The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-03-08

Sl,OO; and further, while the manufac,n,,-
has gained only 20 per cent on his GOOD
have gained % per cent on the rise of nv
wool. In so plain case, the Tories can't
"humbug" us by the cry of Corporations mo.
nopolies and aristocracy.
A WESTFORD FARMER.
L. 5. PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
90 per cent gain on my Wool is $4,000
~ per cent paid on my broad Cloth
10 manufacturers is $500
Balance IN my favor. $4,000
1HE VERMONT AUTOGRAPH d REMARksR.
We have recently been favored with the VT.
Autograph & Remarker, inches by $. nrint.
ed occasionally at Huntington by Mr.. James
Johns, with his pen, with admirable skill The
project of such a publication certainly shows
great originality, as no other such is now, Or
ever has been in the wide world. The matter
is entirely tile composition of the editor. and
although the pages do not blossom with the
flowers ofc!assic lore, yet they discover vein
of sound sense, which could proceed only from
an enlightened and discrimi mating mind. As
might have been expected from the character
Of the man, Mr.. Johns is q genuine wing in
politics. and advocates the true interests of the
country with as hearty good will as the best of
us, and TO the full extent which his publication
will admit. But We have 10 lament very much
the burr which has come over his mental visior:
on the subject of temperance. In this respect
he certainly fingers far behind the spirit of the
age. If friend Johns would re feet that the
use of intoxicating drinks produces no good.
but on the contrary, unmitigated evil, he would
see no reason 10 charge the friends of the ten.
perance reform, with the absurdity of condem.
ming good thing for the abuse 10 which ii is
liable. And alIho he can himself occasionally
sip with perfect safety. yet if he finds that nine
!enlhs who touch, taste and handle alcohol, arc
bound hand and foot in the coils of an indul.
gence, from which either directly or indirectly
springs most of the pauperism, suffering and
crime which spread the blacklist pail about the
enjoyments Of social existence, and that moth
ing but total abstinence could abatc the rava-
ges of the destroyer, will he longer breast HIM
self against TIE only effectunl remedy for the
worst scourge of the human family.
Texas. The correspondent of the Boston
Courier say S that the Souherners in Washing
ton have been all winter scIicaming to bring
about the annexation of Texas 10 the United
States even during tie present session of
congress. The Shareholders, conscious of
their diminishing Influence in the union, are
ready 10 resort 10 the most desperate measures
10 reinvigoraie the iron dcspotism which they
have hitherto exerted over the country. Is
there northern man. even the most sluvsh
locofoco who will aid this project? As harmo-
niously as the interests Of the north and south
are when correctly Understood, if the south
are so determined to rule, aud so Jealous of
our rising Importance thEt they will not sub
nit to measures Indispensable 10 the prosperity
Of the country, lei them discover the bond
which unites US at once. A southern republic
let them have and Texas portion Of it. But
we protest against the annexation OF Texas to
Tie union while it continues, and can regard
northern man who would vote for such "A
measure in TO other light than dupe or
traitor.