The Northern galaxy, and Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1843-1844, 1843-12-27


os - netition. and unite with our fathers,
wiz InL,,.b5uds and brothers and sors. in I'M
Hia nG Won to refuse the sanction Of your an-
PORN 10 traffic whose results 50 deeply al
HF I, %r 3a4 signers Of the first named petit
- constituted large mojority of the le-
uOn -o,ers Of the town. The Court granted
g. nrayer ofthe petitioners,so far as to re-
t eoo fIioence in Middlebury, excepting t. l
lusr .rn and two apothecaries shops, the
t .l of the latter of which were under
h ''dJ 10 be pledged to sell for medicinal
''ogT only There remained, however,
Flf retailer whose former licence run to
y .Io l,te term of the Court, having been
..,ntod in December 1912.
Az the late term the whole subject was
Mn brought before the Court upon sew
al indications for licences in this town,
Cd = remonstrance against the granting
them a. signed and presented by commit
20 in behalf of the Young Mems Temper
.nce Society. The following is the re-
nth ..Tbe Undersigned, Committee appoin-
ed v the Young Mems Temperance Soci-
80 ofthe town Of Middlebury for the purpose
eof?,otitioniur the Court to withhold licences
Sa- the sale Of spirituous liquors in said town,
. -, for medicinal purposes, beg leave, in
~ p,mc and on the behalf of the Society to
s.That daily experience proves, not only
,b,t tbe use Of Intoxicating liquors is perni-
,;ons and destructive of the best interests of
;,JiyiduaIs and the community, but that their
Ne, as a beverage, cannot be wholly preven-
al nor. indeed, can much farther progress
h. made in the temperance reform, while
men are licensed by Judicial Tribunals to
hold out the temptation to indulgence. The
Younr Mems Temperance Society has been
ormed for the purpose of reclaiming the in
;smperate, and persuading men to refrain
Fom the use Of Intoxicating drinks. But
how can they succeed in this laudable under
taking while establishments are maintained,
with the sanction of public authority, whose
business it is to resist their efforts, by drdi1ing
rea into intemperance? With what fearful
odds must they contend when there is array
ed against them the combined force of appe-
lite to drink and the love of gain to tempt it
70 Indulgence Can the community approve
the efforts of temperance Societies, and at
the same time sanction the giving counte-
nance to rum sellers by public authority 1t
seems to the undersigned that there cannot
be greater absurdity than this. And this
alsurdity has come to be so strongly impressed
on the mind of this community that the de-
SIRE to have license for the sale of intoxicating
liquors withholdeu, has become nearly if
not quite co-extensivc with the desire for the
suppression of intemperance. Such we be-
iieve to be emphatically the case in Middle
bury. The sentiment to this effect evlnced at
the last term of the Court by the petitions of
32llegal voters, and 447 women, Of this town
still retains its full strength. We believe. in
deed, that it has grown stronger-that the
people are more universally and thoroughly
convinced that licences must be stopped, or
that all hope of concentrating the temperance
reform must be abandoned. The undersign-
ed therefore, approach your honors with the
Cofdent hope that you will continue to re-
respect the voice Of this community, and per-
severe in the determination manifested at
hs last term of the Court to withhold license
for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this
Swu, except for medicinal purposes.
And as in duty bound viii ever pra-,
JONATHAN A ALLEN,
NJ. ID. GORDON.
WILLIAM SLADE.
Dec. 10, 1873.
Two able lawyers appeared befre the
court in behalfofthe applicants forlicence,
and the subject was fully discussed. A
refusal to grant any licence has been the
result; so that, henceforth, no spirituous
liquors can be lawfully sold in Middlebury,
in quantity less than twenty gallons, ex-
cept by one Inn keeper, and two apothe-
cries, the latter of whom took licence at
the last June term, with the understanding
that they would not sell except for medi-
cnal purposes. Whether the implied pledge
under which these licences were taken,
has been violated, or if it has, to what ex-
tent, | do not undertake to say. If the
persons licenced have taken advantage, or
shall, hereafter, take advantage, of the ne
cessity of having places where spirituous
liquors may be had for medicinal purposes,
10 sell them for beverage, l have only to
say that there will rest on them a very heavy
responsibility to this community re-
sponsibility rendered the more weighty by
an addition of a violation of pledges to the
positive evils inflicted by the sale of intox-
Icating liquors for beverage. They ought
moreover, to understand that not only are
the eyes of the friends of temperance
upon them, but that they are watched by
those to whom licence has been denied,
who will be ready to bring the Withholding
OF licences into disrepute by claiming that
nothing is gained by it, but the transfer
ing Ofthe business of selling for bever-
age from their hands to those of others, and
giving to them under the name of apothe-
carries monopoly ofthe business.
The friends of temperance have reason
to rejoice that so much has been gained,
since none are now authorized to sell in
Allddlebury excepting one tavern keeper,
and the two apothecaries referred to, who
are under a pledge to keep the monster
chained so that he shall not have full range
10 depredate upon the community.
know we are threatened with a con-
snuance on the traffic, without licence, as
Is said to hare been continued, by one
unllcenced establishment since the June
'erm OF the Court. I,however, this threat
snail be carried into eyecution fhera will