Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-11-20

VI
No. s. Tempe, anee. Guilty, gsiitg, |
g1iliyi On this count, gentlemen,
shall make no defence. AotO Co"te"dere:
will not contend with my adversaries
would gladly make full confession that
al mv offences, in this behalf, but that
show great is the sum of them 7 Sundays
and week days, by day light and candle
light, by lamp light and moon light; at
snndry times and divers manners in SER
mon and 10 song, in prose and in poetry |
in rhyme and blank verse in convent
eles and conventions. in city and country,
on both sides ofthe Alleghanies and both
sides the Atlantic; in pulpits heterodox.
and in pulpits orthodox; in stage coach
and steamer; in winter and summer by
petition and persuasion-chiefy by NOR
al suasion,' have labored on this 'excit-
ing topic My trespasses on this score
should be laid with 'eontiREando; : for
! have continued. and hope to continue
them. In the language of the psalmist,
1 acknowledge my transgression, aud,
this. my sin, is ever before me-
But this is not the head and lfront of
my offending so says the Proprietors'
solemn PRoTEsT ; of Sept. 80. 1889.
o, no. When, just before the annual
meeting. six years ago. and just after the
efFsrvescence in the society, occasioned
by the publication Of very imperfect, and
in some points false, Report ofan Address
that had made that summer, at Salato-
ga. the wealthy and venerable man whom,
under the head Of Antimasonry,' spoke
ofas my benefactor, called upon ne at my
own house, upon the subject of the ex.
element produced by the Report of that
Address; and. when. after calling his at
tention to a particular case of ruin wrought
BY rum in one Of the families of my par.
ish, and saying to him, Sir, on this SUBJ
iecl can not hold my peace. come what
may; he replied TO this effect Well, l
hope you will touch the business as gent
" as you can. seeing how many of your
people have supported their families by it,
The main spring of movement. at that time,
In the interest that he came to represent,
was not, forsoolh, nv course in regard to
the Temperance Reformation, bot my
having. some six or eight years before,
constructed-the Doric Fire-placel
When at the annual meeting, the same
year, the same great Distiler of New
England Rum. who, at the first meeting
this year, began the present movement,
introduced motion that nv salary should
be reduced five hundred dollars; it is not
to be believed that he was moved thereto
BY my course in regard to the Temper
ance questions, but by what had said,
twelve years before, about Imprison-
ms1t for Debt
Wnen. at the first annual meeting last
year, the votes were introduced, express
ing the regret of many members of the
Society," for my zeal in those exciting
topics which divide and disturb the har-
mony ofthe community and their belief
that was not warranted as a christian
minister IN interfering with the established
laws OF the land those votes could not
possibly have had reference TO the Suffolk
County Memoris to the legislature of this
Commonwealth, praying for an alteration
ofthe old laws licensing the sale OF arden,
spirits, which Memorial plead guilty to
the charge of having written nor, vet,
could they refer to petition to the legis-
latnre that went up from our House oil
Correction, that the dram shops of the
Commonwealth might be no longer pro.
Iected by its laws. which petition I also
wrote for the signature of the inmates oil
that prIson-house mo, those votes could
not have referred to that interference oil
mine with the Anti License Law of 1888,
although they are now on the files of Hol.
lis Street Society, in the hand writing of
one who. though proprietor. has not for
six or eight years, been a worshipoer in
Hollis 81. Church, but was then and now
is largely concerned in the traffic in Ii.
quors, and was even leading member of
Committee of Grocers then lately organ
lied for the avowed purpose of defeating
the law just mentioned. That serious
movement against me could not have had
lie origin 10 my course and efforts in re-
gard to The exciting topic of Temper
ance but mus. have arisen entirely
from my interference, years before with
the Miiitia Las0.'
When one member Of the Committee
that. in pursuance Of those votes, was an
pointed. and wai;el upon me, to confer
with me npon my duties in relation to the
Society, in the discharge Of his commits
sion, and in direct and exclusive reference
70 the business most likely to be affected
by the present Anti-License Law, said 10
me- Sir. the people at this part of The city
are business people, They pay as they
goalong: and, you don't let them alone
they won't let you alone ;'-he could no,
have meant that my Zeal in the Temner
nnce cause was the head and front o.
mine offending, but, my not letting my
people alone in the business of doing mil
itary duty and imprisoniag Othe, peopi.
for debt!
When am off .iallu infnrnned that tn