The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1845-04-24
A BEAUTIFUL RESOLUTION.

A friend has sent us, from Bethel, the
following resolution passed at Pinkeye
meeting held in that town on the 18th
inst
Resolved, That the so called Liberal
party is conglomeration of Rum-sellers,
Rum-drinkers, and the refuse of all par
ties who by pretending to be the wise,
prudent and judicons temperance party
are in fact using all their influence for
the defeat of temperance and for the Gre
alton of party capital.
The truth, beauty and classic elegance
of this Resolution are truly unsurpassed
by anything that has fallen under our OBJ
servation for long time. None but a
Pnkeye could ever have ''got off, the
like it. We are happy to hear, how
ever, that the Liberal party in Bethel
have not been snuffed out, but are Still in
the land of the living.
Just such low and vulgar. abuse, on the
part off portion Of our citizens, now and
former denomina,ed Pinkeyes, drove the
other portion into system of selfdefence
and into the organization of a party for
that purpose, which is now called the Lib
eral party. This party has.no eye, what
ever, to National Politics. tits formed
Of that portion Of the people who are OPP
posed to system of regulating the bow
els of the community by act Of Legislation
who look upon intemperance as great
moral evil, but who still believe that it is
best to meet its evils by moral suasion,
rather than by legal force. There is
the indulgence of another opinion, which
distinguishes the men of the Liberal party
from their opponents, and that is this: l,
is their opinion that they have a right, a
perfect and undoubted right, to inoulge
in the belief ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a per-
feet and undoubted right to express it
at the ballot box, without being bulled
by brawlers or frightened by Pink votes.
They have been most heathenishly ira
duced and abused by a set of narrow
minded, bigoted and self-righteous people,
who have set themselves up to be the
guardians of public and private morals
and the regulators of 'he people in mat
tiers of conscience, saying and decreeing
what they shall eat and drink and where
withal they shall be clothed; and they
are fully aud decidedly determined not to
submit to it. These men form the Liber-
al party-and this party had its origin in
the attempt of few meddlesome bigots,
and another few, whose zeal is not accord
ing to knowledge to interfere with things
that do not concern them, and to force
people by law conform to all their whlm
whams and foolish notions.
We see that an attempt is now ma
king on the part ofthe Pinkeyes to lull
the Liberal party into security by osten-
abb backing out of their vile course.
AT the same time, however, that they
bow and scrape and endeavor to appease
those they have traduced, they have not
cunning enough to keep such resolutions
as we have published in this article from
getting into the wind and showing, plain
ly, that the old serpant still lurkes under
the folds of the quiet and peaceful garb
they have assumed The Liberal party,
however, understand the whole matter,
and will not, we apprehend, abandon one
inch OF the ground they have gained in
the late contest, and we apprehend too,
that they will remember tho men and the