Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-12-22
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE VERMONT
TEMPERANCE SOCIETY

The Central Committee of the Vermont Tenn
perance society hereby remind the officers and
members OF the Society and the friends Of Tenn
perance, generally, throughout the State that the
annual meeting stands adjourned to the I'd Wednes-
day--the 10th day of January next--at Rutland
The Society will be called to order at 10 clock,
A. NJ, and the proceedings will occupy, il is ex-
Pected, both "Wednesday and Thursday Friends
of Temperance, from other States, who desire TO
attend, respectfully invited to appear and hand
in their names.
In the name of that great body whose organs
we are, and with the urgency which is called for
by the moral exigencies OF our Commonwealth,
the central committee request all Temperance So
eieties toaPPear at this meeting, by their delegates
There is reason 10 fear that the Temperance cause
in large sections of the State, is losing ground
that the of intoxicating drinks is increasing
that reformed persons are becoming again ensnared
in habits OF intoxication-that pledged men are
falling from their steadfastness and that rumseers
even without license, maintaining their traf.
fc with increased hardihood and audacity.
The Central Committee have failed-although
not for want of attention and effort-to obtain a
State Agent The obstacle is that the Committee
are entirely without pecuniary means, and can Of
fer only presumptiye evidence-and that not of the
strongest knd-tbat the county or town Societies
will readily sustain State agency and its necessa-
ry coordinate expenses. We specifically suggest,
therefore, and call the attention of the PREsIDESTs
OF the town Societies (since theirs is peculiarly the
responsibility 10 tne SUGGESTION, tnat every dele
gate come prepared to answer, by authority, the
question what your Society town will do to sup
port general system OF Temperance operations.
Fellow citizens, circumstances call on you 10 de-
termine, and at this annual meeting the question,
II would seem, must be settled whether or not
Vermont shall take a decided and selfsustaining
stand, with respect to general and united Tempe
rance whether our State organization,
strong and complete il is, shall exist 10 make it,
self practically felt, OF only man of straw that
does not fright the civil dram-seller from his prey
Let us count the cost before we decide Every
month of supineness and inactivity occasions 10
our community losses fiscal, social and moral, -
losses immense, incalculable, irredeemable; while
an entire year of the most active and beneficial la
Dor would cost-at the most-ten cents 10 each
pledged individual IN the State.
| One thing more. II made, at the last an
nual meeting, the duty Of the Committee TO for
ward to the different societies. blanks for stststi-
cal returns,-such as the number, in each town,
of dramsellers, Of temperance men, &c. &C.
These blanks the Committee have forwarded 10
the Presidents Of the Societies, to be filled up i'm
mediately and sent 10 the State Society The
forms sent will contain all necessary further infor-
nation Attention TO this matter is Of great and in.
slant importance.
| By order OF the Committee,
| m A. g. TwINING,
| Chairman.
| Middlebuty, Dec, 9th lS43