The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-10-21
TO TEMPERANCE MEN.

The Central Committee Of the Vermont
Temperance Society have received the i'm
portaut information that six hundred OF our
friends in Windsor County have uniteditheir
subscriptions to establish paper devoted to
Temperance, under the editorshiP OF Mr..
NJ. p. Parish ESQ; and that about FIVE hun
dred dollars, additional to the subscriptions,
have been pledged as guaranty forts am
pie support by the community. This noble
beginning in that County is viewed as hope
full indication that the grand measure so
long sought after and, more than once
attempted in vain. of the establishment of an
independent press for the promotion of our
cause, is on the eve of consummation.
We do therefore propose to our friends in
other Counties. and urge it upon all who
feel with US in this matter to become sub
scribers for the paper. 1t promises to be a
sheet of general utility for excellent literary
and practical reading, independently of lis
grand moral and reformatory purpose. The
subscription price Zone dollar on ieceipt of the
6rst number) is, in our opinion quite too low
for sheet of the size and quality promised,
unless under an abouuding patronage. In
every village and district there ought to be
at least one or two, who, in addition 10 their
individual subscriptions, will attend carefully
to the filling up and forwarding ola considera-
BILE list. Take this notice. we say to any
Jealous, energetic friend, use it as your ere
dentials.i if you feel the need of any, and for
ward, promptly, your list to the Editor, at
Woodstock.
TAKE THIS NOTICE, we reiteraie to
eUery man, whoever he may be, jealous in
this benefcent cause, and use 1t, if need be,
as credentials. But what need of credentials
beyond the stamp of honor ard patriotism
your acts themselves willbear1 Only take
care not TO permit the adage to be verified,
in sishtof the tipPerss themselves, that, III a
good cause, trhat is every mans business is no
mans.
The old sluggish way Of attending to..a call
of this nature,-approviug. its design,-desir-
ing its success,-and doing nothing;efectaal
in the matter,-whatever may have been its
merits in 1910 to 1914, ought Ito be entirely
exploded in 1916.
Those who are leagued TO uphold the traffic
in Intoxicating drinks wait for no special call
to effort. but are acting unitedly under the
impulse of bad and common sympathy
Aroused by the late indications of public seuti-
ment in the:leg islation and action Of the PEG
pie, they are taking steps sometimes the mos
crafty and sometimes the most Inconsistent
They would employ our honest diversities o
opinion respecting the best measures to sub
vert all our measures. Men utterly hostil,
TO the enforcement Of any law upon this sub
ject. use the forbearance of the community
in not insisting on. the iustautsand rigid en-
forccmentjof the; law as plea that the Law
cannot be enforced, and reproach our LENT,
as if it were feeblness.I Men who have, per
severingly and wrongfuly charged Jon us al
intention TO drive Temperance into the party
politics of the day have, as occasion! served
openly formed and put on record a mos
odious political coalition on that.very subject
Awake, we say friends, and put forth
sustaining arm to the press which,iu its turn
will sustain all that you most value in public
morality or private safety.
| For the Central Committee:
ALEX. c. TWINING, Chairman.
Niddlebury, Oct. 18th. 1545.