Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-08-25

ure was acknowIedg by the advocates
fot ihe Interrogation law, and it was re-
pealed. The dealers in poison rejoiced
IN their lrlumph, aud .fourisbed with
lew prosperity. The Iooglalked of re-
action seemed TO have taken place The
laws sui III force against the traffic were
nnexeeuted. Drunkenness was erected
into patriotism, and men, in defence Of
their homebred Preside rights marched
up TO the deadly glass with as devoted
Esprit as urged their slres 10 The lannon's
mouth. lntemperance, which had been
1almost put out Of eountenance by the force
ottrutb, and had skuIked in obscure nooIis,
and taken shelter under the shadow of
the night, now walked abroad at uoondav,
with brazen front and heaven -defyIng gait,
exalIIn9 ia recent victory. The men
whose list great effort to shelter It's strong
holds by the artillery of the STATE, had
jSlgnally failed, Wee conlo4ndeL, aud
knew not where 10 look for new machine
/ rs. Ihe cause seemed, for q while at
least, to stand still, if not TO 80 backwards.
Now auxlilaries We're plainly needed, but
| whence they were TO come was a Qugs'ion
which .noa,e could answer. That iyl,
would come from some unexpected quar-
ter was believed as absolutely certain by
those who believed in the sure uiun;i!
Of truth in the eud bet they could nol
discern from which qlarter Of the hcav-
ems the light was to break upon their path.
Things were in this attitude when bali
a dozen drunkarIs III rum-shop in Bal
imore resolved TO cease from their cups,
and to endeaVor 10 induce others to do
likewise. From this small beginning, a
mighty movement has gone forth, which
mas stirred the land to lis centre. The
eioquence Of remembered suaering-the
rhetnric Of bitter experience, has produced
a revival Of he temperance Cause which
! promises 10 place il far in advance Of any
position it has ever yet attained. Uuel-
tered artjzaus have gone forth, and BIZ
their plain tales made an Impression on
the public nud--aul especially on the
.iiud Of the drinking public such as all
Ihhe ART AID learning of former advocates
+Uf le importance had failed TO prOduce.-
{ Mary OF these alodurn apostles labor with
! heir haAts TT their ten:-making or car
Vrntfy, daring the day, and at night or on
Sandays go lor,h aud preach the gospel
Eot sobfiety, and with az unction no! un-
Ike theul Of Old time.
Bat what is most observable in this
movement is, that these men, who have
scrambled up from the mire themselves,
and have addressed themselves to the de-
liFesance Ct others in like evil case, in-
Istincttvtiy place themselves on non-resist-
ance ground. Many of them, perhaps,
have scarcely heard of non-resisance-
or, if they have, know it only through It's
ma!igncrs; and yet, led by their expert
ence and their umaught sagacity, they
proceed to remove drunkenness from the
world by the very means bV which noa-
resistance says that that aud every other,
species OF wickedness is to be DESTROYED
Doctors Of Law and Doctors of Divinity,
The sages Of The pull and the Legislature,
see no road 10 virtue and safety that does
: not lead through the State House, with
| The House Of Correction, the Penitentiary
; and the galIoWs in the perspective. But
the dlunkards themselves know better
They have tried, many Of them, the spe
cifies which empirical legislature has
prescribed for their disease, and they
know them to be OF no effect. T"ey scou
at the House of Correction and probes
against the punishment Of the iiQuor-seller
They would attack the crime Of vending
= poison only by arguments addressed 10 tht
Il reason and conscience Of the vrnd.r, anc
' by the conversion of his customers. They
t would influence the inebFIate, net BY th'
A application cf the laws which pout thro
0 the Police Court, 10. The House o. Cor
) Tection, but by the tosce Of the Irresistible
: law OF .Jve~-the lnvincible coercion 0
d k4adacss OI tnis new priucipie the5
: speak with the en- h0sasm OF discovery
: IRay speak WITH delight OF lis efficacy ii
d almost every case where it has been ap
u DI}td, alld Qptt, their voices IouitV agalns
e the clumsy coHlrlFancts OF Inc State. Ihei
St are no theorists, but aIen who have ar
II rived at their conclusions through kart
}. conflict with tie world and its ways
&c Their philosophy has not been learned /,
d schools, nor read in books, bat extructet
It from close personal experiences Of vice
IS aid he means devised fof its suppression
l. Aid their CONCLUSION is, that law, with i
e sanetons. y al lmPote'.t, protection 70 III
4 community agansL the evils Of iuieinper
: ~nce. They would leave the whole mat
n ter OF punishment 10 public opinion, am
: ct reformation TO private Officers of love
le Here Is the conmencemens OF the pTac
Is tlcai application OF the principle o. non
] resistance to The business of life on con
Y, siderable scale. And It's success has beel
"a marvellous when We consider how lalel,
10 the trial has been commenced. III
OF movement will hdve-ils free course. an
ye EacconnlSh It's Mission sooner or iaIer-