The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1845-01-23
NEWSPAPER DEPOT,
WHO WAS RIGHTl

WIZ WAS RlGHII
1t affords us great pleasure to know
that many of the most substantial men a.
mong SNOW that the heat of the late con-
test has somewhat subsidized acknowledge
that we have been a real friend of tenn
perance. We were confident that this
would be the "sober second thought" of
such men. We were confident, when
they had time toreaect they could not but
say, that temperance never could be pro-
noted by such Incorporate measures as
the Pinkeyes have pursued. This move
ment has brought about among us, Just
what we said it mountaineering, dis
putaton, and ill-feeling. Men will not
submit peaceably to be called "common
drunkards," by a self constituted board
Of moral censors, because they do not
choose to obey their flats and be driven
to the ballot box, to vote for them, as cat
tie are driven to the slaughter house.
We stated at the outset, that the course
Of the Pinkeyes would retard the cause
of temperance, and we, now, respectfully
ask how much it has been advanced by
it, Has the cause of temperance been
advanced by such wholesale ISLANDERS as
have been the order of the day, in the
official organ Of that party3 Has the
cause Of temperance been advanced by
charging upon individuals habits and
practices which all about them know they
neither indulge in or follow By charg-
ing an individual with being out in the
street, in state ofhalfnudity, when the
whole village know the charge false, and
the publisher ofthe paper, in which the
charge is made, has been forced to admit,
to the friends Of that individual, that lie
knew, himself that the charge mas false
~hcn it mas preferred? BY charging an in
dividual with being carried in from the
Park, in state of dead intoxication on
the morning Of the fourth of July when
all the town know that he was in Montpe-
lier on that day attending convention'
Has the cause Of temperance been ad-
vanced by suchreckless, vile and easily-re-
futed SANDERS as these, admitted to be
false by those who made them, and known
to be so by those who are in daily inter-
course with the individual against whom
they arc made? So far as he is concern.
ed, he cares very little about them. Those
who are acquainted with him, and the
source from which these charges emenated,
laugh at them; and there are enough
such people in the county and State
Great efforts have been made for the
cause oftcmperance in Brdgewater, but
contrary TO the expectations of the Pink
eyes, that town did Mt choose to follow
their dictation, and now, to further pro-
mote the cause, it is asserted that of the
l40 Liberal voters in that town "68 are
common drunkards!" A more base and
vilainous charge never was made, even
in the paper that put forth this abomniable
one. Every body knows i, is barefaced,
unmitigated LIE, for which there is neith-
er palliation or excuse. How much will
the cause oftemperance in Bridgewa,er,
be promoted by such a course as this'
All these things 60 directly to show,
that we were right IN denouncing the
measures ofthe Pinkeyes and to convince
rational men that Notwithstanding all the
abuse we have been compelled to suffer,
VIC have been on the side Of truth and
sound policy.