Increasing. But
it is impossible for us to convey, BY gener-
al statements, without a view of the facts
which justify them, any adequate concep-
ton of the anlmating results which have
actual Y followed past efforts. And these
efforts, We repeat, have been, the collect
ing and publishing facts There is vet a
vast number, scattered in individual or To-
cal experience and observation The
best interests of an oppressed world de-
mand that they be concentrated, like the
suns rays, with focal power. We ack-
.nowledge that our hopes are sanguine-
Give us these facts They will furnish
unquestionable evidence to the under
standing of the truth of our fundamental
propositions They urge a resistess ap-
peal to all the better feelings, the noble
and ingenious sentiments Of the human
heart. These appeals must prevail and
the good sense, the conscience and the
humanity Of our citizens will vet triumph
over the sordid propensities of avarice and
appetite
The call has been made upon physi-
clans for facts. With magnanimity the
most credjtable, estimating the public
good far more than professional interest
more than five thousand Of them, in Great
, Britain and America, have confirmed this
great temperance proposition" Alcohol
used as beverage, by persons in health,
is never useful, but always hurtful.'
} The commanders of vessels have re-
spondcd to our appeal distinctly and i'm
? pressive}y. They declare that the major
, ity ofthose awful disasters at sea, in which
f 50 much property and so many human
f lives are destroyed, arc directly owing tc
the intoxication of seamcn. And from
the combined motives of interest and phi,
lanthropy, they have extensively signed
our p ed &c.
! More than four thousand of the clergy
in this country alone, have publicly con.
t hrmed our principles by their testimony
2 and given their names to our list of pledg
z ed supporters.
, The insurance companies, not as re.
: formers, but as business men, looking lo7
Y pecunlary profit, have taken stand which
. ought to attract the attention of thinking
J. men. Some Of them have long been i.
r the habit of returning five per cent Of the
premium On vessels which made their WOW
d ages without using any alcoholic beverage
: What more practical and powerful test
= nony could these sagacious, ski!tul MGR
It chants give concerning the value of tota
e abstinence to commerce And facts have
shown that they did not miscaIculate. The
. value of the stocks and the dividends 0
those companies, has greatly increased
for the risk is actually diminishing muc}
more than five pc cent by this cause
Twelve hundred ships are now sailing
# under American co'orS, in which no alco
e hoI is drunk. But the beneficial effects
> have been more than pecuniary. 1t ha:
done more than any other cause to com