Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-05
For the Telegraph.
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1t is believed by almost the entire COM
munity that alcohol is bane to society-a
poison which tears asunder the hottest ties
OF nature desoiates the chosen haunts Of
virtue, and sewers the most inviolable bonds
OF friendship. This demon now rides in
his triumphal car over PROSTATE intellects,
and the peace, health and even life of thou
sands in the wild Mountain State, of which
we are SO fond. Its insatiate appetite is
ANNUALLY gorged with the hearts blood of
brothers and friends, while minds of giant
power are trampled into the dust, and indi-
viduals who might have honored God and
benefited man, are made, by its relentless
grasp little lower than the beasts of the
held. Still the thirstyconqueror is unsated.
The wall of broken hearts is music to his
woe-desiring ear. These being the facts
there is tremendous amount of guilt ac.
cumuiating upon some portion, or all of this
community.
My object is, TO point out the precise
nature OF the crime, and who will be re-
CURED to answer for the same before the
Searcher Of hearts. The consumer of in
toxlcating drink, will not at this time be
accused or exonoraled, but thrown into the
whole body, as being part of the people.
The following positions will endeavor. as
briefly as possible, to establish:
LIST: The yender of alcohol. exeent for
medicinal and mechanical uses, is a uaur-
derer. (1)
"a: Those who license any person to
Vend alcohol, as beverage, are accessory
to the crime Of murder.
And Sd: All who vote for any man to
bill an Office where he has the power TO H.
cense, knowing he will be likely SO to do.
are also accessory TO this crime.
by a murderer / do not understand an
individual who takes lite through premed-
ttGted malice only, but also that man who
contrary to the laws of God or men. closes
his brother mortars existence here; or per-
forms an act which will effect this natural
", from any other motive whatever. (2l
To substantiate my first position, an &C
cumuiated mass of testimony has often
been spread out before community, evincinr
that inebriating drink is an active. ferv
poison, and always operates as such upon
the constitution of man; unless there is
some disorder preying upon him, which
requires the "liquid freo of alcohol to re-
move it. Then, and then only, does it not |
produce evil effects upon the system. and
as consequence shorten life; for i, is evil
dent that what will poison the blood and
cause every organ of the body to overact |
viii hasten its dissolution. Comparing it |
with watch, the swifter its movement. the |
sooner will it cease motion. But there is
another kind Of evidence which forces ire.
slstable conviction upon the minds of all !
nnprejudiced observers, exhibited in the
miserable drunkard. To say that the slen-
Ter thread which binds the soul Of man n
Is habitation here, is shortened in this +
'erson, seems almost superAuous. Few
ven OF the most abandoned have the reck-
ess audacity to deny it. Every vale and
mountain top has reverberated, for the last
en- years, with the important truth that
'icohol fires the breast with idiot fury. de.
troys the milder feelings OF the heart. and
Il.
esolts In premature death, when used 70
UGH degree as to produce intoxication.-
This is sufficient for our purpose. as no
ender of it can suppose there has not been.
through his instrumentality, more than one
I'd on and confirmed in their ruinous habits
drinking, until they are lost irretrieyably.
But some OF those who are furnishing
his destroyer to their neighbors, will say,
we do not compel men to buy or cons ume.
IS their own choice.' Neither does the
uelist compel his antagonist to,fight, but
presenting a motive which he knows
Elll De likely TO lead the unguarded heart
the man he would destroy, TO hazard the
ontest, he frequently takes his life. I see
o reason why the vender of alcohol is less q
uiity than the robber who plunges his dag l
er into the breast of the traveller. Ger I
AMY one is as much the foreknowing and
ole cause of death as the other. (3) Do 1
OF the vendors Of alcohol bring into town, {
nd dispose Of that which will create an :
nutterable amour; of misery, and carry
ne arrows of death to many, thar their
or'unes may be built upon the ruin Of 9th
rsT And do they not wish, and expect, {
no snrafe them to purchase and consume
ne polson2 A man goes to his neighbor i
no conVlnees him that there will be as :