Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1838-10-19


The GovERNoR's MESSAGE to the Lcaisla-
ture, will be found in another column. Ii is
brief, plain, well written business paper, and
highly creditabc to our Farmer Governor
II will be seen that his Excellency records his !
dsapprobatnn OF the course Of the national adj !
ministration in allowing their whole powers to
be absorbed, during the late money pressure in !
the country, in exertions to carry their favorile
sub-Treasury scheme aud other party measures,
to the neglect of their duty of interposing To
aid in the removal Of the causes of commercial
embarrassment and the restoration of confidence
throughout the country.-He approves of
Geological Survey Of the state, and Of measures
for abolishing imprisonment for debt. But as
the document is short, let every citizen read it.
Laos prohibiting the retailing Of Trident
Spirits----their constifutionaiity. II would
seem that no man of common sense could doubt
the constitutionalty oflaws restraining the sale
of Intoxicating liquors. The power of regulate
ing the sale has been exercised in all the states
from time Observation-Disclosures which every
state has the inherent right To pass laws for
selfpreservation. Should Congress pass an
act authorising and licensing tile slave TRACE,
and the importation Of slaves, could not any
state exercise its inherent right to exclude slaves
from its territory. Would Massachusetts or
rrrurc7rt- ..tA.jS-eSi TO be thrown upon
them, because Congress should authorize the
importation of slaves! Surely not-and yet
the argument would be the same in that case,
as that used to prove the demonstrations
ality of the License laws of Mass. and X. t.
But that question has been decided by the SUI
preme Courts of both states. The following
decision was lately had in r. l..
Important Decision The Supreme Court
OF Rhode Island have given their decision IN
relation to the Constitulionalny OF the LII
cense Law OF that State. This law provides
that no person shall sell wine, or strong IL
ouors. without license, in quantities less than
ten gallons. Subsequently to the passage oil
this law the citizens of Providence, by a
vote in Town meeting, instructed the muni-
cipal authorities, to grant no licenses Tor sell
ling rum wine, or strong liquors. for the
current wear An action was brought
against Abner Peckham, for selling an I'M
broken basket Of Champagne, Of IL bottles,
in the same form and package as first put up
in France. 10 Richard Smith, lnnkeeper in
Providence, for the use of his Inn. A spe-
ciaI verdict having been found against Peck
ham. the defendant moved for his discharge,
on the ground that the law was unconstitu-
tional and void. The Constitationaiity Of
The Laao is FULLY sustained by The Court II
is understood than an appeal will be made
TO the Supreme Court of the United States.
-Bost Mer. Jour
advantages of licensing the sale Of Ardent
Spirits. Wewish some person in this town
would by actual investigation ascertain the ex-
act statistics of intemperance among US for the
last ten wears. The amount of liquor consuIn-
ed: the number of deaths occasioned by IL; the
pauperism, crime and suffering resulting from
il &c. and forward an authentic statement t.
the Legislature. Read the following:
Gov. Bagby, in his address before tn,
Temperance Society of this city, on the 30ti
nit. gave striking illustration Of the con
nexion between iniemperance and crime
J His Excelency. twho we all know is uis
: Itinquished criminal lawyer,) stated that, II
: the course of his life, he had been employer
in some so or 60 capital cases every on
of which, as well as he then recollected, wa
}. connected with intemperance we thin'
1 1.-The Governor deserves great credit Tor CIV
/ ing his influence to the temperance cause
: for il is the cause OF public virtue. OF nation
g al prosperity and Of individual and doinesll
9 happiness Our gibbets, our jails and pen
tentiares, our poor houses, our lnnatlc asy
! lums, and our domestic circles, all attest IN
o awful ravages Of intemperance among US.
r brutaizing the whole man, in "parallzin
Q the head, the heart, the arm" in deslroyin
every thing amiable, lovely, and Of good r'
mort, and in filling the land with vicious
oathsome, bIoated. blasted drunkards. RUNE
for time and ruined for eternity = Iaseato
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