The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-12-19
l. b e r A l. TEMPERANCE
ADDRESS.
Friends of temperance and
IrECmcH Of EIiDJcor

frecmcn IF Windsor County.
AS citizens of free State-as rational
and accountable beings-you will soon
be called to discharge a duty of para
mount Importance, both to yourselves,
and to society at large. A great and In
crcsting question is at issue, and must
be answered at the ballot box, on the first
1hmr2day in January next.
We hope you will clearly and fully
the subject on which you aro
to act, and then do guar daty as conscience
may dictate. Suffer no inattention on
your part, to cause false and deceptive
majority to be given, on either side We
ask for fair and taA expression of pub
lie sentiment, on the License question.
W ouid honest men desire a different re-
suit: But, be not deceived
The question is not, whether YOU will
permit the continuance of the unhallowed
traffic in intoxicating drinks and perpet-
uate its evils in society, or eXterminate
this bane from our borders? and for the |
plain and undeniable reason, that a refusal
to grant Licenses to certain persons in
each town, does not prevent the traffic in
ardent spirits, nor the evils accruinc
thererom; and no law is even proposed
by which to eXterminate, or even exclude
line notwithstanding drinks,-from
our borders Every man has right to
purchase and bring into the State and |
County, as much spirit as he pleases,
and to drink it,-ifhc be so unwise as
to desire it. Perhaps the next move will
be, to crcinde all Intoxicating liquors from
our borders, and dcjr the dnahing
thereof in any quantities. Such laws must
be enacted, and rlgldly enforced, too or,he |
refusal to license as contemplated would
be worse than nug0tory, 1t the present
stage ofthc TEMPERANCE CAUSE it would
introduce bone of contention, which
would divide, distract, and give its Soci-
cites to the Independently useful as
they haze ben, heretofore, 1t would
prove here, as it has elsewhere, purb.
lind concern, provoking the few. who
are disposed TO traffic in ardent shirt. 70
continue to do So any way they an aud
avoid the penalties of the radicdllaw;and
induce many who would dcspise itsdcs-
potic Protcntions, to drink more and Oft
ner-unwiscly to be sure but. in def
ancc of legal arm, which instead Of pro.
posing to rule them as children, should
insult and menace them as slaves, Such
would be its icadMcy,-ioreign, as that
would be, from the purposes Of many, who
arc consclcnllously in favor granting no
lisccnses.
We say then to all the Friends of Tenn
pcrancc, whether members Of Societies
(Which arc now being rent asundcr) or
not be careful that Won act understand.
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