The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-12-16
WONDERFUL TRANSFORMATION

That grubs change TO butterflies has long
been understood; but, as respects the higher
animate creation, no epoch, age. or period IN
anv city, country. island, or Continent Of this
great and round world has ever before been
cognizaut of such sudden, elevating and
happifyiug change OF condition as that which
has Just flashed Itself on the eye Of society III
the rum-iovins p' rtion Of Addison County,
WHY their very aristocracy and elite, on three
sides in politics. that. ouly fifteen months a.
GO. were most democrdticaliy frantic that the
PEOPLE stood chance of icing permitted 10
decide in their primary assemblies, about clo-
eng the running issues Of pauperlsm, beastll-
siess sud eysRe, and some of whom, after the
prevalence Of the people in the passage Of
i5e license law, veNed their righteous souls to
thwart the execution Of its pesal;fes, have,
positively, and beyond all equivocatior. rails
I'd dLg for executing the "LaU as al IS,
sa- if1s .'wuoLE LAW" To these frank
men and ''good citizens who love liberty for
its own sake-if not rum for its own sake too
even party rancor, long ago, subsidized INFO
the sratcrnal embrace of an ''lndependent
Convention and coalition vote,-Polk for
Clay aud Clay for Polk,-for the su5vcrsion
II the law which, in yet closer hug, the
same brothers now pledge 10 each other shall
,,e fully carried o'it, if conscientious" voting
eau effect it. The demoralizing spectacle"
oi the ''almoSt universal disregard and con-
-empt Of the law by the rest of the commu-
EIy,'-by which resi-" is meant all but the
Tree Commissioners" that community of
i~-enen whose late representatives al Mont
pelIcr, very strangely gave consideration
10 This overwhelming popular contempt
ijas brought into exercise such virtuous re-
{ ard for pa6lic purity, as RUN. by all its rava-
rs in the BODY aud the soul and over the
domestic hearth never hath alarmed.
All this is attested by handful. put forth
IN the County, headed in the above quoted
Law as il is signed by the above specified
respectable and denocratically constituted
arisiocracy. To this document it hath been
objected iiiatit states certain oroad and prom
inent things as they are NOT. But the tor
rent Of our admiration al The aforementioned
illustrious Iurn-about sweeps away the small
DUST Of such derogarory allegations, and
would if they we're rocks and bouiders. Tell
US We Carpers. who ever heard of old habits
Of story telling done away like flash, or
grapes gathered of therns aud figs OF thistles.
al a four months grating! Millions for de-
fence not a cent for trlbutci Rather than
submit to the ''dictatiou' OF such ''irres9on-
sible combinations as the majority of last
wears voters, they, the consistency and the
:onscientiousness of Addison County, pro-
claim by act the alcoholic pauper-tax and
crime-tax necessary contribution to Liber-
=. The doors of licensed marts for indis-
eliminate sale shall still open inward, that
dsliru'1 aud yagrancy may issue outward
This is the voice of moral suasion that shall
break forth, in resolutions, from The Conven
lion Of good citizens on the 17th, and from
the conscientious rioters Of January LIST, for IL
censes-for ipdiscriminaie sale; who hope,
then to show themselves responsible COM
onsuon fully competent 10 dictate.
WE KNOW.