The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-09-07
J. HOLCOMB, EDITOR & PUBLISHER.

restored, and the preacher contin
ued.
1t was the egg, fellow citizens
and not the man, that did the mis-
chief. Pm surprised you should
make such a mistake. You should
have reflected that that man is q
"gentleman," and directed your
vengeance against eggs, not against
him.
Mark ye, my friends, I have on
ly asked a few questions, leaving
you to answer them. I have made
no application of my remarks, leav-
ing you to apply them. It seems
the man with the pistol, and dirk,
and cowhide has been the FIRST to
put on the cap. II must have been
a good fit. He says I am black
guard. 1 don't mind that. I don't
care for hard names. If | thought
he told the truth, I should resent it,
and pelt him with eggs or brickbats.
But l know that he does not speak
TRUTH know I am not a black
guard, and therefore his calling me
SO does not disturb me. A queer
word is that "blackguard'-it is
mostly used by blackguards.
1t is written: "The wicked fieth
when no man pursueth :" and again
-" A guilty conscience needs no
accuser 5" and again" The CALLED
ljage winces." l hope no one will
make a wrong application of these
scraps.
What would you think, brethren,
| if should find a man dead, with a
rum-jug at his side, and should
thereupon fall on the jug with hard
talk and hard knocks, and break it
in pieces, as the author of the muir
der? IF the man was murdered,
somebody, not something, must have
murdered him. Things can't COM
NIT murder-it takes men. Would
you blame the rum, or the jug, or
the man who, for money, filled the
lug with rum? Don't answer the
question so that any body shall hear
you. But l had better change the
subject little, or [ shall set the
eggs in motion again.
I had often wondered why the
tavern-keepers should have gaIlows
before their door. IT'S an old GUS
tom, and has a squirting towards the
effects of their rum. IT'S a good
thing to remind their customers of
what they may come to. Every
now and then the people have to be
at the expense of a gallows to hang
some tavern-keeper's customer on.
Why won't the gallows the rumsel-
Ter hangs his sign on answer the
purpose 1t would be economy,
and the State might grant licenses on
condition that the licensed rumseller
should allow his sign-post to be used
as gallows for any of his custom
ers who might be sentenced to death,
and that he should himself hang
them gratis. This plan would save
money, and make a good moral i'm
preston, by bringing cause and eff
feet, that is to say, the bar-room and
the gallows, in visible connection.
I like TO see appropriate signs, and
many of the tavern signs are very
appropriate. A RED LION, for in
stance, is grand emblem for a
rum-shop. The lion lives on blood
he likes human flesh. l knew a
man who foolishly exposed himself
to a Red Lion in Chester county,
and got so badly bitten that he fell
into the water afterwards and was
drowned. There is one feature in
which the lion on a sign differs from
the lion within the house; one kind
of lion hurts the body, the other
murders the body and damns the
soul.
INDIAN QUEENS & INDIAN KINGS
make good signs, especially when
they showthe tomahowk and scalp
ing knife. l could tell of several of
my old school mates who have been
scalped and tomahawked ut these
Indian head quarters Indian war
fare spares neither sex nor age
But grog-shops have some regard
for women. They don't like to kill
, them by direct means. They pre-
fer doing itindirectly by running their
: husbands. They think there's more
humanity in this course. They think
it is better for a women to die of a
| broken heart, than to be murdered