The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-01-16

far from being realised 1.-The seeds of in
temperance are yet in the land. ready te
spring up and scatter ruin and moral des
oalion on every hand. But the laws
making power Of Vermont, has now plac.
ed the means within your reach for the
consumma!ion of the work so gloriously
begun. The sources of in,emperance
must be dried up at their founlain.--
Men must no longer be permitted by
The payment of few paltry dollars to res
tail drunkenness and crime-must no lon
ger be licensed to commit positive crime.
Contemplate for momont the inherent
beauties of the license system - license
men TO retail arden. spirits, knowing at
the same time that If i! is retaied, it wiU
be drank, men Will become intoxicated,
will fill the land with crime and violence,
and then enact laws to punish the Grimm.
al for the commission Of crimes you have
licensed men to lnstigate him TO commit
build high and strong prison walls
forge bars and bolts not easy to be broken,
for the safe incarceration of criminals, you
have ipse facto licensed men to make
Strange solecism paradoxical law-mak-
ingl Ishould think justice, like the great
Roman at the base OF Pompey's pillar,
would muffle up her face, and turn with
profound adherence and disgust from such
Outrageous legislation. 1t is time we
were awake to this subject, and that alco-
hol were forced 10 take its place among
the articles of the Materla Medica. and
used only to fulfill appropriate thera-
peutic indications, there, and there alone
will it be restrained and kept within its
proper sphere of action.
The first Thursday in next month gen.
|tIemen, is the time for you to achieye the
consummatlon so deyoutly TO be wished,
by giving your vote for those Commits
sioners who will grant no licenses for the
retail of ardent spirits. This is an inn
portant era in the history of our enters
prise, and be not juggled out of the victory
already within your grasp, for this victory
lost, the great Upas of intemperance will
spread lis outrageous branches through
our borders and its huge shadow darken
the whole land. Be not tricked and
cheated in the game that is now playing.
The enemies of our cause have nominat-
ed their Commissioners, and are attempt
ing TO palm them off upon honest temper
ance men, by specious sophism, and well
worded hypothesis. Be not deceived by
the wreworking chicanery ofthese cloak
ed and hooded emissaries, who shun the
broad day light. They dare not come out
upon the hill tops lest the winds of
heaven meet them there, but from caves
and covert places send forth their poisoned
shafts. They are like plants which can
not bear pure soil, and bright sun, and
balmy airs. but flourish amid putrescence
and the unwholesome vapors Of night and
shades
The coming election gentlemen, is the
grand Thermopye, around which every
Washngtonian - every lover of his race
should rally to guard the interests oftheir
common cause.-let every man prove him
self Leonidas-a MORE than Spartan
Leonidas. Go on in the good work you
have undertaken, and you will finally rear
a temple to temperance, firm and lofty,
and beautiful, in which future generations
shall worship.
AN OBJECTION TO CHRISTIAN UNION
One OF the most common and plausible
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