The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-01-09

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might be found necessary. AS the law
now stands, one County may be prepared
10 prohibit, while an adjoining County may
license and The vendors residing there re
ceive the profits, while the first may be tax
ed hundreds, or thousands of dollars IN
consequence of the consumption of liquors
purchased from the latter County. This
no one can say is equality.
8. Iagree with you in this, and there
were no hypocrites in the temperance
ranks, you would probably be shorn OF
some pecuniary profits. Let us have a
clear field and fair fight" say |. But
in order TO this, the legislative sanction to
YOUR traffic must be removed. Are you
prepared 70. this2 Are you willing such
of your neighbors as may choose, shall
have the same privilege as you ask for
yourself! II you are, then are you con-
sistent.
A. | suppose the term ne in this case,
means rum sellers or that the writer so
designed But | am a little puzzled to
see how the evils done to true temper
ance' can injure, in a pecunary sense,
those who continue to vend strong drink !!
AS understand it, real temperance, in
man, causes him 10 abstain from intoxica>
ting drinks. If all should thus practice,
where would the vender get his customers!
But how much indemnify would nv friend
require for The damage done him in con-
sequence ofthe evils inflicted on the cause
of temperance, by indiscreet men?
S. 1.-THE writer will 60 back and repeal
all The laws enacted under the license sys-
tenn, he may bring temperance, or, more
properly speaking, liquor vending out of
the political vortex which he so much
seems 10 dread Short of this it cannot be
done. There is no necessity of waiting
year to find the question named, engulph-
ed IN politics, for it is there now, and ever
has been, since the first license laws were
enacted.
6. Why not lay aside coersive meas
ures in restraining people from doing
wrong in all cases2 Suppose horse is
stolen from my friend-or an incendiary
sets fire to his dweling--or an enemy at
lempts to poison his family, would the wri-
ter say, away with your coersive measures?
| want nothing but moral suasion? And
should his nelghbors arrest the invader of
his rights, in order TO prevent further dep
relations, would this advocate of moral
suasion sole y, say ironically to his
friends, you grow wiser than your teach.
ers are2' fhe would, then he is consist
ent in his present argument on that point.
But if he would not, it then devolves on
him to show the difference in principle be.
tween legislaling against stealing, because
it inaicts wrong on society, or against
selling, because that works much
greater mischief than the first.
T. So far rs Islander or abuse are used =,
they furnish but flimsy arguments, and
should be dispensed with. But what con-
situtes SANDER and abuse! Suppose
sell my friend barrel of pork, knowing
it will work injury if used by his family
the family partake of it, and one of six die,
and others are made sick in consequence
the purchaser and his neighbors call
me knare! In such case q0ho IS The SLAM
dere1? And which is the one that prac-
tees abuse? Although my correspondent.
and many of his customers may use in
!oxicating liquors without causing inebria,
ton; yet he knows from observation that
portion of his customers who indulge
in the practice would as surely be drawn
down to drunkards grave, as magnetic
needle would point to the north pole. He
know too full well, that in health, such
drinks are not necessary. | hope he will
seriously ponder these things, for con,
slider them of vast importance. And
should he chance 10 deal out intoxicating
drnks to a man whose family need the
money paid TO him, and the wife and
mother, in anguish, calls him a robber OF
her rights and happiness, hope he will
see where the SANDER and abuse lie, and
in what they consist.