Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-03-15
March is. lss7.


paper sIaIteu ~ DOyrty ~ AA'b onH PushSh-
ed twice month, BY <. Mack. Terms: so
cents q year for single copy; Is cents
each for 8 or more to one individual. The
The frst three numbers are very much
oiled with original matter, highly vigor-
Gus. The irst editorial sentence runs thus:
"An essential and prominent object Of thi.
paper is, 10 assist IN the formation and es.
lablishment Of just public sentiment in
relation to the traffic in intoxicating or
alcoholic liquors as beverage" ProsPeri'
~ to the enterprizel
We trust that our brother in the work OF
reform. the editor Of this new print, will
take kindly from US q single suggestion. 1t
isthis: As fast rs the people are got 10
think right on the subject ofthis death-deaI-
ing traffic, let their attention be turned TO
legitimate action. As often as q name is
registered on the principle that this traffic
Is an immortality, an iDtolerable puplic nui-
sance, let that name be Immediately trans
ferred TO a memorial to the Legislature for
its Introduction by law and penalty. As
soon as the people demand it, the work will
be dope-not before.
Legislative action is necessary TO an ex-
hibiIion Of the case in its true light. How
ever abominable and wicked this traffic, in
the view Of Gods law and in the estimation
ofall good men, it never will be looked upon,
by community at large, in its true light as a
murderous work, until i is made such by the
law Of the land. Lottery-gambling, horse
racing, other gambling and duelliug are no
more odiOus or wicked now, in the eye Of
Gods law, than they ever were but they
are now very different things in the view Of
community, in Vermont, from what they
were before they were interdicted by law.
He who engages in any Of these practices
now, is criminal before the people. The
people have made 4 law, and those who
transgress il make war against the people.
We call attention TO this view Of the SUBJ
ject, not because the act of vending poison
Is in itself less hurtful, or in the view OF the
moral law less heinous, before the law of
the landi turned against il, than afterwards
but because the present blindness Of the peo-
pie makes il so. Take an illustration The
foreign slAve-trade was the same atrocious
murderous woIk-the same heaven-defying
sin, in eighteen-hundred seuen, that it is in
eighteen-hundred hirty-seven: yet previ-
ously TO eighteen-hundred eight, the people
ofthe United States extensively engaged in
itas q very laudable business And why
Because, forsooth, the law Of the land per-
miited il As soon as the law Of the land
was set against it, it was PIRACY! One
year before, it was a very laudable and
Christian enterprise Now il needs no IN
common discernment on looking back, to
see the folly and absurdhy Of human action
10 this case gone BY. Well, then, without
stopping and DEPRESSING to turn attention to
the same folly, absurdity and wickedness
now practised by this nation, in shielding,
by the law Of the land, the same atrocious
between the States-if the people Of Yer
mont, Of New-Hampshire, Of Christendom
Of the world, will be as inconsistent in re-
gard TO the traffic in alcoholic poison, as
they have been and are in regard to the
traffic in human flesh and blood. e. if a
wicked and murderous work must not be
called wicked and murderous, and treated
as such, just because it is sanctioned by the
law Of the land, however much it violates
the law Of God and destroys human happi-
ness and human life-we beg the people to
make so needful law at once. Let the
next Legislatures Of Vermont and New
Hampshire, and Of all other enlightened and
consistent people, be told, in tones Of thun-
der, that the people want law, protee ting
their dearest interests against the raVages
Ofthis'all-devouring monster.
We Offer no apology to brother Mack for
inviting his attention to this subject, in re-
marks thus observation-disclosures they are
qadruple the length Of any thing that was iu
mind when we sat down. If any apology
is needed, it will be found, on due reflection
In the merits cf the case. Will our brothe
call the attention Of his readers to the point
HERALD OF PEAcE.-This is the name o
the publication, issued at Middlebury, anC
mentioned in our last. II is printed by e. r
Jewetl and IS understood TO be edited a
present BY }. A. Allen, NJ. D. It breathe
the pure and heavenly spirit of Christianity
requiring Christians to "resist not evil"-
10 HrecDmpense To no man evil for evil.
Il is in reality q "hersld Of peace" !,
proposals run thus: .,
TIE HsRALp OF PEAcE.-The obie,
.of the Herald Of Peace % to disabuse til
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