The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-12-19

more, which could be named in Wood
stock, should be passed by, to make way
for Thomas Z. Powers, a man of some
talents, to be sure, but violent, unsta-
Bile, headlong and overbearing, in every
thing? | am at loss to conjecture the
the rhy unless ''the Observation-Disclosures, "
whose finger is in every broth had hand
in his own appointment How was it?
December, IL, 1914. MARYLAND.
LET WE'LL ENOUGH ALONE.
The man who cannot profit by expert
encc can hardly be called wise, and yet we
have men in oar community who make
high professions to wisdom, that are as
totally regardless of the dictates of eXpe
rience as the beasts that perish, | refer
particularly to the temperance movements
of the present day. Who does not re-
member the disastrous results produced
on the temperance reform by an attempt
to enforce its prcccpts by law in 1885,
Its most devoted supporters admit that
three years Of judicous and discreet
management were hardly sufficient to
remedy the evils which that attempt en-
tailed upon the cause, and no person who
has calmly looked on and seen the affect
produced by the "Legislativc Decision"
OF the County Court in this County last
spring, can say that the effect otthat de-
clsion upon the temperate habits of our
citizens has been good, end yet regard
less of all the experience we have had
upon this subject, the same course is to
be again pcrsucd, the same means arc
to be put in reqnistion, and the same
f over heated zeal to be exhibited, and
much fear, that the same discord and
confusion, the same alienation Of conf
dcnce, the same heOrtburnings and the
, same disastrous results are to follow in
its train and that tie cause of tcmpcrcn-
ce which $50 dear to the real philanlhro-
pist is to suffer more by the indiscretlon
of its friends than it did or ever can from
the opposition of its most determined foes.
1t may truely be said of temperance that
its foes arc those its own household,
md now let me ask, why are not the
friends orso commcndable a'causc content
10 nursue the even tenor of their way.
and by their prcccpt and example, which
alone has thus far Welded such happy re-
sults, patiently to follow in the way of
we'll doing, which Yields such an album
dant harvest and promises so much good
to community.
WHY will thew. with such sad exam
pies before them enter into noisy politi,
cal warfare upon this subject, when such
disastrous results arc sure to follow
The same reason exists for enforcing
all the glorious prec cpts of the gospcI'by
legal cnactments, that there is for press
ing it to the aid oftempcrance, and char
hy, which is the greatest of all the chris
tan graces and produces more heartfelt
satisfaction when properly exercised than
all the rest put together, may as well
claim the enforcement of its heaven born
preccpts, by law as temperance. But no
one desires this, and the reason is obvious,
all human experience establishes, the
fact beyond controversy, that when re-
ligi;n is established by law, it loses its
purity and becomes corrupt, and instead
of excrting benign and happy innucn-
&C upon society, it becomes its greatest
and most banelul curse.
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